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Search for Light Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle Dark Matter by Annual Modulation Analysis with a Point-Contact Germanium Detector at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory
We present results on light weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)
searches with annual modulation (AM) analysis on data from a 1-kg mass -type
point-contact germanium detector of the CDEX-1B experiment at the China Jinping
Underground Laboratory. Datasets with a total live time of 3.2 yr within a 4.2
yr span are analyzed with analysis threshold of 250 eVee. Limits on
WIMP-nucleus (-) spin-independent cross sections as function of WIMP
mass () at 90\% confidence level (C.L.) are derived using the dark
matter halo model. Within the context of the standard halo model, the 90\% C.L.
allowed regions implied by the DAMA/LIBRA and CoGeNT AM-based analysis are
excluded at 99.99\% and 98\% C.L., respectively. These results correspond to
the best sensitivity at 6 among WIMP AM
measurements to date.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Constraints on Spin-Independent Nucleus Scattering with sub-GeV Weakly Interacting Massive Particle Dark Matter from the CDEX-1B Experiment at the China Jin-Ping Laboratory
We report results on the searches of weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) with sub-GeV masses () via WIMP-nucleus spin-independent
scattering with Migdal effect incorporated. Analysis on time-integrated (TI)
and annual modulation (AM) effects on CDEX-1B data are performed, with 737.1
kgday exposure and 160 eVee threshold for TI analysis, and 1107.5
kgday exposure and 250 eVee threshold for AM analysis. The sensitive
windows in are expanded by an order of magnitude to lower DM masses
with Migdal effect incorporated. New limits on at
90\% confidence level are derived as 1010
for TI analysis at 50180 MeV/, and
1010 for AM analysis at
75 MeV/3.0 GeV/.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Limits on Light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from the First 102.8 kg day Data of the CDEX-10 Experiment
We report the first results of a light weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) search from the CDEX-10 experiment with a 10 kg germanium detector
array immersed in liquid nitrogen at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory
with a physics data size of 102.8 kg day. At an analysis threshold of 160 eVee,
improved limits of 8 and 3 cm at a
90\% confidence level on spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross
sections, respectively, at a WIMP mass () of 5 GeV/ are
achieved. The lower reach of is extended to 2 GeV/.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy Onboard the SATech-01 Satellite
The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), a pathfinder of the Wide-field
X-ray Telescope of the Einstein Probe (EP) mission, was successfully launched
onboard the SATech-01 satellite of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on 27 July
2022. In this paper, we introduce the design and on-ground test results of the
LEIA instrument. Using state-of-the-art Micro-Pore Optics (MPO), a wide
field-of-view (FoV) of 346 square degrees (18.6 degrees * 18.6 degrees) of the
X-ray imager is realized. An optical assembly composed of 36 MPO chips is used
to focus incident X-ray photons, and four large-format complementary
metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, each of 6 cm * 6 cm, are used as the
focal plane detectors. The instrument has an angular resolution of 4 - 8 arcmin
(in FWHM) for the central focal spot of the point spread function, and an
effective area of 2 - 3 cm2 at 1 keV in essentially all the directions within
the field of view. The detection passband is 0.5 - 4 keV in the soft X-rays and
the sensitivity is 2 - 3 * 10-11 erg s-1 cm-2 (about 1 mini-Crab) at 1,000
second observation. The total weight of LEIA is 56 kg and the power is 85 W.
The satellite, with a design lifetime of 2 years, operates in a Sun-synchronous
orbit of 500 km with an orbital period of 95 minutes. LEIA is paving the way
for future missions by verifying in flight the technologies of both novel
focusing imaging optics and CMOS sensors for X-ray observation, and by
optimizing the working setups of the instrumental parameters. In addition, LEIA
is able to carry out scientific observations to find new transients and to
monitor known sources in the soft X-ray band, albeit limited useful observing
time available.Comment: Accepted by RA
Measurement of decays to baryon pairs
A sample of 3.95M decays registered in the BES detector are used
to study final states containing pairs of octet and decuplet baryons. We report
branching fractions for , ,
, ,
, ,
, and . These results
are compared to expectations based on the SU(3)-flavor symmetry, factorization,
and perturbative QCD.Comment: 22 pages, 21 figures, 4 table
Arecibo and FAST Timing Follow-up of twelve Millisecond Pulsars Discovered in Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey
We report the phase-connected timing ephemeris, polarization pulse profiles,
Faraday rotation measurements, and Rotating-Vector-Model (RVM) fitting results
of twelve millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered with the Five-hundred-meter
Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in the Commensal radio Astronomy FAST
survey (CRAFTS). The timing campaigns were carried out with FAST and Arecibo
over three years. Eleven of the twelve pulsars are in neutron star - white
dwarf binary systems, with orbital periods between 2.4 and 100 d. Ten of them
have spin periods, companion masses, and orbital eccentricities that are
consistent with the theoretical expectations for MSP - Helium white dwarf (He
WD) systems. The last binary pulsar (PSR J19120952) has a significantly
smaller spin frequency and a smaller companion mass, the latter could be caused
by a low orbital inclination for the system. Its orbital period of 29 days is
well within the range of orbital periods where some MSP - He WD systems have
shown anomalous eccentricities, however, the eccentricity of PSR J19120952
is typical of what one finds for the remaining MSP - He WD systems.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS accepte
First Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Decay psi(2S) --> tau tau
The branching fraction of the psi(2S) decay into tau pair has been measured
for the first time using the BES detector at the Beijing Electron-Positron
Collider. The result is ,
where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. This value,
along with those for the branching fractions into e+e- and mu+mu of this
resonance, satisfy well the relation predicted by the sequential lepton
hypothesis. Combining all these values with the leptonic width of the resonance
the total width of the psi(2S) is determined to be keV.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
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