The Low Energy X-ray telescope (LE) onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

The Low Energy X-ray telescope(LE) is one of the three main instruments of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope(Insight-HXMT). It is equipped with Swept Charge Device(SCD) sensor arrays with a total geometrical area of 384 cm^2 and an energy band from 0.7 to 13 ke V. In order to evaluate the particle induced X-ray background and the cosmic X-ray background simultaneously, LE adopts collimators to define four types of Field Of Views(FOVs), i.e., 1.6°×6°, 4°×6°, 50°-60°×2°-6 oand the blocked ones which block the X-ray by an aluminum cover. LE is constituted of three detector boxes(LEDs) and an electric control box(LEB) and achieves a good energy resolution of 140 e V@5.9 ke V, an excellent time resolution of 0.98 ms, as well as an extremely low pileup(<1%@18000 cts/s). Detailed performance tests and calibration on the ground have been performed,including energy-channel relation, energy response, detection efficiency and time response.     

Thermal analysis and expected performance of the low energy instrument on board the HXMT satellite

The Low Energy X-ray Instrument (LE) of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) uses the Swept Charge Device (SCD) to detect the X-rays in 1-15 keV. The performance of SCD is vulnerable to temperature. We analyzed the thermal condition of LE at different satellite working attitudes with the Finite Element Method (FEM). It is shown that the angle between the sunlight and the normal line of the barrier should be less them 26°, to keep the SCD detectors working in the required temperature range, i.e. -40 ℃ to -80 ℃. We find that the performance of LE is very stable in this temperature range, with a typical energy resolution of 160 eV at 5.9 keV.     

Lucy-Richardson迭代解谱在X射线荧光分析的应用

硬X射线调制望远镜是我国第一颗X射线天文卫星,其载荷低能X射线望远镜采用了SCD型探测器CCD236,主要对能量在0.7～13.0 keV的软X射线光子进行观测。卫星发射前,需要对探测器进行详细的性能标定,其中包括能量响应矩阵的标定。能量响应矩阵是能谱分析的关键。CCD236探测器输出能谱并不是观测光源的真实发射谱,而是发射谱与探测器能量响应矩阵的卷积结果。一般可以通过直接反卷积的方法还原光源的真实能谱。解谱过程可以看作是一维成像问题,利用能量响应矩阵与输出能谱进行反卷积解谱。常用的反卷积算法为Lucy-Richardson迭代算法,其利用条件几率的贝氏定理反复进行运算,进而对输出能谱进行反解,得到观测光源的真实发射能谱。通过能量响应矩阵对CCD236探测器的55Fe测量能谱进行解谱。经过解谱,能谱的能量分辨从144.3 eV提升到了65.6 eV@5.9 keV,连续谱成分被明显地抑制,提高了能谱的峰背比。反解能谱由两个半峰全宽很小的（<70.0 eV）高斯峰组成,两成分的强度比为8.4,能够很好地表征真实发射谱的结构。利用这种方法可对材料X射线荧光谱进行解谱,还原材料的荧光谱,提高能谱的能量分辨。反解结果中主要元素各类荧光线通过解谱彼此独立,能谱峰背比很高,可以很好地用于X射线荧光分析中,提高荧光谱的质量。     

Nonradiative charge transfer in collisions of protons with rubidium atoms

The nonradiative charge-transfer cross sections for protons colliding with Rb(5s) atoms are calculated by using the quantum-mechanical molecularorbital close-coupling method in an energy range of 10 3 keV-10 keV.The total and state-selective charge-transfer cross sections are in good agreement with the experimental data in the relatively low energy region.The importance of rotational coupling for chargetransfer process is stressed.Compared with the radiative charge-transfer process,nonradiative charge transfer is a dominant mechanism at energies above 15 eV.The resonance structures of state-selective charge-transfer cross sections arising from the competition among channels are analysed in detail.The radiative and nonradiative charge-transfer rate coefficients from low to high temperature are presented.     

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION IN THE FISSION OF 232Th BY 14MeV NEUTRON

Independent yields of ⁸²Br, ⁹⁶Nb, ¹¹²Ag, ¹³⁰I,¹³²I, ¹³⁴I, ^134mCs, ^135mCs, ¹³⁶Cs and upper limitof independent yield for ¹⁴⁰La in the fission of ²³²Th induced by neutrons of 14 MeVwere determined with nuclear chemistry techniques. The correlation of the fractionalindependent yields in the high yield mass chains with a Gaussian curve of charge dis-tribution has been investigated using various mass formulae and charge distributionhypotheses. The results indicate that the hrpothesis of minimum potential energy witha shell-effected mass equation gives the best fit to the data. The width parameter Cof the charge distribution is found to be 0.80. The large deviations of ³²Br and ¹¹²Ag from the Gaussian curve seem to show that the low yield in very asymmetric fissioncan be attributed to a narrower width of charge distribution, whereas the high yield insymmetric fission may correlate with a wider width. The trends have been explainedqualitatively in terms of a liquid drop model. There is no evidence for 40-proton subshell effect on the fission yield.     

基于CCD电极直接驱动控制的双脉冲发光图像高速曝光技术原理研究

电荷耦合器件(CCD)是一类高性能的光电成像器件,具有成像阵列大、图像质量好的特点。但由于正常工作驱动时序复杂,工作帧频一般较低,无法满足较高成像帧频的要求。针对一种双脉冲发光图像的高速高分辨高质量成像要求,根据CCD信号电荷收集及转移的电极驱动特性,选择合适的CCD类型,以电荷转移时序为时间分隔界限,设计了一种电极直接进行控制的时序,实现了两个光脉冲图像的分离积分及信号转移、读出等,完成了双脉冲发光图像的等效高帧频曝光的原理验证,在保持CCD原有高成像质量的情况下获得了μs级间隔的两幅图像可分辨的能力,并实现了一种二分幅相机系统。     

Nonadiabatic couplings and charge transfer study in H + CS+ collision using time-dependent quantum dynamics

Experiments have reported the high stability of HCS⁺ ion and inhibit to decompose over the range of collision energies. In this study, the various energy transfer channels of atomic H collision with CS⁺ molecular ion has been performed by ab initio computations at the multireference configuration interaction/aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory. The ground and several low-lying excited electronic state potential energy surfaces in three different molecular orientations, namely, two collinear configurations with, (1) H approaching the S atom (γ = 0°), (2) H approaching the C atom (γ = 180°) and one perpendicular configuration, (3) H approaching the centre of mass of CS (γ = 90°) with the diatom fixed at the equilibrium bond length, have been obtained. Nonadiabatic effects with Landau–Zener coupling leading to avoided crossings are observed between the ground- and the first-excited states in γ = 90° orientation, and also between the first- and second-excited states in γ = 180° orientation. Quantum dynamics have been performed to study the charge transfer using time-dependent wave packet method on the diabatic potential energy surfaces. The probability of charge transfer is found to be highest with 42% in γ = 180°. The high charge transfer probability result in the formation of H⁺ + CS channel which ascertains the high stability of HCS⁺ ion.     

A Prototype of X-Ray Imaging Based on the GEM Detector

A prototype of X-ray imaging device based on triple Gas Electron Multiply detector is studied,which has an effective gain up to 10⁵ and can be used in high rate X-rays imaging.The precise method of micro–strip readout is designed for X-rays localization, and the crate controller of high–speed SCSI interface is applied for the data acquisition.The test results show that the position resolution of measurement system is less than 90μm and the stability of its effective gain is better than 1% under the X-ray flux of 10⁵Hz/mm².     

INVESTIGATION OF THE 238U ION TRACKS REGISTERD IN POLYCARBONATE CHAOYANG NO.1

We have studied the registration characteristics of polycarbonate ChaoYang No.1 for ²³⁸U. The experimental range of ²³⁸U in it was determined. The relation between the energy of ²³⁸U and range and the relation between the energy and REL of ²³⁸U in it are calculated. The V_T versus REL response, the charge resolution and the mass resolution for heavy charged particles are analysed and discussed.     

A detector telescope with charge coupled devices for particle dosimetry in space

A telescopic device with charge coupled devices (CCDs) for particle dosimetry in space has been developed. Data on ionization events of energetic particles passing the CCDs are processed in an image analyzing system of a PC. As ‘Charged Particle Telescope’ (CHAPAT), the equipment was flown on the russian space station MIR during the EUROMIR mission in 1995. The response of the CCDs to various charged particles and methods for the discrimination of heavy particles in CCDs are discussed. First results of a correlation of temporal particles fluxes to the actual orbital parameters of MIR clearly identify passages through the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA).     

Resonance charge relaxation in physical barrier layers

It is shown experimentally that the space charge domain (SCD) of a MIS structure can be described as a layer-macrorelaxer by applying the appropriate formula for the Schottky barrier. The maximal time of the transient t_C (the saturation time t_CH) of the change in MIS-structure capacitance upon imposition of a sufficiently large rectangular depleting voltage pulse is expressed by the formula mentioned. A new method is correspondingly proposed for determining the ionization energy of bulk centers responsible for this relaxation. A comparison with data in the literature is presented and the prospects for developing representations on resonance charge relaxation in barrier layers is indicated.     

Radiative charge transfer and radiative association of protons colliding with Na at low energies

Using the fully quantum-mechanical approach, the radiative charge transfer for H⁺ + Na(3s) collisions has been investigated. The charge transfer emission spectra are analyzed at resonant and non-resonant collision energies. The radiative association cross sections, obtained by subtracting the radiative charge transfer part from total radiative decay cross sections calculated by the optical potential method, are presented in the energy range 10⁻⁶-1 eV.     

Doublet of cosmic-ray events with primary energies >1020 eV

The Telescope Array Collaboration has observed a cosmic-ray event with estimated primary energy of 1.38 × 10²⁰ eV whose arrival direction coincides [T. Abu-Zayyad et al. (Telescope Array Collaboration), arXiv:1205.5984], given the angular resolution of 1.5°, with that of an event with estimated primary energy of 1.23 × 10²⁰ eV observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The total number of events with energies >10²⁰ eV published by both experiments is six. I estimate the statistical significance of the doublet, which is rather weak, and point out that the arrival directions of events in the doublet coincide with the Galactic X-ray source Aql X-1.     

Design of a very high frame rate camera based on an asynchronous CCD driving method

A very high frame rate camera is designed based on an innovative CCD driving method. The CCD driving method is mainly implemented on frame transfer CCDs. Asynchronous drive timing sequences are applied in the image and storage section of the CCDs. Several rows of the charge in the image section are binned onto the same row in the storage section, and there are the same number of images to be stored in the storage section before they are read out. Based on the new driving method, the frame transfer CCDs can work at a very high frame rate in acquiring burst images though the reading speed remains at a lower level. A very high frame rate camera is designed in this paper. The innovative CCD driving method is mainly of concern. An e2v's CCD60 is adopted in the camera system, whose full size resolution is 128×128, and the up most frame rate is 1000 Hz in the conventional CCD driving method. By using the presented method, the CCD60 based imager is capable of operating at up to 40000 frames per second (fps) at a recognizable resolution of 128×32. Comparing cameras using traditional binning and region of interest technologies, the frame rate is normally less than 5000 fps while the resolution is only 32 × 32 lett.     

Quasi-elastic nucleon transfer and single charge exchange in 48Ti + 42Ca collisions

Single nucleon transfer and single charge exchange have been studied for quasi-elastic collisions of ⁴⁸Ti and ⁴²Ca at E_lab = 240, 300 and 385 MeV. Specific features below 12 MeV excitation energy are displayed in all of the measured particle energy spectra for each channel. These have been accounted for in the case of nucleon transfer by a one-step direct transfer mechanism in which all of the available hole and bound particle states in the donor and acceptor nucleus, respectively, have been included. This core excitation model was extended to single charge exchange (SCX) two-step transfers in which a proton and a neutron are exchanged. The absolute magnitude and distribution of strength in the SCX channel was obtained. The contributions from direct charge exchange via the isovector parts of the NN interaction has also been investigated in a microscopic model and is found to contribute of the order of 1–5% to the charge exchange cross section. The distribution of Fermi and Gamow-Teller strength is discussed.     

Artificial Modulation of Ferroelectric Thin Films into Antiferroelectric through H+ Implantation for High-Density Charge Storage

Hydrogen ions are implanted into Pb（Zro.3Tio.7）03 1014 ions/cm^2. Pseudo-antiferroelectric behaviour in thin films at the energy of 40keV with a flux of 5 x the implanted thin films is observed, as confirmed by the measurements of polarization versus electric hysteresis loops and capacitance versus voltage curves. X-ray diffrac- tion patterns show the film structures before and after H＋ implantation both to be perovskite of a tetragonal symmetry. These findings indicate that hydrogen ions exist as stable dopants within the films. It is believed that the dopants change domain-switching behaviour via the boundary charge compensation. Meanwhile, time dependence of leakage current density after time longer than lOs indicates the enhancement of the leakage cur- rent nearly in one order for the implanted film, but the current at time shorter than i s is mostly the same as that of the original film without the ionic implantation. The artificial tailoring of the antiferroelectric behaviour through H＋ implantation in ferroelectric thin films is finally proven to be achievable for the device application of high-density charge storage.     

Raman scattering from the molecular charge transfer crystal anthracene-PMDA

The Raman spectrum of the mixed stack charge transfer (CT) crystal anthracene-PMDA, has been measured in the wavelength region near the lowest CT transition at 5458 Å. Six low frequency modes are observed below 140 cm^?1, the mode at 130 cm^?1 showing strong resonance enhancement. These modes are assigned as librational motion of the anthracene and PMDA molecules by rigid body analysis of X-ray structural data.     

Application of X-ray absorption spectroscopy to the investigation of charge states of iron ions in iron borate nanoceramics

The method of X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been used for the investigation of charge states of iron ions in iron borate nanoceramics prepared by shear deformation under pressure. The experimental Fe 2p X-ray absorption spectra have been presented in comparison with the calculation of atomic multiplets of iron ions taking into account the charge transfer from the 2p orbitals of oxygen to the 3d orbitals of iron and the crystal-field splitting of the 3d orbitals of iron. Our results indicate that, in addition to iron ions in the ground charge state Fe³⁺, nanostructured FeBO₃ contains a few percent of Fe²⁺ ions. It has been found that an increase in the degree of plastic deformation (the rotation angle of the anvils) leads to a decrease in the size of crystallites and to an increase in the concentration of Fe²⁺ ions without the formation of new phases. The results of this work agree with the magnetic and optical measurements and confirm high defectness of FeBO₃ nanoceramics.     

Non-adiabatic interactions in charge transfer collisions

An analysis of the charge transfer mechanism in the collision of multiply charged ions with molecular and biomolecular targets is performed, considering the non-adiabatic interactions between the molecular states involved. Collisions of doubly charged C ²⁺ ions on small molecular targets, CO and OH, have been investigated, together with the analysis of charge transfer between C ⁴⁺ ions on uracil and halouracil biomolecular targets. The process is studied theoretically by means of ab-initio molecular calculations followed by a semi-classical treatment of the collision dynamics. The influence of rotational couplings is discussed with regard to the collision energy. Strong anisotropic and vibration effects are pointed out.     

Theoretical study on SERRS of rhodamine 6G adsorbed on Ag2 cluster: chemical mechanism via intermolecular or intramolecular charge transfer

The problem of the chemical enhancement of rhodamine 6G (R6G) adsorbed on silver cluster has been theoretically investigated by charge difference densities (CDDs) to show the direct charge transfer (CT) evidence. For surface‐enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) of R6G excited at 514.5 nm, the enhancements of v(151) and v(154) result from weak intermolecular (from Ag to R6G) CT and the strong intramolecular CT [similar to that of resonance Raman scattering (RRS) of R6G], respectively. The possibility of the SERRS of R6G contributed from pure intermolecular CT is also discussed, when the incident light is close to the new metal–R6G CT excited state at 1571.4 nm. Meanwhile compared with the absorption process the fluorescence yield of R6G is investigated by transition densities and CCDs. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.