M-ary information processing via an optimal nonlinear detector

This paper presents a novel approach of M-ary baseband pulse amplitude modulated signal processing via a parameter-optimized nonlinear dynamic system.This nonlinear system usually shows the phenomenon of stochastic resonance by adding noise.To thoroughly discuss the signal processing performance of the nonlinear system,we tune the system parameters to obtain a nonlinear detector with optimal performance.For characterizing the output of the nonlinear system,the derivation of the probability of detection error is given by the system response speed and the probability density function of the nonlinear system output.By varying the noise intensity with fixed system parameters,the phenomenon of stochastic resonance is shown and by tuning the system parameters with fixed noise,the probability of detection error is minimized and the nonlinear system is optimized.The detection performance of the two cases is compared with the theoretical probability of detection error,which is validated by numerical simulation.     

Study of BESⅢ MUC offline software with cosmic-ray data

Cosmic-ray data of 90 M events have been collected and used for calibration,alignment as well as detector tuning. A special tracking algorithm for the BESⅢ muon counter is developed and verified with Monte-Carlo simulation and then further confirmed with the cosmic-ray data. The obtained strip resolutions are in good agreement with the design values. A new alignment approach for the BESⅢ muon counter is confirmed with the cosmic-ray data and proposed to be used in future analysis of experimental data.     

Study of BESⅢ MUC offine software with cosmic-ray data

Cosmic-ray data of 90 M events have been collected and used for calibration,alignment as well as detector tuning. A special tracking algorithm for the BESⅢ muon counter is developed and verified with Monte-Carlo simulation and then further confirmed with the cosmic-ray data. The obtained strip resolutions are in good agreement with the design values. A new alignment approach for the BESⅢ muon counter is confirmed with the cosmic-ray data and proposed to be used in future analysis of experimental data.     

Extraction of Parameters of Random Self-Affine Fractal Surfaces from Light Scattered Intensity by Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm

A method for simultaneously extracting the parameters of self-affine fractal surfaces from a single experimental profile of scattered intensity data is proposed. The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is introduced to fit the theoretical equation for the scattering intensity profile to the experimental data. A precision system is designed for acquisition of scattering intensity data using the Boxcar integration technique. The surface parameters extracted （root-mean-square roughness w, lateral correlation length ζ, and roughness exponent α） are compared to those obtained using atomic force microscopy.     

Dispersion measurement of Yb-doped fiber by a spectral interferometric technique

<正>The dispersion of Yb-doped fiber is measured by a spectral interferometric technique.The experimental verification is achieved by comparing the measured data with published data of the Nufern 1060xp fiber and the measurement relative error is 1.36%.The parameters of the experimental system,such as minimum required source bandwidth and minimum fiber length,are introduced and analyzed in the measurement. The minimum required source bandwidth predicted through theoretical calculation at the center wavelength of 1070 nm is 19.3 nm,which perfectly agrees with the experimental value.     

Design and performance study of the LEPD silicon tracker onboard the CSES satellite

The low energy particle detector (LEPD) is one of the main payloads onboard the China seismic electromagnetic satellite (CSES). The detector is designed to ascertain space electrons (0.1-10 MeV) and protons (2-50 MeV). It has the capability of identifying the electrons and protons, to measure the energy spectrum and the incident angle of the particles. The LEPD is made up of a silicon tracker system, a CsI (Tl) mini-calorimeter, an anti-coincidence system made by plastic scintillator, as well as electronics and a data acquisition system (DAQ). The tracker is also a kind of E-E telescope; it consists of two layers of double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSD). The signals emerging from the silicon tracker can be read out by two pieces of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which also can generate an event trigger for the LEPD. The functions of the DSSD system in the LEPD for charged particles were tested by 241Am @5.486 MeV α particles. The results show that the DSSD system works well, and has high performance to detect charged particles and measure the position of incident particles.     

Simulation and experimental characterization of a dual-mode two-section amplified feedback laser with mode separation over 100 GHz

A tunable two-section amplified feedback laser, which employs an amplifier section as the integrated feedback cavity, is designed and fabricated for dual-mode operation with mode separation of 100 GHz. Detailed simulations and experimental characterizations on the performance of the laser are presented. Promising dual-mode emission with continuous tuning range over 16 GHz（87.41–103.64 GHz） is experimentally demonstrated.     

A Demonstration of Equivalence between Parameter-Induced and Noise-Induced Stochastic Resonances with Multiplicative and Additive Noises

A typical bistable nonlinear system with multiplicative and additive noises can produce stochastic resonance （SR） by increasing the intensity of the additive noise or the multiplicative noise and it has been proved that SR can also be realized by tuning system parameters. We clearly demonstrate the equivalence between parameter-induced SR （PSR） and noise-induced SR in the presence of multiplicative and additive noises. By tuning several system parameters with fixed noise intensities, the SR is induced just as it is realized by tuning the additive noise or the multiplicative noise. It may be interesting to realize PSR when the noise intensity exceeds the resonance level, or when the characteristic of the noise is unknown.     

Parameter identification and state-of-charge estimation approach for enhanced lithium–ion battery equivalent circuit model considering influence of ambient temperatures

It is widely accepted that the variation of ambient temperature has great influence on the battery model parameters and state-of-charge(SOC) estimation, and the accurate SOC estimation is a significant issue for developing the battery management system in electric vehicles. To address this problem, in this paper we propose an enhanced equivalent circuit model(ECM) considering the influence of different ambient temperatures on the open-circuit voltage for a lithium–ion battery. Based on this model, the exponential-function fitting method is adopted to identify the battery parameters according to the test data collected from the experimental platform. And then, the extended Kalman filter(EKF) algorithm is employed to estimate the battery SOC of this battery ECM. The performance of the proposed ECM is verified by using the test profiles of hybrid pulse power characterization(HPPC) and the standard US06 driving cycles(US06) at various ambient temperatures, and by comparing with the common ECM with a second-order resistance capacitor. The simulation and experimental results show that the enhanced battery ECM can improve the battery SOC estimation accuracy under different operating conditions.     

Sub-external cavity effect and elimination method in laser self-mixing interference wave plate measurement system

Laser self-mixing interference(SMI) wave plate measurement method is a burgeoning technique for its simplicity and efficiency. But for the non-coated sample, the reflected light from the surface can seriously affect the measurement results.To analyze the reason theoretically, a self-consistent model for laser operation with a sub-external and an external cavity is established, and the sub-external cavity formed by the sample and a cavity mirror is proved to be the main error source.A synchronous tuning method is proposed to eliminate the sub-external cavity effect. Experiments are carried out on the synchronously tuning double external cavities self-mixing interference system, and the error of the system is in the range of -0.435°~0.387° compared with the ellipsometer. The research plays an important role in improving the performance and enlarging the application range of the laser self-mixing interference system.     

β~--Decay Half-Lives for Waiting Point Nuclei Around N=126

We have systematically analyzed the experimental β--decay half-lives of waiting point heavy nuclei around neutron number N = 126. A new set of parameters for the exponential formula of β~--decay half-lives is proposed. The forbidden transition effects are included in the new set of parameters self-consistently. Theoretical β~--decay half-lives of nuclei around N = 126 are compared with recent theoretical results and experimental data. It is found that the new theoretical results are in better agreement with experimental data. The unknown β~--decay half-lives of some nuclei in this region are predicted for studies on nuclear structure far from stability and the nucleosynthesis in stars.     

A robust photometric calibration framework for projector-camera display system

A novel photometric calibration framework is presented for a projector-camera （ProCam） display system, which is currently under booming development. Firstly, a piecewise bilinear model and five 5-ary color coding images are used to construct the homography between the image planes of a projector and a camera. Secondly, a photometric model is proposed to describe the data flow of the ProCam display system for displaying color images on colored surface in a general way. An efficient self-calibration algorithm is correspondingly put forward to recover the model parameters. Aiming to adapt this algorithm to different types of ProCam display system robustly, a 3× 7 masking coupling matrix and a patches image with 1024 color samples are adopted to fit the complex channel interference function of the display system. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate the validity and superiority of this calibration algorithm for the ProCam display system.     

Optimizing Parallel Access to the BaBar Database System Using CORBA Servers

The BaBar Experiment collected around 20 TB of data during its first 6 months of running.Now,after 18 months,data size exceeds 300 TB,and according to prognosis,it is a small fraction of the size of data coming in the next few months,In order to keep up with the data significant effort was put into tuning the database system,It led to great performance improvements,as well as to inevitable system expansion-450 simultaneous processing nodes alone used for data reconstruction.It is believed,that further growth beyond 600 nodes will happen soon.In such an environment,many complex operations are executed simultaneously on hundreds of machines,putting a huge load on data servers and increasing network traffic Introducing two CORBA servers halved startup time,and dramatically offloaded database servers:data servers as well as lock servers The paper describes details of design and implementation of two servers recently in troduced in the Babar system:conditions OID server and Clustering Server,The first experience of using these servers is discussed.A discussion on a Collection Server for data analysis,currently being designed is included.     

An artificial neural network for proton identification in HERMES data

The HERMES time-of-flight （TOF） system is used for proton identification, but must be carefully calibrated for systematic biases in the equipment. This paper presents an artificial neural network （ANN） trained to recognize protons from ∧^0 decay using only raw event data such as time delay, momentum, and trajectory. To avoid the systematic errors associated with Monte Carlo models, we collect a sample of raw experimental data from the year 2000. We presume that when for a positive hadron （assigned one proton mass） and a negative hadron （assigned one π^- mass） the reconstructed invariant mass lies within the ∧^0 resonance, the positive hadron is more likely to be a proton. Such events are assigned an output value of one during the training process; all others were assigned the output value zero.
The trained ANN is capable of identifying protons in independent experimental data, with an efficiency equivalent to the traditional TOF calibration. By modifying the threshold for proton identification, a researcher can trade off between selection efficiency and background rejection power. This simple and convenient method is applicable to similar detection problems in other experiments.     

Analysis of prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity for 237Np（n,f） in the frame of multi-modal Los Alamos model

The improved version of Los Alamos model with the multi-modal fission approach is used to analyse the prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity for the neutron-induced fission of 237Np. The spectra of neutrons emitted from fragments for the three most dominant fission modes (standard Ⅰ, standard Ⅱ and superlong) are calculated separately and the total spectrum is synthesized. The multi-modal parameters contained in the spectrum model are determined on the basis of experimental data of fission fragment mass distributions. The calculated total prompt fission neutron spectrum and multiplicity are better agreement with the experimental data than those obtained from the conventional treatment of the Los Alamos model.     

Photoacoustic Imaging of Animals with an Annular Transducer Array

A photoacoustic system with an annular transducer array is presented for rapid, high-resolution photoacoustic tomography of animals. An eight-channel data acquisition system is applied to capture the photoacoustic signals by using multiplexing and the total time of data acquisition and transferring is within 3 s. A limited-view filtered back projection algorithm is used to reconstruct the photoacoustic images. Experiments are performed on a mouse head and a rabbit head and clear photoacoustic images are obtained. The experimental results demonstrate that this imaging system holds the potential for imaging the human brain.     

Experimental research on a THGEM-based thermal neutron detector

A new thermal neutron detector with a domestically produced THGEM (Thick Gas Electron Multiplier) was developed as an alternative to ³He to meet the needs of the next generation of neutron facilities. One type of Au-coated THGEM was designed specifically for neutron detection. A detector prototype has been developed and the preliminary experimental tests are presented, including the performance of the Au-coated THGEM working in Ar/CO₂ gas mixtures and the neutron imaging test with ²⁵²Cf source, which can provide the reference for experimental data for research in the future.     

Simulation Analysis of the Optimal Storage Resource Alloction for Large HENP Databases

Large High Energy and Nuclear Physics(HENP)databases are commonly stored on robotic tape systems because of cost considerations.Later,selected subsets of the data are cached into disk caches for analysis or data mining.Because of the relatively long time to mount,seek,and read a tape,it is important to minimize the number of times that data is cached into disk.Having too little disk cache will force files to be removed from disk prematurely,thus reducing the potential of their sharing with other users .Similarly,having too few tape drives will not make good use of a large disk cache,as the throughput from the tape system will form the bottleneck.Balancing the tape and disk resources is dependent on the patterns of the requests to the data.In this paper,we describe a simulation that characterizes such a system in terms of the rsources and the request patterns.We learn from the simulation which parameters affect the performance of the system the most.We also observe from the simulation that,there is a point beyond which it is not worth investing in additional resources as the benefit is too marginal.We call this point the “point-of -no-benefit“(or PNB),and show that using this concept we can more easily discover the relationship of various parameters to the performance of the system.     

Deformations and B（E2） Values of Ne and Mg Nuclei around N = 20

The ground-state deformations and B（E2） values of Ne and Mg nuclei around N = 20 are studied within the framework of the macroscopic-microscopic （MM） model with isospin-dependent Nilsson potential. The calculated results are compared with those obtained from standard Nilsson parameters and with experimental ones. It is found that the calculations with new Nilsson parameters well reproduce the experimental large deformations and B（E2） values for Ne and Mg nuclei around N = 20. The N = 20 shell closure of Ne and Mg isotopes disappears in the MM model and this agrees with experimental data.