Pseudoscalar Mesons Scattering off D*-mesons with Chiral Perturbation Theory
We have systematically calculated the s-wave pseudoscalar mesons and D*- mesons scattering lengths to the third order with chiral perturbation theory, which will be helpful to reveal their strong interaction. We present the scattering lengths (1) in the framework of the heavy meson chiral perturbation theory and (2) in the framework of the infrared regularization.

title: Pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons scattering off charmed baryons with chiral perturbation theory
abstract: We have systematically calculated the pseudoscalar Goldstone boson and charmed baryon scattering lengths to the third order with heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The scattering lengths can reveal the interaction of K Λ c , K Σ c , π Ω c , etc. For each channel, we take into account of the interaction between the external particle and every possible charmed baryon in the triplet, sextet, and excited sextet. We use dimensional regularization and modified minimal subtraction to get rid of the divergences in the loop-diagram corrections. We notice that the convergence of chiral expansion for most of the channels becomes better after we let the low energy constants absorb the analytic contributions of the loop-diagram corrections and keep the non-analytic terms only.

title: Pseudoscalar Meson and Charmed Baryon Scattering Lengths
abstract: We have calculated the scattering lengths between the pseudoscalar meson and charmed triplet, sextet, and excited sextet baryon to the third order with the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The chiral expansion of the pion channels converges well.

title: Pseudoscalar Meson and Decuplet Baryon Scattering Lengths
abstract: The excited states of the nucleon and their strong interactions with various hadrons play an important role in our understanding of non-perturbative QCD. Generally speaking, their coupling with the pseudoscalar pion, kaon and eta is governed by chiral dynamics. The first excited state of the nucleon, J = 3/2 ∆(1232), belongs to the lightest decuplet. It is degenerate with the nucleon in the large Nc limit [1, 2]. From the strong decay widths, one can extract the coupling constants of the pseudoscalar meson decuplet baryon interaction. Although it may be quite difficult to measure their scattering lengths experimentally, unlike in the pion-nucleon and kaon-nucleon cases [3–5], it is still interesting to study the scattering processes theoretically. As two well-known non-perturbative approaches of QCD at low energy, chiral perturbation theory and lattice QCD have been widely used in studying meson-baryon interactions [6–14]. With the explicitly consistent power counting scheme, the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBχPT) is a practical and useful tool in the study of the meson baryon scattering. The expansion is organized with p/Λχ, where p represents the momentum (mass) of the meson or the small residue momentum of the baryon in the non-relativistic limit, and Λχ = 4πfπ is the scale of chiral symmetry breaking. Numerically it is around the baryon mass in the chiral limit. Because of the large mass of the strange quark, the chiral corrections from the kaon and eta meson loops are significantly larger than that from the pion loop, which leads to the worse convergence of the chiral expansion in the SU(3) case. In HBχPT, the effects of excited baryons are encoded in the unknown low energy constants (LECs) in the Lagrangians. In the large Nc limit, one expects that the inclusion of the decuplet baryon contribution may partially cancel the octet contribution and be helpful to the chiral expansion. In order to investigate the contributions of the ∆, HBχPT with explicit spin-3/2 baryons and the small-scale expansion scheme have been developed in Refs. . Now the expansion is organized with ǫ, where ǫ means p in HBχPT or the mass difference δ between ∆ and the nucleon in the chiral limit, which is widely used in the exploration of the decuplet related processes [17–21]. There exists another power counting scheme “δ expansion” in the two-flavor case, where mπ scales as δ 2 [22–25]. In our previous work [21], we studied the decuplet contributions to the pseudoscalar meson octet baryon scattering lengths, which is an important observable reflecting their strong interaction near the threshold. The inclusion of the decuplet baryons does not improve the convergence significantly. In this paper, we will study the scattering lengths of the pseudoscalar mesons and the light decuplet baryons in the framework of the SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with explicit decuplet baryons. We will explore whether the small scale expansion works well in this case.

title: Pseudoscalar meson and heavy vector meson scattering lengths
abstract: We have systematically studied the S-wave pseudoscalar meson and heavy vector meson scattering lengths to the third order with the chiral perturbation theory, which will be helpful to reveal their strong interaction. For comparison, we have presented the numerical results of the scattering lengths (1) in the framework of the heavy meson chiral perturbation theory and (2) in the framework of the infrared regularization. The chiral expansion converges well in some channels.

title: Boson-Fermion Duality in A2 Toda Field Theory
abstract: In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional integrable and conformal invariant field theory with two Dirac spinors and two scalar fields. This model has chiral symmetry and CP-like symmetry. Moreover, this model also has a Neother current depending only on the matter field. At last, we bosonize the spinor fields.

title: New Constraints on Dark Matter from CMS and ATLAS Data
abstract: Constraints on dark matter from the first CMS and ATLAS SUSY searches are investigated. It is shown that within the minimal supergravity model, the early search for supersymmetry at the LHC has depleted a large portion of the signature space in dark matter direct detection experiments. In particular, the prospects for detecting signals of dark matter in the XENON and CDMS experiments are significantly affected in the low neutralino mass region. Here the relic density of dark matter typically arises from slepton coannihilations in the early universe. In contrast, it is found that the CMS and ATLAS analyses leave untouched the Higgs pole and the Hyperbolic Branch/Focus Point regions, which are now being probed by the most recent XENON results. Analysis is also done for supergravity models with non-universal soft breaking where one finds that a part of the dark matter signature space depleted by the CMS and ATLAS cuts in the minimal SUGRA case is repopulated. Thus, observation of dark matter in the LHC depleted region of minimal supergravity may indicate non-universalities in soft breaking.

title: Search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons at LEP
abstract: A Higgs particle produced in association with a Z boson and decaying into two photons is searched for in the data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP. All possible decay modes of the Z boson are investigated. No signal is observed in 447.5 pb^-1 of data recorded at centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. Limits on the branching fraction of the Higgs boson decay into two photons as a function of the Higgs mass are derived. A lower limit on the mass of a fermiophobic Higgs boson is set at 105.4 GeV at 95% confidence level.

title: Baryon masses with dynamical twisted mass fermions
abstract: We present results on the mass of the nucleon and the $\Delta$ using two dynamical degenerate twisted mass quarks. The evaluation is performed at four quark masses corresponding to a pion mass in the range of 690-300 MeV on lattices of size 2.1 fm and 2.7 fm. We check for cutoff effects by evaluating these baryon masses on lattices of spatial size 2.1 fm with lattice spacings $a(\beta=3.9)=0.0855(6)$ fm and $a(\beta=4.05)=0.0666(6)$ fm, determined from the pion sector and find them to be within our statistical errors. Lattice results are extrapolated to the physical limit using continuum chiral perturbation theory. 
The nucleon mass at the physical point provides a determination of the lattice spacing. Using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory at ${\cal O}(p^3)$ we find $a(\beta=3.9)=0.0879(12)$ fm, with a systematic error due to the chiral extrapolation estimated to be about the same as the statistical error. This value of the lattice spacing is in good agreement with the value determined from the pion sector. We check for isospin breaking in the $\Delta$-system. We find that $\Delta^{++,-}$ and $\Delta^{+,0}$ are almost degenerate pointing to small flavor violating effects.

title: Search for manifestations of new physics in fermion-pair production at LEP
abstract: The measurements of hadron and lepton-pair production cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries performed with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 130 GeV and 189 GeV are used to search for new physics phenomena such as: contact interactions, exchange of virtual leptoquarks, scalar quarks and scalar neutrinos, effects of TeV strings in models of quantum gravity with large extra dimensions and non-zero sizes of the fermions. No evidence for these phenomena is found and new limits on their parameters are set.