Measurement of charm fragmentation ratios and fractions in photoproduction at HERA
The production of D, D, D, D s and Λ + c charm hadrons and their antiparticles in ep scattering at HERA was measured with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 79 pb. The measurement has been performed in the photoproduction regime with the exchanged-photon virtuality Q < 1 GeV and for photon-proton centre-of-mass energies in the range 130 < W < 300 GeV. The charm hadrons were reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum pT (D, Λc) > 3.8 GeV and pseudorapidity |η(D, Λc)| < 1.6. The production cross sections were used to determine the ratio of neutral and charged D-meson production rates, Ru/d, the strangeness-suppression factor, γs, and the fraction of charged D mesons produced in a vector state, P d v . The measured Ru/d and γs values agree with those obtained in deep inelastic scattering and in ee annihilations. The measured P d v value is smaller than, but consistent with, the previous measurements. The fractions of c quarks hadronising as a particular charm hadron, f(c → D, Λc), were derived in the given kinematic range. The measured open-charm fragmentation fractions are consistent with previous results, although the measured f(c → D) is smaller and f(c → Λc ) is larger than those obtained in ee annihilations. These results generally support the hypothesis that fragmentation proceeds independently of the hard sub-process. The ZEUS Collaboration S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, S. Miglioranzi, B. Musgrave, J. Repond, R. Yoshida Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4815, USA n M.C.K. Mattingly Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0380, USA N. Pavel, A.G. Yagües Molina Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany P. Antonioli, G. Bari, M. Basile, L. Bellagamba, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, G. Cara Romeo, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, A. Montanari, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, A. Polini, L. Rinaldi, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy e G. Aghuzumtsyan, D. Bartsch, I. Brock, S. Goers, H. Hartmann, E. Hilger, P. Irrgang, H.-P. Jakob, O.M. Kind, U. Meyer, E. Paul, J. Rautenberg, R. Renner, M. Wang, M. Wlasenko Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany b D.S. Bailey, N.H. Brook, J.E. Cole, G.P. Heath, T. Namsoo, S. Robins H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom m M. Capua, S. Fazio, A. Mastroberardino, M. Schioppa, G. Susinno, E. Tassi Calabria University, Physics Department and INFN, Cosenza, Italy e J.Y. Kim, K.J. Ma Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea g M. Helbich, Y. Ning, Z. Ren, W.B. Schmidke, F. Sciulli Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, New York 10027 o J. Chwastowski, A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, A. Galas, M. Gil, K. Olkiewicz, P. Stopa, D. Szuba, L. Zawiejski The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland i L. Adamczyk, T. Bo ld, I. Grabowska-Bo ld, D. Kisielewska, J. Lukasik, M. Przybycień, L. Suszycki, J. Szuba Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland p A. Kotański, W. S lomiński Department of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland

title: Measurement of high-Q2 neutral current deep inelastic e−p scattering cross sections with a longitudinally polarised electron beam at HERA
abstract: AbstractMeasurements of the neutral current cross sections for deep inelastic scattering in  collisions at HERA with a longitudinally polarised electron beam are presented. The single-differential cross-sections dσ/dQ2, dσ/dx and dσ/dy and the double-differential cross sections in Q2 and x are measured in the kinematic region y<0.9 and Q2>185 GeV2 for both positively and negatively polarised electron beams and for each polarisation state separately. The measurements are based on an integrated luminosity of 169.9 pb−1 taken with the ZEUS detector in 2005 and 2006 at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV. The structure functions 
$x\tilde{F_{3}}$ 
and xF3γZ are determined by combining the e−p results presented in this paper with previously measured e+p neutral current data. The asymmetry parameter A− is used to demonstrate the parity violating effects of electroweak interactions at large spacelike photon virtuality. The measurements agree well with the predictions of the Standard Model.

title: Subjet distributions in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
abstract: Subjet distributions were measured in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.7 pb−1. Jets were identified using the kT cluster algorithm in the laboratory frame. Subjets were defined as jet-like substructures identified by a reapplication of the cluster algorithm at a smaller value of the resolution parameter $y_{\rm cut}$. Measurements of subjet distributions for jets with exactly two subjets for $y_{\rm cut}=0.05$ are presented as functions of observables sensitive to the pattern of parton radiation and to the colour coherence between the initial and final states. Perturbative QCD predictions give an adequate description of the data.

title: Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
abstract: The beauty production cross section for deep inelastic scattering events with at least one hard jet in the Breit frame together with a muon has been measured, for photon virtualities Q2>2 GeV2, with the ZEUS detector at HERA using integrated luminosity of 72 pb-1. The total visible cross section is σbb(ep→e jet μX)=40.9±5.7(stat.)-4.4+6. 0(syst.) pb. The next-to-leading order QCD prediction lies about 2.5 standard deviations below the data. The differential cross sections are in general consistent with the NLO QCD predictions; however at low values of Q2, Bjorken x, and muon transverse momentum, and high values of jet transverse energy and muon pseudorapidity, the prediction is about two standard deviations below the data.

title: Scaled momentum spectra in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
abstract: Charged particle production has been studied in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 0.44 fb−1. Distributions of scaled momenta in the Breit frame are presented for particles in the current fragmentation region. The evolution of these spectra with the photon virtuality, Q2, is described in the kinematic region 10 < Q2 < 41000Ge V2. Next-to-leading-order and modified leading-log-approximation QCD calculations as well as predictions from Monte Carlo models are compared to the data. The results are also compared to e+e− annihilation data. The dependences of the pseudorapidity distribution of the particles on Q2 and on the energy in the γp system, W, are presented and interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of limiting fragmentation.

title: Search for lepton-flavor violation at HERA
abstract: A search for lepton-flavor-violating interactions ep -> mu X and ep -> tau X has been performed with the ZEUS detector using the entire HERA I data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 pb(-1). The data were taken at center-of-mass energies, root s, of 300 and 318 GeV. No evidence of lepton-flavor violation was found, and constraints were derived on leptoquarks (LQs) that could mediate such interactions. For LQ masses below root s, limits were set on lambda(eq1) root beta(lq), where lambda(eq1) is the coupling of the LQ to an electron and a first-generation quark q(1), and beta(eq) is the branching ratio of the LQ to the final-state lepton l (mu or tau) and a quark q. For LQ masses much larger than root s, limits were set on the four-fermion interaction term lambda(eq alpha)lambda(eq beta)/M(L)(2)Q for LQs that couple to an electron and a quark q(alpha) and to a lepton l and a quark q(beta), where alpha and beta are quark generation indices. Some of the limits are also applicable to lepton-flavor-violating processes mediated by squarks in R-Parity-violating supersymmetric models. In some cases, especially when a higher-generation quark is involved and for the process ep -> tau X, the ZEUS limits are the most stringent to date.

title: Measurements of the line shapes of D anti-D production and the ratio of the production rates of D+ D- and D0 anti-D0 in e+ e- annihilation at psi(3770) resonance
abstract: We report measurements of the line shapes of D + D − , D 0 D ¯ 0 and D D ¯ production as well as the line shape of the ratio of the production rates of D + D − and D 0 D ¯ 0 in e + e − annihilation at ψ ( 3770 ) resonance. We find that the line shapes of D + D − , D 0 D ¯ 0 and D D ¯ production are similar to an anomalous line shape of cross sections for e + e − → hadrons observed in the center-of-mass energy range from 3.70 to 3.87 GeV.

title: Effect of final state interactions on particle production in $d$+Au collisions at RHIC
abstract: We show that particle species dependence of enhanced hadron production at intermediate transverse momentum ( pT ) for d+Au collisions at RHIC can be understood in terms of the hadronic res atterings in the final state. A multiphase transport mod el (AMPT) with two different hadronization mechanisms: string fragmentation or p arton coalescence, is used in our study. When the hadrons are formed from string fragmentation, the subse quent hadronic rescatterings will result in particle mass d ependence of nuclear modification factor RCP, which is consistent with the present experimental data. On the other hand, in the framework of parton coalescence, the mass dependence disappears and t he strangeness plays an important role. Both mechanisms fai led to reproduce thepT dependence of RCP of pion, indicating that initial-state e ffects might be also important in such collisions.

title: β-decay rates of r-process waiting-point nuclei in the extended quasiparticle random-phase approximation
abstract: The beta(-) decays of the r-process waiting-point nuclei at the neutron magic numbers N = 50 and N = 82 are investigated within the extended quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA), where neutron-neutron, proton-proton and neutron-proton (np) pairing correlations are considered in the specialized Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) calculation. The Bruckner G-matrix obtained with the charge-dependent Bonn nucleon-nucleon force is used for the residual particle-particle and particle-hole interaction in addition to the pairing interaction. It is found that the np pairing interaction plays an important role in reducing the calculated beta(-)-decay half-lives. The calculations with np pairing show good agreement with the available experimental data including the decay half-lives of Ni isotopes, which are usually overestimated in the self-consistent proton-neutron QRPA calculations.

title: Probe the 2$s_{1/2}$ and 1$d_{3/2}$ state level inversion with electron-nucleus scattering
abstract: The neutron-rich even-even nuclei 26−40Mg, 28−46Si, 30−48S, and 32−56Ar are calculated with the RMF model and the phase-shift electron scattering method. Results show that level inversion of the 2s1/2 and 1d3/2 proton states may occur for the magnesium, silicon, sulphur, and argon isotopes with more neutrons away from the stability line. Calculations show that the variation of the central charge densities for 30−48S, and 32−56Ar are very sensitive to the 2s1/2 and 1d3/2 proton state level inversion, and the level inversion can lead to a large measurable central charge depletion to the charge density distributions for the neutron-rich isotopes. Calculations also show that the charge density differences between the isotopes with and without central charge depletion can reveal not only the level inversion of the 2s1/2 and 1d3/2 proton states but also the behavior of the proton wave functions of both states. The results can provide references for the possible study of the nuclear level inversion and nuclear bubble phenomenon with electron scattering off short-lived nuclei at RIKEN or/and GSI in the future. In addition, direct nuclear reaction 44S(n, d)43P or 44S(3H, α)43P might also be a possible way to study the 2s1/2 and 1d3/2 proton state level inversion.

title: Ground state properties of odd-Z superheavy nuclei
abstract: The ground state properties of odd-Z superheavy nuclei in the mass range of Z = 97-115 and N = 140-190 are systematically investigated in deformed relativistic mean-field (RMF) theory. Special emphasis is placed on nuclear shell effect around N = 184. Calculations clearly show that the RMF model can reliably reproduce the data of binding energy and alpha decay energy of known nuclei and can also be used to predict the binding energy of unknown nuclei. It is found that deformation plays an important role for many superheavy nuclei. For N = 184 isotones, the lighter ones are approximately spherical but the heavier ones are deformed. The alpha-decay energies of N = 184 isotones are lower than those of neighboring nuclei in some cases and higher in other cases. This demonstrates that there is a complicated structural behavior for N = 184 isotones.