Hadron thermodynamics with Wilson quarks.
We study hadron thermodynamics with Wilson quarks. The crossover curve between the high- and low-temperature phases is determined as a function of gauge coupling and hopping parameter on 8{sup 3}{times}4 lattices. Screening lengths are calculated in the vicinity of the crossover region, and meson masses are calculated along the crossover curve on 8{sup 2}{times}16{times}4 and 8{sup 3}{times}16 lattices, respectively.

title: Infrared and ultraviolet properties of the Landau gauge quark propagator
abstract: We present a current summary of a program to study the quark propagator using lattice QCD. We use the Overlap and “Asqtad” quark actions on a number of lattice ensembles. to assess systematic errors. We comment on the place of this work amongst studies of QCD Green's functions in other formulations. A preliminary calculation of the running quark mass is presented.

title: Search for symmetry restoration in the fundamental SU(2) Higgs model
abstract: The phase structure of the fundamental SU(2) Higgs model at finite temperature is investigated close to the zero-temperature Higgs transition by Monte Carlo methods. In the confined phase at zero temperature we find a crossover from a confined to a deconfined region that remains quite sharp on lattices of temporal extent NT = 4 even close to the Higgs transition. On asymmetric lattices the Higgs transition shifts slightly compared to the zero-temperature, symmetric lattice, giving indirect evidence for symmetry restoration at high temperature.

title: Biased Metropolis-heat-bath algorithm for fundamental-adjoint SU(2) lattice gauge theory
abstract: For SU(2) lattice gauge theory with the fundamental-adjoint action an efficient heat-bath algorithm is not known so that one had to rely on Metropolis simulations supplemented by overrelaxation. Implementing a novel biased Metropolis-heat-bath algorithm for this model, we find improvement factors in the range 1.45 to 2.06 over conventionally optimized Metropolis simulations. If one optimizes further with respect to additional overrelaxation sweeps, the improvement factors are found in the range 1.3 to 1.8.

title: Divergent chiral condensate in the quenched Schwinger model
abstract: We calculate numerically the eigenvalue distribution of the overlap Dirac operator in the quenched Schwinger model on a lattice. The distribution does not fit any of the three universality classes of spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking, and its strong volume dependence indicates that the chiral condensate in the quenched theory is an ill-defined and divergent quantity. When we reweight configurations with the Dirac determinant to study the theory with N{sub f}=1, we obtain a distribution of eigenvalues that is well-behaved and consistent with the theory of explicit symmetry breaking due to the anomaly.

title: Study of chiral symmetry in quenched QCD using the overlap Dirac operator
abstract: We compute fermionic observables relevant to the study of chiral symmetry in quenched QCD using the overlap Dirac operator for a wide range of fermion mass. We use analytical results to disentangle the contribution from exact zero modes and simplify our numerical computations. Details concerning the numerical implementation of the overlap Dirac operator are presented.

title: Hard scattering with exclusive reactions: pi -p elastic scattering and rho -meson production.

title: Decay distribution of high-transverse-momentum rho mesons.

title: Measurement of the Omega - magnetic moment.
abstract: A sample of 24 700 {Omega}{sup {minus}} hyperons was produced by a prolarized neutral beam in a spin-transfer reaction. The {Omega}{sup {minus}} polarizations are found to be {minus}0.054{plus minus}0.019 and {minus}0.149{plus minus}0.055 at mean {Omega}{sup {minus}} momenta of 322 and 398 GeV/{ital c}, respectively. The directions of these polarizations give an {Omega}{sup {minus}} magnetic moment of {minus}(1.94{plus minus}0.17{plus minus}0.14){mu}{sub {ital N}}

title: Evidence for muon production by particles from Cygnus X-3.
abstract: We have observed underground cosmic-ray muons, corresponding to a secondary flux of  x 10/sup -11/ cm/sup -2/ s/sup -1/, at a depth of 1800-m water equivalent, which appear to be initiated by Cygnus X-3. This identification is based on both direction and phase coherence. The existence of such secondary muons conflicts with the current understanding of photon cascades and/or the nature and location of Cygnus X-3.

title: Search for direct CP violation in nonleptonic decays of charged Xi and lambda hyperons
abstract: A search for direct CP violation in the nonleptonic decays of hyperons has been performed. In comparing the product of the decay parameters, ), in terms of an asymmetry parameter, A(XiLambda), between hyperons and antihyperons in the charged Xi-->Lambdapi and Lambda-->ppi decay sequence, we found no evidence of direct CP violation. The parameter A(XiLambda) was measured to be 0.012+/-0.014.