NLO QCD corrections to tW′ and tZ′ production in forward-backward asymmetry models
A bstractWe consider Z′ and W′ models recently proposed to explain the top forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron. We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to associated production of such vector bosons together with top quarks at the Large Hadron Collider, for centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The corrections are significant, modifying the total production cross-section by 30-50%. We consider the effects of the corrections on the top and vector-boson kinematics. The results are directly applicable to current experimental searches, for both the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.

title: Study of taupair production at HERA
abstract: A study of events containing two tau leptons with high transverse momentum has been performed with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.33 fb−1. The tau candidates were identified from their decays into electrons, muons or hadronic jets. The number of tau-pair candidates has been compared with the prediction from the Standard Model, where the largest contribution is expected from Bethe-Heitler processes. The total visible cross section was extracted. Standard Model expectations agree well with the measured distributions, also at high invariant mass of the tau pair.

title: Triggering on Long-Lived Neutral Particles in the ATLAS Detector
abstract: Neutral particles with long decay paths that decay to many-particle final states represent, from an experimental point of view, a challenge both for the trigger and for the reconstruction capabilities of the ATLAS apparatus. The Hidden Valley scenario serves as an excellent setting for the purpose of exploring the challenges to the trigger posed by long-lived particles.

title: HERA signature-based searches I: events with isolated leptons and missing transverse momentum at HERA
abstract: Recent results of searches for events containing isolated leptons and missing transverse momentum at HERA are presented. Searches in this final state have yielded notable excesses over Standard Model expectations in the past. Searches for isolated leptons in channels corresponding to all three generations of leptons over the full HERA running period are now available. The combined H1+ZEUS results for searches for electrons and muons are compatible with the Standard Model.

title: Inclusive-jet photoproduction at HERA and determination of alpha(s)
abstract: Inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in the reaction e p → e + jet + X for photon virtuality Q 2 1 GeV 2 and γp centre-of-mass energies in the region 142 W γ p 293 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 300 pb − 1 . Jets were identified using the k T , anti- k T or SIScone jet algorithms in the laboratory frame. Single-differential cross sections are presented as functions of the jet transverse energy, E T jet , and pseudorapidity, η jet , for jets with E T jet > 17 GeV and − 1 η jet 2.5 . In addition, measurements of double-differential inclusive-jet cross sections are presented as functions of E T jet in different regions of η jet . Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations give a good description of the measurements, except for jets with low E T jet and high η jet . The influence of non-perturbative effects not related to hadronisation was studied. Measurements of the ratios of cross sections using different jet algorithms are also presented; the measured ratios are well described by calculations including up to O ( α s 2 ) terms. Values of α s ( M Z ) were extracted from the measurements and the energy-scale dependence of the coupling was determined. The value of α s ( M Z ) extracted from the measurements based on the k T jet algorithm is α s ( M Z ) = 0.1206 − 0.0022 + 0.0023 ( exp . ) − 0.0035 + 0.0042 ( th . ) ; the results from the anti- k T and SIScone algorithms are compatible with this value and have a similar precision.

title: Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA
abstract: The exclusive electroproduction of two pions in the mass range 0.4<Mππ<2.5 GeV has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb−1. The analysis was carried out in the kinematic range of 2<Q2<80 GeV2, 32<W<180 GeV and |t|<0.6 GeV2, where Q2 is the photon virtuality, W is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy and t is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The two-pion invariant-mass distribution is interpreted in terms of the pion electromagnetic form factor, |F(Mππ)|, assuming that the studied mass range includes the contributions of the ρ, ρ′ and ρ′′ vector-meson states. The masses and widths of the resonances were obtained and the Q2 dependence of the cross-section ratios σ(ρ′→ππ)/σ(ρ) and σ(ρ′′→ππ)/σ(ρ) was extracted. The pion form factor obtained in the present analysis is compared to that obtained in e+e−→π+π−.

title: On the space-times admitting two shear-free geodesic null congruences
abstract: We analyze the space-times admitting two shear-free geodesic null congruences. The integrability conditions are presented in a plain tensorial way as equations on the volume element U of the time-like 2-plane that these directions define. From these we easily deduce significant consequences. We obtain explicit expressions for the Ricci and Weyl tensors in terms of U and its first and second order covariant derivatives. We study the different compatible Petrov-Bel types and give the necessary and sufficient conditions that characterize every type in terms of U. The type D case is analyzed in detail and we show that every type D space-time admitting a 2 + 2 conformal Killing tensor also admits a conformal Killing-Yano tensor.

title: Local thermal equilibrium and ideal gas Stephani universes
abstract: The Stephani universes that can be interpreted as an ideal gas evolving in local thermal equilibrium are determined. Five classes of thermodynamic schemes are admissible, which give rise to five classes of regular models and three classes of singular models. No Stephani universes exist representing an exact solution to a classical ideal gas (one for which the internal energy is proportional to the temperature). But some Stephani universes may approximate a classical ideal gas at first order in the temperature: all of them are obtained. Finally, some features about the physical behavior of the models are pointed out.

title: An intrinsic characterization of 2 + 2 warped spacetimes
abstract: We give several equivalent conditions that characterize the 2 + 2 warped spacetimes: imposing the existence of a Killing–Yano tensor A subject to complementary algebraic restrictions, in terms of the projector v (or of the canonical 2-form U) associated with the 2-planes of the warped product. These planes are the principal planes of the Weyl and/or Ricci tensors and can be explicitly obtained from them. Therefore, we obtain the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be a 2 + 2 warped product. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor. We present a similar analysis for the conformally 2 + 2 product spacetimes and give an invariant classification of them. The warped products correspond to two of these invariant classes. The more degenerate class is the set of product metrics which are also studied from an invariant point of view. The interest of these results in labeling specific solutions of the Einstein equations is outlined.

title: A note on static metrics: the degenerate case
abstract: We give the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 3-metric to be the adapted spatial metric of a static vacuum solution. This work accomplishes for the degenerate cases the already known study for the regular ones (Bartnik and Tod 2006 .

title: Obtaining the Weyl tensor from the Bel–Robinson tensor
abstract: The algebraic study of the Bel–Robinson tensor proposed and initiated in a previous work (Ferrando and Sáez in Gen Relativ Gravit 41:1695–1715, 2009) is achieved. The canonical form of the different algebraic types is obtained in terms of Bel–Robinson eigen-tensors. An algorithmic determination of the Weyl tensor from the Bel–Robinson tensor is presented.