M. Smith

First measurement of the charge asymmetry in beauty-quark pair production at a hadron collider

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +700

The difference in the angular distributions between beauty quarks and antiquarks, referred to as the charge asymmetry, is measured for the first time in $b b ˉ$ pair production…

Precision measurement of $CP$ violation in the penguin-mediated decay $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I ¨ $

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1044

A flavor-tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I ¨ $ is performed using $pp$ collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at $s = 13$ TeV,…

Three-pion Bose-Einstein correlations measured in proton-proton collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1128

A study on the Bose-Einstein correlations for triplets of same-sign pions is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqr…

Weak Lensing Analysis of SPT selected Galaxy Clusters using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

C. Stern, J. P. Dietrich, S. Bocquet +70

We present weak lensing (WL) mass constraints for a sample of massive galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). We use $gri…

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts - Methods and Systematics Characterization

M. Gatti, P. Vielzeuf, C. Davis +104

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensi…

Design and performance of the LHCb trigger and full real-time reconstruction in Run 2 of the LHC

R. Aaij, S. Akar, J. Albrecht +138

The LHCb collaboration has redesigned its trigger to enable the full offline detector reconstruction to be performed in real time. Together with the real-time alignment and calibra…

astro-ph.GA2020

Milky Way Satellite Census. II. Galaxy--Halo Connection Constraints Including the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud

E. O. Nadler, R. H. Wechsler, K. Bechtol +63

The population of Milky Way (MW) satellites contains the faintest known galaxies and thus provides essential insight into galaxy formation and dark matter microphysics. Here we com…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cell-based Coadds and Metadetection Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue

M. Yamamoto, M. R. Becker, E. Sheldon +81

We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 44…

hep-ex2018

Evidence for the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +788

A search for the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ is presented using data sets corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.6 $fb^{- 1}$ of integrated luminosity co…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on extensions to $I^$ CDM with weak lensing and galaxy clustering

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +159

We constrain extensions to the $I^$ CDM model using measurements from the Dark Energy Survey's first three years of observations and external data. The DES data are the two-point co…

Measurement of the B0bar-B0 and Bsbar-Bs production asymmetries in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +700

The B0bar-B0 and Bsbar-Bs production asymmetries, AP(B0) and AP(Bs), are measured by means of a time-dependent analysis of B0 -> J/ÏK*0, B0 -> D- pi+ and Bs -> Ds- pi+ decays, usi…

Measurement of forward $t t$ , $W + b b$ and $W + c c$ production in $pp$ collisions at $s = 8$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +767

The production of $t t$ , $W + b b$ and $W + c c$ is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 Te…

cond-mat.str-el2024

A theory of Stimulated and Spontaneous Axion Scattering

M. Smith, Kartiek Agarwal, Ivar Martin

We present a theory for nonlinear, resonant excitation of dynamical axions by counter-propagating electromagnetic waves in materials that break both $P$ and $T$ …

hep-ex2018

Measurement of forward top pair production in the dilepton channel in $pp$ collisions at $s = 13$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +791

Forward top quark pair production is studied in $pp$ collisions in the $I^¼ e b$ final state using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.93 fb $^{- 1}$ collected…

Study of the rare $B_{s}^{0}$ and $B^{0}$ decays into the $I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ final state

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

A search for the rare decays $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ is performed in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb $^{- 1}$ colle…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of forward $W \to e I^½$ production in $pp$ collisions at $s = 8$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763

A measurement of the cross-section for $W \to e I^½$ production in $pp$ collisions is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $2$ fb $^{- 1}$ collected by th…

Search for Majorana neutrinos in $B^{-} \to I ¨ ^{+} I^¼^{-} I^¼^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +674

A search for heavy Majorana neutrinos produced in the $B^{-} \to I ¨ ^{+} I^¼^{-} I^¼^{-}$ decay mode is performed using 3 fb $^{- 1}$ of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector in…

hep-ex2018

Search for the rare decay $I^_{c}^{+} \to p I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +792

A search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decay $I^_{c}^{+} \to p I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ is reported using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0 f b^{- 1}$ collect…

Measurement of the $B^{\pm}$ production cross-section in pp collisions at $s =$ 7 and 13 TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +796

The production of $B^{\pm}$ mesons is studied in $pp$ collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 13 TeV, using $B^{\pm} \to J / I ¨ K^{\pm}$ decays and data samples correspo…

Angular analysis and differential branching fraction of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722

An angular analysis and a measurement of the differential branching fraction of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

Measurement of the $B ˉ_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ and $B ˉ_{s}^{0} \to D^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ effective lifetimes

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +672

The first measurement of the effective lifetime of the $B ˉ_{s}^{0}$ meson in the decay $B ˉ_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ is reported using a proton-proton collision dataset, correspondi…

Search for the decay Bs -> D*-+ Ï+-

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +619

A search for the decay Bs -> D*-+ Ï+- is presented using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 of pp collisions collected by LHCb. This decay is expe…

astro-ph.GA2021

Is diffuse intracluster light a good tracer of the galaxy cluster matter distribution?

H. Sampaio-Santos, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +64

We explore the relation between diffuse intracluster light (central galaxy included) and the galaxy cluster (baryonic and dark) matter distribution using a sample of 528 clusters a…

First observations of the rare decays $B^{+} - > K^{+} I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ and $B^{+} - > I ¨ K^{+} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697

First observations of the rare decays $B^{+} \to K^{+} I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ and $B^{+} \to I ¨ K^{+} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ are presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…

physics.ins-det2019

The laser-based gain monitoring system of the calorimeters in the Muon $g - 2$ experiment at Fermilab

A. Anastasi, A. Basti, F. Bedeschi +41

The Muon $g - 2$ experiment, E989, is currently taking data at Fermilab with the aim of reducing the experimental error on the muon anomaly by a factor of four and possibly clarifyin…

Observation of the $I^_{b}^{0} \to I ¨ _{c 1} (3872) p K^{-}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +903

Using proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.9fb $^{- 1}$ of integrated luminosity at the centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8,…

hep-ex2024

Enhanced production of $I^_{b}^{0}$ baryons in high-multiplicity $pp$ collisions at $s = 13$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1085

The production rate of $I^_{b}^{0}$ baryons relative to $B^{0}$ mesons in $pp$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy $s = 13$ TeV is measured by the LHCb experiment. The rat…

First measurement of the $Z \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ angular coefficients in the forward region of $pp$ collisions at $s = 13$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +999

The first study of the angular distribution of $I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ pairs produced in the forward rapidity region via the Drell-Yan reaction $pp \rightarrow Î³^{*}/Z +X \rightarrow l^+ l^-…

astro-ph.GA2019

Search for RR Lyrae stars in DES ultra-faint systems: Grus I, Kim 2, Phoenix II, and Grus II

C. E. MartÃnez-VÃ¡zquez, A. K. Vivas, M. Foucoin +57

This work presents the first search for RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) in four of the ultra-faint systems imaged by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using SOAR/Goodman and Blanco/DECam imagers.…

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to J / I ¨ K_{S}^{0} K^{\pm} I ¨ ^{\mp}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +696

Decays of the form $B_{(s)}^{0} \to J / I ¨ K_{S}^{0} h^{+} h^{(') -}$ ( $h^{(')} = K, I ¨ $ ) are searched for in proton-proton collision data corresponding…

Quantum numbers of the $X (3872)$ state and orbital angular momentum in its $I ¨ ^{0} J I ¨ $ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +619

Angular correlations in $B^{+} \to X (3872) K^{+}$ decays, with $X (3872) \to I ¨ ^{0} J / I ¨ $ , $I ¨ ^{0} \to I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ and $J / I ¨ \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ , are used to measure orbital angular momentum contribution…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of CP violation in the decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} I ¨ ^{0}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +960

A measurement of direct CP violation in the decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} I ¨ ^{0}$ is reported using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 $\textrm{fb}^{-1…

physics.ins-det2018

Production and Integration of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer

B. Abbott, J. Albert, F. Alberti +373

During the shutdown of the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2013-2014, an additional pixel layer was installed between the existing Pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment and a new, s…

nucl-ex2026

$I^^{2}$ -decay Measurements Near the $N = 40$ Island of Inversion to Quantify Cooling of Accreted Neutron Star Crusts

K. Hermansen, W. -J. Ong, H. Schatz +18

Understanding the thermal structure of the outer crust of accreting neutron stars is important to interpret astronomical X-ray observations. Ground-state to ground-state $I^^{2}$ -decay…

astro-ph.HE2019

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary-Black-Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Z. Doctor, R. Kessler, K. Herner +96

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of…

Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B_{s}^{0} \to e^{\pm} I^¼^{\mp}$ and $B^{0} \to e^{\pm} I^¼^{\mp}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +650

A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B_{s}^{0} \to e^{\pm} I^¼^{\mp}$ and $B^{0} \to e^{\pm} I^¼^{\mp}$ is performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminos…

Precision measurement of forward $Z$ boson production in proton-proton collisions at $s = 13$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +998

A precision measurement of the $Z$ boson production cross-section at $s = 13$ TeV in the forward region is presented, using $pp$ collision data collected by the LHCb detecto…

hep-ex2026

Amplitude analysis of $B^{0} \to I^\cdot_{c} (1 S) K^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1185

An amplitude analysis of the $B^{0} \to I^\cdot_{c} (1 S) K^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decays with $I^\cdot_{c} (1 S) \to p p ˉ$ is performed using a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…

astro-ph.CO2019

First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814

The DES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +1201

We present a multi-messenger measurement of the Hubble constant H_0 using the binary-black-hole merger GW170814 as a standard siren, combined with a photometric redshift catalog fr…

First evidence for direct CP violation in beauty to charmonium decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1131

The $C P$ asymmetry and branching fraction of the CKM-suppressed decay $B^{+} \to J / I ¨ I ¨ ^{+}$ are precisely measured relative to the favoured decay $B^+\!\to…

First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697

The first observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{*\mp} K^{\pm}$ decay is reported using 3.0 $f b^{- 1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment. The $D_{s}^{*\mp}$ …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Curved-Sky Weak Lensing Mass Map

C. Chang, A. Pujol, B. Mawdsley +117

We construct the largest curved-sky galaxy weak lensing mass map to date from the DES first-year (DES Y1) data. The map, about 10 times larger than previous work, is constructed ov…

Measurement of J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +624

The production of J/psi mesons is studied with the LHCb detector using data from pp collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 71 nb^-1. The differ…

Constraints on the CKM angle $I^^{3}$ from $B^{\pm} \to D h^{\pm}$ decays using $D \to h^{\pm} h^{' \mp} I ¨ ^{0}$ final states

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994

A data sample collected with the LHCb detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb $^{- 1}$ is used to measure eleven $C P$ violation observables in $B^{\pm} \to D h^{\pm}$ de…

Measurement of the CP-violating phase $I ¨ _{s}$ in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / I ¨ I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697

The mixing-induced CP-violating phase $I ¨ _{s}$ in $B_{s}^{0}$ and $B_{s}^{0}$ decays is measured using the $J / I ¨ I ¨ ^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ final state in data, taken from 3\,fb $^{- 1}$ of integra…

astro-ph.GA2022

Characterising the Intracluster Light over the Redshift Range $0.2 < z < 0.8$ in the DES-ACT Overlap

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +66

We characterise the properties and evolution of Bright Central Galaxies (BCGs) and the surrounding intracluster light (ICL) in galaxy clusters identified in overlapping regions of…

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…

Forward production of $I^¥$ mesons in $pp$ collisions at $s = 7$ and 8TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +720

The production of $I^¥$ mesons in $pp$ collisions at $= 7$ and $8 TeV$ is studied with the LHCb detector using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

First evidence for the annihilation decay mode $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} I ¨ $

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +617

Evidence for the hadronic annihilation decay mode $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} I ¨ $ is found with greater than $3 I ¨ $ significance. The branching fraction and \CP asymmetry are measured to be \…

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Validation of weak lensing cluster member contamination estimates from P(z) decomposition

T. N. Varga, J. DeRose, D. Gruen +68

Weak lensing source galaxy catalogs used in estimating the masses of galaxy clusters can be heavily contaminated by cluster members, prohibiting accurate mass calibration. In this…

Search for the rare decay $D^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta +634

A search for the rare decay $D^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ is performed using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.9 fb $^{- 1}$ , of $pp$ collisions collected at a centr…

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmological constraints from the analysis of cosmic shear in harmonic space

C. Doux, B. Jain, D. Zeurcher +135

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Surv…

First observation of the $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1048

The $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$ decay is observed for the first time using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of $7$ , $8$ …

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with peaks using an emulator approach

D. ZÃ¼rcher, J. Fluri, R. Sgier +119

We constrain the matter density $I^c ◯_{m}$ and the amplitude of density fluctuations $I ¨ _{8}$ within the $I^$ CDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular conv…

astro-ph.IM2020

Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs

K. Herner, J. Annis, D. Brout +82

Gravitational wave (GW) events detectable by LIGO and Virgo have several possible progenitors, including black hole mergers, neutron star mergers, black hole--neutron star mergers,…

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to I^\cdot^{'} I^\cdot^{'}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +703

The first observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to I^\cdot^{'} I^\cdot^{'}$ decay is reported. The study is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to $3.0$ $f b^{- 1}$ of integrated lum…

Measurement of the $I^c ◯_{c}^{0}$ and $I^_{c}^{0}$ baryon lifetimes using hadronic $b$ -baryon decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1143

The lifetimes of the $I^c ◯_{c}^{0}$ and $I^_{c}^{0}$ baryons are measured using a $pp$ collision dataset collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9~\rm…

hep-ex2020

Measurement of CP violation in the $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I ¨ $ decay and search for the $B^{0} \to I ¨ I ¨ $ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +868

A measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I ¨ $ decays is presented. Using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integra…

astro-ph.GA2023

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: A new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

M. McNanna, K. Bechtol, S. Mau +63

We report results from a systematic wide-area search for faint dwarf galaxies at heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 2 Mpc using the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2019

Producing a BOSS-CMASS sample with DES imaging

S. Lee, E. M. Huff, A. J. Ross +57

We present a sample of galaxies with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometry that replicates the properties of the BOSS CMASS sample. The CMASS galaxy sample has been well characte…

Measurement of $C P$ violation in $B^{0} \to D^{+} D^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{+} D_{s}^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1118

A time-dependent, flavour-tagged measurement of $C P$ violation is performed with $B^{0} \to D^{+} D^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{+} D_{s}^{-}$ decays, using data…

Using Host Galaxy Spectroscopy to Explore Systematics in the Standardisation of Type Ia Supernovae

M. Dixon, C. Lidman, J. Mould +75

We use stacked spectra of the host galaxies of photometrically identified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) to search for correlations between Hubble di…

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ branching fraction and effective lifetime and search for $B^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +771

A search for the rare decays $B_{s}^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ is performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in $pp$ collisions corresponding to a total integrated…

Study of $B_{c}^{+}$ meson decays to charmonia plus multihadron final states

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1058

Four decay modes of the $B_{c}^{+}$ meson into a $J / I ¨ $ meson and multiple charged kaons or pions are studied using proton-proton collision data, collected with the~LHCb detector at ce…

hep-ex2016

First observation of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{*} (892)^{0}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +713

A search for $B_{(s)}^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{*} (892)^{0}$ decays is performed using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.0 fb^{- 1}$ , collected…

First observation of the $I^_{b}^{0} \to I^_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+} K^{-}$ decay and search for pentaquarks in the $I^_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-}$ system

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1176

The $I^_{b}^{0} \to I^_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+} K^{-}$ decay is observed for the first time using the data sample from proton-proton collisions recorded at a center…

astro-ph.CO2025

ZTF SNe Ia DR2: Towards cosmology-grade ZTF supernova light curves using scene modeling photometry

L. Lacroix, N. Regnault, T. de Jaeger +36

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a wide-field survey of the northern sky in three optical bands and the collaboration cosmology working group has released 3628 spe…

astro-ph.CO2020

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: The Effect of Host Galaxy Properties on Supernova Luminosity

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman +88

We present improved photometric measurements for the host galaxies of 206 spectroscopically confirmed type Ia supernovae discovered by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES…

Observation of an excited $B_{c}^{+}$ state

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +848

Using $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $8.5 fb^{- 1}$ recorded by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of $s = 7$ , $8$ and…

Study of $b b ˉ$ correlations in high energy proton-proton collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +802

Kinematic correlations for pairs of beauty hadrons, produced in high energy proton-proton collisions, are studied. The data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at ce…

The Splashback Feature around DES Galaxy Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing Profiles

C. Chang, E. Baxter, B. Jain +82

Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radiu…

Robust sampling for weak lensing and clustering analyses with the Dark Energy Survey

P. Lemos, N. Weaverdyck, R. P. Rollins +68

Recent cosmological analyses rely on the ability to accurately sample from high-dimensional posterior distributions. A variety of algorithms have been applied in the field, but jus…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the CKM angle $I^^{3}$ in $B^{\pm} \to D (\to K_{S}^{0} h^{' +} h^{' -}) h^{\pm}$ decays with a novel approach

The BESIII, LHCb Collaborations, : +1903

A measurement of the CKM angle $I^^{3}$ and related strong-phase parameters is performed using a novel, model-independent approach in ${B^{\pm}\rightarrow D(\rightarrow K^{0}_{\rm S} h…

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

S. Everett, B. Yanny, N. Kuropatkin +97

We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data…

Measurement of the inelastic $pp$ cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of $s = 7$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions, with at least one prompt long-lived charged particle of transverse momentum $p_{T} > 0.2$ GeV/ $c$ in the pseudorapidity…

Observation of the decay $I^_{b}^{0} \to I^_{c}^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^½_{I ¨} $

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +992

The first observation of the semileptonic $b$ -baryon decay $I^_{b}^{0} \to I^_{c}^{+} I ¨ ^{-} I^½_{I ¨} $ , with a significance of $6.1 I ¨ $ , is reported using a data sample corres…

astro-ph.GA2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars

Gaia Collaboration, A. Krone-Martins, C. Ducourant +398

Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of $0.18$ " in the optical, ma…

hep-ex2024

Amplitude analysis of the $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1082

An amplitude analysis of the $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ decay is presented using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $4.7$ fb $^{- 1}$ of $pp$ collision data collec…

Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{\pm} e^{\mp}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I^¼^{\pm} e^{\mp}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1003

A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} I^¼^{\pm} e^{\mp}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to I ¨ I^¼^{\pm} e^{\mp}$ is presented, using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb…

Measurement of the forward $Z$ boson production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $s$ = 7 TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +705

A measurement of the production cross-section for $Z$ bosons that decay to muons is presented. The data were recorded by the LHCb detector during $pp$ collisions at a centre-of-mas…

astro-ph.EP2025

Photometry of outer Solar System objects from the Dark Energy Survey II: a joint analysis of trans-Neptunian absolute magnitudes, colors, lightcurves and dynamics

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, T. M. C. Abbott +43

For the 696 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with absolute magnitudes $5.5 < H_{r} < 8.2$ detected in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we characterize the relationships between their dyna…

Precision measurement of $C P$ violation in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / I ¨ K^{+} K^{-}$ decays

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +696

The time-dependent $C P$ asymmetry in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / I ¨ K^{+} K^{-}$ decays is measured using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0$ fb $^{- 1}$ , collected wit…

astro-ph.SR2022

Gaia Data Release 3: Properties of the line broadening parameter derived with the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS)

The third release of the Gaia catalogue contains the radial velocities for 33,812,183 stars having effective temperatures ranging from 3100 K to 14,500 K. The measurements are base…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy mock catalogs for BAO analysis

I. Ferrero, M. Crocce, I. Tutusaus +83

The calibration and validation of scientific analysis in simulations is a fundamental tool to ensure unbiased and robust results in observational cosmology. In particular, mock gal…

Cross-Correlation Redshift Calibration Without Spectroscopic Calibration Samples in DES Science Verification Data

C. Davis, E. Rozo, A. Roodman +74

Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailabilit…

Search for the radiative $I^_{b}^{-} \to I^^{-} I^^{3}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +986

The first search for the rare radiative decay $I^_{b}^{-} \to I^^{-} I^^{3}$ is performed using data collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy o…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on $f (R)$ gravity from tSZE-selected SPT galaxy clusters and weak lensing mass calibration from DES and HST

S. M. L. Vogt, S. Bocquet, C. T. Davies +52

We present constraints on the $f (R)$ gravity model using a sample of 1,005 galaxy clusters in the redshift range $0.25 - 1.78$ that have been selected through the thermal Sunyaev-Z…

The DES Bright Arcs Survey: Candidate Strongly Lensed Galaxy Systems from the Dark Energy Survey 5,000 Sq. Deg. Footprint

J. H. O'Donnell, R. D. Wilkinson, H. T. Diehl +79

We report the combined results of eight searches for strong gravitational lens systems in the full 5,000 sq. deg. of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations. The observations accumul…

hep-ex2020

Observation of enhanced double parton scattering in proton-lead collisions at $s_{NN} = 8.16$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +992

A study of prompt charm-hadron pair production in proton-lead collisions at $s_{NN} = 8.16$ TeV is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of ab…

nucl-ex2016

Study of $I ¨ (2 S)$ production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at $s_{N N} = 5 TeV$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +732

The production of $I ¨ (2 S)$ mesons is studied in dimuon final states using proton-lead collision data collected by the LHCb detector. The data sample corresponds to an integrated lu…

Study of beauty hadron decays into pairs of charm hadrons

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. Abba +694

First observations of the decays $I^_{b}^{0} \to I^_{c}^{+} D_{(s)}^{-}$ are reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3 fb^{- 1}$ collected at 7 and 8 TeV cent…

Observation of the suppressed decay $I^_{b}^{0} \to p I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +768

The suppressed decay $I^_{b}^{0} \to p I ¨ ^{-} I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ , excluding the $J / I ¨ $ and $I ¨ (2 S) \to I^¼^{+} I^¼^{-}$ resonances, is observed for the first time with a signif…

hep-ex2020

Precision measurement of the $B_{c}^{+}$ meson mass

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +905

A precision measurement of the $B_{c}^{+}$ meson mass is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of $7, 8$ and $1…

Search for $C P$ violation in $D_{s}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} I ¨ ^{+}$ , $D^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+}$ and $D^{+} \to I ¨ I ¨ ^{+}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. AbellÃ¡n Beteta +848

A search for charge-parity ( $C P$ ) violation in Cabibbo-suppressed $D_{s}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} I ¨ ^{+}$ , $D^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+}$ and $D^{+} \to I ¨ I ¨ ^{+}$ decays is reported using proton-proton collision dat…

Evolution of Galaxy Luminosity and Stellar-Mass Functions since $z = 1$ with the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

D. Capozzi, J. Etherington, D. Thomas +60

We present the first study of the evolution of the galaxy luminosity and stellar-mass functions (GLF and GSMF) carried out by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe the COMMODOR…

astro-ph.CO2020

A statistical standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave compact object merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey galaxies

A. Palmese, J. deVicente, M. E. S. Pereira +85

We present a measurement of the Hubble constant $H_{0}$ using the gravitational wave (GW) event GW190814, which resulted from the coalescence of a 23 $M_{⊙}$ black hole with a 2.6…

astro-ph.CO2011

Evidence for a correlation between the Si II 4000 width and Type Ia supernova color

J. Nordin, L. Ostman, A. Goobar +8

We study the pseudo equivalent width of the Si II 4000 feature of Type Ia supernovae in the redshift range 0.0024 < z < 0.634. We find that this spectral indicator correlates with…

astro-ph.GA2020

Milky Way Satellite Census. I. The Observational Selection Function for Milky Way Satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1

A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol, S. Mau +55

We report the results of a systematic search for ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1). Together, DES and PS1…

Amplitude analysis of $B^{0} \to D ˉ^{0} K^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +716

The Dalitz plot distribution of $B^{0} \to D ˉ^{0} K^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decays is studied using a data sample corresponding to $3.0 fb^{- 1}$ of $pp$ collision data recorded by the…