Spin and Statistics of Gravitational Anyons
We determine the spin and statistics of a particle in 2 + 1 dimensions coupled to linearized gravity with a Chern-Simons term. The model and the results are compared to those of the corresponding abelian vector theory. The statistics emerge from the effective particle-particle interaction, while the spin is computed using the symmetric stress tensor of the system. We find that the spin-statistics relation is satisfied. In the gravitational case we show that while stress tensors are never gauge invariant, the Poincare generators are; in particular, despite subtleties peculiar to two spatial dimensions, there are no “superpotential” ambiguities in these generators.

title: Fusing the coordinates of quantum superspace
abstract: We introduce the notion of a fused quantum superplane by allowing for terms θθ ∼ x in the defining relations. We develop the differential calculus for a large class of fused quantum superplanes related to particular solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation.

title: Covariant field theory of the compactified closed bosonic string
abstract: We covariantly first-quantize, via the BRST approach, the closed bosonic string compactified on a torus — in particular the 18-dimensional theory with E8 × E8 gauge bosons. Further, we give the corresponding free field theory. Thus the model is ready for the introduction of string interactions, and may be very useful for the study of gauge interactions in string theories.

title: Free Field Approach to 2-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

title: Minimal models on Riemann surfaces
abstract: We extend the Coulomb gas representation of minimal model correlation functions to higher genius Riemann surfaces. Specifically, we incorporate the “BRS” structure of this representation into the operator formalism. This allows traces over the spectrum of a minimal model to be computed from traces over Fock spaces of a free scalar field. This our results are obtained by standard sewing techniques. The formulation is general, but we present here in particular the two-loop characters of the Ising model.

title: BV Structure of the Cohomology of Nilpotent Subalgebras and the Geometry of(W) Strings
abstract: AbstractGiven a simple, simply laced, complex Lie algebra 
$$\mathfrak{g}$$
corresponding to the Lie group G, let 
$$\mathfrak{n}_ + $$
 be thesubalgebra generated by the positive roots. In this Letter we construct aBV algebra 
$${\text{BV}}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
 whose underlying graded commutative algebra is given by the cohomology, with respect to 
$$\mathfrak{n}_ + $$
, of the algebra of regular functions on G with values in 
$$ \wedge (\mathfrak{n}_ + \backslash \mathfrak{g})$$
. We conjecture that 
$${\text{BV}}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
 describes the algebra of allphysical (i.e., BRST invariant) operators of the noncritical 
$$\mathcal{W}[\mathfrak{g}]$$
string. The conjecture is verified in the two explicitly known cases,
$$\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}$$
2 (the Virasoro string) and 
$$\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}$$
3 (the 
$$\mathcal{W}_3 $$
 string).

title: Measurement of the D ± production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
abstract: Heavy quark production in 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy pp collisions at the LHC is not necessarily flavour symmetric. The production asymmetry, A(P), between D-s(+) and D-s(-) mesons is studied using the phi pi(+/-) decay mode in a data sample of 1.0 fb(-1) collected with the LHCb detector. The difference between pi(+) and pi(-) detection efficiencies is determined using the ratios of fully reconstructed to partially reconstructed D*(+/-) decays. The overall production asymmetry in the D-s(+/-) rapidity region 2.0 to 4.5 with transverse momentum larger than 2 GeV is measured to be A(P) = (-0.33 +/- 0.22 +/- 0.10)%. This result can constrain models of heavy flavour production.

title: A New measurement of the spin dependent structure function g1(x) of the deuteron
abstract: We present a new measurement of the spin-dependent structure function g 1 d of the deuteron in deep inelastic scattering of 190 GeV polarised muons on polarised deuterons, in the kinematic range 0.003 x 2 Q 2 2 . This structure function is found to be negative at small x . The first moment Γ 1 d =∫ 0 1 g 1 d d x evaluated at Q 0 2 = 10 GeV 2 is 0.034 ± 0.009 (stat.) ± 0.006 (syst.). This value is below the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule prediction by three standard deviations. Using our earlier determination of Γ 1 p , we obtain Γ 1 p − Γ 1 n = 0.199 ± 0.038 which agrees with the Bjorken sum rule.

title: Measurement of CP asymmetry in $B^0_s \rightarrow D^{\mp}_s K^{\pm}$ decays
abstract: We report on measurements of the time-dependent CP violating observables in $B^0_s\rightarrow D^{\mp}_s K^{\pm}$ decays using a dataset corresponding to 1.0 fb$^{-1}$ of pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector. We find the CP violating observables $C_f=0.53\pm0.25\pm0.04$, $A^{\Delta\Gamma}_f=0.37\pm0.42\pm0.20$, $A^{\Delta\Gamma}_{\bar{f}}=0.20\pm0.41\pm0.20$, $S_f=-1.09\pm0.33\pm0.08$, $S_{\bar{f}}=-0.36\pm0.34\pm0.08$, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. We use these observables to make the first measurement of the CKM angle $\gamma$ in $B^0_s\rightarrow D^{\mp}_s K^{\pm}$ decays, finding $\gamma$ = (115$_{-43}^{+28}$)$^\circ$ modulo 180$^\circ$ at 68% CL, where the error contains both statistical and systematic uncertainties.

title: Polarised quark distributions in the nucleon from semi-inclusive spin asymmetries
abstract: We present a measurement of semi-inclusive spin asymmetries for positively and negatively charged hadrons from deep inelastic scattering of polarised muons on polarised protons and deuterons in the range 0.003 x Q 2 >1 GeV 2 . Compared to our previous publication on this subject, with the new data the statistical errors have been reduced by nearly a factor of two. From these asymmetries and our inclusive spin asymmetries we determine the polarised quark distributions of valence quarks and non-strange sea quarks at Q 2 =10 GeV 2 . The polarised u valence quark distribution, Δu v ( x ), is positive and the polarisation increases with x . The polarised d valence quark distribution, Δd v ( x ), is negative and the non-strange sea distribution, Δ q (x) , is consistent with zero over the measured range of x . We find for the first moments ∫ 0 1 Δu v (x) d x=0.77±0.10±0.08 , ∫ 0 1 Δd v (x) d x=−0.52±0.14±0.09 and ∫ 0 1 Δ q (x) d x=0.01±0.04±0.03 , where we assumed Δ u (x)=Δ d (x) . We also determine for the first time the second moments of the valence distributions ∫ 0 1 xΔq v (x) d x .

title: Search for CP violation in the decay $D^+ \to \pi^-\pi^+\pi^+$
abstract: A search for CP violation in the phase space of the decay $D^+\to\pi^-\pi^+\pi^+$ is reported using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb$^{-1}$, collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The Dalitz plot distributions for $3.1\times 10^6$ $D^+$ and $D^-$ candidates are compared with binned and unbinned model-independent techniques. No evidence for CP violation is found.