Lattice study on $\eta_{c2}$ and X(3872)
Properties of 2(-+) charmonium eta(c2) are investigated in quenched lattice QCD. The mass of eta(c2) is determined to be 3.80(3) GeV, which is close to the mass of D-wave charmonium psi(3770) and in agreement with quark model predictions. The transition width of eta(c2) -> gamma J/psi is also obtained with a value of Gamma = 3.8(9) keV. Since the possible 2(-+) assignment to X(3872) has not been ruled out by experiments, our results help to clarify the nature of X(3872). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.014501

title: Lattice QCD calculation of form factors describing the rare decays $B \to K^* \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \ell^+ \ell^-$
abstract: The rare decays $B^0 \to K^{*0} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ are now being observed with enough precision to test Standard Model predictions. A full understanding of these decays requires accurate determinations of the corresponding hadronic form factors. Here we present results of lattice QCD calculations of the $B \to K^*$ and $B_s \to \phi$ form factors; we also determine the form factors relevant for the tree-level decays $B_s \to K^* \ell \nu$. We use full-QCD configurations including 2+1 flavors of sea quarks using an improved staggered action, and we employ lattice non-relativistic QCD to describe the bottom quark.

title: Non-perturbative renormalization of overlap quark bilinears on domain wall fermion configurations
abstract: We present renormalization constants of overlap quark bilinear operators on 2+1-flavor domain wall fermion configurations. Both overlap and domain wall fermions have chiral symmetry on the lattice. The scale independent renormalization constant for the local axial vector current is computed using a Ward Identity. The renormalization constants for the scalar, pseudoscalar and vector current are calculated in the RI-MOM scheme. Results in the MS scheme are obtained by using perturbative conversion ratios. The analysis uses in total six ensembles with lattice sizes 243×64 and 323×64.

title: Light baryon masses with dynamical twisted mass fermions
abstract: We present results on the mass of the nucleon and the $\ensuremath{\Delta}$ using two dynamical degenerate twisted mass quarks and the tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action. The evaluation is performed at four quark masses corresponding to a pion mass in the range of about 300\char21{}600 MeV on lattices of 2.1\char21{}2.7 fm at three lattice spacings less than 0.1 fm. We check for cutoff effects by evaluating these baryon masses on lattices of spatial size 2.1 fm at $\ensuremath{\beta}=3.9$ and $\ensuremath{\beta}=4.05$ and on a lattice of 2.4 fm at $\ensuremath{\beta}=3.8$. The values we find are compatible within our statistical errors. Lattice results are extrapolated to the physical limit using continuum chiral perturbation theory. Performing a combined fit to our lattice data at $\ensuremath{\beta}=3.9$ and $\ensuremath{\beta}=4.05$ we find a nucleon mass of $963\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}12(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}8(\mathrm{syst})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ where we used the lattice spacings determined from the pion decay constant to convert to physical units. The systematic error due to the chiral extrapolation is estimated by comparing results obtained at $\mathcal{O}({p}^{3})$ and $\mathcal{O}({p}^{4})$ heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The nucleon mass at the physical point provides an independent determination of the lattice spacing. Using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory at $\mathcal{O}({p}^{3})$ we find ${a}_{\ensuremath{\beta}=3.9}=0.0889\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0012(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0014(\mathrm{syst})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{fm}$, and ${a}_{\ensuremath{\beta}=4.05}=0.0691\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0010(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0010(\mathrm{syst})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{fm}$, in good agreement with the values determined from the pion decay constant. Using results from our two smaller lattices spacings at constant ${r}_{0}{m}_{\ensuremath{\pi}}$ we estimate the continuum limit and check consistency with results from the coarser lattice. Results at the continuum limit are chirally extrapolated to the physical point. Isospin violating lattice artifacts in the $\ensuremath{\Delta}$-system are found to be compatible with zero for the values of the lattice spacings used in this work. Performing a combined fit to our lattice data at $\ensuremath{\beta}=3.9$ and $\ensuremath{\beta}=4.05$ we find for the masses of the ${\ensuremath{\Delta}}^{++,\ensuremath{-}}$ and ${\ensuremath{\Delta}}^{+,0}$ $1315\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}24(\mathrm{stat})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$ and $1329\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}30(\mathrm{stat})\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$, respectively. We confirm that in the continuum limit they are also degenerate.

title: Nonperturbative renormalization of overlap quark bilinears on 2+1-flavor domain wall fermion configurations
abstract: Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311027, China(Received 9 January 2014;  present renormalization constants of overlap quark bilinear operators on 2þ 1-flavor domain wallfermion configurations. This setup is being used by the χQCD Collaboration in calculations of physicalquantities such as strangeness in the nucleon and the strange and charm quark masses. The scale-independent renormalization constant for the axial-vector current is computed using the Ward identity.The renormalization constants for scalar, pseudoscalar, and vector currents are calculated in the RI-MOMscheme. Results in the MS scheme are also given. The step scaling function of quark masses in theRI-MOM scheme is computed as well. The analysis uses, in total, six different ensembles of three seaquarks, each on two lattices with sizes 24

title: Renormalization of bilinear quark operators for overlap fermions
abstract: We present nonperturbative renormalization constants of fermionic bilinears on the lattice in the quenched approximation at {beta}=6.1 using an overlap [H. Neuberger,  (1998)] fermion action with hypercubic (HYP)-blocked links. We consider the effects of the exact zero modes of the Dirac operator and find they are important in calculating the renormalization constants of the scalar and pseudoscalar density. The results are given in the RI' and MS schemes and compared to perturbative calculations.

title: Study of inclusive strange-baryon production and search for pentaquarks in two-photon collisions at LEP
abstract: Measurements of inclusive production of the Λ, Ξ- and Ξ*(1530) baryons in two-photon collisions with the L3 detector at LEP are presented. The inclusive differential cross sections for Λ and Ξ- are measured as a function of the baryon transverse momentum, pt, and pseudo-rapidity, η. The mean number of Λ, Ξ- and Ξ*(1530) baryons per hadronic two-photon event is determined in the kinematic range 0.4 GeV<pt<2.5 GeV, |η|<1.2. Overall agreement with the theoretical models and Monte Carlo predictions is observed. A search for inclusive production of the pentaquark θ+(1540) in two-photon collisions through the decay θ+→pK0S is also presented. No evidence for production of this state is found.

title: Three-dimensional simulations of the interaction between Type Ia supernova ejecta and their main sequence companions
abstract: The identity of the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still uncertain. In the single-degenerate scenario, the interaction between the supernova blast wave and the outer layers of a main sequence companion star strips off hydrogen-rich material which is then mixed into the ejecta. Strong contamination of the supernova ejecta with stripped material could lead to a conflict with observations of SNe Ia. This constrains the single-degenerate progenitor model.  In this work, our previous simulations based on simplified progenitor donor stars have been updated by adopting more realistic progenitor-system models that result from fully detailed, state-of-the-art binary evolution calculations.  We use Eggleton's stellar evolution code including the optically thick accretion wind model and taking into account the possibility of the effects of accretion disk instabilities to obtain realistic models of companion stars for different progenitor systems. The impact of the supernova blast wave on these companion stars is followed in three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations employing the smoothed particle hydrodynamics code GADGET3.  For a suite of main sequence companions, we find that the mass of the material stripped from the companions range from 0.11 M-circle dot to 0.18 M-circle dot. The kick velocity delivered by the impact is between 51 km s(-1) and 105 km s(-1). We find that the stripped mass and kick velocity depend on the ratio of the orbital separation to the radius of a companion, a(f)/R. They can be fitted in good approximation by a power law for a given companion model. However, we do not find a single power law relation holding for different companion models. This implies that the structure of the companion star is also important for the amount of stripped material.  With more realistic companion star models than those employed in previous studies, our simulations show that the hydrogen masses stripped from companions are inconsistent with the best observational limits (<= 0.01 M-circle dot) derived from SN Ia nebular spectra. However, a rigorous forward modeling from the results of impact simulations with radiation transfer is required to reliably predict observable signatures of the stripped hydrogen and to conclusively assess the viability of the considered SN Ia progenitor scenario.

title: Sparticles at the LHC
abstract: Sparticle mass hierarchies will play an important role in the type of signatures that will be visible at the Large Hadron Collider. We analyze these hierarchies for the four lightest sparticles for a general class of supergravity unified models including nonuniversalities in the soft breaking sector. It is shown that out of nearly 104 possibilities of sparticle mass hierarchies, only a small number survives the rigorous constraints of radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, relic density and other experimental constraints. The signature space of these mass patterns at the Large Hadron Collider is investigated using a large set of final states including multi-leptonic states, hadronically decaying τs, tagged b jets and other hadronic jets. In all, we analyze more than 40 such lepton plus jet and missing energy signatures along with several kinematical signatures such as missing transverse momentum, effective mass, and invariant mass distributions of final state observables. It is shown that a composite analysis can produce significant discrimination among sparticle mass patterns allowing for a possible identification of the source of soft breaking. While the analysis given is for supergravity models, the techniques based on mass pattern analysis are applicable to wide class of models including string and brane models.

title: Production of single W bosons at LEP
abstract: We report on the observation of single W boson production in a data sample collected by the L3 detector at LEP2. The signal consists of large missing energy final states with a single energetic lepton or two hadronic jets. The cross-section is measured to be 0.61(-0.33)(+0.43) +/- 0.05 pb at the centre of mass energy root s = 172 GeV, consistent with the Standard Model expectation. From this measurement the following limits on the anomalous gamma WW gauge couplings are derived at 95% CL: -3.6 < Delta kappa gamma < 1.5 and -3.6 < lambda gamma < 3.6.

title: Measurement of the Probability of Gluon Splitting into Charmed Quarks in Hadronic Z Decays
abstract: We have measured the probability, $\overline{n}_{\rm{g} \rightarrow c\overline{c}}$, of a gluon splitting into a charm-quark pair using 1.7 million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 detector. Two independent methods have been applied to events with a three-jet topology. One method relies on tagging charmed hadrons by identifying a lepton in the lowest energy jet. The other method uses a neural network based on global event shape parameters. Combining both methods, we measure $\overline{n}_{\rm{g} \rightarrow c\overline{c} } = [2.45 \pm 0.29 \pm