Measurement of the Omega - magnetic moment.
A sample of 24 700 {Omega}{sup {minus}} hyperons was produced by a prolarized neutral beam in a spin-transfer reaction. The {Omega}{sup {minus}} polarizations are found to be {minus}0.054{plus minus}0.019 and {minus}0.149{plus minus}0.055 at mean {Omega}{sup {minus}} momenta of 322 and 398 GeV/{ital c}, respectively. The directions of these polarizations give an {Omega}{sup {minus}} magnetic moment of {minus}(1.94{plus minus}0.17{plus minus}0.14){mu}{sub {ital N}}

title: A MULTIKILOTON DETECTOR TO CONDUCT A SENSITIVE SEARCH FOR NUCLEON DECAY

title: HARD QUARK-QUARK SCATTERING WITH EXCLUSIVE REACTIONS*
abstract: We have begun a program designed to study hard quark-quark scattering with exclusive reactions, focusing on quasi-elastic two-body reactions with all possible quark flavor exchanges. Examples are ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p, rho/sup -/p, ..pi../sup +/..delta../sup -/, K/sup +/..sigma../sup -/, or K..lambda... Of the two-body exclusives, only elastic scattering had been measured at such large t previous to our experiment. By comparing the relative importance of different final states, the energy dependence of the production ratios of these states, the prominence of resonances such as rho/sup -/ over background in this region, and measuring polarizations where accessible, we have collected a large body of data on hard scattering in a completely new domain. Previously, essential all short distance QCD tests have been for inclusive processes. We have taken data with both negative and positive incident beam at 10 GeV/c on a hydrogen target and will present the first results, for ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p and rho/sup -/p at THETA/sub cm/ = 90/sup 0/, -t = 9 GeV/sup 2//c/sup 2/. The apparatus consists of a magnetic spectrometer, with Cerenkov particle identification, which selects stable charged particles (protons in this case) at high momentum near 90/sup 0/ in the center-of-mass. Amore » large aperture array of PWCs observes the recoil particle or charged decay products. Cross sections are extremely low, approximately a 1 nb/(GeV/c)/sup 2/ for elastic scattering. We will report on a sample of more than 1000 ..pi../sup -/p elastic events, and on rho/sup -/p, where the rho/sup -/ decay distribution was observed. We find a surprisingly large rho/sup -/p cross section in this large momentum transfer region, with rho/sup -/p about half the elastic cross section, and a striking spin alignment of the rho/sup -/.« less

title: Measurements of production polarization and decay asymmetry for Xi - hyperons.

title: New limit on magnetic monopole flux
abstract: The underground Soudan-1 nucleon decay experiment can measure the velocities of slowly moving particles if they can be detected by ionization at a level 0.5 times that of a relativistic muon. Magnetic monopoles predicted by grand unified theories should satisfy this condition if their velocities are greater than 10/sup -3/c. During a live time of 0.41 yr, no candidate has been observed, implying a 90%- confidence-level limit on the flux of such objects of <4.1 x 10/sup -13/ cm/sup -2/ sr/sup -1/ s/sup -1/ for velocities between 10/sup -3/c and 10/sup -2/c.

title: Study of quark flow in exclusive reactions at 90 degrees in the center of mass (AGS E838)
abstract: We report a study of quark flow in 20 exclusive reactions measured at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s AGS with a beam momentum of 5.9 GeV/c at 90° in the center of mass. This experiment confirms the strong quark flow reaction mechanism dependence of two‐body hadron scattering at large angles seen at 9.9 GeV/c. Large differences in cross sections for different reactions are consistent with the dominance of quark interchange in these 90° reactions, and indicate that pure gluon exchange and quark/antiquark annihilation diagrams are less important.

title: Dynamics of multidimensional generalization of Bianchi type-IX cosmological models.
abstract: We investigate the dynamics of an 11-dimensional homogeneous cosmological model. We assume that the t = const hypersurfaces are products of a 3-dimensional Bianchi type-IX space and a 7-dimensional torus. Most results of our investigation hold when the 7-dimensional torus is replaced by an m-dimensional torus T/sup m/. We show that for a large class of vacuum solutions the physical space expands while the microspace contracts providing a natural mechanism of dimensional reduction. Matter satisfying a simple barotropic equation of state always breaks the process of dynamical dimensional reduction. With special attention we study the behavior of our model close to the initial singularity. In contrast with the 4-dimensional Bianchi type-IX cosmological model the Kasner solution always describes an approach to the initial singularity. We study the transition from the Kasner regime to the oscillatory regime. We show that matter does not significantly change this property. We have found some exact solutions; they describe isotropic physical space, and axially symmetric physical space. We also investigate high-temperature quantum effects and their effects on the dynamics of our model. We show that the high-temperature quantum corrections do not depend on the geometrical properties of space, provided it is compact. The high-temperature quantummore » corrections can be described by a macroscopic equation of state satisfied by radiation.« less

title: B spectroscopy from NRQCD with dynamical fermions.
abstract: We present a lattice investigation, partially including the effects of dynamical quarks, of the heavy-light mesons using NRQCD for the heavy quark and the Wilson action for the light quark. We perform an extensive calculation of the spectrum employing a multistate, multiexponential fitting analysis which enables us to extract the 2{ital S}-1{ital S} splitting as well as the {sup 1}{ital P}{sub 1}-{ital {bar S}} and hyperfine splittings. The Wilson action introduces a large systematic error into the calculation, and within this uncertainty we obtain agreement with experiment. We perform a comprehensive calculation of the heavy-light meson mass, investigating three methods and their range of validity. The agreement found between these methods confirms that Lorentz invariance can be restored at this order in NRQCD by a constant shift to all masses. We calculated spectroscopic quantities over a wide range in heavy quark mass and are able to perform a detailed investigation of heavy quark symmetry around the {ital b} quark mass. In particular, we extract the nonperturbative coefficients of terms in the heavy quark expansion of the meson binding energy. We demonstrate the importance of using tadpole-improved operators in such a calculation.

title: Monte Carlo renormalization-group investigation of the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model.
abstract: An improved Monte Carlo renormalization-group method is used to determine the ..beta.. function of the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model. While for (inverse) couplings ..beta..approx. >2.2 one obtains agreement with asymptotic scaling according to asymptotic freedom, one can see deviations from it at smaller couplings. They are, however, consistent with the behavior of the correlation length, indicating ''scaling'' according to the full ..beta.. function. These results contradict recent claims that the model has a critical point at finite coupling.

title: From spectroscopy to the strong coupling constant with heavy Wilson quarks.
abstract: In this work we present lattice calculations of the masses of {ital P}-wave mesons using Monte Carlo simulations. Our valence fermions are defined by the Wilson action. Our gauge fields are generated with both dynamical staggered fermions at a lattice coupling {beta}{equivalent_to}6/{ital g}{sup 2}=5.6 for sea quark masses of {ital am}{sub {ital q}}=0.010 and 0.025 and in the quenched approximation at {beta}=6.0. We present results for charm and charmonium spectroscopy and use them to compute the strong coupling constant {alpha}{sub {ital s}}. We compare our results to those of other recent lattice calculations and experiments.

title: More on the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model.
abstract: New measurements of the correlation length and magnetic susceptibility for the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model are reported. They corroborate the conclusion from a recent Monte Carlo renormalization-group investigation that the standard, asymptotic-freedom picture holds for this model. A finite-size scaling analysis also supports this conclusion.