Baryon correlators containing different diquarks from lattice simulations
Point to point vacuum correlators containing diquarks in the color anti-triplet representation are computed both in the quenched approximation and dynamical overlap simulations with two flavors. The scalar, pseudoscalar and axial vector diquarks are combined with light quarks to form color singlets. The scalar (“good") diquark channel shows a stronger attraction than the axial vector (“bad") channel in the quenched data set. The pseudoscalar diquark channel shows a finite volume zero mode artifact: the correlator becomes negative at large distance when the quark mass is small. By separating configurations without zero modes from those with zero modes, we found that the zero modes have an important contribution in both the attraction in the scalar channel and the repulsion in the pseudoscalar channel. In the axial vector diquark channel, we did not find apparent zero mode effects.

title: Oscillatory behavior of the domain wall fermions revisited
abstract: In the generic domain wall fermion formulation of chiral fermions on the lattice, the zero modes of the four-dimensional Wilson fermion operator with the negative mass parameter -M-5 introduce unphysical massive modes propagating in the four-dimensional spacetime. In the free fermion case, the pole mass of this kind of unphysical modes is given by (E) over bar = ln(1-M-5), which acquires an imaginary part, i pi, when M-5 > 1 and results in an oscillatory behavior of the domain wall fermion propagator in time. The existence of the unphysical modes in the presence of gauge fields is investigated in the mean field approximation, and their physical consequences are discussed. In addition, we also give a semiquantitative criterion for tuning M-5 in the realistic numerical study.

title: Moments of meson distribution functions with dynamical twisted mass fermions
abstract: We present our preliminary results on the lowest moment hxi of quark distribution functions of the pion using two flavor dynamical simulations with Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist. The calculation is done in a range of pion masses from 300 to 500 MeV. A stochastic source method is used to reduce inversions in calculating propagators. Finite volume effects at the lowest quark mass are examined by using two different lattice volumes. Our results show that we achieve statistical errors of only a few percent. We plan to compute renormalization constants non-perturbatively and extend the calculation to two more lattice spacings and to the nucleons.

title: Lattice study on $\eta_{c2}$ and X(3872)
abstract: Properties of 2(-+) charmonium eta(c2) are investigated in quenched lattice QCD. The mass of eta(c2) is determined to be 3.80(3) GeV, which is close to the mass of D-wave charmonium psi(3770) and in agreement with quark model predictions. The transition width of eta(c2) -> gamma J/psi is also obtained with a value of Gamma = 3.8(9) keV. Since the possible 2(-+) assignment to X(3872) has not been ruled out by experiments, our results help to clarify the nature of X(3872). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.014501

title: Lattice QCD calculation of form factors describing the rare decays $B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \ell^+ \ell^-$
abstract: The rare decays $B^0 \to K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ are now being observed with enough precision to test Standard Model predictions. A full understanding of these decays requires accurate determinations of the corresponding hadronic form factors. Here we present results of lattice QCD calculations of the $B \to K^*$ and $B_s \to \phi$ form factors; we also determine the form factors relevant for the tree-level decays $B_s \to K^* \ell \nu$. We use full-QCD configurations including 2+1 flavors of sea quarks using an improved staggered action, and we employ lattice non-relativistic QCD to describe the bottom quark.

title: Renormalization of bilinear quark operators for overlap fermions
abstract: We present nonperturbative renormalization constants of fermionic bilinears on the lattice in the quenched approximation at {beta}=6.1 using an overlap [H. Neuberger,  (1998)] fermion action with hypercubic (HYP)-blocked links. We consider the effects of the exact zero modes of the Dirac operator and find they are important in calculating the renormalization constants of the scalar and pseudoscalar density. The results are given in the RI' and MS schemes and compared to perturbative calculations.

title: Study of $\psi(3686)\to\pi^0 h_c, h_c\to\gamma\eta_c$ via $\eta_c$ exclusive decays
abstract: The process $\psi(3686) \to \pi^0 h_c, h_c \to \gamma \eta_c$ has been studied with a data sample of $106 \pm 4$ million $\psi(3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII storage ring. The mass and width of the $P$-wave charmonium spin-singlet state $h_c(^1P_1)$ are determined by simultaneously fitting distributions of the $\pi^0$ recoil mass for 16 exclusive $\eta_c$ decay modes. The results, $M(\hc) = 3525.31 \pm 0.11 {\rm (stat.)} \pm 0.14 {\rm (syst.)}$\,MeV/$c^2$ and $\Gamma(\hc) = 0.70 \pm 0.28 \pm 0.22$\,MeV, are consistent with and more precise than previous measurements. We also determine the branching ratios for the 16 exclusive $\eta_c$ decay modes, five of which have not been measured previously. New measurements of the $\eta_c$ line-shape parameters in the $E1$ transition $h_c\to\gamma\eta_c$ are made by selecting candidates in the $h_c$ signal sample and simultaneously fitting the hadronic mass spectra for the 16 $\eta_c$ decay channels. The resulting $\eta_c$ mass and width values are $M(\eta_c) = 2984.49 \pm 1.16 \pm 0.52$\,MeV/$c^2$ and $\Gamma(\eta_c) = 36.4 \pm 3.2 \pm 1.7$\,MeV.

title: Observation of the decay psi(2S) ---> K*(892)anti-K + c.c.

title: Search for scalar leptons and scalar quarks at LEP
abstract: Scalar partners of quarks and leptons, predicted in supersymmetric models, are searched for in e + e − collisions at centre-of-mass energies between 192 and 209 GeV at LEP. No evidence for any such particle is found in a data sample of 450 pb −1 . Upper limits on their production cross sections are set and lower limits on their masses are derived in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

title: Search for heavy isosinglet neutrino in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at LEP
abstract: We report on a search for the first generation heavy neutrino that is an isosinglet under the standard $SU(2)_L$ gauge group. The data collected with the L3 detector at center-of-mass energies between 130~\hbox{\rm\ Ge\kern -0.1em V} and 208~\hbox{\rm\ Ge\kern -0.1em V} are used. The decay channel $\mathrm{N}_\mathrm{e} \rightarrow \mathrm{e} \mathrm{W}$ is investigated and no evidence is found for a heavy neutrino, $\mathrm{N}_\mathrm{e}$, in a mass range between 80~\hbox{\rm\ Ge\kern -0.1em V} and 205~\hbox{\rm\ Ge\kern -0.1em V}. Upper limits on the mixing parameter between the heavy and light neutrino are derived.

title: Search for anomalous couplings in the Higgs sector at LEP
abstract: Anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson are searched for through the processes e+e-→Hγ, e+e -→e+e-H and e+e -→HZ. The mass range 70 GeV<mH<190 GeV is explored using 602 pb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies s=189-209 GeV. The Higgs decay channels H→ff, H→γγ, H→Zγ and H→WW(*) are considered and no evidence is found for anomalous Higgs production or decay. Limits on the anomalous couplings d, d B, Δg1 Z, Δκγ and ξ2 are derived as well as limits on the H→γγ and H→Zγ decay rates.