Quark condensate in two-flavor QCD
We compute the condensate in QCD with two flavors of dynamical fermions using numerical simulation. The simulations use overlap fermions, and the condensate is extracted by fitting the distribution of low-lying eigenvalues of the Dirac operator in sectors of fixed topological charge to the predictions of Random Matrix Theory.

title: Renormalization of bilinear quark operators for overlap fermions
abstract: We present nonperturbative renormalization constants of fermionic bilinears on the lattice in the quenched approximation at {beta}=6.1 using an overlap [H. Neuberger,  (1998)] fermion action with hypercubic (HYP)-blocked links. We consider the effects of the exact zero modes of the Dirac operator and find they are important in calculating the renormalization constants of the scalar and pseudoscalar density. The results are given in the RI' and MS schemes and compared to perturbative calculations.

title: Oscillatory behavior of the domain wall fermions revisited
abstract: In the generic domain wall fermion formulation of chiral fermions on the lattice, the zero modes of the four-dimensional Wilson fermion operator with the negative mass parameter -M-5 introduce unphysical massive modes propagating in the four-dimensional spacetime. In the free fermion case, the pole mass of this kind of unphysical modes is given by (E) over bar = ln(1-M-5), which acquires an imaginary part, i pi, when M-5 > 1 and results in an oscillatory behavior of the domain wall fermion propagator in time. The existence of the unphysical modes in the presence of gauge fields is investigated in the mean field approximation, and their physical consequences are discussed. In addition, we also give a semiquantitative criterion for tuning M-5 in the realistic numerical study.

title: Lattice QCD calculation of form factors describing the rare decays $B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \ell^+ \ell^-$
abstract: The rare decays $B^0 \to K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ are now being observed with enough precision to test Standard Model predictions. A full understanding of these decays requires accurate determinations of the corresponding hadronic form factors. Here we present results of lattice QCD calculations of the $B \to K^*$ and $B_s \to \phi$ form factors; we also determine the form factors relevant for the tree-level decays $B_s \to K^* \ell \nu$. We use full-QCD configurations including 2+1 flavors of sea quarks using an improved staggered action, and we employ lattice non-relativistic QCD to describe the bottom quark.

title: Lattice study on $\eta_{c2}$ and X(3872)
abstract: Properties of 2(-+) charmonium eta(c2) are investigated in quenched lattice QCD. The mass of eta(c2) is determined to be 3.80(3) GeV, which is close to the mass of D-wave charmonium psi(3770) and in agreement with quark model predictions. The transition width of eta(c2) -> gamma J/psi is also obtained with a value of Gamma = 3.8(9) keV. Since the possible 2(-+) assignment to X(3872) has not been ruled out by experiments, our results help to clarify the nature of X(3872). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.014501

title: Moments of meson distribution functions with dynamical twisted mass fermions
abstract: We present our preliminary results on the lowest moment hxi of quark distribution functions of the pion using two flavor dynamical simulations with Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist. The calculation is done in a range of pion masses from 300 to 500 MeV. A stochastic source method is used to reduce inversions in calculating propagators. Finite volume effects at the lowest quark mass are examined by using two different lattice volumes. Our results show that we achieve statistical errors of only a few percent. We plan to compute renormalization constants non-perturbatively and extend the calculation to two more lattice spacings and to the nucleons.

title: M5-branes in AdS$_4 \times Q^{1,1,1}$ spacetime
abstract: In this paper, we study the M5-brane configurations in AdS$_4 \times Q^{1,1,1}$ spacetime. We consider the configurations with an AdS$_2$ factor embedding into AdS$_4$, and manage to construct two solutions, which could be dual to line defects in the boundary gauge theory. Moreover we discuss their BPS nature and find that neither of them is supersymmetric. We show that the M5-brane with a R$_t$ or an AdS$_3$ factor found before is half-BPS.

title: Inclusive $\pi^0$ and $K^0_{S}$ production in two photon collisions at LEP
abstract: The reactions e + e − →e + e − π 0 X and e + e − →e + e − K S 0 X are studied using data collected at LEP with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 202 GeV. Inclusive differential cross sections are measured as a function of the particle transverse momentum p t and the pseudo-rapidity. For p t ⩽1.5 GeV, the π 0 and K S 0 differential cross sections are described by an exponential, typical of soft hadronic processes. For p t ⩾1.5 GeV, the cross sections show the presence of perturbative QCD processes, described by a power-law. The data are compared to Monte Carlo predictions and to NLO QCD calculations.

title: Evidence for gluon interference in hadronic Z decays
abstract: We present evidence for soft gluon interference, as required by QCD. This interference is expected to manifest itself in an angular ordering of the gluons radiated within a jet. Using hadronic decays of the Z boson in the L3 detector at LEP, we compare variables sensitive to such an angular ordering, namely the energy-energy correlation asymmetry and the newly introduced particle-particle correlation asymmetry, with the predictions of various parton shower models. Only those models which incorporate the expected interference agree with the data.

title: Colored resonant signals at the LHC: largest rate and simplest topology
abstract: We study the colored resonance production at the LHC in a most general approach. We classify the possible colored resonances based on group theory decomposition, and construct their effective interactions with light partons. The production cross section from annihilation of valence quarks or gluons may be on the order of 400–1000 pb at LHC energies for a mass of 1 TeV with nominal couplings, leading to the largest production rates for new physics at the TeV scale, and simplest event topology with dijet final states. We apply the new dijet data from the LHC experiments to put bounds on various possible colored resonant states. The current bounds range from 0.9 to 2.7 TeV. The formulation is readily applicable for future searches including other decay modes.

title: The $\bar B \bar B$ strong interaction with chiral perturbation theory
abstract: We study the strong interaction potentials of up to order with the heavy meson chiral perturbation theory. Besides the leading contributions from the contact terms we also consider the one-loop corrections to the contact diagrams and the contributions from the 2ϕ-exchange diagrams. Hopefully, the analytical structures of our result will be helpful in the extrapolation of the relevant heavy meson interaction in the lattice QCD simulation.