Three different least-squares methods for processing time-series of satellite sensor data are presented. The first method uses local polynomial functions and can be classified as an adaptive Savitzky-Golay filter. The other two methods are more clear cut least-squares methods, where data are fit to a basis of harmonic functions and asymmetric Gaussian functions, respectively. The methods incorporate qualitative information on cloud contamination from ancillary datasets. The resulting smooth curves are used for extracting seasonal parameters related to the growing seasons. The methods are implemented in a computer program, TIMESAT, and applied to NASA/NOAA Pathfinder AVHRR Land Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data over Africa, giving spatially coherent images of seasonal parameters such as beginnings and ends of growing seasons, seasonally integrated NDVI and seasonal amplitudes. Based on general principles, the TIMESAT program can be used also for other types of satellite-derived time-series data. r

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The DØ experiment enjoyed a very successful data-collection run at the Fermilab Tevatron collider between 1992 and 1996. Since then, the detector has been upgraded to take advantage of improvements to the Tevatron and to enhance its physics capabilities. We describe the new elements of the detector, including the silicon microstrip tracker, central fiber tracker, solenoidal magnet, preshower detectors, forward muon detector, and forward proton detector. The uranium/liquid-argon calorimeters and central muon detector, remaining from Run I, are discussed briefly. We also present the associated electronics, triggering, and data acquisition systems, along with the design and implementation of software specific to DØ.

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The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have searched for the neutral Higgs bosons which are predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The data of the four collaborations are statistically combined and examined for their consistency with the background hypothesis and with a possible Higgs boson signal. The combined LEP data show no significant excess of events which would indicate the production of Higgs bosons. The search results are used to set upper bounds on the cross-sections of various Higgs-like event topologies. The results are interpreted within the MSSM in a number of "benchmark" models, including CP-conserving and CP-violating scenarios. These interpretations lead in all cases to large exclusions in the MSSM parameter space. Absolute limits are set on the parameter tan β and, in some scenarios, on the masses of neutral Higgs bosons.

and comprise 7.482 × 10 20 protons on target in neutrino mode, which yielded in the far detector 32 e-like and 135 μ-like events, and 7.471 × 10 20 protons on target in antineutrino mode, which yielded 4 e-like and 66 μ-like events. Reactor measurements of sin 2 2θ 13 have been used as an additional constraint. The one-dimensional confidence interval at 90% for the phase δ CP spans the range (−3.13, −0.39) for normal mass ordering. The CP conservation hypothesis (δ CP ¼ 0, π) is excluded at 90% C.L.

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A revised version of Grasp2K [P. Jönsson, X. He, C. Froese Fischer, and I.P. Grant, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177 (2007) 597] is presented. It supports earlier non-block and block versions of codes as well as a new block version in which the njgraf library module [A. Bar-Shalom and M. Klapisch, Comput. Phys. Commun. 50 (1988) 375] has been replaced by the librang angular package developed by G. Gaigalas based on the theory of C. Froese Fischer, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 30 (1997) 3747, G. Gaigalas, S. Fritzsche, and I.P. Grant, Comput. Phys. Commun. 139 (2001) 263]. Tests have shown that errors encountered by njgraf do not occur with the new angular package. The three versions are denoted v1, v2, v3, respectively. In addition, in v3, the coefficients of fractional parentage have been extended to j = 9/2, making calculations feasible for the lanthanides and actinides. Changes in v2 include minor improvements. For example, the new version of rci2 may be used to compute QED corrections only from selected orbitals. In v3 a new program, jj2lsj, reports the percentage composition of the wave function in LSJ and the program rlevels has been modified to report the CSF with the largest coefficient of an LSJ expansion. The bioscl2 and bioscl3 application programs have been modified to produce a file of transition data with one record for each transition in the same format as in Nature of problem:Prediction of atomic properties -atomic energy levels, oscillator strengths, radiative decay rates, hyperfine structure parameters, Landé g J -factors, and specific mass shift parameters -using a multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock approach. Solution method:The computational method is the same as in the previous Grasp2K [1] version except that for v3 codes the njgraf library module [2] for recoupling has been replaced by librang [3,4]. Restrictions:The packing algorithm restricts the maximum number of orbitals to be ≤ 214. The tables of reduced coefficients of fractional parentage used in this version are limited to subshells with j ≤ 9/2 [5]; occupied subshells with j > 9/2 are, therefore, restricted to a maximum of two electrons. Some other parameters, such as the maximum number of subshells of a configuration state function (CSF) outside a common set of closed shells are determined by a parameter.def file that can be modified prior to compile time. Unusual features:The bioscl3 program reports transition data in the same format as in Atsp2K[6], and the data processing program tables of the latter package can be used.The tables program takes a name.lsj file, usually a concatenated file of all the .lsj transition files for a given atom or ion, and finds the energy structure of the levels and the multiplet transition arrays. The tables posted at the website 3 http://atoms.vuse.vanderbilt.edu are examples of tables produced by the tables program. With the extension of coefficients of fractional parentage to j = 9/2, calculations for the lanthanides and actinides become possible.