Finiteness of the noncommutative supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory
Within the superfield approach, we prove the absence of UV/IR mixing in the three-dimensional noncommutative supersymmetric Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory at any loop order and demonstrate its finiteness in one, three, and higher loop orders.

title: Relativistic Anandan quantum phase in the Lorentz violation background
abstract: We study the influence of a classical background based on the violation of the Lorentz symmetry on the relativistic Anandan quantum phase. We show that the choice of the Lorentz symmetry violation background provides an abelian contribution for the relativistic Anandan quantum phase.

title: A study of two-particle momentum correlations in hadronic Z0 decays
abstract: We report on a measurement of two-particle momentum correlations in hadronic decays of the Z 0 at LEP. These data are compared with recent analytic QCD calculations based on the summation of leading and next-to-leading logarithms, and with QCD Monte Carlo simulations. We find that the analytic calculations show the same general features as the data, but that the overall level of the correlations is not reproduced, suggesting that higher order or hadronization effects are significant. This contrasts with the success of similar QCD calculations in describing single-particle momentum distributions. QCD Monte Carlo models are found to give a reasonable level of correlation, with parton shower models incorporating string hadronization giving the best description of the data.

title: An updated study of B meson oscillations using dilepton events
abstract: This paper reports a study of B meson oscillations using hadronic Z(0) decays with two identified leptons, and updates a previous publication by including data collected in 1994. Decay times are reconstructed for each of the semileptonic B decays by forming vertices which include the lepton and by estimating the B meson momentum. The mass difference, Delta m(d), between the two mass eigenstates in the B-d(0) system is measured to be 0.430 +/- 0.043 (+0.028)(-0.030) ps(-1), where the first error is statistical and the second error is systematic. For the B-s(0) system, a lower limit of Delta m(s) > 2.2 ps(-1) is obtained at 95% C.L.

title: Neutrino production of opposite sign dimuons in the NOMAD experiment
abstract: The NOMAD Collaboration presents a study of opposite sign dimuon events in the framework of Leading Order QCD. A total of 2714 neutrino- and 115 antineutrino-induced opposite sign dimuon events with E μ 1 , E μ 2 >4.5 GeV, 15 E ν Q 2 >1 ( GeV / c ) 2 are observed in the Front-Calorimeter of NOMAD during the 1995 and 1996 runs. The analysis yields a value for the charm quark mass of m c =1.3 +0.3+0.3 −0.3−0.3 GeV / c 2 and for the average semileptonic branching ratio of B c =0.095 +0.007+0.014 −0.007−0.013 . The ratio of the strange to non-strange sea in the nucleon is measured to be κ =0.48 +0.09+0.17 −0.07−0.12 . The measured rate of charm-induced dimuon relative to single muon, as a function of neutrino energy, is consistent with the slow rescaling hypothesis of heavy quark production.

title: Search for the minimal standard model Higgs boson
abstract: A search for the Minimal Standard Model Higgs boson (H0) has been performed with data from e+e− collisions collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. The search was made for events of the types e+e−→(e+e−,μ+μ− or νν)H0, H0→qq and was based on approximately 78 pb−1 of data taken at center-of-mass energies between 88 and 95 GeV in the years 1990–1993. The present study, combined with previous OPAL publications, excludes the existence of a Minimal Standard Model Higgs boson with mass below 56.9 GeV at the 95% confidence level.

title: Search for scalar top and scalar bottom quarks using the OPAL detector at LEP
abstract: The scalar top quark can be the lightest charged supersymmetric particle and it can be lighter than the top quark itself in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. A search for a scalar top quark has been performed using a total data sample of 15.2 pb−1 at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 130, 136, and 161 GeV collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. No evidence was found above the background level expected from the Standard Model. The 95% C.L. lower limit on the scalar top quark mass is 58.7 GeV, if the mixing angle between the supersymmetric partners of the left- and right-handed states of the top quark is smaller than π4. If the mixing angle is zero, the limit is 65.4 GeV. These limits were obtained on the condition that the scalar top quark decays into a charm quark and the lightest neutralino, and that the mass difference between the scalar top quark and the lightest neutralino is larger than 10 GeV. Assuming a relatively light scalar neutrino, we also studied the complementary decay mode of the scalar top quark in which it decays into a bottom quark, a charged lepton, and a scalar neutrino. A mass limit on the light scalar bottom quark was also set in this study.