A Study of the Vertex in Witten's String Field Theory
We consider Witten's formulation of the interacting open bosonic string field theory. In particular, we study the Fock space representation of the vertex, including the fields associated with the bosonized two-dimensional ghost oscillators. We calculate the vertex using conformal mapping techniques, and also via a decomposition of the constraints implied by the string overlap. The conformal mapping takes the overlap world sheet to an anticone, where the Neumann function may be found. We show how this is related to the mappings with branch cut singularities, which take this world sheet to the upper half plane.

title: BV Structure of the Cohomology of Nilpotent Subalgebras and the Geometry of(W) Strings
abstract: AbstractGiven a simple, simply laced, complex Lie algebra 
$$\mathfrak{g}$$
corresponding to the Lie group G, let 
$$\mathfrak{n}_ + $$
 be thesubalgebra generated by the positive roots. In this Letter we construct aBV algebra 
$${\text{BV}}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
 whose underlying graded commutative algebra is given by the cohomology, with respect to 
$$\mathfrak{n}_ + $$
, of the algebra of regular functions on G with values in 
$$ \wedge (\mathfrak{n}_ + \backslash \mathfrak{g})$$
. We conjecture that 
$${\text{BV}}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
 describes the algebra of allphysical (i.e., BRST invariant) operators of the noncritical 
$$\mathcal{W}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
string. The conjecture is verified in the two explicitly known cases,
$$\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}$$
2 (the Virasoro string) and 
$$\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}$$
3 (the 
$$\mathcal{W}_3 $$
 string).

title: Fusing the coordinates of quantum superspace
abstract: We introduce the notion of a fused quantum superplane by allowing for terms θθ ∼ x in the defining relations. We develop the differential calculus for a large class of fused quantum superplanes related to particular solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation.

title: Free Field Approach to 2-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

title: Minimal models on Riemann surfaces
abstract: We extend the Coulomb gas representation of minimal model correlation functions to higher genius Riemann surfaces. Specifically, we incorporate the “BRS” structure of this representation into the operator formalism. This allows traces over the spectrum of a minimal model to be computed from traces over Fock spaces of a free scalar field. This our results are obtained by standard sewing techniques. The formulation is general, but we present here in particular the two-loop characters of the Ising model.

title: Covariant field theory of the compactified closed bosonic string
abstract: We covariantly first-quantize, via the BRST approach, the closed bosonic string compactified on a torus — in particular the 18-dimensional theory with E8 × E8 gauge bosons. Further, we give the corresponding free field theory. Thus the model is ready for the introduction of string interactions, and may be very useful for the study of gauge interactions in string theories.

title: A solid polarized target for high-luminosity experiments
abstract: We have built a polarized proton and deuteron target for experiments using intense high-energy electron beams. This system exploits dynamical nuclear polarization of irradiated ammonia in a 5 T magnetic field at temperatures near 1 K. We describe the various features and the performance of the target.

title: Polarization transfer in the O-16 (e-polarized ,e-prime p-polarized) N-15 reaction

title: Longitudinal and Transverse Inelastic Electron Scattering from Fe 56
abstract: Inelastic-electron-scattering cross sections for /sup 56/Fe have been measured in the continuum region. The longitudinal and transverse inelastic response functions have been determined for vector momentum transfers, q, from 210--410 MeV/c and for energy losses 0<..omega.. < or = 220 MeV.

title: Combined analysis of world data on nucleon spin structure functions
abstract: We analyse the proton, deuteron and neutron spin dependent structure functions at fixed Q 2 = 5 GeV 2 . The experimental asymmetries for the proton, neutron and deuteron are compared and found to be consistent. The first moment of the neutron structure function is evaluated using all available data. We find that the Bjorken sum rule is confirmed within an experimental uncertainty of 17%. The quark spin contribution to the nucleon spin is small, and the strange quark spin content is different from zero.

title: Measurement of $C\!P$ asymmetries in the decays $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B^+ \rightarrow K^{+} \mu^+ \mu^-$
abstract: The direct $C\!P$ asymmetries of the decays $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B^+ \rightarrow K^{+} \mu^+ \mu^-$ are measured using $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0$\mbox{fb}^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The respective control modes $B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi K^{*0}$ and $B^+ \rightarrow J/\psi K^{+}$ are used to account for detection and production asymmetries. The measurements are made in several intervals of $\mu^+ \mu^-$ invariant mass squared, with the $\phi(1020)$ and charmonium resonance regions excluded. Under the hypothesis of zero $C\!P$ asymmetry in the control modes, the average values of the asymmetries are \begin{align} 
{\cal A}_{C\!P}(B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-) &= -0.035 \pm 0.024 \pm 0.003, \cr 
{\cal A}_{C\!P}(B^+ \rightarrow K^{+} \mu^+ \mu^-) &= \phantom{-}0.012 \pm 0.017 \pm 0.001, \end{align} where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are due to systematic effects. Both measurements are consistent with the Standard Model prediction of small $C\!P$ asymmetry in these decays.