Phase diagram at finite temperature and quark density in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3)
We study the phase diagram of quark matter at finite temperature ($T$) and chemical potential ($\ensuremath{\mu}$) in the strong coupling limit of lattice QCD for color SU(3). We derive an analytical expression of the effective free energy as a function of $T$ and $\ensuremath{\mu}$, including baryon effects. The finite temperature effects are evaluated by integrating over the temporal link variable exactly in the Polyakov gauge with an antiperiodic boundary condition for fermions. The obtained phase diagram shows the first and the second order phase transition at low and high temperatures, respectively, and those are separated by the tricritical point in the chiral limit. Baryon has effects to reduce the effective free energy and to extend the hadron phase to a larger $\ensuremath{\mu}$ direction at low temperatures.

title: Light composite scalar in eight-flavor QCD on the lattice
abstract: In search for a composite Higgs boson (techni-dilaton) in the walking technicolor, we present our preliminary results on the first observation of a light flavor-singlet scalar in a candidate theory for the walking technicolor, the Nf=8 QCD, which was found in our previous paper to have spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking together with remnants of the conformality. Based on simulations with the HISQ-type action on several lattice sizes with various fermion masses, we find evidence of a flavor-singlet scalar meson with mass comparable to that of the Nambu-Goldstone pion in both the small fermion-mass region, where chiral perturbation theory works, and the intermediate fermion-mass region where the hyperscaling relation holds. We further discuss its chiral limit extrapolation in comparison with other states studied in our previous paper: the scalar has a mass much smaller than that of the vector meson, which is compared to the Nambu-Goldstone pion having a vanishing mass in that limit.

title: Phases of many flavors QCD : Lattice results
abstract: This note is based on our recent results on QCD with varying number of flavors of fundamental fermions. Topics include unusual, strong dynamics in the preconformal, confining phase, the physics of the conformal window and the role of ab-initio lattice simulations in establishing our current knowledge of the phases of many flavor QCD.

title: Gluonic observables and the scalar spectrum of twelve-flavour QCD
abstract: We measure glueball masses and the string tension in twelve–flavour QCD, aiming at comparing the emerging gluonic spectrum to the mesonic one. When approaching the critical surface at zero quark mass, the hierarchy of masses in the different sectors of the spectrum gives a new handle to determine the existence of an infrared fixed point. We describe the details of our gluonic measurements and the results obtained on a large number of gauge configurations generated with the HISQ action. In particular, we focus on the scalar glueball and its mixing with a flavour–singlet fermionic state, which is lighter than the pseudoscalar (would–be pion) state. The results are interesting in view of a light composite Higgs boson in walking technicolor theories.

title: Stable operation of a 300-m laser interferometer with sufficient sensitivity to detect gravitational-wave events within our galaxy.
abstract: TAMA300, an interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 300-m baseline length, has been developed and operated with sufficient sensitivity to detect gravitational-wave events within our galaxy and sufficient stability for observations; the interferometer was operated for over 10 hours stably and continuously. With a strain-equivalent noise level of h approximately 5x10(-21)/sqrt[Hz], a signal-to-noise ratio of 30 is expected for gravitational waves generated by a coalescence of 1.4M-1.4M binary neutron stars at 10 kpc distance. We evaluated the stability of the detector sensitivity with a 2-week data-taking run, collecting 160 hours of data to be analyzed in the search for gravitational waves.

title: Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries
abstract: We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an intercollaboration coincidence search during times when TAMA300 and only one of the LIGO sites were operational. We find no evidence of any gravitational wave signals. We place an observational upper limit on the rate of binary neutron star coalescence with component masses between 1 and 3M⊙ of 49 per year per Milky Way equivalent galaxy at a 90% confidence level. The methods developed during this search will find application in future network inspiral analyses.

title: Nonleptonic Hyperon Decay in the Quark Model
abstract: Nonleptonic hyperon and tr decays are discussed in the nonrelativistic quark model and the SU(6) theory, where we consider the pole diagram for quark. the four-body weak current­ current interaction J1 2 J3 1 and the meson exchange interaction_ We assume two models, and can explain the experiments for parity-violating and parity-conserving amplitudes of nonleptonic hyperon decays. In particular the L1I = 1/2 rule is derived, though the weak current-current interaction J1 2 J3 1 does not satisfy £11 = 1/2. As to the decay of tr two models predict the different ratio of r(SJ~A+K) and r(SJ~S+ll). One is consistent with experiment, the other forbids SJ~A+K.

title: Nonleptonic Decays of Charmed Mesons in the Quark Model

title: Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts
abstract: We report on the first joint search for gravitational waves by the TAMA and LIGO collaborations. We looked for millisecond-duration unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts in 473 hr of coincident data collected during early 2003. No candidate signals were found. We set an upper limit of 0.12 events per day on the rate of detectable gravitational-wave bursts, at 90% confidence level. From software simulations, we estimate that our detector network was sensitive to bursts with root-sum-square strain amplitude above approximately 1–3×10-19  Hz-1/2 in the frequency band 700-2000 Hz. We describe the details of this collaborative search, with particular emphasis on its advantages and disadvantages compared to searches by LIGO and TAMA separately using the same data. Benefits include a lower background and longer observation time, at some cost in sensitivity and bandwidth. We also demonstrate techniques for performing coincidence searches with a heterogeneous network of detectors with different noise spectra and orientations. These techniques include using coordinated software signal injections to estimate the network sensitivity, and tuning the analysis to maximize the sensitivity and the livetime, subject to constraints on the background.