140119641
Search for dimuon decays of a light scalar boson in radiative transitions Upsilon-->gammaA0.
We search for evidence of a light scalar boson in the radiative decays of the Upsilon(2S) and Upsilon(3S) resonances: Upsilon(2S,3S)-->gammaA0, A0-->mu+mu-. Such a particle appears in extensions of the standard model, where a light CP-odd Higgs boson naturally couples strongly to b quarks. We find no evidence for such processes in the mass range 0.212 < or = mA0 < or = 9.3 GeV in the samples of 99 x 10(6) Upsilon(2S) and 122 x 10(6) Upsilon(3S) decays collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B factory and set stringent upper limits on the effective coupling of the b quark to the A0. We also limit the dimuon branching fraction of the etab meson: B(etab-->mu+mu-)<0.9% at 90% confidence level.
126404399
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
202048438
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
21907946
Search for T, CP, and CPT violation in B0-B0 mixing with inclusive dilepton events.
We report the results of a search for T, CP, CPT, and violation in B0-B0 mixing using an inclusive dilepton sample collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II factory. Using a sample of 232 x 10(6) BB pairs, we measure the T and CP violation parameter |q/p| - 1 = (-0.8 +/- 2.7(stat) +/- 1.9(syst) x 10(-3), and the CPT and CP parameters Imz = (13.9 +/- 7.3(stat) +/- 3.2(syst)) x 10(-3) and Delta Gamma x Rez = (7.1 +/- 3.9(stat) +/- 2.0(stat)) x 10(-3) ps(-1). The statistical correlation between the measurements of Imz and Delta Gamma x Rez is 76%.
125343210
Measurement of the CKM matrix element $|V_{ub}|$ with $B \to \rho e \nu$ decays
120104270
Operation of the Cherenkov detector DIRC of BABAR at high luminosity
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.
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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.
11085461
Spinons in conformal field theory
We study the su(2) conformal field theory in its spinon description, adapted to the yangian invariance. By evaluating the action of the yangian generators on the primary fields, we find a new connection between this conformal field theory and the Calogero-Sutherland model with su(2) spin. We use this connection to describe how the spinons are the quasi-particles spanning the irreducible yangian multiplet, and also to exhibit operators creating the N-spinon highest-weight vectors.
119148221
Holographic classification of topological insulators and its eightfold periodicity
Using generic properties of Clifford algebras in any spatial dimension, we explicitly classify Dirac Hamiltonians with zero modes protected by the discrete symmetries of time reversal, particle?hole symmetry and chirality. Assuming that the boundary states of topological insulators are Dirac fermions, we thereby holographically reproduce the periodic table of topological insulators found by Kitaev (2009 AIP Conf. Proc. 1134 22) and Ryu et al (2010 New J. Phys. 12 065010), without using topological invariants or K-theory. In addition, we find candidate topological insulators in classes AI, AII of dimensions 0,4 mod 8 and in classes C, D of dimensions 2,6 mod 8.
119018357
On Root Multiplicities of Some Hyperbolic Kac–Moody Algebras
Using the coset construction, we compute the root multiplicities at level-3 for some hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras including the basic hyperbolic extension of A11 and E10.
119596360
Conformal Field Theories of Stochastic Loewner Evolutions
Stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLEκ) are random growth processes of sets, called hulls, embedded in the two dimensional upper half plane. We elaborate and develop a relation between SLEκ evolutions and conformal field theories (CFT) which is based on a group theoretical formulation of SLEκ processes and on the identification of the proper hull boundary states. This allows us to define an infinite set of SLEκ zero modes, or martingales, whose existence is a consequence of the existence of a null vector in the appropriate Virasoro modules. This identification leads, for instance, to linear systems for generalized crossing probabilities whose coefficients are multipoint CFT correlation functions. It provides a direct link between conformal correlation functions and probabilities of stopping time events in SLEκ evolutions. We point out a relation between SLEκ processes and two dimensional gravity and conjecture a reconstruction procedure of conformal field theories from SLEκ data.