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Regular data taking with the CMD-3 at the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000 is under way since 2010. The collected data sample corresponds to about 200 inverse picobarns of integrated luminosity per detector in the energy range from 0.32 up to 2 GeV, with a goal to collect about 1 fb −1 during next five years. Some of the recent results from the CMD-3 detector are discussed.

Recent SND results on the study of the process e+e−→ π0γ are presented. The study is based on data collected with the SND detector on the VEPP-2M and VEPP-2000 e+e− colliders with an integrated luminosity of 25 and 46 pb−1, respectively. The VEPP-2M data used in this analysis are recorded in the center-of-mass energy range 0.60-1.38 GeV, while the VEPP-2000 data in the range 1.05-2.00 GeV.

Recent results of the SND detector experiments are presented. Data were taken at the VEPP-2000 and the VEPP-2M e+e− colliders in the Novosibirsk in the c.m. energy ranges from 0.3 to 2.00 GeV. Integrated luminosity used are 70pb-1 and 25pb-1 respectively. The cross sections of the e+e− → π0γ, K+K−, ωπ0, π+π−π0η, ωη, ωηπ0 processes has been measured.

A new scenario for the first operational run of the High Luminoisty LHC (HL–LHC) era (Run 4) has recently been developed to accommodate a period of performance ramp-up to achieve an annual integrated luminosity close to the nominal HL–LHC design target. The operational scenario in terms of beam parameters and machine settings, as well as the different phases to reach optimal performance, are described here along with the impact of potential delays to key hardware components.

We present a sample of 88 candidate z ∼ 8.5–14.5 galaxies selected from the completed NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science survey. These data cover ∼90 arcmin2 (10 NIRCam pointings) in six broadband imaging filters and one medium-band imaging filter. With this sample we confirm at higher confidence early JWST conclusions that bright galaxies in this epoch are more abundant than predicted by most theoretical models. We construct the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity functions at z ∼ 9, 11, and 14 and show that the space density of bright (M UV = −20) galaxies changes only modestly from z ∼ 14 to z ∼ 9, compared to a steeper increase from z ∼ 8 to z ∼ 4. While our candidates are photometrically selected, spectroscopic follow-up has now confirmed 13 of them, with only one significant interloper, implying that the fidelity of this sample is high. Successfully explaining the evidence for a flatter evolution in the number densities of UV-bright z > 10 galaxies may thus require changes to the dominant physical processes regulating star formation. While our results indicate that significant variations of dust attenuation with redshift are unlikely to be the dominant factor at these high redshifts, they are consistent with predictions from models that naturally have enhanced star formation efficiency and/or stochasticity. An evolving stellar initial mass function could also bring model predictions into better agreement with our results. Deep spectroscopic follow-up of a large sample of early galaxies can distinguish between these competing scenarios.

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted; see image).A combination is presented of all inclusive deep inelastic cross sections previously published by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA for neutral and charged current ... scattering for zero beam polarisation. The data were taken at proton beam energies of 920, 820, 575 and 460 GeV and an electron beam energy of 27.5 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb... and span six orders of magnitude in negative four-momentum-transfer squared, ..., and Bjorken x. The correlations of the systematic uncertainties were evaluated and taken into account for the combination. The combined cross sections were input to QCD analyses at leading order, next-to-leading order and at next-to-next-to-leading order, providing a new set of parton distribution functions, called HERAPDF2.0. In addition to the experimental uncertainties, model and parameterisation uncertainties were assessed for these parton distribution functions. Variants of HERAPDF2.0 with an alternative gluon parameterisation, HERAPDF2.0AG, and using fixed-flavour-number schemes, HERAPDF2.0FF, are presented. The analysis was extended by including HERA data on charm and jet production, resulting in the variant HERAPDF2.0Jets. The inclusion of jet-production cross sections made a simultaneous determination of these parton distributions and the strong coupling constant possible, resulting in ... An extraction of ... and results on electroweak unification and scaling violations are also presented.

We present the z ≈ 6 type-1 quasar luminosity function (QLF), based on the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) quasar survey. The PS1 sample includes 125 quasars at z ≈ 5.7–6.2, with −28 ≲ M 1450 ≲ −25. With the addition of 48 fainter quasars from the SHELLQs survey, we evaluate the z ≈ 6 QLF over −28 ≲ M 1450 ≲ −22. Adopting a double power law with an exponential evolution of the quasar density (Φ(z) ∝ 10 k(z−6); k = −0.7), we use a maximum likelihood method to model our data. We find a break magnitude of M*=−26.38−0.60+0.79mag , a faint-end slope of α=−1.70−0.19+0.29 , and a steep bright-end slope of β=−3.84−1.21+0.63 . Based on our new QLF model, we determine the quasar comoving spatial density at z ≈ 6 to be n(M1450<−26)=1.16−0.12+0.13cGpc−3 . In comparison with the literature, we find the quasar density to evolve with a constant value of k ≈ −0.7, from z ≈ 7 to z ≈ 4. Additionally, we derive an ionizing emissivity of ϵ912(z=6)=7.23−1.02+1.65×1022ergs−1Hz−1cMpc−3 , based on the QLF measurement. Given standard assumptions, and the recent measurement of the mean free path by Becker et al. at z ≈ 6, we calculate an H i photoionizing rate of ΓH I(z = 6) ≈ 6 × 10−16 s−1, strongly disfavoring a dominant role of quasars in hydrogen reionization.

We conduct a systematic tidal disruption event (TDE) demographics analysis using the largest sample of optically selected TDEs. A flux-limited, spectroscopically complete sample of 33 TDEs is constructed using the Zwicky Transient Facility over 3 yr (from 2018 October to 2021 September). We infer the black hole (BH) mass (M BH) with host galaxy scaling relations, showing that the sample M BH ranges from 105.1 M ⊙ to 108.2 M ⊙. We developed a survey efficiency corrected maximum volume method to infer the rates. The rest-frame g-band luminosity function can be well described by a broken power law of ϕ(Lg)∝Lg/Lbk0.3+Lg/Lbk2.6−1 , with L bk = 1043.1 erg s−1. In the BH mass regime of 105.3 ≲ (M BH/M ⊙) ≲ 107.3, the TDE mass function follows ϕ(MBH)∝MBH−0.25 , which favors a flat local BH mass function ( dnBH/dlogMBH≈constant ). We confirm the significant rate suppression at the high-mass end (M BH ≳ 107.5 M ⊙), which is consistent with theoretical predictions considering direct capture of hydrogen-burning stars by the event horizon. At a host galaxy mass of M gal ∼ 1010 M ⊙, the average optical TDE rate is ≈3.2 × 10−5 galaxy−1 yr−1. We constrain the optical TDE rate to be [3.7, 7.4, and 1.6] × 10−5 galaxy−1 yr−1 in galaxies with red, green, and blue colors.

Recent JWST/NIRCam imaging taken for the ultra-deep UNCOVER program reveals a very red dropout object at z phot ≃ 7.6, triply imaged by the galaxy cluster A2744 (z d = 0.308). All three images are very compact, i.e., unresolved, with a delensed size upper limit of r e ≲ 35 pc. The images have apparent magnitudes of m F444W ∼ 25−26 AB, and the magnification-corrected absolute UV magnitude of the source is M UV,1450 = −16.81 ± 0.09. From the sum of observed fluxes and from a spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis, we obtain estimates of the bolometric luminosities of the source of L bol ≳ 1043 erg s−1 and L bol ∼ 1044–1046 erg s−1, respectively. Based on its compact, point-like appearance, its position in color–color space, and the SED analysis, we tentatively conclude that this object is a UV-faint dust-obscured quasar-like object, i.e., an active galactic nucleus at high redshift. We also discuss other alternative origins for the object’s emission features, including a massive star cluster, Population III, supermassive, or dark stars, or a direct-collapse black hole. Although populations of red galaxies at similar photometric redshifts have been detected with JWST, this object is unique in that its high-redshift nature is corroborated geometrically by lensing, that it is unresolved despite being magnified—and thus intrinsically even more compact—and that it occupies notably distinct regions in both size–luminosity and color–color space. Planned UNCOVER JWST/NIRSpec observations, scheduled in Cycle 1, will enable a more detailed analysis of this object.

The high-redshift UV luminosity function provides important insights into the evolution of early galaxies. JWST has revealed an unexpectedly large population of bright (MUV ≲ −20) galaxies at z ≳ 10, implying fundamental changes in the star-forming properties of galaxies at increasingly early times. However, constraining the fainter population (MUV ≳ −18) has been more challenging. In this work, we present the z ≳ 9 UV luminosity function from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. We calculate the UV luminosity function from several hundred z ≳ 9 galaxy candidates that reach UV luminosities of MUV ∼ −17 in redshift bins of z ∼ 8.5–12 (309 candidates) and z ∼ 12–16 (63 candidates). We search for candidates at z ∼ 16–22.5 and find none. We also estimate the z ∼ 14–16 luminosity function from the z ≥ 14 subset of the z ∼ 12–16 sample. Consistent with other measurements, we find an excess of bright galaxies that is in tension with many theoretical models, especially at z ≳ 12. However, we also find high number densities at −18 ≲ MUV ≲ −17, suggesting that there is a larger population of faint galaxies than expected, as well as bright ones. From our parametric fits for the luminosity function, we find steep faint-end slopes of −2.5 ≲ α ≲ −2.3, suggesting a large population of faint (MUV ≳ −17) galaxies. Combined, the high normalization and steep faint-end slope of the luminosity function could imply that the reionization process is appreciably underway as early as z = 10.