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🔬 physics

Dosimetric characterization of a nanophotonic scintillator and applications to real-time in-vivo total body irradiation dosimetry

This study demonstrates that applying a nanophotonic surface coating to a conventional YAG:Ce scintillator significantly enhances its light output and signal-to-noise ratio without compromising dosimetric accuracy, thereby enabling real-time in-vivo total body irradiation dosimetry using standard cameras.

W. Jeffrey Zabel, Dixin Chen, Louis Martin-Monier, Simo Pajovic, Shanhui Fan, Juejun Hu, Marin Soljačić, Lei Xing, Charl (…)2026-06-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔢 mathematics

Nonlinear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations as gradient flows of the free energy

This paper establishes that a class of nonlinear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations, featuring free transport and porous medium-type velocity diffusion, can be interpreted as gradient flows of a free energy functional via a novel phase-space discrepancy, thereby generalizing the JKO scheme and proving the convergence of implicit Euler approximations to solutions.

Giovanni Brigati, Guillaume Carlier, Jean Dolbeault, Filippo Quattrocchi2026-06-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💰 quantitative finance

An Actuarial Cost and Revenue Model for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services: Estimating Population-Based Coverage and Sustainability Thresholds

This paper presents a two-part actuarial model demonstrating that the financial sustainability of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is highly sensitive to labor costs and payer reimbursement rates, with realistic breakeven thresholds ranging from approximately 184 to over 1,000 annual transports depending on the funding scenario.

Robert D. Lieberthal (Thomas Jefferson University, Lieberthal & Associates, LLC), Sabin Ahmed (The MITRE Corporation), D (…)2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

The host halo masses of AGNs and quasars at z∼3−7z \sim 3-7 with TNG-Cluster, FLAMINGO and other cosmological galaxy simulations

Using large-scale cosmological simulations, this study reveals that while AGN luminosity generally increases with host halo mass up to a threshold, the relationship is highly non-linear with significant scatter, indicating that the most luminous quasars at z∼3−7z \sim 3-7 typically inhabit intermediate-mass haloes (1012−12.510^{12-12.5} M⊙_{\odot}) rather than the most massive ones, a finding that aligns well with observational estimates.

Akanksha Kapahtia, Annalisa Pillepich, Joey Braspenning, Dylan Nelson, Joop Schaye, Eduardo Bañados, Silvia Belladitta (…)2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ high-energy experiments

Machine-learned particle flow as a foundation model for collider physics

This paper establishes machine-learned particle flow (MLPF) as a foundation model for collider physics by demonstrating that its learned latent representations serve as a shared, information-rich bridge between low-level detector data and diverse high-level analysis tasks, significantly improving performance and efficiency compared to traditional modular approaches.

Farouk Mokhtar, Joosep Pata, Michael Kagan, Javier Duarte2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Autonomous AI-Cosmoindustry and the Quiet Expansion Filter: A Threshold-Based Resolution of the Fermi Paradox

This paper proposes the "quiet expansion filter" hypothesis, suggesting that the Fermi Paradox is resolved by the likelihood that advanced civilizations transition to low-mass, autonomous AI-driven industrial expansion that saturates the galaxy rapidly and silently, making their presence detectable only as subtle artifacts rather than large-scale energy signatures.

Sergey Ivliev2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ