Search for CP violation in $B_s^0 \to \mu^+ D_s^- X$ decays in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
We have performed a search for CP violation in a sample of Bs0→μ+Ds-X decays corresponding to 5 fb-1 of proton-antiproton collisions collected by the D0 detector in Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. New physics in Bs0 mixing could contribute a significant CP violating weak phase, which would be observed as a difference in the decay-time distribution for Bs0→B s0 oscillated states versus that for B s0→Bs0. A fit to the decay-time distributions of the Bs0/B s0 candidates yields the flavor-specific asymmetry afss=[-1.7±9.1(stat)-1.5+1.4(syst)]×10-3, which excludes CP violation due to new physics within the experimental sensitivity.

title: Search for long-lived particles decaying into electron or photon pairs with the D0 detector.
abstract: In this Letter we report on a search for long-lived particles that decay into final states with two electrons or photons. Such long-lived particles arise in a variety of theoretical models, such as hidden valleys and supersymmetry with gauge-mediated breaking. By precisely reconstructing the direction of the electromagnetic shower we are able to probe much longer lifetimes than previously explored. We see no evidence of the existence of such long-lived particles and interpret this search as a quasi model-independent limit on their production cross section, as well as a limit on a long-lived fourth generation quark.

title: Precision measurement of the top quark mass in lepton + jets final States.
abstract: We measure the mass of the top quark in lepton+jets final states using the full sample of pp collision data collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV, corresponding to 9.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. We use a matrix element technique that calculates the probabilities for each event to result from tt production or background. The overall jet energy scale is constrained in situ by the mass of the W boson. We measure m(t) = 174.98 ± 0.76 GeV. This constitutes the most precise single measurement of the top-quark mass.

title: Measurement of angular correlations of jets at s=1.96 TeV and determination of the strong coupling at high momentum transfers
abstract: We present a measurement of the average value of a new observable at hadron colliders that is sensitive to QCD dynamics and to the strong coupling constant, while being only weakly sensitive to parton distribution functions. The observable measures the angular correlations of jets and is defined as the number of neighboring jets above a given transverse momentum threshold which accompany a given jet within a given distance Delta-R in the plane of rapidity and azimuthal angle. The ensemble average over all jets in an inclusive jet sample is measured and the results are presented as a function of transverse momentum of the inclusive jets, in different regions of Delta-R and for different transverse momentum requirements for the neighboring jets. The measurement is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.7 fb-1 collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 The results are well described by a perturbative QCD calculation in next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, corrected for non-perturbative effects. From these results, we extract the strong coupling and test the QCD predictions for its running over a range of momentum transfers of 50-400 GeV.

title: Jet energy scale determination in the D0 experiment
abstract: The calibration of jet energy measured in the DO detector is presented, based on p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, jet energies are measured using a sampling calorimeter composed of uranium and liquid argon as the passive and active media, respectively. This paper describes the energy calibration of jets performed with gamma+jet, Z+jet and dilet events, with jet transverse momentum p(T) > 6 GeV and pseudorapidity range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 3.6, The corrections are measured separately for data and simulation, achieving a precision of 1.4-1.8% for jets in the central part of the calorimeter ancl up to 3.5% for the jets with pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar = 3.0. Specific corrections are extracted to enhance the description of jet energy in simulation and in particular of the effects due to the flavor of the parton originating the jet, correcting biases up to 3-4% in jets with low PT originating from gluons and up to 6-8% in jets from b quarks.

title: Observation and properties of the orbitally excited B_(s2)(*) meson.
abstract: We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B_(s2)(*) in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B_(s2)(*) meson is measured to be 5839.6+/-1.1(stat)+/-0.7(syst) MeV/c(2), and its production rate relative to the B+ meson is measured to be [1.15+/-0.23(stat)+/-0.13(syst)]%.

title: Generalized twistors and geometric quantization

title: Neutron star's initial spin period distribution
abstract: We analyze different possibilities to explain the wide initial spin period distribution of radio pulsars presented by Noutsos et al. (2013). With a population synthesis modeling we demonstrate that magnetic field decay can be used to interpret the d ifference between the recent results by Noutsos et al. (2013) and those by Popov & Turolla (2012), where a much younger population of NSs associated with supernova remnants with known ages has been studied. In particular, an exponential field decay with τmag = 5 Myrs can produce a “tail” in the reconstructed initial spin period distribution (as obtained by N outsos et al. 2013) up to P0 > 1 s starting with a standard gaussian withh P0i= 0.3 s andσP = 0.15 s. Another option to explain the difference between initial spin period distributions from Noutsos et al. (2013) and Popov & Turolla (2012) — the emerging magnetic field — is also b riefly discussed.

title: Spontaneous compactification of d=11 supergravity due to Rarita-Schwinger fields
abstract: A characteristic feature of all the spontaneous compactification mechanisms so far proposed has been the consideration of only the boson sector of the theories being compactified, i.e., the vacuum values of the Fermi fields were assumed to be zero. Thus, in d = 11 supergravity one uses the Freund-Rubin mechanism of compactification due to antisymmetric tensor fields F/sub MNPQ/. This mechanism yielded in particular compactifications onto the round, squashed, and squashed with torsion seven-dimensional spheres. In the present paper, the Freund-Rubin mechanism is generalized to nonvanishing vacuum values of a Rarita-Schwinger field and is used to obtain a new solution of d = 11 supergravity

title: Spherically symmetric solutions of Yang-Mills equations in D=7 for arbitrary gauge group
abstract: Yang-Mills theory in D = 7 with arbitrary gauge group G is considered. By use of the octonionic algebra we reduce D = 7 Yang-Mills equations to the nonlinear ordinary differential equations (Ward equations). As an example, we write out the explicit form of some solutions, which are the seven-dimensional analogues of the d = 4 instanton.

title: Yang-Mills Flows on Nearly Kähler Manifolds and G2-Instantons
abstract: We consider Lie(G)-valued G-invariant connections on bundles over spaces $${G/H,\, \mathbb{R}\times G/H\, {\rm and}\, \mathbb{R}^2\times G/H}$$, where G/H is a compact nearly Kähler six-dimensional homogeneous space, and the manifolds $${\mathbb{R}\times G/H}$$ and $${\mathbb{R}^2\times G/H}$$ carry G2- and Spin(7)-structures, respectively. By making a G-invariant ansatz, Yang-Mills theory with torsion on $${\mathbb{R}\times G/H}$$ is reduced to Newtonian mechanics of a particle moving in a plane with a quartic potential. For particular values of the torsion, we find explicit particle trajectories, which obey first-order gradient or hamiltonian flow equations. In two cases, these solutions correspond to anti-self-dual instantons associated with one of two G2-structures on $${\mathbb{R}\times G/H}$$. It is shown that both G2-instanton equations can be obtained from a single Spin(7)-instanton equation on $${\mathbb{R}^2\times G/H}$$.