Kaluza-Klein description of geometric phases in graphene
In this paper, we use the Kaluza-Klein approach to describe topological defects in a graphene layer. Using this approach, we propose a geometric model allowing to discuss the quantum flux in K-spin subspace. Within this model, the graphene layer with a topological defect is described by a four-dimensional metric, where the deformation produced by the topological defect is introduced via the three-dimensional part of metric tensor, while an Abelian gauge field is introduced via an extra dimension. We use this new geometric model to discuss the arising of topological quantum phases in a graphene layer with a topological defect.

title: Equivalence between supersymmetric self-dual and Maxwell–Chern–Simons models coupled to a matter spinor superfield
abstract: We study the duality of the supersymmetric self-dual and Maxwell–Chern–Simons theories coupled to a fermionic matter superfield, using a master action. This approach evades the difficulties inherent to the quartic couplings that appear when matter is represented by a scalar superfield. The price is that the spinorial matter superfield represents a unusual supersymmetric multiplet, whose main physical properties we also discuss.

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: 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: 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: Charm physics: theoretical review
abstract: We review recent developments in charm physics, focusing on the physics of charmed mesons. We discuss charm spectroscopy, decay constants, as well as searches for new physics with charmed mesons. We discuss D0-anti-D0 mixing and CP-violation in charm decays. We also present the modified Nelson plot of charm mixing predictions.

title: Lepton flavor-violating transitions in effective field theory and gluonic operators
abstract: Lepton flavor-violating processes offer interesting possibilities to probe new physics at multi-TeV scale. We discuss those in the framework of effective field theory, emphasizing the role of gluonic operators. Those operators are obtained by integrating out heavy quarks that are kinematically inaccessible at the scale where low-energy experiments take place and make those experiments sensitive to the couplings of lepton flavor-changing neutral currents to heavy quarks. We discuss constraints on the Wilson coefficients of those operators from the muon conversion ${\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}}+(A,Z)\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{e}^{\ensuremath{-}}+(A,Z)$ and from lepton flavor-violating tau decays with one or two hadrons in the final state, e.g., $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\ell}{\ensuremath{\eta}}^{(\ensuremath{'})}$ and $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\ell}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ with $\ensuremath{\ell}=\ensuremath{\mu},e$. To illustrate the results we discuss explicit examples of constraining parameters of leptoquark models.

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: Rescattering Effects in Heavy Quark Decays
abstract: We review some recent developments in the studies of direct CP violation and final state interactions in weak decays of heavy quarks.

title: Relating D0-anti-D0 Mixing and D0 ---> l+ l- with New Physics
abstract: We point out how, in certain models of New Physics, the same combination of couplings occurs in the amplitudes for both D{sup 0}-{bar D}{sup 0} mixing and the rare decays D{sup 0} {yields} . If the New Physics dominates and is responsible for the observed mixing, then a very simple correlation exists between the magnitudes of each; in fact the rates for the decay D{sup 0} {yields}  are completely fixed by the mixing. Observation of D{sup 0} {yields}  in excess of the Standard Model prediction could identify New Physics contributions to D{sup 0}-{bar D}{sup 0} mixing.