Scale anomaly and the scalars.
We investigate the properties of a possible low-lying scalar glueball as well as the ordinary scalar-quark states using an effective chiral Lagrangian which satisfies the trace anomaly and U(1)/sub A/ anomaly of QCD. An interesting mass bound for the lightest particle in the scalar-singlet channel is discussed. Detailed arguments against the existence of a very light (less than 400 MeV) scalar glueball are presented. It is shown that the introduction of a derivative-coupling term in the usual type of linear sigma model cures the problem of excessively large widths for the ordinary (nonet) scalar mesons. In fact, chiral symmetry enables one to nicely correlate the widths of the entire scalar nonet. It is noted that the same derivative-coupling term allows a heavy (1-2 GeV) scalar glueball to have sufficiently narrow width to permit its observation as an ordinary resonance, in contrast with a recent claim. Our model can naturally explain the unusually large partial width for the etaeta' mode of the glueball candidate G(1590). A symmetrical ansatz for the anomaly terms is suggested which enables one to successfully calculate the eta' mass as the ratio of gluon condensate to pion-decay constant. In addition, the theoretically interesting limit where the glueballmore » becomes a true dilaton is formulated in a new and illustrative way.« less

title: Chandra observations of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC6503
abstract: We have observed the nearby spiral galaxy NGC6503 using Chandra. Seven discrete sources associated with the galaxy have been found, one of them coincident with its Liner-starburst nucleus. One of the sources corresponds to a ULX with Lx >~ 10e39 ergs/s. Previous ROSAT observations of the galaxy show that this source has varied by at least a factor 3 in the last 6 years. No evidence is found for strong diffuse emission in the nuclear region or the presence of a low luminosity AGN.

title: A hamiltonian structure from gauge transformations of the Zakharov-Shabat system
abstract: We study a hamiltonian structure for nonlinear evolution equations arising from a class of gauge transformations of the Zakharov-Shabat system.

title: Investigating the process of star formation in young LMC star clusters
abstract: The rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are ideal for studying the process of star formation. Here we focus on the determination of age spreads amongst the massive stars in two young clusters, NGC1818 and NGC1805. We present colour magnitude diagrams (derived from HST data) for these clusters, and discuss the difficulties in age spread determination.

title: LASER WELDING OF STEEL PLATES WITH UNMACHINED EDGES

title: Beam commissioning of the PEP-II High Energy Ring
abstract: The PEP-II High Energy Ring (HER), a 9 GeV electron storage ring, has been in commissioning since spring 1997. Initial beam commissioning activities focused on systems checkout and commissioning and on determining the behaviour of the machine systems at high beam currents, This phase culminated with the accumulation of 0.75 A of stored beam-sufficient to achieve design luminosity-in January 1998 after 3.5 months of beam time. Collisions with the 3 GeV positron beam of the Low Energy Ring (LER) were achieved in Summer of 1998. At high beam currents, collective instabilities have been seen. Since then, commissioning activities for the HER have shifted in focus towards characterization of the machine and a rigorous program to understand the machine and the beam dynamics is presently underway.

title: Conformal field theory of a rotating dyon.
abstract: A conformal field theory representing a four-dimensional classical solution of heterotic string theory is presented. The low-energy limit of this solution has U(1) electric and magnetic charges, and also nontrivial axion and dilaton fields. The low-energy metric contains mass, NUT, and rotation parameters. We demonstrate that this solution corresponds to part of an extremal limit of the Kerr-Taub-NUT dyon solution. This limit displays interesting ``remnant'' behavior in that asymptotically far away from the dyon the angular momentum vanishes, but far down the infinite throat in the neighborhood of the horizon (described by our CFT) there is a nonzero angular velocity. A further natural generalization of the CFT to include an additional parameter is presented, but the full physical interpretation of its role in the resulting low energy solution is unclear.

title: Massive hadron pair production by 800 GeV/c protons on nuclear targets.
abstract: We report data on proton-nucleon collisions obtained on Fermilab experiment E711, in which high transverse momentum hadrons are produced near 90[degree] in the proton-nucleon center of mass forming high mass states, using an 800 GeV/[ital c] proton beam on targets of beryllium, aluminum, iron, and tungsten. The data presented cover the mass range from 7 to 15 GeV/[ital c][sup 2], the three dihadron charge states ++, +[minus], and [minus][minus], and parton-parton scattering angles up to cos[theta][sup *]=0.50. We present the differential mass dihadron cross section, as well as the angular and charge dependence of the measurement. The cross section as a function of the parton-parton scattering angle for the three charge states is shown to vary linearly with the value of the atomic weight. While the angular distributions are shown to be independent of the target type, a small dependence on the charge state of the distributions is observed. The data are shown to be in good agreement with extrapolations from previous measurements and phenomenological QCD calculations.

title: Measurement of the mass of the tau lepton.
abstract: The mass of the [tau] lepton has been measured at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider using the Beijing Spectrometer. A search near threshold for [ital e][sup +][ital e[minus]][r arrow][tau][sup +][tau][sup [minus]] was performed. Candidate events were identified by requiring that one [tau] decay via [tau][r arrow][ital e][nu][bar ], and the other via [tau][r arrow][mu][nu][bar [nu]]. The mass value, obtained from a fit to the energy dependence of the [tau][sup +][tau][sup [minus]] cross section, is [ital m][sub [tau]]=1776.9[sub [minus]0.5][sup +0.4][plus minus]0.2 MeV.

title: OO design and implementation: Java and Java analysis studio
abstract: We present an overview of the Java language, Java virtual machine, and the large set of standard libraries and extensions available for Java, and provide a discussion of issues that effect Java performance. This is followed by an introduction to Java Analysis Studio (JAS), a tool written in Java, and in which Java is the language used to perform data analysis. We will also explore how OO techniques have been used to built a system from modular components including visualization, fitting and data-access components that can be used together, or on their own.

title: Experimental investigation of nonlinear dynamics in the Fermilab Tevatron.
abstract: The nonlinear dynamics of transverse particle oscillations in the Tevatron is studied experimentally and compared with prediction. Accurate measurements of various phase-space features are obtained. A theoretically expected metastable state of the accelerator, with particles captured on nonlinear resonance islands, is demonstrated experimentally, and stability of the state is investigated.