NE102A+CsI(T1)+PMT中能重离子探测器望远镜

描述了由1mm厚面积为24mm×24mm的快塑料闪烁体NE102A和前表面24mm×24mm,后表面37mm×37nun,40mm厚的CsI(T1)组成的phoswich探测器望远镜的结构和性能.实验结果表明,用传统的快慢门QDC方法可清楚地分辨Z=1的同位素p、d、t和鉴别出全部探测到的碎片.     

中能重离子反应中的多单元轻粒子阵列探测器

本文描述了一个能在中能(10—100MeV/u)重离子核反应测量中鉴别轻粒子、测量粒子多重性,并能给出轻粒子能量和位置信息的大立体角(θ:5°—20°,φ0°—360°)、多单元(36单元)阵列探测器.初步调试结果表明该探测器对轻粒子(p、α等)有较好的分辨.     

α粒子在塑料探测器中的能量响应

在重离子核反应机制研究的实验中,我们用一个总覆盖角为θ_L±20°,φ_L±9°由20个快慢塑料闪烁体单元构成的ΛE-E确良Phoswich探测器系统对重离子反应中前方向出射的轻带电粒子进行了测量,并利用从加速器引出的α束流,在不同厚度的铝箔中降能后,对该探测器系统进行了能量刻度.借助一个简单的关系式成功地拟合了我们的数据.得到的α粒子能谱与硅探测器望远镜测得的α粒子能谱符合得很好.     

基于SiPM读出的塑料闪烁体探测器时间性能研究

研究了基于硅光电倍增管(SiPM)双端读出的面积为10 cm ×10 cm的薄塑料闪烁体探测器的时间性能。239Pu放射源测试结果显示:(1)在多支SiPM串连读出方式下，随着SiPM数量的增加，探测器时间分辨逐渐变好；(2)在固定12支SiPM数量不变的情况下，并联支路越多，探测器时间分辨越差；(3)采用快时间塑料闪烁体并增加其厚度，可有效提高探测器时间分辨；(4)采用比束斑尺寸更大的塑料闪烁体，可有效提高探测器时间分辨的位置均匀性；(5)对于1 mm厚的EJ232塑料闪烁体探测器，在单端12支SiPM串行连接的情况下，可获得好于131 ps的时间分辨。这一研究对RIBLL2起始时间探测器的升级改造具有重要的指导意义。     

大动态范围双维位置灵敏多叠层探测系统

描述了一种用于中能重离子核反应实验研究的大动态范围双维位置灵敏多叠层探测系统.该探测系统由纵向电场气体电离室(IC)、大面积双维位置灵敏穿透型Si探测器(PSSD)、大面积Si光敏二极管(SPD)和用光二极管读出的16单元CsI(Tl)闪烁体探测器阵列组成.用a放射源Am(5.486MeV)测得的IC、PSSD的能量分辨率分别为3%和2.6%.在25MeV/u ⁴⁰Ar诱发的核反应中,探测到的a粒子的能量动态范围为2—130MeV,此探测系统清楚地分辨出Z=2到Z=21的元素,对Z=18的Z分辨本领Z/△Z≈44.5,位置分辨为0.86±0.03mm(FWHM).     

Be(d,n)反应中子源能谱测量及应用

 利用中子飞行时间技术和BC501A液体闪烁探测器的粒子分辨特性,测量了0°方向、20 MeV氘束轰击厚金属铍靶反应产生的中子源能谱,测量的中子能谱范围为0.7～25.0 MeV。在60°方向放置芪晶体闪烁探测器,由刻度好的BC501A液体闪烁探测器归一校正后,用于中子源强度监测。利用Be(d, n) 反应中子源,采用单粒子灵敏度标定方法,实验标定了0.75~15.75 MeV能量范围内的薄膜闪烁探测器中子能量响应曲线,实验结果与蒙特卡罗模拟计算结果在8%的不确定度范围内一致。     

TR4终端高性能探测器系统

描述了兰州中能重离子加速器TR4终端装备的高性能探测器系统的结构性能.各类探测器都达到了很好的性能指标.Si多叠层望远镜,Z/△Z～50,△E/E～0.3%.IC+PSD+SPD+CsI(T1)对数密度望远镜,Z/△Z～44.5,△x～1.7mm.棉球面反射镜结构开始时间探测器装置,△t～140Ps.重离子飞行时间谱仪,A/△A～86,Z/△Z～48,△E/E～0.78%,△t～286ps.9单元和36单元CsI(T1)轻粒子小角度关联探测器阵列,Si+CsI(T1)轻粒子望远镜也达到了很好的性能指标.简述了小角度关联等实验结果.     

BESⅢ端盖TOF本征时间分辨的MC模拟

BESⅢ飞行时间探测器(端盖部分)由2×48个塑料闪烁探测器模块构成. 采用Monte Carlo模拟软件包Geant4，对该探测器测量高能带电粒子的性能进行了模拟研究. 文章讨论了最小电离粒子击中闪烁体不同位置，以及闪烁体形状，闪烁体表面覆盖材料对本征时间分辨的影响，给出了详细的模拟结果，并与宇宙线测试结果进行了比较. 为该探测器研制和工程设计提供必要的参考数据.     

BESⅢ端盖TOF时间分辨的束流测试

使用800MeV的电子束对BESⅢ端盖飞行时间探测器(TOF)模块的性能进行测试. 研究了塑料闪烁体的包装材料、光电倍增管(PMT)的工作电压、电子束入射位置对单个TOF模块的本征时间分辨的影响，并给出了测量时间与信号幅度和粒子击中位置的修正方法. 实验结果显示:使用Tyvek纸包装，闪烁体在安装PMT的一端有45°斜面, 电子击中在TOF模块不同位置其本征时间分辨在70—90ps范围内.     

一种新型的大量程探测器望远镜

本文描述一个大量程粒子望远镜.它由一个平行板雪崩探测器(PPAC),一个电离室(IC)及一个光迭层探测器(phoswich)组合而成.它适合于很宽能区内轻粒子和重碎片的测量.该探测器在近代物理研究所1.7米迴旋加速器上用96MeV ¹⁶O+⁵¹V反应中30°方向上的产物进行了调试,测量结果表明,电离室和Phoswich构成的望远镜对电荷数Z>2的粒子给出了极好的分辨(¹⁶O的Z分辨达到5%);Phoswich本身对H、d、t、α等轻粒子也给出了相当好的分辨.     

Self-organization of five species in a cyclic competition game

Cyclic competition game models, particularly the “rock–paper–scissors” model, play important roles in exploring the problem of multi-species coexistence in spatially ecological systems. We propose an extended “rock–paper–scissors” game to model cyclic interactions among five species, and find that two of the five can coexistent when biodiversity disappears, which is different from the “rock–paper–scissors” game. As the number of fingers is five, we named the new model the “fingers” game, where the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger cyclically dominate their subsequent species and are dominated by their former species. We investigate the “fingers” model in two ways: direct simulations and nonlinear partial differential equations. An important finding is that the number of species in a cyclic competition game has an influence on the emergence of biodiversity. To be specific, the “rock–paper–scissors” model is in favor of maintaining biodiversity in comparison with the “fingers” model when the variables (population size, reproduction rate, selection rate, and migration rate) are the same. It is also shown that the mobility and reproduction rate can promote or jeopardize biodiversity.     

Experimental study on downstep in Chinese intonation

Downstep in pitch contour of Chinese Putonghua is examined using subtly designed sentences by controlling tone combinations. The results show both automatic and nonautomatic downstep phenomena exist in Chinese. In non-automatic downstep, low tones compress downwards the pitch range of the following syllables. and the main influence of downstep is on topline. Low tone not only lower the topline behind it, but also raise the high tones before it, the effects are compatible with each other. In automatic downstep, the topline of pitch contour in intonational phrase is presented as a linear downtrend, but it differs among speakers due to the effect of personal stress practice. In comparison with downstep phenomenon in other tone or non-tone languages, the downstep ratio in Chinese is not constant, and the domain of downstep is not limited within the adjacent tones.     

Contrastive analysis on tone between Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin

The differences of the pitch and duration of Chinese syllables between Putonghua （PTH） and Taiwan Mandarin （TM） were studied. The speech materials to be used are not only isolated syllables, but also sentences. The results reveal that： For the isolated syllables, T1 and T2 in TM are influenced by Minnan dialect, therefore their pitch are lower than those in PTH. T3 is fall-rise in PTH, while it is fall in TM. Moreover, the syllable duration sequence for different tone is T3〉T2〉T1〉T4 in PTH, while it is T1〉T2〉T3〉T4 in TM. For the syllables in sentences, T2 is mid-rise in PTH, while it is mid-level in TM. And the T3 is longer than T4 but shorter than T1 or T2 in PTH, while it is the shortest in TM. Furthermore the effects of prosodic phrase boundary on duration for different tones are almost the same in PTH, but the lengthening part of T1 or T2 is longer than that of T3 or T4 in TM.     

Abelian-Higgs phase of SU(2) QCD and glueball energy

It is shown that SU(2) QCD admits an dual Abelian-Higgs phase, with a Higgs vacuum of a type-Ⅱ superconductor. This is done by using a connection decomposition for the gluon field and the random-direction approximation. Using a bag picture with soft wall, we presented a calculational procedure for the glueball energy based on the recent proof for wall-vortices [Nucl. Phys. B 741(2006)1].     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

Real-time restoration of rotational blurred image using gradient-loading

The key to the restoration of rotational motion blurred image is how to restore the image under a low cost and to correct the irreversibility of the degradation function matrix.Based on the special qualities of degradation function matrix and precise deduction in space-domain, we present a new approach using gradient-loading for restoration of rotational blurred image.By easily adding a gradient operator, the irreversibility of the original matrix is corrected and can be applied for inverse filtering then.Gradientloading is the optimized approach which combines the advantages of both the approaches using constrained least square filtering and traditional diagonal-loading.Compared with the approach using least square filtering, its peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is improved from 3.18 to 6.46dB, while the computing time is reduced to 1/2-1/3.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness, noise-resistibility, robustness, and low complexity of this approach, which make it more suitable for real-time environment.     

All-Optical Logic Device Using Bent Nonlinear Tapered Y-Junction Waveguide Structure

We propose an all-optical logic device made of a bent tapered Y-junction waveguide with a Kerr-type nonlinear interface. It could provide an AND gate, OR gate, and exclusive-OR (XOR) gate. We could obtain different transmission results by adjusting the bending angle. The numerical simulation results show that the device functions as AND, OR, and XOR gates.     

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz imaging by a pyroelectric camera

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz (THz) imaging is demonstrated. A 1.89-THz optically-pumped farinfrared laser is used as the illumination source, and a 124 × 124 element room-temperature pyroelectric camera is adopted as the detector. With this setup, THz images through various wrapping materials are shown. The results show that this imaging system has the potential applications in real-time mail and security inspection.