Brane worlds in critical gravity
Recently, Lu and Pope proposed critical gravities in . In this paper we construct analytic brane solutions in critical gravity with matter. The Gibbons- Hawking surface term and junction condition are investigated, and the thin and thick brane solutions are obtained. All these branes are embedded in five- dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Our solutions are stable against scalar perturbations, and the zero modes of scalar perturbations cannot be localized on the branes.

title: Competition between s-wave order and d-wave order in holographic superconductors
abstract: A bstractWe study competition between s-wave order and d-wave order through two holographic superconductor models. We find that once the coexisting phase appears, it is always thermodynamically favored, and that the coexistence phase is narrow and one condensate tends to kill the other. The phase diagram is constructed for each model in terms of temperature and the ratio of charges of two orders. We further compare the behaviors of some thermodynamic quantities, and discuss the different aspects and identical ones between two models.

title: Hidden conformal symmetry of the Kerr-Newman black hole
abstract: We investigate the hidden conformal symmetry of the 4-dimensional non-extremal Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole with the idea of the near-region Kerr/CFT correspondence proposed by Castro, Maloney and Strominger in arXiv:1004.0996[hep-th]. The near-region KN black hole is dual to a 2D CFT with left and right temperatures TL = (2M2 − Q2)/(4πJ) and $ {T_R} = {{{\sqrt { - {J^2} - } }} \left/ {{\left( } \right.Hawking entropy and precisely match the absorption cross section of a near-region scalar field in the KN black hole with the finite-temperature absorption cross section for a 2D CFT.

title: Non-relativistic Josephson junction from holography
abstract: A bstractWe construct a Josephson junction in non-relativistic case with a Lifshitz geometry as the dual gravity. We investigate the effect of the Lifshitz scaling in comparison with its relativistic counterpart. The standard sinusoidal relation between the current and the phase difference is found for various Lifshitz scalings characterised by the dynamical critical exponent. We also find the exponential decreasing relation between the condensate of the scalar operator within the barrier at zero current and the width of the weak link, as well as the relation between the critical current and the width. Nevertheless, the coherence lengths obtained from two exponential decreasing relations generically have discrepancies for non-relativistic dual.

title: Thermodynamic geometry of black hole in the deformed Hořava-Lifshitz gravity
abstract: We investigate the thermodynamic geometry and phase transition of Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole in the deformed Hořava-Lifshitz gravity with coupling constant λ = 1. The phase transition in black-hole thermodynamics is thought to be associated with the divergence of the capacities. And the structures of these divergent points are studied. We also find that the thermodynamic curvature produced by the Ruppeiner metric is positive definite for all r+ > r− and is divergent at η2 = 0 corresponding to the divergent points of CΦ and CT . These results suggest that the microstructure of the black hole has an effective repulsive interaction, which is very similar to the ideal gas of fermions. These may shed some light on the microstructure of the black hole.

title: Fermions coupled with self-dual vortex background on a torus
abstract: We study fermionic zero modes in the self-dual vortex background on an extra torus in 5+1 dimensions. It is shown that the self-dual vortex arises from the symmetric phase and the asymmetric phase of Higgs field in the context of generalized Abelian Higgs model. Then we analyze the Dirac operator on the extra two-dimensional space and the effective Lagrangian of four-dimensional fermion with the vortex background. Solving the Dirac equation, we obtain the fermionic zero modes in two simple cases. It is shown that the vortex background contributes a phase shift to the fermionic zero modes, and this phase is determined by the topology of the extra dimensions, it can be observed through Aharonov-Bohm effect. For the anti-vortex case, the corresponding zero modes present a singular behavior at the zero point of Higgs field. While for the vacuum one, they are non-singular.

title: Measurement of Drell-Yan cross sections and flavor asymmetry in the nucleon sea
abstract: Measurements of Drell-Yan cross sections from the bombardment of liquid deuterium and hydrogen with an 800 GeV proton beam are reported. The relative cross section (σpd/2σpp) directly probes the ratio of anti-down (d) to anti-up (ū) quarks in the nucleon sea, while absolute measurement of the deuterium cross section constrain d+ū. Results are compared with previous experiments and next-to-leading order calculations based on current sets of parton distribution functions.

title: Positive energy theorem for (4+1)-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes
abstract: We define the total energy-momenta for (4+1)-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, which comes from the boundary terms at infinity in the integral form of the Weitzenböck formula. Then we prove the positive energy theorem for such spacetimes, following Witten’s original arguments for the positive energy theorem in asymptotically flat spacetimes.

title: Three-dimensional two-layer outer gap model: the third peak of vela pulsar
abstract: We extend the two-dimensional two-layer outer gap model to a three-dimensional geometry and use it to study the high-energy emission of the Vela pulsar. We apply this three-dimensional two-layer model to the Vela pulsar and compare the model light curves, the phase-averaged spectrum and the phase-resolved spectra with the recent Fermi observations, which also reveals the existence of the third peak between two main peaks. The phase position of the third peak moves with the photon energy, which cannot be explained by the geometry of magnetic field structure and the caustic effect of the photon propagation. We suggest that the existence of the third peak and its energy dependent movement results from the azimuthal structure of the outer gap.

title: Scale-invariant fluctuations from Galilean genesis
abstract: We study the spectrum of cosmological fluctuations in scenarios such as Galilean Genesis \cite{Nicolis} in which a spectator scalar field acquires a scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations during an early phase which asymptotes in the far past to Minkowski space-time. In the case of minimal coupling to gravity and standard scalar field Lagrangian, the induced curvature fluctuations depend quadratically on the spectator field and are hence non-scale-invariant and highly non-Gaussian. We show that if higher dimensional operators (the same operators that lead to the η-problem for inflation) are considered, a linear coupling between background and spectator field fluctuations is induced which leads to scale-invariant and Gaussian curvature fluctuations.

title: Measurements of the continuum R(uds) and R values in e(+)e(-) annihilation in the energy region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV.
abstract: We report measurements of the continuum R(uds) near the center-of-mass energy of 3.70 GeV, the R[uds(c)+psi(3770)](s) and the R(had)(s) values in e(+)e(-) annihilation at 68 energy points in the energy region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC Collider. We obtain the R(uds) for the continuum light hadron (containing u, d, and s quarks) production near the DD threshold to be R(uds)=2.141+/-0.025+/-0.085.