New Color-Octet Vector Boson?
Both CDF and D0 at Tevatron reported the measurements of forward-backward asymmetry in top pair production, which showed possible deviation from the standard model QCD prediction. In this paper, we show that a new color-octet massive vector boson with mass just above twice that of top quark can simultaneously account for the asymmetry and differential distribution $d\sigma/dM_{t\bar t}$ in top pair production, without conflict with other measurements for example di-jet production. The new particle can be discovered and studied at the more powerful Large Hadron Collider.

title: Distinguishing the Color Octet Axial-Vector-like Particle for Top Quark Asymmetry via Color Flow Method at the LHC
abstract: Li Xia Wan You-kai Wang , and Shou-hua Zhu 1 State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC), Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China 3 Institute of Theoretical Physics & State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 4 Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China ( May 7, 2014)

title: Study of the data taking strategy for a high precision τ mass measurement
abstract: To achieve a high precision τ mass measurement at the high luminosity experiment BESIII, Monte Carlo simulation and sampling technique are utilized to simulate various data taking cases for single and multi-parameter fits by virtue of which the optimal scheme is determined. The optimized proportion of luminosity distributed at selected points and the relation between precision and luminosity are obtained. In addition, the optimization of the fit scheme is confirmed by scrutinizing a variety of fit possibilities.

title: Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
abstract: Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in the galaxy power spectrum allow us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy data. We examine various issues important in the use of BAOs to probe dark energy. We find that if we assume a flat universe and priors on ?m, ?mh2, and ?bh2 as expected from the Planck mission, the constraints on dark energy parameters (w0, w') scale much less steeply with survey area than (area)-1/2 for a given redshift range. The constraints on the dark energy density ?X(z), however, do scale roughly with (area)-1/2 due to the strong correlation between H(z) and ?m (which reduces the effect of priors on ?m). Dark energy constraints from BAOs are very sensitive to the assumed linear scale of matter clustering and the redshift accuracy of the survey. For a BAO survey with 0.5 ? z ? 2, ? (R) = 0.4 [corresponding to kmax (z = 0) = 0.086 h Mpc-1], and ?z/ (1 + z) = 0.001, we find = (0.115,0.183) and (0.069, 0.104) for survey areas of 1000 and 10,000 deg2, respectively. We find that it is critical to minimize the bias in the scale estimates in order to derive reliable dark energy constraints. For a 1000 (10,000) deg2 BAO survey, a 1 ? bias in ln H (z) leads to a 2 ? (3 ?) bias in w'. The bias in w' due to the same scale bias from ln DA (z) is slightly smaller and opposite in sign. The results from this paper will be useful in assessing different proposed BAO surveys and guiding the design of optimal dark energy detection strategies.

title: Measuring accelerating universe with high-redshift GRBs data and other cosmological probes
abstract: A kinematical model (a parameterized deceleration parameter) and a dynamical model (a parameterized equation of state for dark energy) are constrained from the current observational data including the high-redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) data with a redshift range from 1.4 to 9. We obtain the stringent constraint on the values of current deceleration parameter q0, current jerk parameter j0, current equation of state for dark energy w0de and transition redshift zT. In addition, we compare the difference of the constraint results between the kinematical and the dynamical scenarios.

title: Transverse-Momentum Resummation for Gauge Boson Pair Production at the Hadron Collider
abstract: We perform the transverse-momentum resummation for $W^{+}W^{-}$, $ZZ$, and $W^{\pm}Z$ pair productions at the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy using soft-collinear effective theory for $\sqrt{S}=8 \text{TeV}$ and $\sqrt{S}=14 \text{TeV}$ at the LHC, respectively. Especially, this is the first calculation of $W^{\pm}Z$ transverse-momentum resummation. We also include the non-perturbative effects and discussions on the PDF uncertainties. Comparing with the next-to-leading logarithmic results, the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic resummation can reduce the dependence of the transverse-momentum distribution on the factorization scales significantly. Finally, we find that our numerical results are consistent with data measured by CMS collaboration for the $ZZ$ production, which have been only reported by the LHC experiments for the unfolded transverse-momentum distribution of the gauge boson pair production so far, within theoretical and experimental uncertainties.

title: RESIDUAL ENERGY IN MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC TURBULENCE
abstract: There is mounting evidence in solar wind observations and in numerical simulations that kinetic and magnetic energies are not in equipartition in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. The origin of their mismatch, the residual energy Er = Ev – Eb , is not understood well. In the present work this effect is studied analytically in the regime of weak MHD turbulence. We find that residual energy is spontaneously generated by turbulent dynamics, and it has a negative sign, in good agreement with the observations. We find that the residual energy condenses around k || = 0 with its k ||-spectrum broadening linearly with k ⊥, where k || and k ⊥ are the wavenumbers parallel and perpendicular to the background magnetic field, and the field-perpendicular spectrum of the residual energy has the scaling Er (k ⊥)∝k –1 ⊥ in the inertial interval. These results are found to be in agreement with numerical simulations. We propose that residual energy plays a fundamental role in Alfvenic turbulence and it should be taken into account for the correct interpretation of observational and numerical data.

title: Top Hypercharge
abstract: We propose a top hypercharge model with gauge symmetry SU(3)C ×SU(2)L × U(1)1 ×U(1)2 where the first two families of the Standard Model (SM) fermions are charged under U(1)1 while the third family is charged under U(1)2. The U(1)1×U(1)2 gauge symmetry is broken down to the U(1)Y gauge symmetry, when a SM singlet Higgs field acquires a vacuum expectation value. We consider the electroweak constraints, and compare the fit to experimental observables to that of the SM. We study the quark CKM mixing between the first two families and the third family, the neutrino masses and mixing, the flavour changing neutral current effects in meson mixing and decays, the Z ′ discovery potential at the Large Hadron Collider, the dark matter with a gauged Z2 symmetry, and the Higgs boson masses.