ON THE POTENTIAL OF LIGHT-BY-LIGHT SCATTERING FOR INVISIBLE AXION DETECTION
An experimental program is in progress, searching for possible non QED signals in elastic photon-photon scattering in the optical domain[1]. We examine here the potential of this process for the detection of a possible light pseudoscalar such as the axion.

title: Measurement of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$ with $B \to \rho e \nu$ decays

title: Branching fraction for $B^{+} \to \pi^0 \ell^{+} \nu$, measured in $\upsilon_{4S} \to B \bar{B}$ events tagged by $B^{-} \to D^0 \ell^{-}$ anti-v ($X$) decays

title: Improved Measurement of CP Violation in Neutral B Decays to c cs

title: Operation of the Cherenkov detector DIRC of BABAR at high luminosity
abstract: The DIRC (acronym for Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (light)) is the ring imaging Cherenkov detector of the BABAR detector at the PEP-II ring of SLAC. It provides the identification of pions, kaons and protons for momenta up to 4 GeV/c with high efficiency. This is needed to reconstruct CP-violating B-decay final states and to provide B-meson flavour tagging for time dependent asymmetry measurements. The DIRC radiators consists of long rectangular bars made of synthetic fused silica and the photon detector is a water tank equipped with an array of 10.752 conventional photomultipliers. At the end of the year 2000 BABAR has recorded about 22 million B~B pairs reaching the design luminosity of L=3/spl middot/10/sup 33//cm/sup 2/s. The ability to keep the beam background level low at highest collision rates and the long term reliability of the DIRC components during continuous data taking are requirements of BABAR to accomplish its physics program.

title: Measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B-meson decays to the charmless two-body states K0 pi+, anti-K0 K+, and K0 anti-K0

title: On the random vector potential model in two dimensions
abstract: The random vector potential model describes massless fermions coupled to a quenched random gauge field. We study its abelian and non-abelian versions. The abelian version can be completely solved using bosonization. We analyse the non-abelian model using its supersymmetric formulation and show, by a perturbative renormalization group computation, that it is asymptotically free at large distances. We also show that all the quenched chiral current correlation functions can be computed exactly, without using the replica trick or the supersymmetric formulation, but using an exact expression for the effective action for any sample of the random gauge field. These chiral correlation functions are purely algebraic.

title: On symmetries of some massless 2D field theories
abstract: We describe a few aspects of the quantum symmetries of some massless two-dimensional field theories. We discuss their relations with recent proposals for the factorized scattering theories of the massless PCM 1 and O(3) ϑ = π sigma models. We use these symmetries to propose massless factorized S -matrices for the su(2) sigma models with topological terms at any level, alias the PCM k models, and for the su(2)-coset massless flows.

title: Vertex Operator Solutions of¶2d Dimensionally Reduced Gravity
abstract: We apply algebraic and vertex operator techniques to solve two dimensional reduced vacuum Einstein's equations. This leads to explicit expressions for the coefficients of metrics solutions of the vacuum equations as ratios of determinants. No quadratures are left. These formulas rely on the identification of dual pairs of vertex operators corresponding to dual metrics related by the Kramer–Neugebauer symmetry.

title: Bosonic Kac-Moody string theories
abstract: We study the BRS cohomology of a bosonic string propagating on a group manifold, and we extract its algebraic structure. We also show how one-loop modular invariance can be obtained by combining the left and the right sectors.

title: From form factors to correlation functions. The Ising model
abstract: Using exact expressions for the Ising form factors, we give a new very simple proof that the spin-spin and disorder-disorder correlation functions are governed by the Painleve III nonlinear differential equation. We also snow that the generating function of the correlation functions of the descendents of the spin and disorder operators is an N -soliton, N → ∞, τ-funtion of the sinh-Gordon hierarchy. We discuss a relation of our approach to isomonodromy deformation problems, as well as further possible generalizations.