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Power consumption evaluation of circuit-switched versus packet-switched optical backbone networks
While telecommunication networks have historically been dominated by a circuit-switched paradigm, the last decades have seen a clear trend towards packet-switched networks. In this paper we evaluate how both paradigms perform in optical backbone networks from a power consumption point of view, and whether the general agreement of circuit switching being more power-efficient holds. We consider artificially generated topologies of various sizes, mesh degrees and not yet previously explored in this context transport linerates. We cross-validate our findings with a number of realistic topologies. Our results show that, as a generalization, packet switching can become preferable when the traffic demands are lower than half the transport linerate. We find that an increase in the network node count does not consistently increase the energy savings of circuit switching over packet switching, but is heavily influenced by the mesh degree and (to a minor extent) by the average link length
TeO bolometers with Cherenkov signal tagging: towards next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments
CUORE, an array of 988 TeO bolometers, is about to be one of the most
sensitive experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Its
sensitivity could be further improved by removing the background from
radioactivity. A few years ago it has been pointed out that the signal from
s can be tagged by detecting the emitted Cherenkov light, which is not
produced by s. In this paper we confirm this possibility. For the first
time we measured the Cherenkov light emitted by a CUORE crystal, and found it
to be 100 eV at the -value of the decay. To completely reject the
background, we compute that one needs light detectors with baseline noise below
20 eV RMS, a value which is 3-4 times smaller than the average noise of the
bolometric light detectors we are using. We point out that an improved light
detector technology must be developed to obtain TeO bolometric experiments
able to probe the inverted hierarchy of neutrino masses.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Added referee correction
Power consumption evaluation of circuit-switched versus packet-switched optical backbone networks
While telecommunication networks have historically been dominated by a circuit-switched paradigm, the last decades have seen a clear trend towards packet-switched networks. In this paper we evaluate how both paradigms perform in optical backbone networks from a power consumption point of view, and whether the general agreement of circuit switching being more power-efficient holds. We consider artificially generated topologies of various sizes, mesh degrees and not yet previously explored in this context transport linerates. We cross-validate our findings with a number of realistic topologies. Our results show that, as a generalization, packet switching can become preferable when the traffic demands are lower than half the transport linerate. We find that an increase in the network node count does not consistently increase the energy savings of circuit switching over packet switching, but is heavily influenced by the mesh degree and (to a minor extent) by the average link length
Development of a Li2MoO4 scintillating bolometer for low background physics
We present the performance of a 33 g Li2MoO4 crystal working as a
scintillating bolometer. The crystal was tested for more than 400 h in a
dilution refrigerator installed in the underground laboratory of Laboratori
Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). This compound shows promising features in the
frame of neutron detection, dark matter search (solar axions) and neutrinoless
double-beta decay physics. Low temperature scintillating properties were
investigated by means of different alpha, beta/gamma and neutron sources, and
for the first time the Light Yield for different types of interacting particle
is estimated. The detector shows great ability of tagging fast neutron
interactions and high intrinsic radiopurity levels (< 90 \muBq/kg for 238-U and
< 110 \muBq/kg for 232-Th).Comment: revised versio
New experimental limits on the alpha decays of lead isotopes
For the first time a PbWO4 crystal was grown using ancient Roman lead and it
was run as a cryogenic detector. Thanks to the simultaneous and independent
read-out of heat and scintillation light, the detector was able to discriminate
beta/gamma interactions with respect to alpha particles down to low energies.
New more stringent limits on the alpha decays of the lead isotopes are
presented. In particular a limit of T_{1/2} > 1.4*10^20 y at a 90% C.L. was
evaluated for the alpha decay of 204Pb to 200Hg
First bolometric measurement of the two neutrino double beta decay of Mo with a ZnMoO crystals array
The large statistics collected during the operation of a ZnMoO array, for
a total exposure of 1.3 kg day of Mo, allowed the first
bolometric observation of the two neutrino double beta decay of Mo. The
observed spectrum of each crystal was reconstructed taking into account the
different background contributions due to environmental radioactivity and
internal contamination. The analysis of coincidences between the crystals
allowed the assignment of constraints to the intensity of the different
background sources, resulting in a reconstruction of the measured spectrum down
to an energy of 300 keV. The half-life extracted from the data is
T= [7.15 0.37 (stat) 0.66 (syst)] 10
y.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure, Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G:
Nuclear and Particle Physic
Particle Discrimination in TeO Bolometers using Light Detectors read out by Transition Edge Sensors
An active discrimination of the dominant -background is the
prerequisite for future neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments based on
TeO bolometers. We investigate such -particle rejection in
cryogenic TeO bolometers by the detection of Cherenkov light. For a setup
consisting of a massive TeO crystal (285 g) and a separate cryogenic
light detector, both using transition edge sensors as temperature sensors
operated at around 10 mK, we obtain an event-by-event identification of
e/- and -events. We find in the energy interval ranging from
2400 keV to 2800 keV and covering the Q-value of the neutrinoless double-beta
decay of Te a separation of the means of the two populations of 3.7
times their width.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Cryogenic Detectors for Rare Alpha Decay Search: A New Approach
The detection of Sm alpha decay with a precise measured half-life of and a Q-value of 1987.3 0.5 keV was achieved by a new experimental approach, where a conventional ZnWO scintillating crystal doped with enriched Sm isotope is operated as a cryogenic scintillating bolometer (phonon and light channel) at mK-temperatures
Exploring CEvNS with NUCLEUS at the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) offers a unique way
to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard
Model. Nuclear reactors are promising sources to explore this process at low
energies since they deliver large fluxes of (anti-)neutrinos with typical
energies of a few MeV. In this paper, a new-generation experiment to study
CENS is described. The NUCLEUS experiment will use cryogenic detectors
which feature an unprecedentedly low energy threshold and a time response fast
enough to be operated in above-ground conditions. Both sensitivity to
low-energy nuclear recoils and a high event rate tolerance are stringent
requirements to measure CENS of reactor antineutrinos. A new experimental
site, denoted the Very-Near-Site (VNS) at the Chooz nuclear power plant in
France is described. The VNS is located between the two 4.25 GW
reactor cores and matches the requirements of NUCLEUS. First results of on-site
measurements of neutron and muon backgrounds, the expected dominant background
contributions, are given. In this paper a preliminary experimental setup with
dedicated active and passive background reduction techniques is presented.
Furthermore, the feasibility to operate the NUCLEUS detectors in coincidence
with an active muon-veto at shallow overburden is studied. The paper concludes
with a sensitivity study pointing out the promising physics potential of
NUCLEUS at the Chooz nuclear power plant
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