Multidimensional void fluctuation: A search for quark–hadron phase transition
The event-by-event fluctuation of hadronic patterns is investigated by finding a measure of the nonhadronic regions, the voids, for the experimental data of 32 S–AgBr interactions at 200 A GeV. Two lowest moments of the event-to-event fluctuation of voids, 〈 G q 〉 and S q have been defined by R.C. Hwa and Q.H. Zhang to quantify the dependence of the voids on the bin sizes. Characteristic of the quark–hadron phase transition, if any can be efficiently extracted from the scaling behavior of the voids. The experimental data of π − -AgBr interactions at 350 GeV/c are also probed with the same tool to have a complete view. The results have been compared with the results of the VENUS generated data for the above interactions.

title: Multiplicity fluctuations of pions and protons at SPS energy — An in-depth analysis with factorial correlator
abstract: We compute the factorial correlators to study the dynamical fluctuations of pions and a combination of pions and protons (compound multiplicity) in 32S-AgBr interactions at 200 A GeV. The study reveals that for both pion and compound multiplicity the correlated moments increase with the decrease in bin-bin separation D, following a power-law, which suggests the self-similarity of multiplicity fluctuation in each case. The results of the analysis also show a consistency with the prediction of α-model for the existence of intermittency in both cases.

title: MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTION AND MULTIPLICITY MOMENT OF BLACK AND GREY PARTICLES IN HIGH ENERGY NUCLEUS–NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS
abstract: In this paper we have studied the multiplicity distribution of black and grey particles emitted from 16O–AgBr interactions at 2.1 AGeV and 60 AGeV. We have also calculated the multiplicity moment up to the fifth order for both the interactions and for both kinds of emitted particles. The variation of multiplicity moment with the order number has been investigated. It is seen that in the case of black particles multiplicity moment up to fourth order remains almost constant as energy increases from 2.1 AGeV to 60 AGeV. Fifth order multiplicity moment increases insignificantly with energy. However in the case of grey particles no such constancy of multiplicity moment with energy of the projectile beam is obtained. Later we have extended our study on the basis of Regge–Mueller approach to find the existence of second order correlation during the emission of black as well as the grey particles. The second Mueller moment is found to be positive and it increases as energy increases in the case of black particles. On the contrary in the case of grey particles the second Mueller moment decreases with energy. It can be concluded that as energy increases correlation among the black particles increases. On the other hand with the increase of energy correlation among the grey particles is found to diminish.

title: Evidence of different reaction mechanisms for hot and cold events in relativistic heavy-ion interaction
abstract: This paper reports evidence of different reaction mechanisms for two classes of events, ''hot,'' and ''cold,'' in /sup 12/C emulsion at 4.5 (GeV/c)/N observed by Ghosh et al., from a comparison of the transverse-momentum (P/sub T/) distribution with a mixture of two Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions with different temperatures. The hypothesis is substantiated by the significant difference, for ''hot'' and ''cold'' events, in the values of the average number of pions produced, average emission angle of ..cap alpha..-projectile fragments, and ratio of yield of ..cap alpha.. particles to protons as projectile fragments.

title: NON-STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS OF PIONS FOR RING- AND JET-LIKE EVENTS AT CERN SPS ENERGY — AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS WITH FACTORIAL CORRELATOR
abstract: This study reveals the analysis of ring-like and jet-like events in terms of factorial correlations of 16O–Ag/Br interactions at 60A GeV. The investigation revealed that the correlated moments are found to increase with decreasing bin–bin separation D and follows a power-law which suggests the presence of an intermittent nature of self-similar dynamical fluctuations pattern for ring-like and jet-like events. From the analysis we find that for jet-like events the strength of non-statistical fluctuation is greater than the ring-like and total event set. Jet-like events follow the bin size independence according to α model of intermittency as like total events, whereas ring-like events are not consistent with the prediction of α model of intermittency.

title: Entropy scaling in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions
abstract: We studied the multiparticle production in high-energy nucleus–nucleus interactions in terms of particle entropy in 16O–AgBr and 32S–AgBr interactions at 60 A GeV and 200 A GeV, respectively. An approximate scaling behavior of total produced entropy normalized to maximum rapidity in the center of mass frame measured in different rapidity bins has been reported. The scaling behavior is not supported either by the FRITIOF model or by the Monte Carlo simulated events.

title: B decay anomalies in an effective theory
abstract: We investigate how far a new physics scenario affecting primarily the third-generation fermions can ameliorate the tension between $B$ decay observables and Standard Model expectations. Adopting a model-independent approach, we find that among the three observables that show signs of such a tension, viz., the branching fractions for ${B}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\nu}$, ${B}_{d}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}D({D}^{*})\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\nu}$, and the like-sign dimuon anomaly in neutral $B$ decays, the first two can be explained adequately, while there is only a marginal improvement for the third. As a spin-off, it is shown that one can also accommodate a change in the branching fraction of the Higgs boson to a $\ensuremath{\tau}$ lepton pair from the Standard Model expectation, if such a change is established in future data.

title: Exploring two universal extra dimensions at the CERN LHC
abstract: A bstractWe discuss the signatures, at the LHC, of the (1,0)-th Kaluza-Klein (KK) gluon and quarks in the framework of the two universal extra dimensional (2UED) model. Once produced, these particles typically suffer a cascade of decays terminating in the Dark Matter candidate apart from Standard Model particles. In this article, we are interested in focus on a particular signature of 2UED wherein the final state comprises of at least four jets in association with a hard photon and missing transverse energy. Several kinematic cuts are devised to enhance the signal to background ratio. Finally, as a road map to parameter determination at the LHC, we point out an interesting correlation between the peak position of the Meff distributions with the compactification radius R and the cut-off scale Ms.

title: MSSM in view of PAMELA and Fermi-LAT
abstract: We take the MSSM as a complete theory of low energy phenomena, including neutrino masses and mixings. This immediately implies that the gravitino is the only possible dark matter candidate. We study the implications of the astrophysical experiments such as PAMELA and Fermi-LAT, on this scenario. The theory can account for both the realistic neutrino masses and mixings, and the PAMELA data as long as the slepton masses lie in the 500 − 106 TeV range. The squarks can be either light or heavy, depending on their contribution to radiative neutrino masses. On the other hand, the Fermi-LAT data imply heavy superpartners, all out of LHC reach, simply on the grounds of the energy scale involved, for the gravitino must weigh more than 2TeV. The perturbativity of the theory also implies an upper bound on its mass, approximately 6 −

title: QCD analysis of polarized parton densities
abstract: We present the results of QCD fits to global data on deep-inelastic polarized lepton-hadron scattering. We find that it is possible to fit the data with strongly broken SU(2) flavor for the polarized sea densities. This can be tested in W production at the polarized BNL RHIC. The data fail to pin down polarized singlet sea quark and gluon densities. We explore the uncertainties in detail and show that improvement in statistics, achievable at the polarized DESY HERA for measurement of A 1 at moderately low values of x, have large payoffs in terms of the improvement in measurement of gluon densities.

title: New Source of CP Violation in B Physics
abstract: In this talk we discuss how the down type left-right squark mixing in Supersymmetry can induce a new source of CP violation in the time dependent asymmtries in B --> phi K process. We use QCD improved factorization process to calculate the hadronic matrix element for the process and find the allowed parameter space for $\rho $ and $\phi $, the magnitude and phase of the down type LR(RL) squark mixing parameter $\delta^{bs}_{LR(RL)}$. In the same allowed regin we calculate the expected CP asymmtries in the $B \to \phi K^{*}$ process.