602 research outputs found
The Baikal Neutrino Telescope: Status and plans
The high energy neutrino telescope NT200+ is currently in operation in Lake
Baikal. We review the status of the Baikal the Baikal Neutrino Telescope, and
describe recent progress on key components of the next generation
kilometer-cube (km3) Lake Baikal detector, like investigation of new large area
phototubes, integrated into the telescope.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico, July
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Scaling the Temperature-dependent Boson Peak of Vitreous Silica with the high-frequency Bulk Modulus derived from Brillouin Scattering Data
The position and strength of the boson peak in silica glass vary considerably
with temperature . Such variations cannot be explained solely with changes
in the Debye energy. New Brillouin scattering measurements are presented which
allow determining the -dependence of unrelaxed acoustic velocities. Using a
velocity based on the bulk modulus, scaling exponents are found which agree
with the soft-potential model. The unrelaxed bulk modulus thus appears to be a
good measure for the structural evolution of silica with and to set the
energy scale for the soft potentials.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter
Dynamic rotor mode in antiferromagnetic nanoparticles
We present experimental, numerical, and theoretical evidence for a new mode
of antiferromagnetic dynamics in nanoparticles. Elastic neutron scattering
experiments on 8 nm particles of hematite display a loss of diffraction
intensity with temperature, the intensity vanishing around 150 K. However, the
signal from inelastic neutron scattering remains above that temperature,
indicating a magnetic system in constant motion. In addition, the precession
frequency of the inelastic magnetic signal shows an increase above 100 K.
Numerical Langevin simulations of spin dynamics reproduce all measured neutron
data and reveal that thermally activated spin canting gives rise to a new type
of coherent magnetic precession mode. This "rotor" mode can be seen as a
high-temperature version of superparamagnetism and is driven by exchange
interactions between the two magnetic sublattices. The frequency of the rotor
mode behaves in fair agreement with a simple analytical model, based on a high
temperature approximation of the generally accepted Hamiltonian of the system.
The extracted model parameters, as the magnetic interaction and the axial
anisotropy, are in excellent agreement with results from Mossbauer
spectroscopy
Detection of the Crab Nebula using a Random Forest Analysis of the first TAIGA IACT Data
The Tunka Advanced Instrument for Gamma- and cosmic-ray Astronomy (TAIGA) is
a multicomponent experiment for the measurement of TeV to PeV gamma- and cosmic
rays. Our goal is to establish a novel hybrid direct air shower technique,
sufficient to access the energy domain of the long-sought Pevatrons. The hybrid
air Cherenkov light detection technique combines the strengths of the HiSCORE
shower front sampling array, and two 4 m class, 9.6 deg field
of view Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The HiSCORE array provides
good angular and shower core position resolution, while the IACTs provide the
image shape and orientation for gamma-hadron separation. In future, an
additional muon detector will be used for hadron tagging at 100 TeV
energies. Here, only data from the first IACT of the TAIGA experiment are used.
A random forest algorithm was trained using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and
real data, and applied to 85 h of selected observational data tracking the Crab
Nebula at a mean zenith angle of 33.5 deg, resulting in a threshold energy of 6
TeV for this dataset. The analysis was performed using the gammapy package. A
total of 163.5 excess events were detected, with a statistical significance of
8.5 sigma. The observed spectrum of the Crab Nebula is best fit with a power
law above 6 TeV with a flux normalisation of at a reference energy of 13 TeV and a spectral index
of .Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRA
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