Search for the top quark decaying to a charged Higgs boson in anti-p p collisions at S**2 (1/2) = 1.8-TeV

title: Measurements of total reaction cross sections for some light nuclei at intermediate energies
abstract: Measurements of the total reaction cross section for C12-16, N14-17, and O16-18 on carbon target at intermediate energies were performed on the Radioactive Ion Beam Line of the Heavy ion Research Facility in Lanzhou. A larger enhancement of sigma(R) for C-15 was observed than for its neighbors. Evidence for possible anomalous nuclear structure in C-15 was revealed in the analysis of the total reaction cross section in terms of the difference factor d.

title: Existence of a proton halo in Al-23 and its significance
abstract: Reaction cross section sigma(R) of proton-rich isotones (N = 10) near Al-23 and Al isotopes (Al23-28) on C target have been measured at intermediate energies around 30 MeV/nucleon. An abnormal increase of the experimental sigma(R) is observed for Al-23 and it suggests that there is an anomalously large matter rms radius in Al-23. Together with the very weakly binding of the last proton (S-p = 0.125 MeV), it indicates that there is a proton halo in Al-23. This conclusion is also supported by the difference factor d which is deduced from the measured and theoretical sigma(R) in the Glauber or Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model and is used for the manifest of halo phenomena. The theoretical calculation based,on the relativistic density dependent Hartree model shows that there is a proton halo when the last proton is in the 2s(1/2) orbit in Al-23. The significance of the proton halo in Al-23 is discussed.

title: Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle $v_2$ measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow
abstract: We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants $v_2$ ($v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = 62.4$ and 200 GeV. The difference between $v_2\{2\}^2$ and $v_2\{4\}^2$ is related to $v_{2}$ fluctuations ($\sigma_{v_2}$) and nonflow $(\delta_{2})$. We present an upper limit to $\sigma_{v_2}/v_{2}$. Following the assumption that eccentricity fluctuations $\sigma_{\epsilon}$ dominate $v_2$ fluctuations $\frac{\sigma_{v_2}}{v_2} \approx \frac{\sigma_{\epsilon}}{\epsilon}$ we deduce the nonflow implied for several models of eccentricity fluctuations that would be required for consistency with $v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$. We also present results on the ratio of $v_2$ to eccentricity.

title: Sequential Decay Distortion of Goldhaber Model Widths for Spectator Fragments
abstract: The primary fragment momentum distributions from AMD-V can be described by a Gaussian shape characterized by a width σ.  The three momentum widths, σ , σ , σ , as a removed from a nucleus that originally has A0 nucleons, a nucleus consisting of K nucleons will emerge. For this fragment of K nucleons, Goldhaber  showed that the momentum width, σ, could be expressed as: σ = σ0 sqrt [K(A0 K)/(A0 – 1)], where σ0, the reduced momentum width, is related to the intrinsic Fermi motion of a single nucleon, i.e.,: σ0 = sqrt (1/5)PF. Based upon electron scattering ments of Fermi momenta, σ is expected to be ≈ 112-116 MeV/c. However, σ ≈ MeV/c . Some theoretical works  have attempted to explain this difference. However, the answers were still absent. In this work, we studied peripheral collisions of 200 MeV/nucleon Ar + Al with AMD-V model [4] and followed with the afterbuner (GEMINI) . In the AMD-V model, initial width of the nucleon momentum distribution is ~ 105 MeV/c for Ar and ~ 101 MeV/c for Al. These values are less than expected from electron scattering measurements, but are still in a reasonable range. The fragment mass numbers and the three momentum widths, σPx, σPy, σPz, are plotted

title: Isospin influences on particle emission and critical phenomena in nuclear dissociation
abstract: Features of particle emission and critical point behavior are investigated as functions of the isospin of disassembling sources and temperature at a moderate freeze-out density far medium-size Xe isotopes in the framework of the isospin-dependent lattice gas model. Multiplicities of emitted light particles, isotopic, and isobaric ratios of light particles show the strong dependence on the isospin of the dissociation source, but double ratios of light isotope pairs and the critical temperature determined by the extreme values of some critical observables are insensitive to the isospin of the systems. Values of the power law parameter of cluster mass distribution, mean multiplicity of intermediate mass fragments (IMF), information entropy, and Campi's second moment also show a minor dependence on the isospin of Xe isotopes at the critical point. In addition, the slopes of the average multiplicities of the neutrons (N-n), protons (N-p), charged particles (N-CP), and IMFs (N-IMF), slopes of the largest fragment mass number (A(max)), and the excitation energy per nucleon of the disassembling source (E*/A) to temperature are investigated as well as variances of the distributions of N-n, N-p, N-CP, N-IMF, A(max), and E*/A. It is found that they can be taken as additional judgements to the critical phenomena.

title: CHEERS RESULTS ON Mrk 573: A STUDY OF DEEP CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS
abstract: We present results on Mrk 573 obtained as part of the CHandra survey of Extended Emission-line Regions in nearby Seyfert galaxies (CHEERS). Previous studies showed that this source features a biconical emission in the soft X-ray band closely related to the narrow-line region as mapped by the [O III] emission line and the radio emission, though on a smaller scale; we investigate the properties of soft X-ray emission from this source with new deep Chandra observations. Making use of the subpixel resolution of the Chandra/ACIS image and point-spread function deconvolution, we resolve and study substructures in each ionizing cone. The two cone spectra are fitted with a photoionization model, showing a mildly photoionized phase diffused over the bicone. Thermal collisional gas at about ~1.1 keV and ~0.8 keV appears to be located between the nucleus and the "knots" resolved in radio observations, and between the "arcs" resolved in the optical images, respectively; this can be interpreted in terms of shock interaction with the host galactic plane. The nucleus shows a significant flux decrease across the observations indicating variability of the active galactic nucleus (AGN), with the nuclear region featuring a higher ionization parameter with respect to the bicone region. The long exposure allows us to find extended emission up to ~7 kpc from the nucleus along the bicone axis. Significant emission is also detected in the direction perpendicular to the ionizing cones, disagreeing with the fully obscuring torus prescribed in the AGN unified model and suggesting instead the presence of a clumpy structure.

title: Search for quark contact interactions and extra spatial dimensions using dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

title: Search for lepton and baryon number violating tau- decays into anti-p gamma, anti-p pi0, anti-Lambda pi-, and Lambda pi-

title: Symmetry-protected many-body Aharonov-Bohm effect
abstract: It is known as a purely quantum effect that a magnetic flux affects the real physics of a particle, such as the energy spectrum, even if the flux does not interfere with the particle's path\char22{}the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Here we examine an Aharonov-Bohm effect on a many-body wave function. Specifically, we study this many-body effect on the gapless edge states of a bulk gapped phase protected by a global symmetry (such as ${\mathbb{Z}}_{N}$)\char22{}the symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. The many-body analog of spectral shifts, the twisted wave function, and the twisted boundary realization are identified in this SPT state. An explicit lattice construction of SPT edge states is derived, and a challenge of gauging its non-onsite symmetry is overcome. Agreement is found in the twisted spectrum between a numerical lattice calculation and a conformal field theory prediction.

title: WHAT CONTROLS THE Fe II STRENGTH IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
abstract: We used a large, homogeneous sample of 4178 z <= 0.8 Seyfert 1 galaxies and QSOs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the strength of Fe II emission and its correlation with other emission lines and physical parameters of active galactic nuclei. We find that the strongest correlations of almost all the emission-line intensity ratios and equivalent widths (EWs) are with the Eddington ratio (L/L-Edd), rather than with the continuum luminosity at 5100 angstrom (L-5100) or black hole mass (M-BH); the only exception is the EW of ultraviolet Fe II emission, which does not correlate at all with broad-line width, L-5100, M-BH, or L/L-Edd. By contrast, the intensity ratios of both the ultraviolet and optical Fe II emission to MgII lambda 2800 correlate quite strongly with L/L-Edd. Interestingly, among all the emission lines in the near-UV and optical studied in this paper (including MgII lambda 2800, H beta, and [O III]lambda 5007), the EW of narrow optical Fe II emission has the strongest correlation with L/L-Edd. We hypothesize that the variation of the emission-line strength in active galaxies is regulated by L/L-Edd because it governs the global distribution of the hydrogen column density of the clouds gravitationally bound in the line-emitting region, as well as its overall gas supply. The systematic dependence on L/L-Edd must be corrected when using the Fe II/MgII intensity ratio as a measure of the Fe/Mg abundance ratio to study the history of chemical evolution in QSO environments.