Dark matter results from 100 live days of XENON100 data

We present results from the direct search for dark matter with the XENON100 detector, installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Italy. XENON100 is a two-phase time-projection chamber with a 62 kg liquid xenon target. Interaction vertex reconstruction in three dimensions with millimeter precision allows the selection of only the innermost 48 kg as the ultralow background fiducial target. In 100.9 live days of data, acquired between January and June 2010, no evidence for dark matter is found. Three candidate events were observed in the signal region with an expected background of (1.8 ± 0.6) events. This leads to the most stringent limit on dark matter interactions today, excluding spin-independent elastic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering cross sections above 7.0 × 10(-45) cm(2) for a WIMP mass of 50 GeV/c(2) at 90% confidence level.     

Persistence Properties and Unique Continuation of Solutions to a Two-component Camassa–Holm Equation

We will consider a two-component Camassa–Holm system which arises in shallow water theory. The present work is mainly concerned with persistence properties and unique continuation to this new kind of system, in view of the classical Camassa–Holm equation. Firstly, it is shown that there are three results about these properties of the strong solutions. Then we also investigate the infinite propagation speed in the sense that the corresponding solution does not have compact spatial support for t > 0 though the initial data belongs to C₀^￥(BbbR)C_{0}^{infty}(Bbb{R}).     

ZnO:Ag film growth on Si substrate with ZnO buffer layer by rf sputtering

ZnO buffer layers were deposited on n-Si (1 0 0) substrate by rf magnetron sputtering at a lower power of 40 W. Then Ag-doped ZnO (SZO) films were deposited on buffered and non-buffered Si at a higher sputtering power of 100 W. The effects of buffer layer on the structural, electrical and optical properties of SZO films were investigated. The three-dimensional island growth process of ZnO buffer layer was discussed. The energy band diagram of p-SZO/n-Si heterojunction was constructed based on Anderson's model. Results show the ZnO buffer layer leads to better properties of SZO film, including larger grain size, smoother surface, higher carrier mobility, better rectifying behavior, lower interface state density, and weaker deep-level emission. It is because the ZnO buffer layer effectively relaxes the partial stress induced by the large lattice mismatch between SZO and Si.     

TG-FTIR技术对水氯镁石结晶热解过程的研究

水氯镁石脱水是镁资源利用的关键.其中一种重要的方法是向水氯镁石中添加助剂形成复盐及络合物脱水.通过缓慢冷却水氯镁石及盐酸苯胺的过饱和水溶液制备了水氯镁石-盐酸苯胺结晶物.通过TGDTA-FTIR联用技术分析了盐酸苯胺、水氯镁石以及盐酸苯胺-水氯镁石结晶物的热解过程,定性检测每步分解的逸出气体以推测反应过程.结果显示:盐酸苯胺在400℃以前仅发生物理变化;水氯镁石的热解分阶段进行,205℃以前发生脱去四个结晶水,205℃以后在脱水反应的同时发生水解反应生成HCl;盐酸苯胺-水氯镁石结晶物分阶段脱水、脱盐酸苯胺,整个过程没有水解现象发生,能够得到高纯度无水氯化镁.     

Optical investigation of cavitation erosion by laser-induced bubble collapse

By means of a new force sensor based on optical beam deflection (OBD), the mechanical effects of laser-matter interaction underwater at different incident laser energy are investigated in detail. The experimental results show that a target underwater is impacted in turn by laser-plasma ablation force and high-speed liquid-jet impulse induced by bubbles collapse in the vicinity of a solid boundary. Furthermore, the amplitudes of the two forces increase monotonously with laser energy. According to the ablation force detected by the experiment and the theoretical relationship between laser intensity and ablation pressure, the value of liquid-jet impact against a solid boundary can be easily obtained. In addition, based on the model of a collapsing bubble, some characteristic parameters, such as the liquid-jet impact velocity, the maximum bubble radius, the bubble energy can also be obtained at different laser energy, which are valuable in the corresponding research fields.     

355 nm激光作用下苯甲醚的多光子电离质谱研究

在355 nm激光作用下,利用多光子电离技术结合飞行时间质谱(TOF-MS)对苯甲醚分子进行了研究。实验结果表明苯甲醚分子的多光子电离机制属于母体分子电离-解离模型。通过对主要碎片离子的可能形成过程的讨论,得出该波长下母体分子离子解离的主要有两种通道,但是随激光能量的增强,甲基移除通道逐步占据优势成为主要通道。应用高斯软件采用HF/6-31G(d) 方法对苯甲醚分子和苯甲醚阳离子基态的几何构型进行优化得到其稳定构型,并计算了苯甲醚分子离子及其初级解离产物的能量。比较两条通道的碎片离子能量的变化,理论验证了实验中苯甲醚分子主要解离通道的合理性。     

一种双正则项全变差高光谱图像去噪算法

受传感器特性影响,高光谱图像中的噪声在各个维度都有体现。噪声的存在降低了高光谱图像中信息的有效性,在进行地物分类前必须采用适当的算法对噪声予以去除。文章针对高光谱图像的噪声特性,提出了一种基于全变差的高光谱图像去噪算法。该算法将经典二维图像全变差去噪模型推广至三维形式,提出了采用双正则项及相应的调整参数的目标函数,在三维空间中完成新目标函数的离散化,并采用基于优化-最小化算法的迭代方法对目标函数进行优化与求解。对星载Hyperion成像光谱仪数据的实验表明,适当的设置调整参数,该方法可很好地提高高光谱图像的各波段信噪比、平滑光谱曲线并保留细节特征,其去噪效果优于经典的MNF去噪算法及Savitzky-Golay滤波方法。     

Sixtieth order harmonic mixing to 4.25 THz using a Schottky diode

Harmonic mixing of mm-waves with radiation of 3.7 THz with different Schottky diodes is reported. The highest mixing order is 60 producing a beat between 72 GHz and 4.25 THz radiation. Such high frequency mixing has so far only been possible using cryogenic Josephson mixers. The present result permits substantial simplification of measurements of optical frequencies.