Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Particle in a Plasma
A review of the present situation and perspectives, in particular in the scope of a multi-Tev linear accelerator.

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

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

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: Dipolar SLEs
abstract: We present basic properties of Dipolar SLEs, a new version of stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLE) in which the critical interfaces end randomly on an interval of the boundary of a planar domain. We present a general argument explaining why correlation functions of models of statistical mechanics are expected to be martingales and we give a relation between dipolar SLEs and CFTs. We compute SLE excursion and/or visiting probabilities, including the probability for a point to be on the left/right of the SLE trace or that to be inside the SLE hull. These functions, which turn out to be harmonic, have a simple CFT interpretation. We also present numerical simulations of the ferromagnetic Ising interface that confirm both the probabilistic approach and the CFT mapping. Two types of stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLE) have been thoroughly studied, the chordal and the radial SLEs [1, 2, 3, 4]. The former describe random curves joining two points on the boundary of a simply connected planar domain while the latter describe curves joining one point on the boundary to a point in the bulk of the domain. They correspond to two inequivalent normalizations of conformal maps between simply connected domains in C.

title: Quantization of solitons and the restricted sine-Gordon model
abstract: We show how to compute form factors, matrix elements of local fields, in the restricted sine-Gordon model, at the reflectionless points, by quantizing solitons. We introduce (quantum) separated variables in which the Hamiltonians are expressed in terms of (quantum) τ-functions. We explicitly describe the soliton wave functions, and we explain how the restriction is related to an unusual hermitian structure. We also present a semi-classical analysis which enlightens the fact that the restricted sine-Gordon model corresponds to an analytical continuation of the sine-Gordon model, intermediate between sine-Gordon and KdV.

title: Conformal field theories in random domains and stochastic Loewner evolutions
abstract: We review the recently developed relation between the traditional algebraic approach to conformal field theories and the more recent probabilistic approach based on stochastic Loewner evolutions. It is based on implementing random conformal maps in conformal field theories.

title: EXCHANGE ALGEBRA AND EXOTIC SUPERSYMMETRY IN THE CHIRAL POTTS MODEL
abstract: We obtain an exchange algebra for the Chiral Potts model, the elements of which are linear in the parameters defining the rapidity curve. This enables us to connect the Chiral Potts model to a Uq(GL(2)) algebra. On the other hand, looking at the model from the S-matrix point of view relates it to a ZZN generalisation of the supersymmetric algebra.