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    Reanalyzing DESI DR1: IV. Percent-level cosmological constraints from combined probes and robust evidence for the normal neutrino mass hierarchy

    Mikhail M. Ivanov1,2,*, James M. Sullivan1,†, Roger de Belsunce1,2,‡, Shi-Fan Chen3,§,∥, Anton Chudaykin4,¶, Mark Maus5,6,**, and Oliver H. E. Philcox7,8,††

    • *Contact author: ivanov99@mit.edu
    • †Contact author: jms3@mit.edu
    • ‡Contact author: belsunce@mit.edu
    • §Contact author: sc5888@columbia.edu
    • ∥NASA Einstein Fellow.
    • Contact author: anton.chudaykin@unige.ch
    • **Contact author: mark.maus@berkeley.edu
    • ††Contact author: ohep2@cantab.ac.uk

    Phys. Rev. D 114, 063526 – Published 17 September, 2026

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/sjff-yj2t

    Abstract

    We present cosmological parameter measurements from the full combination of DESI DR1 galaxy clustering data, described with large-scale structure effective field theory. By incorporating photometric galaxies and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing cross-correlations, and extending the bispectrum likelihood to smaller scales with a consistent one-loop computation, we achieve substantial gains in constraining power. Combined with the latest DESI baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data and CMB priors on the spectral tilt and baryon density, we find, in ΛCDM, H0=69.08±0.37  km s−1 Mpc−1, Ωm=0.2974±0.0050, and σ8=0.838±0.017 (S8=σ8Ωm/0.3=0.834±0.018). Adding the Pantheon+supernovae (SNe), we find a 2.2σ preference for the w0wa dynamical dark energy model from low-redshift data alone, rising to 2.7σ when exchanging the SNe for Planck CMB data. Combining the full-shape, BAO, CMB, and SNe likelihoods improves the dark energy figure-of-merit by 15% and bounds the neutrino mass sum to Mν<0.049  eV (ΛCDM) and Mν<0.077  eV (w0waCDM) at 95% CL. This is the strongest w0waCDM bound to date, 37% tighter than from the background expansion data alone. The preference for the normal neutrino mass ordering thus holds regardless of the background model: the inverted hierarchy is disfavored at ≈3.5σ in ΛCDM and ≈2.4σ in w0waCDM, with the latter constraint free of the geometric tension between CMB and BAO that is known to sharpen the ΛCDM bound.

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    Reanalyzing DESI DR1. V. Cosmological constraints with simulation-based priors

    Anton Chudaykin, Mikhail M. Ivanov, and Oliver H. E. Philcox
    Phys. Rev. D 114, 063527 (2026)

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