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J. Ellison

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An LSST-DESC Precursor Project: Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 1 $3\times2$pt in Harmonic Space

We present the first fully photometric joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering (3$\times$2pt) in harmonic space with LSST-DESC analysis pipelines applied to Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 1 (HSC Y1) data. The HSC Y1 dataset, with imaging depth and galaxy number density similar to those expected for the first year of LSST observations, is an ideal testbed for validating DESC measurement and inference tools. We measure the full set of angular power spectra - cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and galaxy-galaxy lensing - perform null tests, and correct for the impact of observing conditions on both the galaxy density and shear fields via mode deprojection. We validate our likelihood pipeline by reproducing the official HSC Y1 cosmic shear cosmological constraints with the DESC inference code. Jointly analysing all three two-point functions, we constrain $Λ$CDM and $w$CDM cosmologies, reporting results for cosmic shear, the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing (2$\times$2pt), and the full 3$\times$2pt. From the joint 3$\times$2pt $Λ$CDM analysis we find $Ω_m = 0.249^{+0.061}_{-0.051}$, $σ_8 = 0.904^{+0.098}_{-0.091}$, and $S_8 \equiv σ_8\sqrt{Ω_m/0.3} = 0.821^{+0.018}_{-0.021}$. This analysis validates the complete DESC 3x2pt infrastructure on survey data, providing the foundation for the forthcoming LSST Year 1 cosmological analysis.

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The D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker

This paper describes the mechanical design, the readout chain, the production, testing and the installation of the Silicon Microstrip Tracker of the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. In addition, description of the performance of the detector during the experiment data collection between 2001 and 2010 is provided.

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CP Violation Results from D0

We present results on CP violation from approximately 2.8 fb^{-1} of data collected by the D0 Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. The results presented are: (i) an improved measurement of the B_s^0 CP-violating phase from a flavor-tagged analysis of B_s^0 --> J/ψϕdecays; (ii) a search for direct CP violation in B^{+-} --> J/ψK^{+-} (π^{+-}) decays from a measurement of the charge asymmetry A_{CP}(B^{+-} --> J/ψK^{+-}); and (iii) a search for indirect CP violation from searches for anomalous charge asymmetries in semileptonic B_s^0 decays.

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The Isometries of Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory

We study the effective D=4, N=1 supergravity description of five-dimensional heterotic M-theory in the presence of an M5 brane, and derive the Killing vectors and isometry group for the Kahler moduli-space metric. The group is found to be a non-semisimple maximal parabolic subgroup of Sp(4,R), containing a non-trivial SL(2,R) factor. The underlying moduli-space is then naturally realised as the group space Sp(4,R)/U(2), but equipped with a nonhomogeneous metric that is invariant only under that maximal parabolic group. This nonhomogeneous metric space can also be derived via field truncations and identifications performed on Sp(8,R)/U(4) with its standard homogeneous metric. In a companion paper we use these symmetries to derive new cosmological solutions from known ones.

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Report of the Working Group on Precision Measurements

In the first part of this report, we discuss the prospects for measuring the W mass and width in Run II. The basic techniques used to measure M_W are described and the statistical, theoretical and detector-related uncertainties are discussed in detail. Alternative methods of measuring the W mass at the Tevatron and the prospects for M_W measurements at other colliders are also described. In the second part, we discuss the measurement of the forward backward asymmetry in Drell Yan production in Run II which can be used to determine the effective weak mixing angle. Estimates of the statistical and systematic uncertainties in Run II are given. The third part summarizes the features of the FORTRAN package GAPP which performs a fit to the electroweak observables and extracts the probability distribution function of the Higgs boson mass.

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