Measurement of the differential photon + $c$-jet cross section and the ratio of differential photon+ $c$ and photon+ $b$ cross sections in proton-antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
We present measurements of the differential cross section $d\sigma/dp_{T}^{\gamma}$ for the associated production of a $c$-quark jet and an isolated photon with rapidity $|y^{\gamma}| 15$ GeV. The ratio of differential cross sections for photon+ c and photon+ b production as a function of $p_{T}^{\gamma}$ is also presented. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 fb$^{-1}$ recorded with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ Collider at $\sqrt{s}=$1.96 TeV. The obtained results are compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations using various parton distribution functions, to predictions based on the $k_{T}$-factorization approach, and to predictions from the Sherpa and Pythia Monte Carlo event generators.

title: Search for long-lived particles decaying into electron or photon pairs with the D0 detector.
abstract: In this Letter we report on a search for long-lived particles that decay into final states with two electrons or photons. Such long-lived particles arise in a variety of theoretical models, such as hidden valleys and supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking. By precisely reconstructing the direction of the electromagnetic shower we are able to probe much longer lifetimes than previously explored. We see no evidence of the existence of such long-lived particles and interpret this search as a quasi model-independent limit on their production cross section, as well as a limit on a long-lived fourth generation quark.

title: Observation and properties of the orbitally excited B_(s2)(*) meson.
abstract: We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_(s2)(*) in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_(s2)(*) meson is measured to be 5839.6+/-1.1(stat)+/-0.7(syst) MeV/c(2), and its production rate relative to the B+ meson is measured to be [1.15+/-0.23(stat)+/-0.13(syst)]%.

title: Jet energy scale determination in the D0 experiment
abstract: The calibration of jet energy measured in the DO detector is presented, based on p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, jet energies are measured using a sampling calorimeter composed of uranium and liquid argon as the passive and active media, respectively. This paper describes the energy calibration of jets performed with gamma+jet, Z+jet and dilet events, with jet transverse momentum p(T) > 6 GeV and pseudorapidity range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 3.6, The corrections are measured separately for data and simulation, achieving a precision of 1.4-1.8% for jets in the central part of the calorimeter ancl up to 3.5% for the jets with pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar = 3.0. Specific corrections are extracted to enhance the description of jet energy in simulation and in particular of the effects due to the flavor of the parton originating the jet, correcting biases up to 3-4% in jets with low PT originating from gluons and up to 6-8% in jets from b quarks.

title: Precision measurement of the top quark mass in lepton + jets final States.
abstract: We measure the mass of the top quark in lepton+jets final states using the full sample of pp collision data collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV, corresponding to 9.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. We use a matrix element technique that calculates the probabilities for each event to result from tt production or background. The overall jet energy scale is constrained in situ by the mass of the W boson. We measure m(t) = 174.98 ± 0.76 GeV. This constitutes the most precise single measurement of the top-quark mass.

title: Measurement of angular correlations of jets at s=1.96 TeV and determination of the strong coupling at high momentum transfers
abstract: We present a measurement of the average value of a new observable at hadron colliders that is sensitive to QCD dynamics and to the strong coupling constant, while being only weakly sensitive to parton distribution functions. The observable measures the angular correlations of jets and is defined as the number of neighboring jets above a given transverse momentum threshold which accompany a given jet within a given distance Delta-R in the plane of rapidity and azimuthal angle. The ensemble average over all jets in an inclusive jet sample is measured and the results are presented as a function of transverse momentum of the inclusive jets, in different regions of Delta-R and for different transverse momentum requirements for the neighboring jets. The measurement is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.7 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 The results are well described by a perturbative QCD calculation in next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, corrected for non-perturbative effects. From these results, we extract the strong coupling and test the QCD predictions for its running over a range of momentum transfers of 50-400 GeV.

title: Non-Abelian Vortices, Super Yang–Mills Theory and Spin(7)-Instantons
abstract: We consider a complex vector bundle $${\mathcal{E}}$$ endowed with a connection $${\mathcal{A}}$$ over the eight-dimensional manifold $${\mathbb{R}^2\times G/H}$$, where G/H = SU(3)/U(1) × U(1) is a homogeneous space provided with a never-integrable almost-complex structure and a family of SU(3)-structures. We establish an equivalence between G-invariant solutions $${\mathcal{A}}$$ of the Spin(7)-instanton equations on $${\mathbb{R}^2\times G/H}$$ and general solutions of non-Abelian coupled vortex equations on $${\mathbb{R}^2}$$. These vortices are BPS solitons in a d = 4 gauge theory obtained from $${\mathcal{N} =1}$$ supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory in ten dimensions compactified on the coset space G/H with an SU(3)-structure. The novelty of the obtained vortex equations lies in the fact that Higgs fields, defining morphisms of vector bundles over $${\mathbb{R}^2}$$, are not holomorphic in the generic case. Finally, we introduce BPS vortex equations in $${\mathcal{N} =4}$$ super Yang–Mills theory and show that they have the same feature.

title: COMPOUND TORSION AND SPONTANEOUS COMPACTIFICATION IN KALUZA-KLEIN THEORIES

title: Torsion-induced gauge field doubling in Kaluza-Klein theory
abstract: Torsion in Kaluza-Klein theory is considered. It is shown that a part of the components of the torsion tensor can be identified with the components of gauge fields different from the gauge fields of the Kaluza-Klein theory, while the other part can be identified with the field strength tensor of these gauge fields. The gauge fields introduced this way acquire a geometrically induced mass. It is shown that the torsion in the internal space allows to generate any a priori given mass in Kaluza-Klein theory.

title: Neutron star's initial spin period distribution
abstract: We analyze different possibilities to explain the wide initial spin period distribution of radio pulsars presented by Noutsos et al. (2013). With a population synthesis modeling we demonstrate that magnetic field decay can be used to interpret the d ifference between the recent results by Noutsos et al. (2013) and those by Popov & Turolla (2012), where a much younger population of NSs associated with supernova remnants with known ages has been studied. In particular, an exponential field decay with τmag = 5 Myrs can produce a “tail” in the reconstructed initial spin period distribution (as obtained by N outsos et al. 2013) up to P0 > 1 s starting with a standard gaussian withh P0i= 0.3 s andσP = 0.15 s. Another option to explain the difference between initial spin period distributions from Noutsos et al. (2013) and Popov & Turolla (2012) — the emerging magnetic field — is also b riefly discussed.

title: Heterotic compactifications on nearly Kähler manifolds
abstract: We consider compactifications of heterotic supergravity on anti-de Sitter space, with a six-dimensional nearly Kähler manifold as the internal space. Completing the model proposed by Frey and Lippert  with the particular choice of SU(3)/U(1) × U(1) for the internal manifold, we show that it satisfies not only the supersymmetry constraints but also the equations of motion with string corrections of order α′. Furthermore, we present a nonsupersymmetric model. In both solutions we find confirmed a recent result of Ivanov [18] on the connection used for anomaly cancellation. Interestingly, the volume of the internal space is fixed by the supersymmetry constraints and/or the equations of motion.