Xinjiang University

About: Xinjiang University is a education organization based out in Ürümqi, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Photocatalysis. The organization has 9032 authors who have published 8894 publications receiving 105051 citations. The organization is also known as: Xīnjiāng Dàxué.

New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics

Abstract: Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are crucial ingredients for the calculation of the relevant cross sections for various scattering processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Including data from several previous experiments, the authors find new PDFs, which will be important for the data analysis at the LHC Run-2.

Dark Matter Results from 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment

Abstract: We report a new search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the combined low background data sets acquired in 2016 and 2017 from the PandaX-II experiment in China. The latest data set contains a new exposure of 77.1 live days, with the background reduced to a level of 0.8×10^{-3} evt/kg/day, improved by a factor of 2.5 in comparison to the previous run in 2016. No excess events are found above the expected background. With a total exposure of 5.4×10^{4} kg day, the most stringent upper limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section is set for a WIMP with mass larger than 100 GeV/c^{2}, with the lowest 90% C.L. exclusion at 8.6×10^{-47} cm^{2} at 40 GeV/c^{2}.

Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward

Abstract: This work aims to present our current best physical understanding of common-envelope evolution (CEE). We highlight areas of consensus and disagreement, and stress ideas which should point the way forward for progress in this important but long-standing and largely unconquered problem. Unusually for CEE-related work, we mostly try to avoid relying on results from population synthesis or observations, in order to avoid potentially being misled by previous misunderstandings. As far as possible we debate all the relevant issues starting from physics alone, all the way from the evolution of the binary system immediately before CEE begins to the processes which might occur just after the ejection of the envelope. In particular, we include extensive discussion about the energy sources and sinks operating in CEE, and hence examine the foundations of the standard energy formalism. Special attention is also given to comparing the results of hydrodynamic simulations from different groups and to discussing the potential effect of initial conditions on the differences in the outcomes. We compare current numerical techniques for the problem of CEE and also whether more appropriate tools could and should be produced (including new formulations of computational hydrodynamics, and attempts to include 3D processes within 1D codes). Finally we explore new ways to link CEE with observations. We compare previous simulations of CEE to the recent outburst from V1309 Sco, and discuss to what extent post-common-envelope binaries and nebulae can provide information, e.g. from binary eccentricities, which is not currently being fully exploited.

K3B6O10Cl: a new structure analogous to perovskite with a large second harmonic generation response and deep UV absorption edge.

Abstract: Introduction of the Cl- anion in the borate systems generates a new perovskite-like phase, K3B6O10Cl, which exhibits a large second harmonic response, about four times that of KH 2PO4 (KDP), and is transparent from the deep UV (180 nm) to middle-IR region. K3B6O10Cl crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric and rhombohedral space group R3m. The structure consists of the A-site hexaborate [B6O10] groups and the BX 3 Cl-centered octahedral [ClK6] groups linked together through vertices to form the perovskite framework represented by ABX 3.