To enable investors to spend down the assets in their defined contribution accounts more
easily, the authors propose a decumulation benchmark comprising a laddered portfolio of TIPS …

The economic cost of a defined-benefit pension plan is the present value of future contributions.
The term structure of the sponsor's borrowing cost is the appropriate discount rate. The …

In these lectures, I will review the theoretical concepts needed to understand the goals and
implications of experiments in this new era of weak interactions. I will explain how to compute …

We study a class of models of dynamical weak-interaction symmetry breaking suggested by
the work of Weinberg and Susskind. We demonstrate in these models some simple relations …

… The fit is based on the values of mW , sin2 … The larger contour shows the effect of a
measurement of mW to 15 MeV, as might … 8, we quoted numerical formulas for the shifts in mW , …

… Planning the Future of US Particle Physics: Proceedings of Snowmass 2013, eds Graf NA,
Peskin ME, Rosner JL. Available at www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C1307292 [arXiv:1306.2926 …

… role of v in (7) in determining the mass scale of mW and mZ. If we were to set Fπ to the value
… general scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, which is set by the scale of mW and mZ, …

Comprehensive pension plan asset allocation in light of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
87 is not the subject of this note. This note assumes that the plan sponsor has already …

We review the general analysis of the contributions of electroweak vacuum-polarization
diagrams to precision experiments. We first review the representation of these contributions by …

… As u → u0, z2 → 0, and so we find a short, fat torus (the ‘Peskin torus’). As u → −u0 from
above or below the real axis, z2 → ±1 and we find a short torus twisted through 2π. The full …