BRST-QUANTIZATION OF BOSONIC STRINGS AND HYPERTWISTORS
We consider the relation between geometric quantization of bosonic strings and the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) approach. We introduce the space of hypertwistors as the total space of the bundle of complex structures over the phase space of bosonic string. The conditions of the BRST invariance, determining the Fock space of the bosonic string, have been formulated in terms of the ghost bundle over the hypertwistor space.

title: Solutions of Yang-Mills and Yang-Mills-Higgs equations

title: Fundamental chiral strings
abstract: The problem of the non-uniqueness of the string theory in the space Rd-1,1 with d ≤ 10 and the procedure of the compactification and the deompactification are discussed. We consider a compact bosonic string defined as a closed string moving in the Lorentizian torus T25,1 and introduce fundamental chiral bosonic string (FCBS) as a universal cover of a compact string. It is shown that the Fock spaces of any standard strings are embedded into the Fock space of FCBS.

title: Solving string field equations: new uses for old tools
abstract: It is argued that the (NS-sector) superstring field equations are integrable, i.e. their solutions are obtainable from linear equations. We adapt the 25-year-old solution-generating “dressing” method and reduce the construction of nonperturbative superstring configurations to a specific cohomology problem. The application to vacuum superstring field theory is outlined.

title: On nonperturbative solutions of superstring field theory
abstract: Nonperturbative solutions to the nonlinear field equations in the NS sector of cubic as well as nonpolynomial superstring field theory can be obtained from a linear equation which includes a “spectral” parameter λ and a coboundary operator Q ( λ ). We borrow a simple ansatz from the dressing method (for generating solitons in integrable field theories) and show that classical superstring fields can be constructed from any string field  T subject merely to Q ( λ ) T =0. Following the decay of the non-BPS D9 brane in IIA theory and shifting the background to the tachyon vacuum, we repeat the arguments in vacuum superstring field theory and outline how to compute classical solutions explicitly.

title: Noncommutative instantons in higher dimensions, vortices and topological K-cycles
abstract: We construct explicit BPS and non-BPS solutions of the U(2k) Yang-Mills equations on the noncommutative space 2nθ × S2 with finite energy and topological charge. By twisting with a Dirac multi-monopole bundle over S2, we reduce the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau equations on 2nθ × S2 to vortex-type equations for a pair of U(k) gauge fields and a bi-fundamental scalar field on 2nθ. In the SO(3)-invariant case the vortices on 2nθ determine multi-instantons on 2nθ × S2. We show that these solutions give natural physical realizations of Bott periodicity and vector bundle modification in topological K-homology, and can be interpreted as a blowing-up of D0-branes on 2nθ into spherical D2-branes on 2nθ × S2. In the generic case with broken rotational symmetry, we argue that the D0-brane charges on 2nθ × S2 provide a physical interpretation of the Adams operations in K-theory.

title: Measurement of the charge asymmetry in semileptonic Bs0 decays.
abstract: We have performed the first direct measurement of the time-integrated flavor untagged charge asymmetry in semileptonic Bs0 decays ASLs,unt by comparing the decay rate of Bs0-->micro+Ds-nuX, where Ds- -->phipi- and phi-->K+K-, with the charge-conjugate Bs0 decay rate. This sample was selected from 1.3 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 experiment in run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We obtain ASLs,unt=[1.23+/-0.97(stat)+/-0.17(syst)]x10(-2). Assuming that Deltam(s)/Gamma(s)>>1, this result can be translated into a measurement of the CP-violating phase in Bs0 mixing: DeltaGamma(s)/Deltam(s)tanphi(s)=[2.45+/-1.93(stat)+/-0.35(syst)]x10(-2).

title: Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
abstract: We report results of a search for particles with anomalously high ionization in events with a high transverse energy jet and large missing transverse energy in 2.4 fb⁻¹ of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider. Production of such particles (quirks) is expected in scenarios with extra QCD-like SU(N) sectors, and this study is the first dedicated search for such signatures. We find no evidence of a signal and set a lower mass limit of 107, 119, and 133 GeV for the mass of a charged quirk with strong dynamics scale Λ in the range from 10 keV to 1 MeV and N=2, 3, and 5, respectively.

title: Improved b quark jet identification at the D0 experiment
abstract: The ability to identify jets which originated from b quarks is an important tool of the physics program of the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron p (p) over bar collider. This paper describes a new algorithm designed to select jets originating from b quarks while suppressing the contamination caused by jets from other quark flavors and gluons. Additionally, a new technique, the SystemN method, for determining the misidentification rate directly from data is presented.

title: Experimental evidence for hadroproduction of exotic mesons
abstract: New measurements of peripheral meson production are presented. The data confirm the existence of exotic mesons at 1.4 and 1.6 GeV/c2. The latter state dominates the eta'pi- decay spectrum. The data on eta pi+pi-pi- decay show large strength in several exotic (Jpc = 1- +) waves as well.

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.