The aether-modified gravity and the Godel metric
We formulate the nonminimal aether-modified gravity whose action represents itself as a sum of the usual Einstein-Hilbert action and the CPT-even Lorentz-breaking aether-like gravity term proposed by Carroll. For this theory, we show that the G\"{o}del metric solves the modified Einstein equations under a corresponding modification of the matter, while, for the small Lorentz-breaking corrections, the matter turns out to be usual. On the other side, if the matter is suggested to be the same as in the usual general relativity, the G\"{o}del metric is modified by additive aether terms.

title: Effective potential for a SUSY Lee–Wick model: The Wess–Zumino case
abstract: Using a superfield generalization of the tadpole method, we study the one-loop effective potential for a Wess–Zumino model modified by a higher derivative term, inspired by the Lee–Wick model. The one-loop Kahlerian potential is also obtained by other methods and compared with the effective potential.

title: Complete low-energy effective action in N=4 SYM: A Direct N=2 supergraph calculation
abstract: Using the covariant N=2 harmonic supergraph techniques we calculate the one-loop low-energy effective action of N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory in Coulomb branch with gauge group SU(2) spontaneously broken down to U(1). The full dependence of the low-energy effective action on both the hypermultiplet and gauge fields is determined. The direct quantum calculation confirms the correctness of the exact N=4 SYM low-energy effective action derived in hep-th/0111062 on the purely algebraic ground by invoking a hidden N=2 supersymmetry which completes the manifest N=2 one to N=4. Our results provide an exhaustive solution to the problem of finding out the exact completely N=4 supersymmetric low-energy effective action for the theory under consideration.

title: Horava-Lifshitz-like extensions of supersymmetric theories
abstract: Within the superfield approach, we formulate two different extensions of the Wess-Zumino model and super-QED with Horava-Lifshitz-like additive terms, discuss their quantum properties and calculate lower contributions to the effective action. In the case of the gauge theory, the one-loop effective potential turns out to be gauge independent.

title: Free energy of Lorentz-violating QED at high temperature
abstract: In this paper we study the one- and two-loop contribution to the free energy in QED with Lorentz symmetry breaking introduced via constant CPT-even Lorentz-breaking parameters at the high temperature limit. We find the impact of the Lorentz-violating term for the free energy and carry out a numerical estimation for the Lorentz-breaking parameter.

title: Lorentz violation and the proper-time method
abstract: In this Letter, we apply the proper-time method to generate the Lorentz-violating Chern–Simons terms in the four-dimensional Yang–Mills and non-linearized gravity theories. It is shown that the coefficient of the induced Chern–Simons term is finite but regularization dependent.

title: Final state rescattering as a contribution to B->rho gamma
abstract: We provide a new estimate of the long-distance component to the radiative transition B{r_arrow}{rho}{gamma}. Our mechanism involves the soft scattering of on-shell hadronic products of nonleptonic B decay, as in the chain B{r_arrow}{rho}{rho}{r_arrow}{rho}{gamma}. We employ a phenomenological fit to scattering data to estimate the effect. The specific intermediate states considered here modify the B{r_arrow}{rho}{gamma} decay rate at roughly the 5{minus}8{percent} level, although the underlying effect has the potential to be larger. Contrary to other mechanisms of long distance physics which have been discussed in the literature, this yields a non-negligible modification of the B{sup 0}{r_arrow}{rho}{sup 0}{gamma} channel and hence will provide an uncertainty in the extraction of V{sub td}. This mechanism also affects the isospin relation between the rates for B{sup {minus}}{r_arrow}{rho}{sup {minus}}{gamma} and B{sup 0}{r_arrow}{rho}{sup 0}{gamma} and may generate CP asymmetries at experimentally observable levels.

title: CHARM MIXING IN THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND
abstract: Quantum mechanical meson-antimeson oscillations are sensitive to heavy degrees of freedom which propagate in the underlying mixing amplitudes. Comparing observed meson mixing with predictions of the Standard Model (SM), modern experimental studies would be able to constrain models of New Physics (NP). Yet, extensive precission data from B-factories and the Tevatron collider show that the large SM mixing succesfully describes all available experimental data in Bd and Bs oscillations. The only flavor oscillation not yet observed is that of the charmed meson D, where SM mixing is very small and the NP component can stand out. This situation is an exact opposite to what happens in the B system, where B − B0 mixing measurements are used to constrain top quark couplings. Together with the one loop Standard Model effects NP effects can contribute to ∆C = 1 (decays) or ∆C = 2 (mixing) transitions. In the case of D −D0 mixing these operators generate contributions to the effective operators that change D state into D0 state, leading to the mass eigenstates |D1,2〉 = p|D〉 ± q|D〉, (1)

title: CP-violation in charm
abstract: I review recent results in theoretical and experimental analyses of CP-violation in charmed transitions, paying particular attention to constraints on parameters of beyond the Standard Model interactions.

title: Charm Phenomenology for CKM Parameters
abstract: We review several key aspects of charm phenomenology which are important for the general program of determination of matrix elements of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskava (CKM) matrix. We argue that charm physics plays an important role in reducing uncertainties in non-perturbative QCD parameters whose values are required for understanding of underlying quark-level processes. We also review the current status of searches for new physics in mixing and CP violation in charmed mesons both at the currently operating and proposed facilities.

title: Hunting for CP violation with untagged charm decays
abstract: We construct a CP-violating observable which does not require flavor or CP tagging of the initial state. The proposed decay asymmetry could be measured at both threshold and non-threshold charm physics experiments and provide better sensitivity to small CP-violating parameters in charm decays.