FLUCTUATION OF PIONS IN RELATIVISTIC AND ULTRARELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS - SCALE DEPENDENT OR NOT?
Fluctuation pattern of pions is investigated in a wide range of projectile energy from 4.5 AGeV ( 24 Mg-AgBr interactions) to 200 AGeV ( 32 S-AgBr interactions). Two-dimensional analysis is performed. To obtain the correct phase-space partition condition considering anisotropy of phase space, we use the concept of Hurst exponent H. The analysis is performed in a rigorous way by fitting one-dimensional factorial moment saturation curves. The effective fluctuation strength αeff is calculated. The study reveals that the fluctuation pattern is scale-dependent at both relativistic and ultrarelativistic energies.

title: NON-STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS OF PIONS FOR RING- AND JET-LIKE EVENTS AT CERN SPS ENERGY — AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS WITH FACTORIAL CORRELATOR
abstract: This study reveals the analysis of ring-like and jet-like events in terms of factorial correlations of 16O–Ag/Br interactions at 60A GeV. The investigation revealed that the correlated moments are found to increase with decreasing bin–bin separation D and follows a power-law which suggests the presence of an intermittent nature of self-similar dynamical fluctuations pattern for ring-like and jet-like events. From the analysis we find that for jet-like events the strength of non-statistical fluctuation is greater than the ring-like and total event set. Jet-like events follow the bin size independence according to α model of intermittency as like total events, whereas ring-like events are not consistent with the prediction of α model of intermittency.

title: Evidence of different reaction mechanisms for hot and cold events in relativistic heavy-ion interaction
abstract: This paper reports evidence of different reaction mechanisms for two classes of events, ''hot,'' and ''cold,'' in /sup 12/C emulsion at 4.5 (GeV/c)/N observed by Ghosh et al., from a comparison of the transverse-momentum (P/sub T/) distribution with a mixture of two Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions with different temperatures. The hypothesis is substantiated by the significant difference, for ''hot'' and ''cold'' events, in the values of the average number of pions produced, average emission angle of ..cap alpha..-projectile fragments, and ratio of yield of ..cap alpha.. particles to protons as projectile fragments.

title: MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTION AND MULTIPLICITY MOMENT OF BLACK AND GREY PARTICLES IN HIGH ENERGY NUCLEUS–NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS
abstract: In this paper we have studied the multiplicity distribution of black and grey particles emitted from 16O–AgBr interactions at 2.1 AGeV and 60 AGeV. We have also calculated the multiplicity moment up to the fifth order for both the interactions and for both kinds of emitted particles. The variation of multiplicity moment with the order number has been investigated. It is seen that in the case of black particles multiplicity moment up to fourth order remains almost constant as energy increases from 2.1 AGeV to 60 AGeV. Fifth order multiplicity moment increases insignificantly with energy. However in the case of grey particles no such constancy of multiplicity moment with energy of the projectile beam is obtained. Later we have extended our study on the basis of Regge–Mueller approach to find the existence of second order correlation during the emission of black as well as the grey particles. The second Mueller moment is found to be positive and it increases as energy increases in the case of black particles. On the contrary in the case of grey particles the second Mueller moment decreases with energy. It can be concluded that as energy increases correlation among the black particles increases. On the other hand with the increase of energy correlation among the grey particles is found to diminish.

title: Multiplicity fluctuations of pions and protons at SPS energy — An in-depth analysis with factorial correlator
abstract: We compute the factorial correlators to study the dynamical fluctuations of pions and a combination of pions and protons (compound multiplicity) in 32S-AgBr interactions at 200 A GeV. The study reveals that for both pion and compound multiplicity the correlated moments increase with the decrease in bin-bin separation D, following a power-law, which suggests the self-similarity of multiplicity fluctuation in each case. The results of the analysis also show a consistency with the prediction of α-model for the existence of intermittency in both cases.

title: Entropy scaling in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions
abstract: We studied the multiparticle production in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions in terms of particle entropy in 16O–AgBr and 32S–AgBr interactions at 60 A GeV and 200 A GeV, respectively. An approximate scaling behavior of total produced entropy normalized to maximum rapidity in the center of mass frame measured in different rapidity bins has been reported. The scaling behavior is not supported either by the FRITIOF model or by the Monte Carlo simulated events.

title: Exploring two universal extra dimensions at the CERN LHC
abstract: A bstractWe discuss the signatures, at the LHC, of the (1,0)-th Kaluza-Klein (KK) gluon and quarks in the framework of the two universal extra dimensional (2UED) model. Once produced, these particles typically suffer a cascade of decays terminating in the Dark Matter candidate apart from Standard Model particles. In this article, we are interested in focus on a particular signature of 2UED wherein the final state comprises of at least four jets in association with a hard photon and missing transverse energy. Several kinematic cuts are devised to enhance the signal to background ratio. Finally, as a road map to parameter determination at the LHC, we point out an interesting correlation between the peak position of the Meff distributions with the compactification radius R and the cut-off scale Ms.

title: Flavor Changing Higgs Decays in Supersymmetry with Minimal Flavor Violation
abstract: We study the flavor changing neutral current decays of the MSSM Higgs bosons into strange and bottom quarks. We focus on a scenario of minimum flavor violation here, namely only that induced by the CKM matrix. Taking into account constraint from b → s γ , δρ as well as experimental constraints on the MSSM spectrum, we show that the branching ratio of ( Φ → b s ¯ ) and ( Φ → b ¯ s ) combined, for Φ being either one of the CP even Higgs states, can reach the order 10 −4 – 10 −3 for large tan β , large μ , and large A t . The result illustrates the significance of minimal flavor violation scenario which can induce competitive branching fraction for flavor changing Higgs decays. This can be compared with the previous studies where similar branching fraction has been reported, but with additional sources of flavor violations in squark mass matrices. We also discuss some basic features of the flavor violating decays in the generic case.

title: Study of R-parity violating supersymmetric signals at an $e^{-} e^{-}$ collider
abstract: We study the pair production of right selectrons at a 500 GeV ${e}^{\ensuremath{-}}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ collider followed by their decay into an electron and a lightest neutralino. This lightest neutralino decays into multifermion final states in the presence of R-parity-violating couplings. A detailed analysis of possible signals is performed for some important regions of the parameter space. The signals are essentially free from the standard model backgrounds.

title: B decay anomalies in an effective theory
abstract: We investigate how far a new physics scenario affecting primarily the third-generation fermions can ameliorate the tension between $B$ decay observables and Standard Model expectations. Adopting a model-independent approach, we find that among the three observables that show signs of such a tension, viz., the branching fractions for ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\nu}$, ${B}_{d}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}D({D}^{*})\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\nu}$, and the like-sign dimuon anomaly in neutral $B$ decays, the first two can be explained adequately, while there is only a marginal improvement for the third. As a spin-off, it is shown that one can also accommodate a change in the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to a $\ensuremath{\tau}$ lepton pair from the Standard Model expectation, if such a change is established in future data.

title: ILC Reference Design Report: ILC Global Design Effort and World Wide Study