EXACT SOLUTION OF LONG-RANGE INTERACTING SPIN CHAINS WITH BOUNDARIES
We consider integrable models of the Haldane-Shastry type with open boundary conditions. We define monodromy matrices, obeying the reflection equation, which generate the symmetries of these models. Using a map to the Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian of BC type, we derive the spectrum and the highest weight eigenstates.

title: Anomalous scaling in the N-point functions of a passive scalar.
abstract: A recent analysis of the 4-point correlation function of the passive scalar advected by a time-decorrelated random flow is extended to the N-point case. It is shown that all stationary-state inertial-range correlations are dominated by homogeneous zero modes of singular operators describing their evolution. We compute analytically the zero modes governing the N-point structure functions and the anomalous dimensions corresponding to them to the linear order in the scaling exponent of the 2-point function of the advecting velocity field. The implications of these calculations for the dissipation correlations are discussed.

title: Spin-Charge Separation and the Spin Quantum Hall Effect
abstract: We use quantum field theory methods to study the network model for the spin quantum hall transition. When the couplings are fine tuned in a certain way, the spin and charge degrees of freedom, corresponding to the su-percurrent algebras su(2) 0 and osp(2|2) −2 respectively, completely decouple. This simpler theory is exactly solvable and some critical exponents are computed and shown to agree with the recent predictions based on percolation. The general network model is shown to be in a different universality class by identifying the attractive direction of the renormalization group flow.

title: An Introduction to Yangian Symmetries
abstract: We review some aspects of the quantum Yangians as symmetry algebras of two-dimensional quantum field theories. The plan of these notes is the following: 
 
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The classical Heisenberg model: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Non-Abelian symmetries; 
 
 
The generators of the symmetries and the semi-classical Yangians; 
 
 
An alternative presentation of the semi-classical Yangians; 
 
 
Digression on Poisson-Lie groups. 
 
 
Non-Abelian symmetries and the quantum Yangians; 
 
 
The transfer matrix and an alternative presentation of the Yangians; 
 
 
Digression on the double Yangians. 
 
 
 
 
 
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The quantum Heisenberg chain: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Non-Abelian symmetries and the quantum Yangians; 
 
 
The transfer matrix and an alternative presentation of the Yangians; 
 
 
Digression on the double Yangians.

title: On Root Multiplicities of Some Hyperbolic Kac–Moody Algebras
abstract: Using the coset construction, we compute the root multiplicities at level-3 for some hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras including the basic hyperbolic extension of A11 and E10.

title: Logarithmic Yangians in WZW Models
abstract: A new action of the Yangians in the WZW models is displayed. Its structure is generic and level-independent. This Yangian is the natural extension at the conformal point of the one unraveled in massive theories with current algebras. Hopefully, this new symmetry of WZW models will lead to a deeper understanding of the integrable structure of conformal field theories and their deformations.

title: Measurements of the Semileptonic Decays anti-B ---> D l anti-nu and anti-B ---> D* l anti-nu Using a Global Fit to D X l anti-nu Final States

title: Measurements of the Branching Fractions of $B^0 \to$ K*0 $K^{+} K^{-}$, $B^0 \to$ K*0 $\pi^{+} K^{-}$, $B^0 \to$ K*0 $K^{+} \pi^{-}$, and $B^0 \to$ K*0 $\pi^{+} \pi^{-}$

title: Evidence for B+ ---> anti-K*0 K*+
abstract: We present measurements of the branching fraction and fraction of longitudinal polarization for the decay B+→K*0K*+ with a sample of (467±5)×106 BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We obtain the branching fraction B(B+→K *0K*+)=(1.2±0.5±0.1)×10-6 with a significance of 3.7 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. We measure the fraction of longitudinal polarization fL=0.75-0.26+0.16±0.03. The first error quoted is statistical and the second is systematic.

title: The plasma beat-wave acceleration experiment at Ecole Polytechnique
abstract: We present an experiment for demonstrating the principle of plasma beat-wave acceleration. The beating of two Nd-laser pulses creates a relativistic plasma wave in a deuterium plasma. Electrons at an energy of 3 MeV are injected into the plasma. We observe several hundred electrons accelerated up to 3.7 MeV. This paper is mainly devoted to the description of the experimental apparatus. In the design of the apparatus, we gave particular attention to efficient electron injection and to background noise suppression. We present also some preliminary results of electron acceleration experiments.

title: Measurement of the B0 meson properties using partially reconstructed B0 to D*- pi+ and B0 to D*- lepton+ lepton neutrino decays with the BaBar detector