Search for direct CP violation in singly Cabibbo-suppressed D ±→K+K-π± decays
We report on a search for direct CP violation in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decay D^+→K^+K^-π^+ using a data sample of 476  fb^(-1) of e^+e^- annihilation data accumulated with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II electron-positron collider, running at and just below the energy of the Υ(4S) resonance. The integrated CP-violating decay rate asymmetry A_(CP) is determined to be (0.37±0.30±0.15)%. Model-independent and model-dependent Dalitz plot analysis techniques are used to search for CP-violating asymmetries in the various intermediate states. We find no evidence for CP-violation asymmetry.

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

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: An insulating grid spacer for large-area MICROMEGAS chambers
abstract: We present a novel design for large-area gaseous detectors based on the MICROMEGAS technology. This technology incorporates an insulating grid, sandwiched between the micro-mesh and the anode-pad plane, which provides a uniform 200 μm amplification gap. The uniformity of the amplification gap thickness has been verified. The gain performances of the detector are presented and compared to the values obtained with detectors using cylindrical micro spacers. The new design presents several technical and financial advantages.

title: Some Simple (Integrable) Models of Fractional Statistics
abstract: In the first part, we introduce the notion of fractional statistics in the sense of Haldane. We illustrate it on simple models related to anyon physics and to integrable models solvable by the Bethe ansatz. In the second part, we describe the properties of the long-range interacting spin chains. We describe its infinite dimensional symmetry, and we explain how the fractional statistics of its elementary excitations is an echo of this symmetry. In the third part, we review recent results on the Yangian representation theory which emerged from the study of the integrable long-range interacting models.

title: On the Wess-Zumino-Witten models on the torus☆
abstract: We discuss the Ward identities of the Wess-Zumino-Witten models on Riemann surfaces and point out some ambiguities in the description of the zero modes of the currents. In the case of the torus, we show how to describe them and we write the Ward identities in such a way that they become complete. We examine in detail how the Ward identities are related to the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition. As an illustration of this formulation, we present a new proof of the Weyl-Kac character formula. The proof essentially relies on the mixed Virasoro × Kac-Moody Ward identities and explains the relation of the heat equation on the group manifold to the Weyl-Kac character formula.

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: 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.