Stable operation of a 300-m laser interferometer with sufficient sensitivity to detect gravitational-wave events within our galaxy.
TAMA300, an interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 300-m baseline length, has been developed and operated with sufficient sensitivity to detect gravitational-wave events within our galaxy and sufficient stability for observations; the interferometer was operated for over 10 hours stably and continuously. With a strain-equivalent noise level of h approximately 5x10(-21)/sqrt[Hz], a signal-to-noise ratio of 30 is expected for gravitational waves generated by a coalescence of 1.4M-1.4M binary neutron stars at 10 kpc distance. We evaluated the stability of the detector sensitivity with a 2-week data-taking run, collecting 160 hours of data to be analyzed in the search for gravitational waves.

title: Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries
abstract: We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an intercollaboration coincidence search during times when TAMA300 and only one of the LIGO sites were operational. We find no evidence of any gravitational wave signals. We place an observational upper limit on the rate of binary neutron star coalescence with component masses between 1 and 3M⊙ of 49 per year per Milky Way equivalent galaxy at a 90% confidence level. The methods developed during this search will find application in future network inspiral analyses.

title: Nonleptonic Decays of Charmed Mesons in the Quark Model

title: The Lowest (1/2+ and 0-) Hadron Masses and the Behavior of the Constituent Quarks
abstract: Masses of the lowest lying hadrons and the behavior of constituent quarks are discussed on the analysis of their electromagnetic properties, based on QCD. We find that light quarks (u and d) in the hadrons move with the velocity ::::O.Sc; s quark, with :$0.7c; c quark, with nearly 0.3c. Then we know that the confinement force, no matter what kind of confinement one prefers, does not mainly contribute to the hadron masses. It is also conjectured that Jv,-eJilu-d J;=;[v1,-,11[/Jc-sJ;=;Jv,-rJ/ lt-bl and m,:-::23 GeV on the assumption of the ex­ istence of the next layer. Masses of quarks, of which a hadron is built, are assumed arbitrarily to be from zero to infinity on the argument of various hadronic processes, but the constituent quark masses seem to be mu:-::330 and ms:-::510 (in units of MeV) in the inter­ mediate region at which the magnetic moments and the spectroscopy of hadrons are discussed.ll Can 7r have a mass of an order of one hundred MeV, when it is considered that it is a bound state of such quarks? How do the quarks behave in 7r or other hadrons? This note will con­ tribute to the analysis of the lowest lying hadron masses on the basis of the analysis of the electromagnetic properties by follow­ ing the previous discussions. 2>

title: Effective System for Simulating Dust Continuum Observations on Distributed Computing Resources
abstract: We present an effective system for simulating dust continuum observations by radiative transfer simulations. By using workflow management system RENKEI-WFT, we utilized distributed computing resources and automated a sequence of computational tasks required for radiative transfer modeling, namely, main radiative transfer simulations, pre-/post-processes, and data transfer between computing resources. Our system simultaneously executes a lot of radiative transfer simulations with different input parameters on distributed computing resources. This capability of our system enables us to conduct effective research by radiative transfer simulation. As a demonstration of our system, we simulated dust continuum observations of protoplanetary disk. We performed hydrodynamic simulation modeling photoevaporating protoplanetary disk irradiated by ultra violet radiation from nearby massive stars. Results of this hydrodynamic simulation were used as input data for radiative transfer simulations. Expected spectral energy distributions and intensity maps were obtained by our system.

title: Electromagnetic Mass Differences of Lowest Lying Hadrons and Behavior of Quarks in Hadrons

title: Composite flavor-singlet scalar in twelve-flavor QCD
abstract: We report the calculation of the flavor-singlet scalar in the SU(3) gauge theory with the degenerate twelve fermions in the fundamental representation using a HISQ-type action at a fixed $\beta$. In order to reduce the large statistical error coming from the vacuum-subtracted disconnected correlator, we employ a noise reduction method and a large number of configurations. We observe that the flavor-singlet scalar is lighter than the pion in this theory from the calculations with the fermion bilinear and gluonic operators. This peculiar feature is considered to be due to the infrared conformality of this theory, and it is a promissing signal for a walking technicolor, where a light composite Higgs boson is expected to emerge by approximate conformal dynamics.