High precision search for direct CP-violation in K+- ---> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays by the NA-48/2 experiment at CERN

title: New Measurement of the Charged Kaon Semileptonic $K^\pm \to \pi^ \pi^- E^\pm\nu$ ($K_E4$) Decay Branching Ratio and Hadronic Form Factors

title: Monte Carlo comparison of mid-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-, medium-and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass existing telescopes in sensitivity by an order of magnitude. The aim of our study is to find the optimal design for the medium-size telescopes (MSTs), which will determine the sensitivity in the key energy range between a few hundred GeV to about ten TeV. To study the effect of the telescope design parameters on the array performance, we simulated arrays of 61 MSTs with 120 m spacing and a variety of telescope configurations. We investigated the influence of the primary telescope characteristics including optical resolution, pixel size, and light collection area on the total array performance with a particular emphasis on telescope configurations with imaging performance similar to the proposed Davis-Cotton (DC) and Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) MST designs. We compare the performa...

title: High precision study of CP-violating charge asymmetry in K+- ---> 3pi+- decays by the NA-48/2 experiment at CERN

title: RECENT NA48/2 AND NA62 RESULTS
abstract: The NA48/2 Collaboration at CERN has accumulated and analysed unprecedented statistics of rare kaon decays in the $K_{e4}$ modes: $K_{e4}(+-)$ ($K^\pm \to \pi^+ \pi^- e^\pm \nu$) and $K_{e4}(00)$ ($K^\pm \to \pi^0 \pi^0 e^\pm \nu$) with nearly one percent background contamination. It leads to the improved measurement of branching fractions and detailed form factor studies. New final results from the analysis of 381 $K^\pm \to \pi^\pm \gamma \gamma$ rare decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 and NA62 experiments at CERN are presented. The results include a decay rate measurement and fits to Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) description.

title: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of Apsidal and Nodal Superhumps.
abstract: In recent years, a handful of systems have been observed to show "negative" (nodal) superhumps, with periods slightly shorter than the orbital period. It has been suggested that these modes are a consequence of the slow retrograde precession of the line of nodes in a disk tilted with respect to the orbital plane. Our simulations confirm and refine this model: they suggest a roughly axisymmetric, retrogradely precessing, tilted disk that is driven at a period slightly less than half the orbital period as the tidal field of the orbiting secondary encounters, in turn, the two halves of the disk above and below the midplane. Each of these passings leads to viscous dissipation on one face of an optically thick disk-observers on opposite sides of the disk would each observe one brightening per orbit, but 180 degrees out of phase with each other.

title: Radiative tau production and decay.
abstract: A study of the muon decay channel of the τ lepton with the presence of a photon has been carried out to verify theoretical predictions for the production rate of e + e - → τ + τ - γ and for the branching ratio of τ - → ν τ µ - ν µ γ. Included in this study is the first direct measurement of radiative tau decay.  The ratio of measured-to-predicted number of events from radiative T production, e + e - → τ + τ - γ, where one of the τ's decay to μνν is found to be 0.91 ± 0.20. We have not seen an indication of anomalous behavior in radiative tau events.

title: Searches for unstable neutral leptons in low-multiplicity events from electron-positron annihilation.
abstract: Upper limits are given on the production of unstable neutral leptons in electron-positron annihilation at 29 GeV. The searches use selected two- and four-charged-particle events and are most sensitive to neutral-lepton masses of the order of 1 GeV/c2 and smaller. However, results are given for masses up to 14 GeV/c2.

title: Observation of psi production in e+e- annihilation at 29 GeV.
abstract: Inclusive 8-production in e+e-annihilation at 29 GeV has been measured-with the Mark II detector. From an integrated luminosity of 207 pb-', we ~ determine a production rate of 0.017 & 0.004 f 0.004 E:-+ 8-per hadronic event.