Search for dark matter at high-power laser facilities : flawed luminosity calculations in QPS -- Quasi parallel scattering
I point the erroneous use, in several papers published recently, of the well known expression for the luminosity of the head-on collision of two particle bunches, in a QPS -- Quasi parallel scattering -- configuration, in which the two beams are co-propagating, and the collision of individual particles takes place at a small angle wrt co-propagation.

title: Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B-meson decays to the charmless two-body states K0 pi+, anti-K0 K+, and K0 anti-K0

title: Measurement of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$ with $B \to \rho e \nu$ decays

title: Operation of the Cherenkov detector DIRC of BABAR at high luminosity
abstract: The DIRC (acronym for Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (light)) is the ring imaging Cherenkov detector of the BABAR detector at the PEP-II ring of SLAC. It provides the identification of pions, kaons and protons for momenta up to 4 GeV/c with high efficiency. This is needed to reconstruct CP-violating B-decay final states and to provide B-meson flavour tagging for time dependent asymmetry measurements. The DIRC radiators consists of long rectangular bars made of synthetic fused silica and the photon detector is a water tank equipped with an array of 10.752 conventional photomultipliers. At the end of the year 2000 BABAR has recorded about 22 million B~B pairs reaching the design luminosity of L=3/spl middot/10/sup 33//cm/sup 2/s. The ability to keep the beam background level low at highest collision rates and the long term reliability of the DIRC components during continuous data taking are requirements of BABAR to accomplish its physics program.

title: Branching fraction for $B^{+} \to \pi^0 \ell^{+} \nu$, measured in $\upsilon_{4S} \to B \bar{B}$ events tagged by $B^{-} \to D^0 \ell^{-}$ anti-v ($X$) decays

title: Improved Measurement of CP Violation in Neutral B Decays to c cs

title: Conformal Field Theories of Stochastic Loewner Evolutions
abstract: Stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLEκ) are random growth processes of sets, called hulls, embedded in the two dimensional upper half plane. We elaborate and develop a relation between SLEκ evolutions and conformal field theories (CFT) which is based on a group theoretical formulation of SLEκ processes and on the identification of the proper hull boundary states. This allows us to define an infinite set of SLEκ zero modes, or martingales, whose existence is a consequence of the existence of a null vector in the appropriate Virasoro modules. This identification leads, for instance, to linear systems for generalized crossing probabilities whose coefficients are multipoint CFT correlation functions. It provides a direct link between conformal correlation functions and probabilities of stopping time events in SLEκ evolutions. We point out a relation between SLEκ processes and two dimensional gravity and conjecture a reconstruction procedure of conformal field theories from SLEκ data.

title: The Gaussian Free Field and SLE4 on Doubly Connected Domains
abstract: The level lines of the Gaussian free field are known to be related to SLE4. It is shown how this relation allows to define chordal SLE4 processes on doubly connected domains, describing traces that are anchored on one of the two boundary components. The precise nature of the processes depends on the conformally invariant boundary conditions imposed on the second boundary component. Extensions of Schramm’s formula to doubly connected domains are given for the standard Dirichlet and Neumann conditions and a relation to first-exit problems for Brownian bridges is established. For the free field compactified at the self-dual radius, the extended symmetry leads to a class of conformally invariant boundary conditions parametrised by elements of SU(2). It is shown how to extend SLE4 to this setting. This allows for a derivation of new passage probabilities à la Schramm that interpolate continuously from Dirichlet to Neumann conditions.

title: Strong–weak coupling duality in anisotropic current interactions
abstract: The recently proposed all orders β function for current interactions in two dimensions is further investigated. By using a strong–weak coupling duality of the β function, and some added topology of the space of couplings we are able to extend the flows to arbitrarily large or small scales. Using a nontrivial RG invariant we are able to identify sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon and Kosterlitz–Thouless phases. We also find an additional phase with cyclic or roaming RG trajectories.

title: (Perturbed) Conformal Field Theory Applied to 2D Disordered Systems: An Introduction
abstract: These lectures will probably look too elementary to experts in disordered systems. It will perhaps be more appropriate as an introduction to this field for conformai field theorists.

title: On Root Multiplicities of Some Hyperbolic Kac–Moody Algebras
abstract: Using the coset construction, we compute the root multiplicities at level-3 for some hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras including the basic hyperbolic extension of A11 and E10.