Measurement of mixed materials and analysis of plutonium isotope ratio based on fast neutron multiplicity by Kaile Li, Sufen Li, Xingfu Cai, Yonggang Huo, Fei Wang

“…Therefore, in this paper, the liquid scintillation detection model is built by Geant4, and the variation characteristics of Rossi-α distribution and coincidence gate factors fd and ft are analyzed. …”
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Latitudinal, Diurnal, and Seasonal Variations in the Accuracy of an RTK Positioning System and Its Relationship With Ionospheric Irregularities by A. F. Follestad, L. B. N. Clausen, J. I. Moen, K. S. Jacobsen

“…The most frequent position errors occur around magnetic noon and are of moderate severity, while the largest position errors occur around night‐time, agreeing well with climatology studies on GNSS scintillations. Additionally, we investigate ionospheric irregularities as characterized by the rate of TEC index (ROTI). …”
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Shining light on the dark sector: search for axion-like particles and other new physics in photonic final states with FASER by The FASER collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai, John Anders, Claire Antel, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson, Florian U. Bernlochner, Emma Bianchi, Tobias Boeckh, Jamie Boyd, Lydia Brenner, Angela Burger, Franck Cadoux, Roberto Cardella, David W. Casper, Charlotte Cavanagh, Xin Chen, Eunhyung Cho, Dhruv Chouhan, Andrea Coccaro, Stephane Débieux, Monica D’Onofrio, Ansh Desai, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Radu Dobre, Sinead Eley, Yannick Favre, Deion Fellers, Jonathan L. Feng, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio, Didier Ferrere, Max Fieg, Wissal Filali, Elena Firu, Edward Galantay, Ali Garabaglu, Stephen Gibson, Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla, Yuri Gornushkin, Carl Gwilliam, Daiki Hayakawa, Michael Holzbock, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Zhen Hu, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Tomohiro Inada, Luca Iodice, Sune Jakobsen, Hans Joos, Enrique Kajomovitz, Hiroaki Kawahara, Alex Keyken, Felix Kling, Daniela Köck, Pantelis Kontaxakis, Umut Kose, Rafaella Kotitsa, Susanne Kuehn, Thanushan Kugathasan, Lorne Levinson, Ke Li, Jinfeng Liu, Yi Liu, Margaret S. Lutz, Jack MacDonald, Chiara Magliocca, Toni Mäkelä, Lawson McCoy, Josh McFayden, Andrea Pizarro Medina, Matteo Milanesio, Théo Moretti, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, Laurie Nevay, Ken Ohashi, Hidetoshi Otono, Lorenzo Paolozzi, Brian Petersen, Titi Preda, Markus Prim, Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, Hiroki Rokujo, André Rubbia, Jorge Sabater-Iglesias, Osamu Sato, Paola Scampoli, Kristof Schmieden, Matthias Schott, Anna Sfyrla, Davide Sgalaberna, Mansoora Shamim, Savannah Shively, Yosuke Takubo, Noshin Tarannum, Ondrej Theiner, Eric Torrence, Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez, Svetlana Vasina, Benedikt Vormwald, Di Wang, Yuxiao Wang, Eli Welch, Yue Xu, Samuel Zahorec, Stefano Zambito, Shunliang Zhang

“…Signal events are characterised by high-energy deposits in the electromagnetic calorimeter and no signal in the veto scintillators. One event is observed, compared to a background expectation of 0.44 ± 0.39 events, which is entirely dominated by neutrino interactions. …”
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A pathway to unveiling neutrinoless ββ decay nuclear matrix elements via γγ decay by Beatriz Romeo, Damiano Stramaccioni, Javier Menéndez, Jose Javier Valiente-Dobón

“…Additionally, we propose an experimental strategy based on using LaBr3 scintillators to identify γγ-M1M1 transitions from the DIAS amidst the background of the competing processes. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Low Temperature Sintering of Nanostructured BaWO4 for Optical and LTCC Applications by S. Vidya, Sam Solomon, J. K. Thomas

“…The experimental results obtained in the present work claim the potential use of nano BaWO4 as UV filters, transparent films for window layers on solar cells, antireflection coatings, scintillators, detectors, and for LTCC applications.…”
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Radioactivity concentration of 14C in the air of 14C urea breath test rooms and the resulting internal dose to medical staff by Bei Yu, Fei Chen, Jing Cao, Dingxin Long

“…The sample was analyzed using a low-background liquid scintillation counter. Results: The radioactivity concentrations of 14C in air of the breath-test rooms in hospitals and physical examination institutions range from 1.35 to 18.41 Bq/m3. …”
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Compact Ion Beam System for Fusion Demonstration by Allan Xi Chen, Nai-Wei Liu, Alexander Gunn, Zhe Su, Benjamin F. Sigal, Matthew Salazar, Nawar Abdalla, James Chen, Alfred Y. Wong, Qiong Wang

“…Detectors include solid-state charged particle detector and a scintillation fast neutron detector. The complete ion beam system can fit on a laboratory table and is a useful tool for teaching undergraduate and graduate students about the physics of fusion.…”
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Relationship between Ce3+ 5d1 level, conduction-band bottom, and shallow electron trap level in Gd3Ga5O12:Ce and Gd3Al1Ga4O12:Ce crystals studied via pump-probe absorption spectros... by Mamoru Kitaura, Heishun Zen, Shinta Watanabe, Hirokazu Masai, Kei Kamada, Kyoung-Jin Kim, Akira Yoshikawa, Jumpei Ueda

“…Ce3+-doped compounds are typically the preferred materials for the development of inorganic phosphors for white LEDs, displays, and scintillators. In this study, pump-probe absorption spectroscopy was performed for Gd3Ga5O12:Ce and Gd3Al1Ga4O12:Ce crystals using ultraviolet (UV) and visible (VIS) pump light, and infrared (IR) probe light. …”
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Design and implementation of the first proton beam transport line in VEGA-3 Petawatt laser system by Teresa Cebriano Ramírez, Alessandro Curcio, Jon Imanol Apiñaniz Aginako, Diego De Luis Blanco, Antonia Morabito, Carlos Salgado-López, Evgeny Filippov, María Dolores Rodríguez Frías, Luca Volpe, Giancarlo Gatti

“…The focused proton beam characterization has been carried out by imaging of scintillation detectors with different particle filters. …”
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A novel method for calculating number buildup factor in gamma-ray transmission measurements using narrow beam geometry by Chuong Huynh Dinh, Trang Le Thi Ngoc, Linh Nguyen Thi Truc, Nguyen Vo Hoang, Thanh Tran Thien

“…The MCNP6 code was used to simulate photon transport within a collimated transmission configuration, which included a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector paired with a 137Cs or 60Co radioactive source. …”
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Ionospheric Disturbances Over the Indian Sector During 8 September 2017 Geomagnetic Storm: Plasma Structuring and Propagation by L. Alfonsi, C. Cesaroni, L. Spogli, M. Regi, A. Paul, S. Ray, S. Lepidi, D. Di Mauro, H. Haralambous, C. Oikonomou, P. R. Shreedevi, A. K. Sinha

“…The occurrence of severe post‐sunset scintillations in the northeastern sector suggests a possible cascade process forming small‐scale irregularities from the migrating EPB.…”
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An approach based on gamma-ray transmission technique and artificial neural network for accurately measuring the thickness of various materials by Trang Le Thi Ngoc, Linh Nguyen Thi Truc, Thanh Tran Thien, Tam Hoang Duc, Chuong Huynh Dinh

“…The gamma-ray transmission system comprises a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector coupled with a 137Cs radioactive source. …”
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On the Growth and Evolution of Nocturnal Ionospheric Irregularities Using HF Radar Observations Along With Digisonde and GNSS Data Over Trivandrum, India by T. V. Sruthi, G. Manju

“…The presence or absence of energy cascading across different scale sizes is identified from the presence of irregularities as Equatorial Spread F (ESF) in digisonde, scintillation in GNSS and backscattered echoes in HF radar with the signals manifesting sequentially or otherwise in these instruments. …”
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‘O breves et infaustos populi favores’. The Controversies Surrounding Lieutenant Władysław Gorzeński during the Civil War in Poland-Lithuania (1715–1716) by Marcin Różycki

“…As a low-ranking officer whose career to that point had not been particularly eventful or scintillating, he surprisingly managed to take control over his unit from his superior – the historical sources known to us describe that entire situation as, at the very least, confusing. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Medium‐Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Over Japan Based on Deep Learning Instance Segmentation by Peng Liu, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama, Weizheng Fu, Mamoru Yamamoto

“…Abstract Medium‐scale traveling ionospheric disturbances (MSTIDs) are observed as parallelly arrayed wavelike perturbations of Total Electron Content (TEC) in ionospheric F region leading to satellite navigation error and communication signal scintillation. The observation method for MSTIDs, detrended TEC (dTEC) map, summarizes the perturbation component of TEC having the merits of full‐time and two‐dimensional. …”
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Development of MHz X-ray phase contrast imaging at the European XFEL by Jayanath C. P. Koliyadu, Daniel Moško, Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Valerio Bellucci, Šarlota Birnšteinová, Richard Bean, Romain Letrun, Chan Kim, Henry Kirkwood, Gabriele Giovanetti, Nerea Jardon, Janusz Szuba, Trey Guest, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Peter Szeles, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Fabian Reuter, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Mike Andreas Noack, Francisco Garcia-Moreno, Zuzana Kuglerová-Valdová, Libor Juha, Martin Nikl, Wataru Yashiro, Hitoshi Soyama, Daniel Eakins, Alexander M. Korsunsky, Jozef Uličný, Alke Meents, Henry N. Chapman, Adrian P. Mancuso, Tokushi Sato, Patrik Vagovič

“…We describe the technical implementation of the key components, including an MHz fast camera and a modular indirect X-ray microscope system based on fast scintillators coupled through a high-resolution optical microscope, which enable full-field X-ray microscopy with phase contrast of fast and irreversible phenomena. …”
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Geomagnetic Storm‐Induced Plasma Density Enhancements in the Southern Polar Ionospheric Region: A Comparative Study Using St. Patrick's Day Storms of 2013 and 2015 by P. R. Shreedevi, R. K. Choudhary, Smitha V. Thampi, Sneha Yadav, T. K. Pant, Yiqun Yu, Ryan McGranaghan, Evan G. Thomas, Anil Bhardwaj, A. K. Sinha

“…During the main phase of both the storms, significant enhancements in TEC and phase scintillation were observed in the magnetic noon/ midnight period at Bharati and Davis. …”
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Luminescence of bound excitons created near sodium impurity ions in KCl:Na single crystals by K. Shunkeyev, А. Kenzhebayeva, A. Krasnikov, V. Nagirnyi, Sh Sagimbayeva, D. Sergeyev, А. Tilep, Zh Ubaev, A. Lushchik

“…It is worth noting that at room temperature, the light yield of these XRL bands in KCl:Na practically coincides with that for the luminescence measured in the same way in classical scintillators, CsI and CsI:Na crystals. The lifetime of the fast component of cathodoluminescence at 2.8 and 3.1 eV equals 2.4 and 1.7 ns, respectively, at 6 K and even shortens to approximately τ ≈ 0.3 ns at room temperature. …”
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Channel Mixer Layer: Multimodal Fusion Toward Machine Reasoning for Spatiotemporal Predictive Learning of Ionospheric Total Electron Content by Peng Liu, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama, Takuya Sori, Mamoru Yamamoto

“…Abstract The spatiotemporal distribution of Total Electron Content (TEC) in ionosphere determines the refractive index of electromagnetic wave leading to the radio signal scintillation and deterioration. Thanks to the development of machine learning for video prediction, spatiotemporal predictive models are applied on the future TEC map prediction based on the graphic features of past frames. …”
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Gamma Ray Spectrum by Software Methods for Radioactive Waste by M. W. Alhamd, Sadeq Naeem Atiyah, Firas Taqi almusawi, Mazen Katea Al-Gharrawy

“…The detector captures and measures the energy of incoming gamma rays. Scintillation detectors, semiconductor detectors, and gas-filled detectors are among the detectors used in gamma-ray spectroscopy. …”
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