Preprints

For self-triggered readout of SiPM sum signals, a waveform classification can aid a simple threshold trigger to reliably extract calorimetric particle hit information online at an early stage and thus reduce the volume of transmitted data. Typically, the ADC data acquisition is based on FPGAs for edge data processing. [...]

Memristors are promising devices for scalable and low power, in-memory computing to improve the energy efficiency of a rising computational demand. The crossbar array architecture with memristors is used for vector matrix multiplication (VMM) and acts as kernels in neuromorphic computing. [...]

Integrated circuit implementations of coupled oscillator networks have recently gained increased attention. The focus is usually on using these networks for analogue computing, for example for solving computational optimization tasks. [...]

Brain vessel segmentation of MR scans is a critical step in the diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases. Due to the fine vessel structure, manual vessel segmentation is time consuming [...]

Background and AimsThe advantages of genotype mixtures on soil water balance are still poorly understood. We aim to determine the impact of soil water conditions (well-watered or chronic water deficit) on the root water uptake (RWU) of two contrasting root genotypes (“shallow root system” SRS and “deep root system” DRS) and their mixture at the booting stage.MethodsWe conducted a controlled plant-soil column experiment and quantified daily vertical profiles of the fraction of RWU (fRWU, % cm-1), i.e. [...]

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a challenging task in computer vision, often hindered by the cost and scarcity of high-quality labeled datasets. We tackle this challenge using auxiliary datasets from related vision tasks for an alternating training scheme with a shared decoder built on top of a pre-trained vision foundation model, while giving a higher weight to MDE. [...]

A plant's development is strongly linked to the water and carbon (C) flows in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Ongoing climate shifts will alter the water and C cycles and affect plant phenotypes. [...]

Silicon quantum chips offer a promising path toward scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing, with the potential to host millions of qubits. However, scaling up dense quantum-dot arrays and enabling qubit interconnections through shuttling are hindered by uncontrolled lateral variations of the valley splitting energy $E_{VS}$. [...]

A quantitative description of the exchange interaction in quantum dots is relevant for modeling gate operations of spin qubits. By measuring the amplitude and frequency of exchange-driven qubit state oscillations, we measure the detuning dependence of the exchange coupling in a GaAs double quantum dot over three orders of magnitude. [...]

The Physics Beyond Collider (PBC) Study Group was initially mandated by the CERN Management to prepare the previous European Particle Physics Strategy Update for CERN projects other than the high-energy frontier colliders. The main findings were summarized in an PBC Summary Report submitted to the Strategy Update. [...]