Invariant-mass distribution of c anti-c in Upsilon(1S) ---> c anti-c + X

title: Exclusive heavy quarkonium + γ production from e+e-annihilation into a virtual photon
abstract: We compute the cross section for exclusive production of a photon associated with a heavy quarkonium H of charge-conjugation parity C=+1 from e{sup +}e{sup -} annihilation into a virtual photon at the center-of-momentum energy {radical}(s)=10.58 GeV. The nonrelativistic QCD factorization formulas for the differential and total cross sections are obtained at leading order in the strong coupling and in the relative velocity of the heavy quark in the quarkonium rest frame. The predicted cross sections for the S-wave spin-singlet cases are about 80 fb and 50 fb for H={eta}{sub c} and {eta}{sub c}(2S), respectively. Among P-wave spin-triplet charmonia, {chi}{sub c1} has a particularly large cross section of about 14 fb. The cross sections for bottomonium states {eta}{sub b} and {chi}{sub bJ} are about 3 fb. A rough estimate of the background reveals that the signal significances for charmonium processes are sufficiently large enough to be detected with ease with the integrated luminosities available at the present B factories.

title: Exclusive spin-2 glueball production associated with J/ψ from e +e- annihilation

title: Polarization of prompt J/ in proton-proton collisions at RHIC
abstract: Within the framework of the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization approach, we compute the polarization of prompt J/{psi} produced at the Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider from proton-proton collisions at the center-of-momentum energy {radical}(s)=200 GeV. The perturbative contributions are computed at leading order in the strong coupling constant. The prediction reveals that the color-singlet contribution severely underestimates the PHENIX preliminary data for the differential cross section integrated over the rapidity range |y|<0.35 and its contribution is strongly transversely polarized, which disagrees with the PHENIX preliminary data. After including the color-octet contributions, we find that the NRQCD predictions for both the cross section and polarization over the transverse-momentum range 1.5 GeV<p{sub T}<5 GeV (1.5 GeV<p{sub T}<2 GeV) integrated over the rapidity range |y|<0.35 (1.2<|y|<2.2) agree with the data within errors.

title: A Measurement of the Michel Parameters in Leptonic Decays of the Tau
abstract: We have measured the spectral shape Michel parameters {rho} and {eta} using leptonic decays of the {tau}, recorded by the CLEO II detector. Assuming e-{mu} universality, we find {rho}{sub e{mu}}= 0.735 {+-} 0.013 {+-} 0.008 and {eta}{sub e{mu}} = 0.015 {+-} 0.061 {+-} 0.062, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic.

title: Double quarkonium production at the LHC

title: A vacuum tolerant high voltage system with a low noise and low power Cockcroft–Walton photomultiplier base
abstract: We developed a high voltage system for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the KOTO detector. The system is designed around a low noise, low power Cockcroft–Walton (CW) photomultiplier tube base with a high gain preamplifier. The low power makes it suitable for operations in vacuum. The low noise and high gain allow detecting signals in the 1 MeV range. We achieved a final noise level below 180 μ V rms for a preamplifier gain of more than 40. A vacuum tolerant control system for the CW bases power distribution was also designed. This system is able to control and monitor the high voltage of each individual base.

title: Measurement of the neutron radius of 208Pb through parity violation in electron scattering.
abstract: We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry A(PV) in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from 208Pb. A(PV) is sensitive to the radius of the neutron distribution (R(n)). The result A(PV)=0.656±0.060(stat)±0.014(syst) ppm corresponds to a difference between the radii of the neutron and proton distributions R(n)-R(p)=0.33(-0.18)(+0.16) fm and provides the first electroweak observation of the neutron skin which is expected in a heavy, neutron-rich nucleus.

title: Holomorphic supersymmetric Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with application to dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking
abstract: Based on our idea of an alternative supersymmetrization of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model for dynamical symmetry breaking, we analyze the resulting new model with a holomorphic dimension-five operator in the superpotential. The approach provides a new direction for modeling dynamical symmetry breaking in a supersymmetric setting. In particular, we adopt the idea to formulate a model that gives rise to the minimal supersymmetric standard model as the low energy effective theory with both Higgs superfields as composites. A renormalization group analysis is performed to establish the phenomenological viability of the scenario, with admissible background scale that could go down to the TeV scale. We give the Higgs mass range predicted.

title: Systematic Investigation of Possibilities for New Physics Effects in b → s Penguin Processes
abstract: Although recent experimental results in b → s penguin process seem to be roughly consistent with the standard model predictions, there may be still large possibilities of new physics hiding in these processes. Therefore, here we investigate systematically the potential new physics effects that may appear in time-dependent CP asymmetries of B → φK 0 , B → η � K 0 and B → K 0 π 0 decay modes, by classifying the cases for the values of the mixinginduced indirect CP asymmetries, SφK0 ,S ηK0 ,S K0π0 which are compared to SJ/ψK0 .W e also show that several Bs decay modes may help to resolve the ambiguities in such an analysis. Through combining analysis with the time-dependent CP asymmetries of Bs decay modes such as Bs → φη � , Bs → η � π 0 and Bs → K 0 K 0

title: VI Photometry of Globular Clusters NGC 6293 and NGC 6541: The Formation of the Metal-poor Inner Halo Globular Clusters*
abstract: We present VI photometry of the metal-poor inner halo globular clusters NGC 6293 and NGC 6541 using the WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our color-magnitude diagrams of the clusters show well-defined blue horizontal-branch populations, consistent with their low metallicities and old ages. NGC 6293 appears to have blue straggler stars in the cluster's central region. We discuss the interstellar reddening and the distance modulus of NGC 6293 and NGC 6541 and obtain E(B - V) = 0.40 and (m - M)0 = 14.61 for NGC 6293 and E(B - V) = 0.14 and (m - M)0 = 14.19 for NGC 6541. Our results confirm that NGC 6293 and NGC 6541 are clearly located in the Galaxy's central regions (RGC ≤ 3 kpc). We also discuss the differential reddening across NGC 6293. The interstellar reddening value of NGC 6293 appears to vary by ΔE(B - V) ≈ 0.02-0.04 mag within our small field of view. The most notable result of our study is that the inner halo clusters NGC 6293 and NGC 6541 essentially have the same ages as M92, confirming the previous result from the HST NIC3 observations of NGC 6287.