分类: 管理学 >> 管理学其他学科 提交时间: 2021-11-01
摘要: With the upgrade of consumption level, craft beer has attracted growing attention and appreciation from consumers. This study has investigated the influence of brand image, perceived service quality, beer flavor diversity, and price rationality on customers' repurchase intention, along with the mediating role of customers' satisfaction in the aforementioned relationships. The study was conducted in Wuhan, Hubei Province, used a Likert-scale questionnaire as the main body of the questionnaire. IBM SPSS STATISTICS 19 software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used for data analysis. The results revealed the positively of brand image, perceived service quality, beer flavor diversity, and price rationality on customers' repurchase intention, along with the mediating role of customers' satisfaction in the aforementioned relationships. This study also found that brand image occupies a dominant position in the variables that promote the customers' repurchase intention in the craft beer industry. The results of study contributed to an understanding of craft beer consumption behavior.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: High precision time measurement is required in the readout of the neutron wall and TOF walls in the external target experiment of the Cooling Storage Ring (CSR) project in the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL). Considering the time walk correction, both time and charge are measured in the readout electronics. In this 16-channel measurement module, time and charge information are digitized by TDCs at the same time based on the Time-Over-Threshold (TOT) method; meanwhile, by employing high-density ASIC chips, the electronics complexity is effectively reduced. Test results indicate that this module achieves a time resolution better than 25 ps and a charge resolution better than 5% over the input amplitude range from 50 mV to 3 V.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: This article presents a prototype of beam position and phase measurement (BPPM) electronics designed for the LINAC in China Accelerator Driven Sub-critical system (ADS). The signals received from the Beam Position Monitor (BPM) detectors are narrow pulses with a repetition frequency of 162.5 MHz and a dynamic range more than 40 dB. Based on the high-speed high-resolution Analog-to-Digital conversion technique, the input RF signals are directly converted to In-phase and Quadrature-phase (IQ) streams through under-sampling, which simplifies both the analog and digital processing circuits. All signal processing is integrated in one single FPGA, in which real-time beam position, phase and current can be obtained. A series of simulations and tests have been conducted to evaluate the performance. Initial test results indicate that this prototype achieves a phase resolution better than 0.1 degree and a position resolution better than 20 m over a 40 dB dynamic range with the bandwidth of 780 kHz, which is well beyond the application requirements.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In this paper, a high precision vernier delay line (VDL) TDC (Time-to-Digital Convertor) in an actel flash-based Field-Programmable-Gate-Arrays A3PE1500 is implemented, achieving a resolution of 16.4-ps root mean square value or 42-ps averaged bin size. The TDC has a dead time of about 200 ns while the dynamic range is 655.36 s. The double delay lines method is employed to cut the dead time in half to improve its performance. As the bin size of the TDC is dependent on temperature, a compensation algorithm is adopted as temperature drift correction, and the TDC shows satisfying performance in a temperature range from 5C to +55C.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: The experimental muon source on China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is expected to be a high intensity (105 +/s) surface muon source with a small beam spot of 4-cm diameter. For a practical application of this muon source, we are devoting to develop the first pulsed SR spectrometer in China. In this paper, the performance of plastic scintillators in the SR spectrometer is studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The processes such as positron energy deposition, scintillation photons production, light propagation and photon-electron conversion are carefully considered. According to the results, an optimal dimension of the plastic scintillator is proposed using for our future spectrometer, which has a long-strip shape with the dimension variation range of 5060 mm length, 58 mm height, and 1012 mm width. Finally, we can build a spectrometer with a count rate up to 104e+/s by 100120 forward and backward segmental detectors in total. The simulation could serve as an important guide for spectrometer construction.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 辐射物理与技术 提交时间: 2024-05-30
摘要: Relativistic isobar ($^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr) collisions have revealed intricate differences in their nuclear size and shape, inspiring unconventional studies of nuclear structure using relativistic heavy ion collisions. In this study, we investigate the relative differences in the mean multiplicity ($R_{ langle N_{ rm ch} rangle}$) and the second- ($R_{ epsilon_{2}}$) and third-order eccentricity ($R_{ epsilon_{3}}$) between isobar collisions using Optical and Monte Carlo Glauber models. It is found that initial fluctuations and nuclear deformations have negligible effects on $R_{ langle N_{ rm ch} rangle}$ in most central collisions, while both are important for the $R_{ epsilon_{2}}$ and $R_{ epsilon_{3}}$, the degree of which is sensitive to the underlying nucleonic or sub-nucleonic degree of freedom. These features, compared to real data, may probe the particle production mechanism and the physics underlying nuclear structure.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-08-09
摘要: Radio frequency (RF) windows are developed and evaluated for a 650 MHz continuous-wave (CW) multibeam klystron. Thin-pillbox windows with alumina and beryllia disks are designed with an average RF power of CW 400 kW. Results of a cold test and tuning procedures are described. The final measured S11 curves under the required bandwidth are less than -32.0 and -26.9 dB for alumina and beryllia windows, respectively. The windows are tested up to CW 143 kW for traveling waves and CW 110 kW for standing waves using a solid-state amplifier as an RF power source. Multipactor simulations for windows and benchmark studies for the thermal analysis of ceramic disks are introduced.
分类: 医学、药学 >> 临床医学 提交时间: 2020-03-05
摘要: Background: In December 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified in Wuhan, China, which spread rapidly and has become a world-wide public health challenge. We aimed to assess the efficacy of tocilizumab in severe patients with Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) and seek a new therapeutic strategy. Methods: The patients diagnosed as severe or critical COVID-19 in The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (Anhui Provincial Hospital) and Anhui Fuyang Second People’s Hospital were given tocilizumab in addition to routine therapy between February 5 and February 14, 2020. The changes of clinical manifestations, CT scan image, and laboratory examinations were retrospectively analyzed. Findings: Within a few days, the fever returned to normal and all other symptoms improved remarkably. Fifteen of the 20 patients (75.0%) had lowered their oxygen intake and one patient need no oxygen therapy. CT scans manifested that the lung lesion opacity absorbed in 19 patients (90.5%). The percentage of lymphocytes in peripheral blood, which decreased in 85.0% patients (17/20) before treatment (mean, 15.52 ± 8.89%), returned to normal in 52.6% patients (10/19) on the fifth day after treatment. Abnormally elevated C-reactive protein decreased significantly in 84.2% patients (16/19). No obvious adverse reactions were observed. Nineteen patients (90.5%) have been discharged on average 13.5 days after the treatment with tocilizumab and the rest are recovering well. Interpretation: Tocilizumab is an effective treatment in severe patients of COVID-19, which provided a new therapeutic strategy for this fatal infectious disease.
分类: 数学 >> 应用数学 提交时间: 2021-09-22
摘要: In the early days of the epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to insufficient knowledge of the pandemic, inadequate nucleic acid tests, lack of timely data reporting, etc., the origin time of the onset of COVID-19 is difficult to determine. Therefore, source tracing is crucial for infectious disease prevention and control. The purpose of this paper is to infer the origin time of pandemic of COVID-19 based on a data and model hybrid driven method. We model the testing positive rate to fit its actual trend, and use the least squares estimation to obtain the optimal model parameters. Further, the kernel density estimation is applied to infer the origin time of pandemic given the specific confidence probability. By selecting 12 representative regions in the United States for analysis, the dates of the first infected case with 50% confidence probability are mostly between August and October 2019, which are earlier than the officially announced date of the first confirmed case in the United States on January 20, 2020. The experimental results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States starts to spread around September 2019 with a high confidence probability. In addition, the existing confirmed cases are also used in Wuhan City and Zhejiang Province in China to infer the origin time of COVID-19 and provide the confidence probability. The results show that the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in China is likely to begin in late December 2019.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 分类: 天文学 >> 天文仪器与技术 提交时间: 2023-08-29
摘要: In the future, the Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope (VLAST) is expected to observe high-energy electrons and gamma rays in the MeV to TeV range with unprecedented acceptance. As part of the detector suite, a high-energy imaging calorimeter (HEIC) is currently being developed as a homogeneous calorimeter that utilizes long bismuth germanate (BGO) scintillation crystals as both absorbers and detectors. To accurately measure the energy deposition in the BGO bar of HEIC, a high-dynamic-range readout method using a silicon photoMultiplier (SiPM) and multiphotodiode (PD) with different active areas has been proposed. A prototype readout system that adopts multichannel charge measurement ASICs was also developed to read out the combined system of SiPMs and PDs. Preliminary tests confirmed the feasibility of the readout scheme, which is expected to have a dynamic range close to 106.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: Hefei Light Source (HLS)-II is a vacuum ultraviole (VUV) synchrotron light source. A major upgrade of the light source was finished at the end of 2014. The timing system was rebuilt using compact peripheral component interconnect (cPCI) event-driven hardware to meet synchronization requirements of the machine. In the new system, the cPCI event-driven products manufactured by the micro-research finland (MRF) Oy are employed to achieve about 100 output signals with different interfaces. Device supports and drivers developed for common Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) records are used to access the registers on the timing modules. Five cPCI-bus input/output controllers (IOCs) distributed in different areas of the light source host timing modules for various subsystems. The delay resolution of this system is 9.8 ns for most channels and 9 ps for the channels used for triggering the electron gun and the injection kickers. The measured rms jitter of the output signal is less than 27 ps. Using the bucket chooser, this system enables the HLS-II to fill the storage ring with any designated bunch pattern. Benefitting from this upgrade, brightness and performance of the light source are significantly improved.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 粒子加速器 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: For a high-energy electron facility, estimates of induced radioactivity in materials are of considerable importance to ensure that the exposure of personnel and the environment remains as low as reasonably achievable. In addition, accurate predictions of induced radioactivity are essential to the design, operation, and decommissioning of a high-energy electron linear accelerator. In the case of the 200-MeV electron linac of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), the electrons are accelerated by five acceleration tubes and collimated by copper scrapers. The scrapers, which play a vital role in protecting the acceleration cavity, are bombarded by many electrons over a long-term operation, which causes a significant amount of induced radioactivity. Recently, the NSRL Linac is the first high-energy electron linear accelerator in China to be out of commission. Its decommissioning is highly significant for obtaining decommissioning experience. This paper focuses on the measurement of induced radioactivity on the fourth scraper, where the electron energy was 158 MeV. The radionuclides were classified according to their half-lives. Such a classification provides a reliable basis for the formulation of radiation protection and facility decommissioning. To determine the high-radioactivity area and to facilitate the decommissioning process, the slicing method was applied in this study. The specific activity of 60Co in each slice was measured at a cooling time of ten months, and the results were compared with the predictions generated by Monte Carlo program FLUKA. The trend of the measured results is in good agreement with the normalized simulation results. The slicing simulation using Monte Carlo method is useful for the determination of high-radiation areas and proper material handling protocols and, therefore, lays a foundation for the accumulation of decommissioning experience.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A compact X-ray detector based on the lutetium yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillator (LYSO) and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) has been designed and fabricated for the hard X-ray diagnosis on the HL_2A and HL_2M Tokamak devices. The LYSO scintillator and SiPM in small dimensions were combined in a heat shrink tube package, making the detector compact and integrative. The Monte Carlo particle transport simulation tool, Geant4, was utilized for the design of the detector for the hard X-ray from 10 keV to 200 keV and the best structure scheme was presented. Finally, the detector was used to measure the photon spectrum of a 137Cs gamma source with a pre-amplifier and a multichannel amplitude analyzer. The measured spectrum is consistent with the theoretic spectrum, it has shown that the energy resolution of the detector is less than 14.8% at an energy of 662 keV.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In order to realize on-line real-time measurement of dynamic and time-sharing neutron spectrum of HL-2A, a tokamak fusion neutron spectrometer based on PXI bus was developed. It consists of electronics system and eight thermal neutron detectors, namely SP9 3He proportional counter, embedded in eight polyethylene spheres in different diameters. Response function of the eight polyethylene spheres was the key to calculate the neutron spectrum accurately. In this paper, response function of the eight polyethylene spheres is simulated by adopting Geant4 code, and neutron counts from an 241Am-Be neutron source are measured by the eight detectors. The calculated spectrum of the Am-Be neutron is accurate in 02 MeV region, and is similar to the theoretical spectrum. The tokamak fusion neutron spectrometer was used in HL-2A device to monitor the dynamic neutron spectrum of HL-2A on-line and real-time.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: In order to realize the on-line real-time measurement of neutron spectrum of ITER fusion, this paper presents a multi-sphere spectrometer system which consists of eight thermal neutron detectors, namely SP9 3He proportional counter, embedded in eight different diameter polyethylene spheres. The response function of eight polyethylene spheres of multi-sphere neutron spectrometer was calculated after the simulation of the neutron transport processes in multi-sphere spectrometer by adopting software Geant4. The peak of the response function is in the low energy region for smaller diameter polyethylene sphere. As the polyethylene sphere diameter increased, the peak of the response function moves to the high energy region. The experimental calibration adopts 241Am-Be neutron source. The relative error between normalized data of experiment 4 solid angle counts and normalized data of simulated detection efficiency of 4in to 8in polyethylene sphere is from 1.152% to 12.222%.The experimental results verify the response function of the simulation. All these results provide a theoretical and experimental basis for solving the on-line real-time neutron spectrum of ITER fusion.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 分类: 核科学技术 >> 核仪器、仪表 提交时间: 2024-02-07
摘要: A new measurement method for the spatial distribution of neutron beam flux in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is being developed based on the two-dimensional Micromegas detector. To address the issue of long processing time in traditional offline position reconstruction methods, this paper proposes an FPGA-based online position reconstruction method, grounded in the micro time projection chamber principle. This method encapsulates key technical aspects: self-adaptive serial link technique built upon the dynamical adjustment of delay chain length, fast sorting and coordinate matching technique based on the mapping between signal timestamps and random access memory (RAM) addresses, and precise start point merging technique utilizing a circular combined RAM. The performance test of the self-adaptive serial link shows the bit error rate of the link is better than 10^-12 at a confidence level of 99%, ensuring reliable data transmission. The combined experiment of the readout electronics and the Micromegas detector shows a spatial resolution of approximately 1.4 mm, surpassing the current method's resolution level of 5 mm. The beam experiment confirms that the readout electronics system can obtain the flux spatial distribution of neutron beam online, thus validating the feasibility of the position reconstruction method. The online position reconstruction method avoids traditional methods such as bubble sorting and traversal searching, simplifying the design of logic firmware and reducing the time complexity from O(n^2) to O(n). This study contributes to the advancement in measuring neutron beam flux for BNCT.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 辐射物理与技术 提交时间: 2024-04-29
摘要: The layout and characteristics of the hard X-ray spectroscopy beamline (BL11B) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility are described herein. BL11B is a bending-magnet beamline dedicated to conventional millisecond-scale quick-scanning X-ray absorption fine structures. It is equipped with a cylindrical collimating mirror, a double-crystal monochromator comprising Si(111) and Si(311), a channel-cut quick-scanning Si(111) monochromator, a toroidal focusing mirror, and a high harmonics rejection mirror. It can provide 5–30 keV of X-rays with a photon flux of ~5 × 1011 photons/s and an energy resolution of ~ 1.31 × 10-4 at 10 keV. The performance of the beamline can satisfy the demands of users in the fields of catalysis, materials, and environmental science. This paper presents an overview of the beamline design and a detailed description of its performance and capabilities.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核科学技术其他学科 分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2024-02-28
摘要: Ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels have been widely used as structural material for thermal and nuclear power plants. However, it is susceptible to intergranular damage in service conditions, which is expected to be critical issues. In order to improve the intergranular damage resistance of F/M steel, thermomechanical process (TMP) was employed to achieve a grain boundary engineering (GBE) microstructure in a kind of F/M steel P92 in this study. TMP, including cold rolling to 6%, 9%, and 12% thickness reduction, respectively, followed by austenization at 1323 K for 40 min plus tempering at 1053 K for 45 min, were applied on as-received (AR) P92 steel. Both prior austenite grain (PAG) size, prior austenite grain boundary character distribution (GBCD), and the connectivity of prior austenite grain boundaries (PAGBs) were investigated. Compared with AR specimen, the PAG size does not change significantly. The fraction of coincident site lattice boundaries (CSLBs, 3 ≤ Σ ≤ 29) and Σ3n boundaries along PAGBs decreases with increasing reduction ratio due to the recrystallization fraction increases with increasing reduction ratio. The PAGBs connectivity of the 6%-deformed specimen deteriorates compared with that of AR specimen slightly. Moreover, the potentiodynamic polarization studies revealed that the intergranular damage resistance of studied steel could be improved by enhancing the fraction of CSLBs along PAGBs, indicating that TMP, involving low deformation, could enhance the intergranular damage resistance.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: The Dragon-I linear induction accelerator (LIA) at China Academy of Engineering Physics generates 20 MeV flash X-rays mainly for radiography applications in fluid dynamics. Its spectral information is quite important for diagnostic X-ray imaging applications, but because of its short pulse and great radiation intensity, direct measurement is impossible. In this work, we propose a new method based on transmission measurements to obtain the flash X-ray spectrum. Pure iron cylinders were used as attenuation material, and alanine dosimeters were attached on their rear bottom to record the dose after different degrees of attenuation. Iterative least square method was used to unfold the spectrum, while Geant4 Monte Carlo code was used to simulate the X-ray spectrum. The unfolded spectrum and the simulated spectrum have a high degree of consistency, with the reduced chi-square value of 0.044. This shows that the method is reliable in estimating megavoltage high-intensity X-ray spectrum.
分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2023-05-16
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