title: Recent Spectroscopy Results from ZEUS

abstract:
  Recent results on light hadron spectroscopy are reported, with special
emphasis on the evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to Ks p and Ks
pbar, compatible with the pentaquark state theta^+ observed by fixed target
experiments. The data were collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an
integrated luminosity of 121 pb^-1. The analyses were performed in the central
rapidity region of inclusive deep inelastic scattering at an ep centre-of-mass
energy of 300-318 GeV. Evidence for a narrow resonance in the Ks p and Ks pbar
invariant mass spectrum is obtained, with mass 1521.5 \pm
1.5(stat)^{+2.8}_{-1.7}(syst) and width consistent with the experimental
resolution. If the Ks p part of the signal is identified with the strange
pentaquark theta^+, the Ks pbar part is the first evidence for its
antiparticle, thetabar^-. Supporting results on other light hadron resonances
are also discussed.


title: Determination of |V_cb| and Related Results from BABAR

abstract:
  The CKM matrix element amplitude |V_cb| was determined using the data
collected by the BABAR detector. The partial branching fraction, lepton-energy
moments, and hadron-mass moments were measured in inclusive semileptonic decays
B -> X_c l nu. A global fit to a Heavy-Quark-Expansion calculation allowed
precise determination of |V_cb|, m_b, m_c, B(B -> X_c l nu) and four
non-perturbative parameters.


title:
Latest Results from the MiniBooNE Experiment and Updated Oscillation
  Sensitivity

abstract:
  Neutrino oscillations have been established in solar and atmospheric
neutrinos, but a third signal from the LSND experiment is incompatible with
three Standard Model neutrinos. The MiniBooNE experiment can confirm or refute
the LSND oscillation signal with 1E21 protons on target. Preliminary results on
muon neutrino analyses and an updated oscillation sensitivity are presented.


title:
Studies of Hadronic Event Structure in e+e- Annihilation from 30 GeV to
  209 GeV with the L3 Detector

abstract:
  In this Report, QCD results obtained from a study of hadronic event structure
in high energy e^+e^- interactions with the L3 detector are presented. The
operation of the LEP collider at many different collision energies from 91 GeV
to 209 GeV offers a unique opportunity to test QCD by measuring the energy
dependence of different observables. The main results concern the measurement
of the strong coupling constant, \alpha_s, from hadronic event shapes and the
study of effects of soft gluon coherence through charged particle multiplicity
and momentum distributions.


title:
Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays at BaBar and Extraction of HQE
  parameters

abstract:
  A measurement of the first four moments of the hadronic mass distribution in
B->Xc lv decays is presented for minimum lepton momenta varying between 0.9 and
1.6 GeV, using data recorded with the BaBar detector. Furthermore, a
measurement of the inclusive electron energy spectrum for semileptonic B decays
together with a measurement of its first, second and third moments for minimum
electron energies between 0.6 and 1.5 GeV is reported. We determine the
inclusive B->Xc lv branching fraction, B_clv, the CKM matrix element |V_cb|,
and other heavy-quark parameters from a simultaneous fit to the measured
moments.


title: Recent results from K2K

abstract:
  Results from K2K-I and status of K2K-II (run after the SK accident in
November 2001) was reported.
  The results from K2K-I are the $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance, $\nu_e$ appearance,
and studies of neutrino interaction with water nuclei.
  For K2K-II, steady increase of POT (number of Protons On Target) and number
SK events are shown. Also, a new front detector SciBar was installed from
K2K-II.


title: Hard Exclusive Electroproduction of $\pi^+\pi^-$ Pairs

abstract:
  Hard exclusive electroproduction of $\pi^+\pi^-$ pairs off hydrogen and
deuterium targets has been studied by the HERMES experiment at DESY. Legendre
moments $<P_1>$ and $<P_3>$ of the angular distributions of $\pi^+$ mesons in
the center-of-mass frame of the pair have been measured for the first time.
Their dependence on the $\pi^+\pi^-$ invariant mass can be understood as being
due to the interference between relative $P$-wave (isovector) and $S,D$-wave
(isoscalar) states of the two pions. % The increase in magnitude of $<P_1>$ as
Bjorken $x$ increases is interpreted in the framework of Generalized Parton
Distributions as an enhancement of flavour {non-singlet} $q\bar{q}$ exchange
for larger values of $x$, which leads to a sizable admixture of isoscalar and
isovector pion pairs. % In addition, the interference between {$P$-wave} and
{$D$-wave} states separately for transverse and longitudinal pion pairs has
been studied. The data indicate that at {$\la Q^2 \ra = 3 $ GeV$^2$} higher
twist effects can be as large as the leading-twist longitudinal component


title: First physics results from the HARP experiment at CERN

abstract:
  The first physics results of the HARP experiment are presented. We emphasize
the high performance of the forward part of the apparatus. The differential raw
pion yield and its efficiency correction up to polar angles of 250 mrad are
shown. The analysed setting is 12.9 GeV/c incident protons in a 5% interacion
legth aluminium target.


title:
Dimuon production in p-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions: the NA60
  experiment

abstract:
  In this paper we present the preliminary results obtained by the NA60
experiment in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV.


title: Recent K2K Results

abstract:
  The disappearance of nu_mu was studied using the K2K-I dataset, which was
taken before July, 2001. We observed indications of neutrino oscillation. The
resultant oscillation-parameter region was consistent with the atmospheric
neutrino result. The appearance of nu_e was searced for in the same dataset. No
excess was found over the expected background.


title:
The discovery potential of the second-lightest neutralino in mSUGRA in
  the tau-channel at high tan(b) at the LHC

abstract:
  One of the main physics goals of the Large Hadron Collider is the search of
particles predicted by supersymmetric theories. This study analyses the
possibility of using kinematic endpoints of mass spectra for a sparticle mass
reconstruction. It focuses on cascade decays, which include the second-lightest
neutralino, in the mSUGRA framework with tan(b) = 35, A0 = 0 and positive mu. A
region of 25 points around the benchmark point I' with m0 = 181 and m1/2 = 350
is chosen, where the cascade decay of the second-lightest neutralino into two
opposite-sign taus and the lightest neutralino has a branching ratio of over
95%. Two methods of measuring 13 kinematic limits are tested systematically at
Monte Carlo generator level.


title:
Search for Neutral Higgs Boson in CP-Conserving and CP-Violating MSSM
  Scenarios

abstract:
  This report summarizes the final results from the OPAL collaboration on
searches for neutral Higgs bosons predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (MSSM). CP-conserving and for the first time at LEP CP-violating
scenarios are studied. New scenarios are also included, which aim to set the
stage for Higgs searches at future colliders. The results are based on the data
collected with the OPAL detector at e+e- centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV.
The data are consistent with the prediction of the Standard Model with no Higgs
boson produced. Model-independent limits are derived for the cross-section of a
number of events topologies motivated by prediction of the MSSM. Limits on
Higgs boson masses and other MSSM parameters are obtained for a number of
representative MSSM benchmark scenarios. For example, in the CP-conserving
scenario mh-max where the MSSM parameters are adjusted to predict the largest
range of values for mh at each tan beta, and for a top quark mass of 174.3 GeV,
the domain 0.7<tan beta<1.9 is excluded at the 95% confidence level and Higgs
boson mass limits of mh>84.5 GeV and ma>85.0 GeV are obtained. For the
CP-violating benchmark scenario CPX which, by construction, enhances the
CP-violating effects in the Higgs sector, the domain tan beta<2.8 is excluded
but no universal limit can be set on the Higgs boson masses.


title: QCD Studies at LEP

abstract:
  Studies of hadronic final states of $e^+e^-$ annihilations at LEP are
reviewed. The topics included cover hadronic event shapes, measurements of
$\alpha_s$, determinations of QCD colour factors and tests of the non-Abelian
gauge structure of QCD, differences between quark and gluon jets, QCD with
heavy quarks and selected results of two-photon scattering processes.


title:
Measurements of Electroweak Penguin Processes b->d,s gamma and b->sl+l-
  at Belle

abstract:
  We report the measurements of electroweak penguin processes b->d,s gamma and
b->sl+l- at the Belle experiment. The analyses are based on 152 million BB-bar
events collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the
KEKB e+e- asymmetric-energy collider. The b->d gamma transition is studied
through exclusive decays: B0->rho0 gamma, B0->omega gamma and B+ ->rho+ gamma.
We apply fully inclusive and semi-inclusive reconstruction to b->s gamma and
b->sl+l- processes, respectively. The results on the exclusive b->d gamma and
semi-inclusive b->sl+l- measurements are preliminary.


title:
Measurement of the Ratio of the Vector to Pseudoscalar Charm
  Semileptonic Decay Rate \Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K*0 mu+ nu)/\Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K0 mu+
  nu)

abstract:
  Using a high statistics sample of photo-produced charm particles from the
FOCUS experiment at Fermilab, we report on the measurement of the ratio of
semileptonic rates \Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K pi mu+ nu)/\Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K0 mu+ nu)=
0.625 +/- 0.045 +/- 0.034. Allowing for the K pi S-wave interference measured
previously by FOCUS, we extract the vector to pseudoscalar ratio \Gamma(D+ >
ANTI-K*0 mu+ nu)/\Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K0 mu+ nu)= 0.594 +/- 0.043 +/- 0.033 and the
ratio \Gamma(D+ > ANTI-K0 mu+ nu)/\Gamma(D+ > K- pi+ pi+)= 1.019 +/- 0.076 +/-
0.065. Our results show a lower ratio for \Gamma(D > K* \ell nu})/\Gamma(D > K
\ell nu) than has been reported recently and indicate the current world average
branching fractions for the decays D+ >ANTI-K0(mu+, e+) nu are low. Using the
PDG world average for B(D+ > K- pi+ pi+) we extract B(D+ > ANIT-K0 mu+
nu)=(9.27 +/- 0.69 +/- 0.59 +/- 0.61)%.


title: Top Quark Physics at The Tevatron: Results and Prospects

abstract:
  Measurements of the top quark mass and the t-tbar and single top production
cross sections, obtained by CDF and D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron, are
presented. The methodology of the CDF and D0 analyses and their underlying
assumptions are summarized. In anticipation of the increased amount of data in
Run-II, prospects are presented. The fact that top quark analyses are among the
best windows to new physics beyond the Standard Model is emphasized.


title:
Virtual Compton Scattering in the Resonance Region Up to the Deep
  Inelastic Region at Backward Angles and Momentum Transfer Squared of Q**2=1.0
  GeV**2

abstract:
  We have made the first measurements of the virtual Compton scattering process
via the e p -> e p gamma exclusive reaction at Q**2 = 1 GeV**2 in the nucleon
resonance region. The cross section is obtained at center of mass (CM) backward
angle, theta_gamma_gamma*, in a range of total (gamma* p) CM energy W from the
proton mass up to W = 1.91 GeV. The data show resonant structures in the first
and second resonance regions, and are well reproduced at higher W by the
Bethe-Heitler+Born cross section, including t-channel pi0-exchange. At high W,
our data, together with existing real photon data, show a striking Q**2
independence. Our measurement of the ratio of H(e,e'p)gamma to H(e,e'p)pi0
cross sections is presented and compared to model predictions.


title: Recent Results in Charmless Hadronic B Decays from BABAR

abstract:
  We report results from five analyses based on data taken with the BABAR
detector at the PEP-II asymmetric e+e- collider. Included are branching
fraction measurements for many B-meson decays involving eta, eta', omega, phi
or a0 mesons and the final state Kspi+pi-, and a full angular analysis of the
decay B->phiK*0.


title: Latest Results from NA48 and NA48/1

abstract:
  The first observations of the rare decays KS->pi0e+e- and KS->pi0mu+mu- have
been made by the NA48/1 collaboration at the CERN SPS accelerator. From high
intensity KS data collected during the 2002 run, clean signals of 7 KS->pi0e+e-
events and 6 KS->pi0mu+mu- events were observed, giving branching ratio
measurements of BR(KS->pi0e+e-) = 5.8 +2.9 -2.4 x 10^-9 and BR(KS->pi0mu+mu-) =
2.9 +1.5 -1.2 x 10^-9. These results constrain the indirect CP violating
component of the corresponding KL decays. Other recent results from NA48 are
also presented.


title:
A Study of Cosmic Ray Secondaries Induced by the Mir Space Station Using
  AMS-01

abstract:
  The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics
experiment that will study cosmic rays in the $\sim 100 \mathrm{MeV}$ to $1
\mathrm{TeV}$ range and will be installed on the International Space Station
(ISS) for at least 3 years. A first version of AMS-02, AMS-01, flew aboard the
space shuttle \emph{Discovery} from June 2 to June 12, 1998, and collected
$10^8$ cosmic ray triggers. Part of the \emph{Mir} space station was within the
AMS-01 field of view during the four day \emph{Mir} docking phase of this
flight. We have reconstructed an image of this part of the \emph{Mir} space
station using secondary $\pi^-$ and $\mu^-$ emissions from primary cosmic rays
interacting with \emph{Mir}. This is the first time this reconstruction was
performed in AMS-01, and it is important for understanding potential
backgrounds during the 3 year AMS-02 mission.


title:
Proton - Lambda correlations in Au-Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =
  200$ GeV from the STAR experiment

abstract:
  The space-time evolution of the source of particles formed in the collision
of nuclei can be studied through particle correlations. The STAR experiment is
dedicated to study ultra-relativistic heavy ions collisions and allows to
measure non-identical strange particle correlations. The source size can be
extracted by studying $p-\Lambda$, $\bar{p}-\bar{\Lambda}$, $\bar{p}-\Lambda$
and $p-\bar{\Lambda}$ correlation functions. Strong interaction potential has
been studied for these systems using an analytical model. Final State
Interaction (FSI) parameters have been determined and has shown a significant
annihilation process present in $\bar{p}-\Lambda$ and $p-\bar{\Lambda}$ systems
not present in $p-\Lambda$ and $\bar{p}-\bar{\Lambda}$.


title: Measurement of phi_3 with Dalitz Plot Analysis of B->D(*)K Decay

abstract:
  We present a measurement of the unitarity triangle angle phi_3 using a Dalitz
plot analysis of the three-body decay of the neutral D meson from the B->D(*)K
process. The method employs the interference between D0 and D0bar to extract
both the weak and strong phases. We apply this method to a 140 fb^{-1} data
sample collected by the Belle experiment. The analysis uses the modes B->DK and
B->D*K, D*->D pi0, where the neutral D meson decays into K_Spi+pi-. We obtain
146 signal candidates for B->DK and 39 candidates for B->D*K. From a combined
maximum likelihood fit to the B->DK and B->D*K modes, we obtain
phi_3=77^{\circ}^{+17}_{-19}(stat)+-13^{\circ}(syst)}+-11^{\circ}(model). The
corresponding two standard deviation interval is 26^{\circ}<phi_3<126^{\circ}.


title: Observation of B+ to Lambda Lambdabar K+

abstract:
  We report the first observation of the charmless hyperonic B decay, B^+ -->
Lambda Lambdabar K^+, using a 140 fb^-1 data sample recorded at the Upsilon(4S)
resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e^+e^- collider. The measured
branching fraction is B(B^+ --> Lambda Lambdabar K^+) = 2.91 ^{+0.90}_{-0.70}
+/- 0.38 *10^-6 . We also perform a search for the related decay mode B^+ -->
Lambda Lambdabar pi^+, but do not find a significant signal. We set a 90%
confidence-level upper limit of B(B^+ --> Lambda Lambdabar pi^+) < 2.8 * 10^-6.


title: Di-photon and Photon+b/c Production Cross Sections at Ecm=2TeV

abstract:
  The inclusive di-photon cross-section is measured in the central region and
found to be in good agreement with NLO QCD predictions. Cross-sections are
presented for events containing an energetic photon in addition to a heavy
flavour jet. The ratio of photon+c to photon+b events is also measured. Results
are currently statistically limited and in agreement with Pythia predictions.


title: Theta 13 Determination with Nuclear Reactors

abstract:
  Recently there has been a lot of interest around the world in the use of
nuclear reactors to measure theta 13, the last undetermined angle in the
3-neutrino mixing scenario. In this paper the motivations for theta 13
measurement using short baseline nuclear reactor experiments are discussed. The
features of such an experiment are described in the context of Double Chooz,
which is a new project planned to start data-taking in 2008, and to reach a
sensitivity of sinsq(2 theta 13) < 0.03.


title: Physics at Super B Factory

abstract:
  This report presents the results of studies that investigate the physics
reach at a Super B factory, an asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider with a design
luminosity of 5 x 10^35 cm^-2s^-1, which is around 40 times as large as the
peak luminosity achieved by the KEKB collider. The studies focus on flavor
physics and CP violation measurements that could be carried out in the LHC era.
The physics motivation, key observables, measurement methods and expected
precisions are presented. The sensitivity studies are a part of the activities
associated with the preparation of a Letter of Intent for SuperKEKB, which has
been submitted recently.


title: Detector Depth Dependence of the High Energy Atmospheric Neutrino Flux

abstract:
  We note that detector depth can influence the decay path length available for
the primary and secondary particles that are the source of atmospheric
neutrinos. As a consequence there is a location dependent modulation to the
neutrino flux, which could be as large as 5-10% in some directions.


title:
Search for Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying to Dileptons in ppbar
  Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

abstract:
  We present the results of a search for doubly-charged Higgs bosons (H+/-+/-)
decaying to dileptons using ~240/pb of ppbar collision data collected by the
CDF II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. In our search region, given by
same-sign dilepton mass m_ll' > 80 GeV/c^2 (100 GeV/c^2 for dielectron
channel), we observe no evidence for doubly-charged Higgs production. We set
limits on sigma (ppbar --> H++H-- --> l+l+l-l-) as a function of the mass of
the doubly-charged Higgs boson and the chirality of its couplings. Assuming
exclusive same-sign dilepton decays, we derive lower mass limits on H+/-+/-_L
of 133 GeV/c^2, 136 GeV/c^2, and 115 GeV/c^2 in the ee, mu mu, and e mu
channels, respectively, and a lower mass limit of 113 GeV/c^2 on H+/-+/-_R in
the mu mu channel, all at the 95% confidence level.


title: Production of Cold Antihydrogen with ATHENA for Fundamental Studies

abstract:
  Since the beginning of operations of the CERN Antiproton Decelerator in July
2000, the successful deceleration, storage and manipulation of antiprotons has
led to remarkable progress in the production of antimatter. The ATHENA
Collaboration were the first to create and detect cold antihydrogen in 2002,
and we can today produce large enough amounts of antiatoms to study their
properties as well as the parameters that govern their production rate.


title: Observation of the Decays B0->K+pi-pi0 and B0->rho-K+

abstract:
  We report the observation of B^0 decays to the K^+pi^-pi^0 final state using
a data sample of 78 fb^-1 collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e^+e^-
collider. With no assumptions about intermediate states in the decay, the
branching fraction is measured to be (36.6^{+4.2}_{-4.3}+- 3.0)*10^-6.We also
search for B decays to intermediate two-body states with the same K^+pi^-pi^0
final state. Significant B signals are observed in the rho(770)^- K^+ and
K^*(892)^+pi^- channels, with branching fractions of
(15.1^{+3.4+1.4+2.0}_{-3.3-1.5-2.1})* 10^-6 and
(14.8^{+4.6+1.5+2.4}_{-4.4-1.0-0.9})* 10^-6, respectively. The first error is
statistical, the second is systematic and the third is due to the largest
possible interference. Contributions from other possible two-body states will
be discussed. No CP asymmetry is found in the inclusive K^+pi^-pi^0 or rho^-K^+
modes, and we set 90% confidence level bounds on the asymmetry of
-0.12<A_{CP}<0.26 and -0.18<A_{CP}<0.64, respectively.


title: Super Kamiokande results: atmospheric and solar neutrinos

abstract:
  Atmospheric neutrino and solar neutrino data from the first phase of
Super-Kamiokande (SK-I) are presented. The observed data are used to study
atmospheric and solar neutrino oscillations. Zenith angle distributions from
various atmospheric neutrino data samples are used to estimate the neutrino
oscillation parameter region. In addition, a new result of the $L/E$
measurement is presented. A dip in the $L/E$ distribution was observed in the
data, as predicted from the sinusoidal flavor transition probability of
neutrino oscillation. The energy spectrum and the time variation such as
day/night and seasonal differences of solar neutrino flux are measured in
Super-Kamiokande. The neutrino oscillation parameters are strongly constrained
from those measurements.


title: Pentaquarks - Facts and Mysteries or Sisyphus at Work

abstract:
  Recent evidence for pentaquark baryons is critically reviewed in the light of
new high statistics data. The search of the WA89 experiment for the
$\Xi^{--}(1860)$ is presented in detail and consequences of its
non-observations are discussed.


title:
First Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections from Run II of
  the Tevatron Collider

abstract:
  We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections times
leptonic branching ratios for p-pbar collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV, based
on their decays to electrons and muons. The data correspond to an integrated
luminosity of 72 pb-1 recorded with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron.
We test e-mu universality in W decays, and we measure the ratio of leptonic W
and Z rates from which the leptonic branching fraction $B(W\goto\ell\nu)$ can
be extracted as well as an indirect value for the total width of the W and the
CKM matrix element, Vcs.


title: Evidence for f0(980)f0(980) production in chi_c0 decays

abstract:
  Using a sample of 14 million $\psi(2S)$ events accumulated with the BES II
detector, evidence for $f_0(980)f_0(980)$ production in $\chi_{c0}$ decays is
obtained for the first time; the branching ratio is determined to be ${\cal
B}(\chi_{c0}\to f_0(980)f_0(980)\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^-) = (7.6 \pm 1.9 ({\rm
stat}) \pm 1.6 ({\rm syst})) \times 10^{-4}$. The significance of the
$f_0(980)$ signal is about 4.6$\sigma$.


title: Non SUSY Searches at Tevatron

abstract:
  The Fermilab Tevatron collider experiments, CDF and \dz, have collected over
200 ${\rm pb}^{-1}$ of data at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV since March 2002 (RunII).
Both experiments have investigated physics beyond the Standard Model; this
paper reviews some of the recent results on the searches for new phenomena,
concentrating on Z', extra dimensions, excited electrons and leptoquarks. No
signal was observed, therefore stringent limits on the signatures and models
were derived.


title:
Observation of a Structure in $pp \to pp\gamma\gamma$ near the $\pi\pi$
  Threshold and its Possible Interpretation by $\gamma\gamma$ Radiation from
  Chiral Loops in the Mesonic $\sigma$ Channel

abstract:
  The $pp \to pp\gamma\gamma$ reaction has been measured at CELSIUS using the
WASA $4\pi$-detector with hydrogen pellet target. At $T_p = 1.20$ and 1.36 GeV,
where most of the statistics has been accumulated, the $\gamma\gamma$ invariant
mass spectrum exhibits a narrow structure around the $\pi\pi$ threshold, which
possibly may be associated with two-photon radiation of $\pi^+\pi^-$ loops in
the mesonic $\sigma$ channel.


title: Measurements Related to the CKM Angle beta/phi1 from BABAR

abstract:
  We present measurements related to the CKM angle beta from BABAR based on 82
or ~115 fb-1 data samples collected at the PEP-II e+e- asymmetric B Factory
collider. A new method allowing to measure the sign of cos(2.beta) with
B0->J/Psi"K*0" events is explained and related results reported. Recent CP
measurements in the penguin dominated modes B0->phi K0,B0->K+K-K0s, B0->pi0 K0s
and B0->f0(980) K0s are presented.


title: Radiative Penguin and Leptonic Rare Decays at BaBar

abstract:
  Recent BaBar results on rare B decays involving flavour-changing neutral
currents or purely leptonic final states are presented. New measurements of the
CP asymmetries in B -> K* gamma, B -> K*2(1430) gamma, and b -> s gamma are
reported, as well as a new measurement of the B -> K* gamma branching fraction.
Also reported are updated limits on B -> mu nu and recent measurements of B ->
K* l+ l- and b -> s l+ l-. The data sample comprises 123 10^6 Y4S -> B Bbar
decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage ring.


title: Supersymmetry searches at the Tevatron

abstract:
  CDF and D0 collaborations analyzed up to 200 pb-1 of the delivered data in
search for different supersymmetry signatures, so far with negative results. We
present results on searches for chargino and neutralino associated production,
squarks and gluinos, sbottom quarks, gauge mediated SUSY breaking and long
lived heavy particles.


title: B Physics at D0

abstract:
  The Fermilab Tevatron (p pbar), operating at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, is a rich
source of B hadrons. The large acceptance in terms of rapidity and transverse
momentum of the charged particle tracking system and the muon system make the
upgraded Run II D0 detector an excellent tool for B physics. In this article,
we report on selected physics results based on the first 250 pb^-1 of Run II
data. This includes results on the X(3872) state, semileptonic B decays, B
hadron lifetimes, flavour oscillations, and the rare decay B_s -> mu^+ mu^-.


title:
Measurement of Branching Fractions, and CP and Isospin Asymmetries, for
  $B \to K^* \gamma$

abstract:
  The branching fractions of the decays B->K*0,gamma and B->K*+,gamma are
measured using a sample of 88 x 10^6 B\bar{B} events collected with the BaBar
detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. We find
B(B->K*0,gamma) = 3.92 +/- 0.20 (stat) +/- 0.24 (syst) x 10^{-5} and
B(B->K*_,gamma) = 3.87 +/- 0.28 (stat) +/- 0.26 (syst) x 10^{-5}. Our
measurements also constrain the direct $\CP$ asymmetry to be -0.74 <
A_{CP}(B->K*,gamma) < 0.049, and the isospin asymmetry to be -0.46 <
\Delata_{0-} < 0.146, both at the 90% confidence level.


title: Charm hadron spectroscopy with ZEUS

abstract:
  Neutral orbitally excited P-wave charm mesons have been reconstructed in the
D*+-pi-+ final state and the charm-strange meson D+-s1(2536) was found in the
D*+-K0s final state. A search for radially excited charm mesons in the
D*+-pi+pi- final state has also been performed. A search for a charm pentaquark
state near 3.1 GeV was made in the decay mode D*+-p-+. Using more than 40,000
reconstructed D* mesons, no resonance structure was observed.


title: New Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Lepton+Jets ttbar Events at DO

abstract:
  We present a new measurement of the mass of the top quark using lepton + jets
ttbar events collected by the DO experiment in Run I of the Fermilab Tevatron
Collider. The mass is extracted through a comparison of each event with a
leading-order matrix element that depends on the top quark mass. The result is
M_t=180.1 +/- 3.6 (stat) +/- 3.9 (sys) GeV/c^2. Combining this improved
measurement with our previous value from dilepton channels yields the new DO
result M_t=179.0 +/- 3.5 (stat) +/- 3.8 (sys) GeV/c^2.


title: Hadron Spectroscopy at HERA

abstract:
  Inclusive photoproduction cross-sections of the neutral mesons eta, rho^0,
f_0(980) and f_2(1270) have been measured by H1 and compared to the
photoproduction of pi^+ in ep collisions at HERA. Also, inclusive KsKs
production and evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to Ksp have been
observed by ZEUS at HERA.


title:
Experimental determination of the evolution of the Bjorken integral at
  low Q^2

abstract:
  We extract the Bjorken integral Gamma^{p-n}_1 in the range 0.17 < Q^2 < 1.10
GeV^2 from inclusive scattering of polarized electrons by polarized protons,
deuterons and 3He, for the region in which the integral is dominated by nucleon
resonances. These data bridge the domains of the hadronic and partonic
descriptions of the nucleon. In combination with earlier measurements at higher
Q^2, we extract the non-singlet twist-4 matrix element f_2.


title: An Improved Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Muon

abstract:
  Data from the muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven National Lab has been
analyzed to search for a muon electric dipole moment(EDM), which would violate
parity and time reversal symmetries. An EDM would cause a tilt in the spin
precession plane of the muons, resulting in a vertical oscillation in the
position of electrons hitting the detectors. No signal has been observed. Based
on this analysis, an improved limit of $2.8 \times 10^{-19} e-cm(95% CL) is set
on the muon EDM.


title:
Study of double charmonium production in e^+ e^- annihilation at
  \sqrt{s} ~ 10.6 GeV

abstract:
  We present a new analysis of double charmonium production in e^+ e^-
annihilation. The observation of the processes e^+ e^- -> J/psi eta_c, J/psi
chi_c0, and J/psi eta_c(2S) is confirmed using a dataset more than three times
larger than that of Belle's previous report, and no evidence for the process
e^+ e^- -> J/psi J/psi is found. We perform an angular analysis for J/psi eta_c
production and set an upper limit on the production of J/psi J/psi. Processes
of the type e^+ e^- -> psi(2S) (cc)_res have been observed for the first time;
their rates are found to be comparable to those of e^+ e^- -> J/psi (cc)_res
processes.


title: Searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Tevatron

abstract:
  Preliminary results obtained by the CDF and D0 Collaborations on the Standard
Model Higgs searches at the Tevatron Run II are discussed. The data that
correspond to an integrated luminosity of > 150/pb are compared to theoretical
expectations. Various final states involving the W and Z bosons production are
examined, and new limits are set on the sigma[W(->enu/munu)H(->bb)] and
sigma[H(->WW(*))] cross sections.


title:
Measurement of direct photon production at Tevatron fixed target
  energies

abstract:
  Measurements of the production of high transverse momentum direct photons by
a 515 GeV/c piminus beam and 530 and 800 GeV/c proton beams in interactions
with beryllium and hydrogen targets are presented. The data span the kinematic
ranges of 3.5 < p_T < 12 GeV/c in transverse momentum and 1.5 units in
rapidity. The inclusive direct-photon cross sections are compared with
next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations and expectations based on a
phenomenological parton-k_T model.


title:
Study of the e^+e^- --> Z gamma Process at LEP and Limits on Triple
  Neutral-Gauge-Boson Couplings

abstract:
  The process e^+e^- --> Z gamma, where the Z boson decays into hadrons or
neutrinos, is studied with data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at
centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV up to 209 GeV. The cross sections are
measured and found to be in agreement with the Standard Model predictions.
Limits on triple neutral-gauge-boson couplings, forbidden in the Standard Model
at tree level, are derived. Limits on the energy scales at which the anomalous
couplings could be manifest are set. They range from 0.3 TeV to 2.3 TeV
depending on the new physics effect under consideration.


title: Search for B-Meson Decays to Two-Body Final States with a0(980) Mesons

abstract:
  We present a search for B decays to charmless final states involving charged
or neutral a0 mesons. The data sample corresponds to 89 million BBbar pairs
collected with the BABAR detector operating at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B
Factory at SLAC. We find no significant signals and determine the following 90%
C.L. upper limits: BR(B0 -> a0-pi+) < 5.1x10{-6}, BR(B0 -> a0-K+) < 2.1x10{-6},
BR(B- -> a0-K0bar) < 3.9x10{-6}, BR(B+ -> a00pi+) < 5.8x10{-6}, BR(B+ -> a00K+)
< 2.5x10{-6}, and BR(B0 -> a00K0) < 7.8x10{-6}, where in all cases BR indicates
the product of branching fractions for B -> a0X and a0 -> etapi, where X
indicates K or pi.


title:
Study of the doubly and singly Cabibbo suppressed decays D+ --> K+ pi+
  pi- and Ds+ --> K+ pi+ pi-

abstract:
  Using data collected by the high energy photoproduction experiment FOCUS at
Fermilab we study the doubly and singly Cabibbo suppressed decays D+ and Ds+
--> K+ pi+ pi-. Branching ratios and Dalitz plot analyses are performed.


title:
Have Superkamiokande Really Measured the Direction of the Atmospheric
  Neutrinos which Produce Fully Contained Events and Partially Contained Events
  ?

abstract:
  Quasi Elastic Scattering (QEL) is the dominant source for producing both
Fully Contained Events and Partially Contained Events in the
Superkamiokande(SK) detector for the atmospheric neutrinos, in the range 0.1
GeV to 10 GeV. In the analysis of SK events, it is assumed that the direction
of the incident neutrino is the same as that of the detected charged lepton. In
the present letter, we derive the distribution function for the scattering
angle of the charged leptons, their averaged scattering angle and their
standard deviation due to QEL. Then, it is shown that the SK assumption for the
scattering angle of the charged leptons in the QEL is not valid. Further, we
examine the influence of the azimuthal angle of the charged leptons over their
zenith angle. As the result, we conclude that the zenith angle distribution of
the neutrino under the SK assumption does not reflect the real zenith angle
distribution of the atmospheric neutrino which produces Fully Contained Events
and Partially Contained Events. This result has clear implication for attempts
to detect neutrino oscillations from the analyses of Fully Contained Events and
Partially Contained Events in Superkamiokande.


title: Status of KASKA: The Japanese Reactor $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ Project

abstract:
  Last year, in the NOON03 conference, we pointed out the importance of reactor
$\sin^22\theta_{13}$ measurement and showed a realistic experimental idea to
measure $\sin^22\theta_{13}$ precisely using world's most powerful reactor
complex. Since then, the conceptual design of the experiment and negotiations
with electric power company, have been progressing. In this proceedings for the
NOON04 conference, the present status of the proposed experiment, now called
KASKA, is described.


title: Search for Branons at LEP

abstract:
  We search, in the context of extra-dimension scenarios, for the possible
existence of brane fluctuations, called branons. Events with a single photon or
a single Z-boson and missing energy and momentum collected with the L3 detector
in e^+ e^- collisions at centre-of-mass energies sqrt{s}=189-209$ GeV are
analysed. No excess over the Standard Model expectations is found and a lower
limit at 95% confidence level of 103 GeV is derived for the mass of branons,
for a scenario with small brane tensions. Alternatively, under the assumption
of a light branon, brane tensions below 180 GeV are excluded.


title: Measurement of Prompt Photon Cross Sections in Photoproduction at HERA

abstract:
  Results are presented on the photoproduction of isolated prompt photons,
inclusively and associated with jets, in the gamma p center of mass energy
range 142 < W < 266 GeV. The cross sections are measured for the transverse
momentum range of the photons 5 < E_T^gamma < 10 GeV and for associated jets
with E_T^jet > 4.5 GeV. They are measured differentially as a function of
E_T^gamma, E_T^jet, the pseudorapidities eta^gamma and eta^jet and estimators
of the momentum fractions x_gamma and x_p of the incident photon and proton
carried by the constituents participating in the hard process. In order to
further investigate the underlying dynamics, the angular correlation between
the prompt photon and the jet in the transverse plane is studied. Predictions
by perturbative QCD calculations in next to leading order are about 30% below
the inclusive prompt photon data after corrections for hadronisation and
multiple interactions, but are in reasonable agreement with the results for
prompt photons associated with jets. Comparisons with the predictions of the
event generators PYTHIA and HERWIG are also presented.


title: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at HERA

abstract:
  The Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) $\gamma^* p \to \gamma p$ cross
section has been measured with the H1 detector at HERA with an increased
precision and in an extended kinematic domain: at photon virtualities
$4<Q^2<80$ GeV$^2$, and photon-proton c.m.s. energy $30<W<140$ GeV. The
measurement is compared to NLO QCD calculations and to Colour Dipole model
predictions.


title:
Measurement of Exclusive \rho^+\rho^- Production in High-Q^2 Two-Photon
  Collisions at LEP

abstract:
  Exclusive rho^+ rho^- production in two-photon collisions involving a single
highly-virtual photon is studied with data collected at LEP at centre-of-mass
energies 89 GeV < \sqrt{s} < 209 GeV with a total integrated luminosity of
854.7 pb^-1. The cross section of the process gamma gamma^* -> rho^+ rho^- is
determined as a function of the photon virtuality, Q^2, and the two-photon
centre-of-mass energy, W_gg, in the kinematic region: 1.2 GeV^2 < Q^2 < 30
GeV^2 and 1.1 GeV < W_gg < 3 GeV. The \rho^+\rho^- production cross section is
found to be of the same magnitude as the cross section of the process gamma
gamma^* -> rho^0 rho^0, measured in the same kinematic region by L3, and to
have similar W_gg and Q^2 dependences.


title: $\alpha_s$ at Zinnowitz 2004

abstract:
  A review of measurements of $\alpha_s$ is given, representing the status of
April 2004. The results prove the energy dependence of $\alpha_s$ and are in
excellent agreement with the expectations of Quantum Chromodynamics, QCD.
Evolving all results to the rest energy of the $Z^0$ boson, the world average
of $\alpha_s(M_Z)$ is determined from measurements which are based on QCD
calculations in complete NNLO perturbation theory, giving $\alpha_s(M_Z) =
0.1182 \pm 0.0027 .$


title:
Neutral pion photoproduction off protons in the energy range 0.3 GeV <
  E(gamma) < 3 GeV

abstract:
  Single pi0 photoproduction has been studied with the CB-ELSA experiment at
Bonn using tagged photon energies between 0.3 and 3.0 GeV. The experimental
setup covers a very large solid angle of about 98% of 4 pi. Differential cross
sections (d sigma)/(d Omega) have been measured. Complicated structures in the
angular distributions indicate a variety of different resonances being produced
in the s channel intermediate state gamma p --> N* (Delta*) --> p pi0. A
combined analysis including the data presented in this letter along with other
data sets reveals contributions from known resonances and evidence for a new
resonance N(2070)D15.


title: New MACRO results on atmospheric neutrino oscillations

abstract:
  The final results of the MACRO experiment on atmospheric neutrino
oscillations are presented and discussed. The data concern different event
topologies with average neutrino energies of ~3 and ~50 GeV. Multiple Coulomb
Scattering of the high energy muons in absorbers was used to estimate the
neutrino energy of each event. The angular distributions, the L/E_nu
distribution, the particle ratios and the absolute fluxes all favour nu_mu -->
nu_tau oscillations with maximal mixing and Delta m^2 =0.0023 eV^2. A
discussion is made on the Monte Carlos used for the atmospheric neutrino flux.
Some results on neutrino astrophysics are also briefly discussed.


title: Hadronic decays of charmonia from BESII

abstract:
  Recent results on charmonia decays at BESII/BEPC are reported, including the
observation of psi'-->K_S K_L, psi'--> Vector + Tensor and psi'--> Vector +
Pseudoscalar for the measurement of the relative phase between the strong and
electromagnetic decays of psi' and a test of the pQCD ``12% rule'' between psi'
and J/psi decays; the test of the color-octet mechanism via chi_cJ --> p
\bar{p} and chi_cJ-->\Lambda \bar{\Lambda}; the first observation of chi_c0-->
f_0(980)f_0(980); and a study of the psi' and chi_cJ decays with K_S K_S in the
final states.


title: Improved Measurements of Partial Rate Asymmetry in B -> h h Decays

abstract:
  We report improved measurements of the partial rate asymmetry (Acp) in B -> h
h decays with 140fb^-1 of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB
e+e- collider. Here h stands for a charged or neutral pion or kaon and in total
five decay modes are included: K-+ pi+-, K0s pi-+, K-+ pi0, pi-+ pi0 and K0s
pi0. The flavor of the last decay mode is determined from the accompanying B
meson. Using a data sample 4.7 times larger than that of our previous
measurement, we find Acp(K-+ pi+-) -0.088+-0.035+-0.013, 2.4 sigma from zero.
Results for other decay modes are also presented.


title:
Search for Theta(1540)^+ in exclusive proton-induced reaction p+C(N) \to
  Theta^+ \bar{K}^0 + C(N) at the energy of 70 GeV

abstract:
  A search for narrow Theta(1540)^+, a candidate for pentaquark baryon with
positive strangeness, has been performed in an exclusive proton-induced
reaction p+C(N) \to Theta^+ \bar{K}^0 + C(N) on carbon nuclei or quasifree
nucleons at E_{beam}=70 GeV (sqrt{s} = 11.5 GeV) studying nK^+, pK_S and pK_L
decay channels of Theta(1540)^+ in four different final states of the Theta^+
\bar{K}^0 system. In order to assess the quality of the identification of the
final states with neutron or K_L we reconstructed Lambda(1520)\to nK_S and
phi\to K_LK_S decays in the calibration reactions p+C(N)\to Lambda(1520)K^+ +
C(N) and p+C(N)\to p\phi + C(N). We found no evidence for narrow pentaquark
peak in any of the studied final states and decay channels. Assuming that the
production characteristics of the Theta^+ \bar{K^0} system are not drastically
different from those of the Lambda(1520)K^+ and p\phi systems, we established
upper limits on the cross section ratios
sigma(Theta^+\bar{K}^0)/sigma(Lambda(1520)K^+) < 0.02 and
sigma(Theta^+\bar{K}^0)/sigma(p\phi) < 0.15 at 90% CL and a preliminary upper
limit for the forward hemisphere cross section sigma(Theta^+\bar{K}^0) < 30
nb/nucleon.


title: MiniBooNE and Sterile Neutrinos

abstract:
  Sterile neutrinos may be an important extension to the standard model, and
could both hold the key to understanding neutrino mass and mixing as well as
play an important role in leptogenesis. In many models, the sterile neutrinos
could be light and accessible to current and near term experiments. The
MiniBooNE experiment is set up to explore these possibilities in the $\Delta
m^{2}$ region from 0.3 to a few eV$^{2}$ where the LSND experiment has reported
a $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ appearance signal. This report will outline some of these
extensions, give the status and prospects for the MiniBooNE experiment, and
explore future investigations if MiniBooNE sees an oscillation signal.


title:
Observation of 1^-0^- Final States from psi(2S) Decays and e^+e^-
  Annihilation

abstract:
  Using CLEO data collected from CESR e+e- collisions at the Psi(2S) resonance
and nearby continuum at E_CM=3.67GeV, we report the first significantly
non-zero measurements of light vector-pseudoscalar hadron pair production
(including RhoPi, OmegaPi, RhoEta, and K*0K0bar) and the Pi+Pi-Pi0 final state,
both from Psi(2S) decays and direct e+e- annihilation.


title: Electron Antineutrino Search at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

abstract:
  Upper limits on the \nuebar flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory have
been set based on the \nuebar charged-current reaction on deuterium. The
reaction produces a positron and two neutrons in coincidence. This distinctive
signature allows a search with very low background for \nuebar's from the Sun
and other potential sources. Both differential and integral limits on the
\nuebar flux have been placed in the energy range from 4 -- 14.8 MeV. For an
energy-independent \nu_e --> \nuebar conversion mechanism, the integral limit
on the flux of solar \nuebar's in the energy range from 4 -- 14.8 MeV is found
to be \Phi_\nuebar <= 3.4 x 10^4 cm^{-2} s^{-1} (90% C.L.), which corresponds
to 0.81% of the standard solar model 8B \nu_e flux of 5.05 x 10^6 cm^{-2}
s^{-1}, and is consistent with the more sensitive limit from KamLAND in the 8.3
-- 14.8 MeV range of 3.7 x 10^2 cm^{-2} s^{-1} (90% C.L.). In the energy range
from 4 -- 8 MeV, a search for \nuebar's is conducted using coincidences in
which only the two neutrons are detected. Assuming a \nuebar spectrum for the
neutron induced fission of naturally occurring elements, a flux limit of
Phi_\nuebar <= 2.0 x 10^6 cm^{-2} s^{-1}(90% C.L.) is obtained.


title: New Measurements of Upsilon(1S) Decays to Charmonium Final States

abstract:
  Using substantially larger data samples collected by the CLEO III detector,
we report on new measurements of the decays of Upsilon(1S) to charmonium final
states, including J/Psi, psi(2S), and chi_cJ. The latter two are first
observations of these decays. We measure the branching fractions as follows:
B(Y(1S)--> J/Psi+X)=(6.4+-0.4+-0.6)x10^-4, B(Y(1S)--> psi(2S)+X)/B(Y(1S)-->
J/Psi+X)=0.41+-0.11+-0.08, B(Y(1S)--> chi_c1+X)/B(Y(1S)-->
J/Psi+X)=0.35+-0.08+-0.06, B(Y(1S)--> chi_c2+X)/B(Y(1S)-->
J/Psi+X)=0.52+-0.12+-0.09, and B(Y(1S)--> chi_c0+X)/B(Y(1S)--> J/Psi+X)<7.4% at
90% confidence level. We also report on the momentum and angular spectra of
J/Psi's in Upsilon(1S) decay. The results are compared to predictions of the
color octet and color singlet models.


title: Production of Eta Mesons in Proton-Proton Collisions Close to Threshold

abstract:
  A brief experimental overview on the close-to-threshold eta meson production
in proton-proton interactions is presented and the available observables in
measurements with unpolarized and polarized beam and target are discussed.


title:
Quark helicity distributions in the nucleon for up, down, and strange
  quarks from semi--inclusive deep--inelastic scattering

abstract:
  Polarized deep--inelastic scattering data on longitudinally polarized
hydrogen and deuterium targets have been used to determine double spin
asymmetries of cross sections. Inclusive and semi--inclusive asymmetries for
the production of positive and negative pions from hydrogen were obtained in a
re--analysis of previously published data. Inclusive and semi--inclusive
asymmetries for the production of negative and positive pions and kaons were
measured on a polarized deuterium target. The separate helicity densities for
the up and down quarks and the anti--up, anti--down, and strange sea quarks
were computed from these asymmetries in a ``leading order'' QCD analysis. The
polarization of the up--quark is positive and that of the down--quark is
negative. All extracted sea quark polarizations are consistent with zero, and
the light quark sea helicity densities are flavor symmetric within the
experimental uncertainties. First and second moments of the extracted quark
helicity densities in the measured range are consistent with fits of inclusive
data.


title: Search for a Charmonium Assignment for the X(3872)

abstract:
  We report recent results on the properties of the X(3872) produced via the
B-->KX(3872) decay process in the Belle detector. We compare these properties
with expectations for possible charmonium-state assignments.


title: Search for New Phenomena at Colliders

abstract:
  Recent results on searches for new phenomena on the Tevatron and HERA
colliders are reviewed.


title:
Study of Semileptonic Charm Decays D^0 --> pi^- ell^+ nu and D^0 --> K^-
  ell^+ nu

abstract:
  We investigate the decays D^0 --> pi^- l^+ nu and D^0 --> K^- l^+ nu, where l
= e or mu, using approximately 7 fb^{-1} of data collected with the CLEO III
detector. We find R_0 = B(D->pienu)/B(D->Kenu) = 0.082 +- 0.006 +- 0.005. Fits
to the kinematic distributions of the data provide parameters describing the
form factor of each mode. Combining the form factor results and R_0 gives
|f^pi_+(0)|^2 |V_{cd}|^2/|f^K_+(0)|^2 |V_{cs}|^2 = 0.038 +0.006- 0.007
+0.005-0.003.


title: BES Results on J/psi decays and Charmonium Transitions

abstract:
  Results are reported based on samples of 58 million $\jpsi$ and 14 million
$\psip$ decays obtained by the BESII experiment. Improved branching fraction
measurements are determined, including branching fractions for $\jpsi\to\ppp$,
$\psip\ra \pi^0\J$, $\eta\J$, $\pi^0 \pi^0 J/\psi$, anything $J/\psi$, and
$\psi(2S)\ar\gamma\chi_{c1},\gamma\chi_{c2}\ar\gamma\gamma\jpsi$. The decay
$J/\psi \to \omega \pi ^+\pi ^-$ is studied. At low $\pi \pi$ mass, a large,
broad peak due to the $\sigma$ is observed, and its pole position is
determined. Results are presented on $\psi(2S)$ and $J/\psi$ hadronic decays to
$K^0_SpK^-\bar n$ and $K^0_S\bar p K^+n$ final states. No significant
$\Theta(1540)$ signal, the pentaquark candidate, is observed, and upper limits
are set. An enhancement near the $m_p + M_{\Lambda}$ mass threshold is observed
in the $p\bar{\Lambda}$ invariant mass spectrum from $J/\psi \to p K^-
\bar{\Lambda} + c.c.$ decays. It can be fit with an S-wave Breit-Wigner
resonance with a mass $m=2075\pm 12 (stat) \pm 5 (syst)$ MeV and a width of
$\Gamma =90 \pm 35 (stat) \pm 9 (syst)$ MeV.


title: Observation of the decay $\psip\rar\kstark$

abstract:
  Using 14 million $\psi(2S)$ events collected with the BESII detector,
branching fractions of $\psip\rar\kstarkpm$ and $\kstarknn$ are determined to
be: $\calB(\psip\rar\kstarkpm)=(2.9^{+1.3}_{-1.7}\pm0.4)\times 10^{-5}$ and
$\calB(\psip\rar\kstarknn)=(13.3^{+2.4}_{-2.7}\pm1.9)\times 10^{-5}$. The
results confirm the violation of the "12%" rule for these two decay channels
with higher precision. A large isospin violation between the charged and
neutral modes is observed.


title: Search for the Rare Leptonic Decay B- -> tau- nubar

abstract:
  We present a search for the decay $B^{-} \to \tau^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\tau}$ in a
sample of $88.9 \times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded with the BaBar
detector at the SLAC $B$-Factory. One of the two $B$ mesons from the
$\Upsilon(4S)$ is reconstructed in a hadronic or a semileptonic final state and
the decay products of the other $B$ in the event are analyzed for consistency
with a $B^{-} \to \tau^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\tau}$ decay. We find no evidence of a
signal and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of $\mathcal{B}(B^{-}
\to \tau^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\tau}) < 4.2 \times 10^{-4}$ at the 90% confidence
level.


title: Status and prospects of charm physics: a few considerations

abstract:
  Progress in charm physics has been prodigious over the last twenty years; it
comes both from fixed target and collider experiments, and can guide us toward
future investigations. To fully exploit the power of flavor physics,
complications coming from strong dynamics effects have to be dealt with. The
role of charm in the search for New Physics, the lessons learnt so far and
warnings for the future are briefly discussed.


title:
The Experimental Status of the Standard Electroweak Model at the End of
  the LEP-SLC Era

abstract:
  A method is proposed to calculate the confidence level for agreement of data
with the Standard Model (SM) by combining information from direct and indirect
Higgs Boson searches. Good agreement with the SM is found for $m_H \simeq 120$
GeV using the observables most sensitive to $m_H$: $A_l$ and $m_W$. In
particular, quantum corrections, as predicted by the SM, are observed with a
statistical significance of forty-four standard deviations. However, apparent
deviations from the SM of 3.7$\sigma$ and 2.8$\sigma$ are found for the Z$\nu
\bar{\nu}$ and right-handed Zb$\bar{{\rm b}}$ couplings respectively. The
maximum confidence level for agreement with the SM of the entire data set
considered is $\simeq 0.006$ for $m_H \simeq 180$ GeV. The reason why
confidence levels about an order of magnitude higher than this have been
claimed for global fits to similar data sets is explained.


title:
Search for Bremsstrahlung radiation in quasi-free n p --> n p gamma
  reactions

abstract:
  Due to the high sensitivity of the N N --> N N gamma reaction to the
nucleon-nucleon potential, Bremsstrahlung radiation is used as a tool to
investigate details of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Such investigations can
be performed at the cooler synchrotron COSY in the Research Centre Juelich, by
dint of the COSY-11 detection system. The results of the identification of
Bremsstrahlung radiation emitted via the d p --> d p gamma reaction in data
taken with a proton target and a deuteron beam are presented and discussed.


title: Physics of W bosons at LEP

abstract:
  The high-energy and high-luminosity data-taking campaigns of the LEP e^+e^-
collider provided the four collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, with
about 50000 W-boson pairs and about a thousand singly-produced W bosons. This
unique data sample has an unprecedented reach in probing some aspects of the
Standard Model of the electroweak interactions, and this article reviews
several achievements in the understanding of W-boson physics at LEP. The
measurements of the cross sections for W-boson production are discussed,
together with their implication on the existence of the coupling between Z and
W bosons. The precision measurements of the magnitude of triple gauge-boson
couplings are presented. The observation of the longitudinal helicity component
of the W-boson spin, related to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking,
is described together with the techniques used to probe the CP and CPT
symmetries in the W-boson system. A discussion on the intricacies of the
measurement of the mass of the W boson, whose knowledge is indispensable to
test the internal consistency of the Standard Model and estimate the mass of
the Higgs boson, concludes this review.


title: Beauty physics with B(s) and Lambda(b)

abstract:
  Although the B(s) and Lambda(b) hadrons differ only in the spectator quarks
from the well-studied B(d) and B(u) mesons, they provide a unique window on the
physics of the b-quark. With no experiments presently running at the Z pole,
hadron colliders now provide the best opportunity to study the B(s) and the
Lambda(b). The collider experiments at the Tevatron, CDF and D0, have collected
large numbers of B(s) and Lambda(b). Some of their latest preliminary
measurements are presented here, including masses, lifetimes, and charmless
decays. Progress is made toward measuring the lifetime difference Delta
Gamma(s) between the B(s) mass eigenstates and the oscillation frequency Delta
m(s).


title:
Experimental Summary of Rencontres du Moriond 2004 on QCD and High
  Energy Interactions

abstract:
  Highlights of the experimental results presented at the 39th Rencontres du
Moriond on ``QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions'', which was held in La
Thuile, Italy on Mar. 28 - Apr. 4, 2004 are briefly summarised.


title:
Scaling violations of quark and gluon jet fragmentation functions in
  e+e- annihilations

abstract:
  Flavour inclusive, udsc and b fragmentation functions in biased and unbiased
jets and gluon fragmentation functions in biased jets are measured in e+e-
annihilations using OPAL data collected at energies Ecms = 91.2 and 183-209
GeV.


title: Spectroscopy of Heavy Quarkonia

abstract:
  In the last years, the CLEO III experiment has recorded a large collection of
data sets at the Y(1S), Y(2S), Y(3S) and psi(2S) resonances. Preliminary
results of studies of these data sets are shown here, which include the
observation of a new Y(1D) state, as well as several hadronic and radiative
transitions of Y and psi(2S) states. In addition, precision branching ratio
measurements of charmonium and bottomonium states and recent developments
involving the eta_c(2S) and X(3872) states are presented.


title: The Case for a Super Neutrino Beam

abstract:
  In this paper I will discuss how an intense beam of high energy neutrinos
produced with conventional technology could be used to further our
understanding of neutrino masses and mixings. I will describe the possibility
of building such a beam at existing U.S. laboratories. Such a project couples
naturally to a large ($>$ 100 kT) multipurpose detector in a new deep
underground laboratory. I will discuss the requirements for such a detector.
Since the number of sites for both an accelerator laboratory and a deep
laboratory are limited, I will discuss how the choice of baseline affects the
physics sensitivities, the practical issues of beam construction, and event
rates.


title:
Measurement of $\sigma(e^+e^-\to \pi^+ \pi^- \gamma)$ and extraction of
  $\sigma(e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-)$ below 1 {\rm GeV} with the KLOE detector

abstract:
  We have measured the cross section $\sigma(e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^- \gamma)$ at
an energy $W=m_\phi=1.02$ GeV with the KLOE detector at the electron-positron
collider DA$\Phi$NE. From the dependence of the cross section on the invariant
mass of the two-pion system, we extract $\sigma(e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-)$ for the
mass range $0.35<s<0.95$ GeV$^2$. From this result, we calculate the pion form
factor and the hadronic contribution to the muon anomaly, $a_\mu$.


title: Charm production in deep inelastic scattering

abstract:
  Precise measurements of charm production in deep inelastic scattering are
presented and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD. The data show
sensitivity to the choice of parametrisation of the gluon density in the proton
and could be used in future global fits of the parton densities.


title:
Substructure dependence of jet cross sections at HERA and determination
  of alpha_s

abstract:
  The substructure of jets has been studied in terms of the jet shape and
subjet multiplicity and these quantities used to tag gluon- and quark-initiated
jets. Cross sections are presented for gluon- and quark-tagged jets which
exhibit the expected behaviour of the underlying parton dynamics. The value of
alpha_s(M_Z) of alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1176 +- 0.0009 (stat.) ^{+0.0009}_{-0.0026}
(exp.) ^{+0.0091}_{-0.0072} (th.) was extracted from the measurements of jet
shapes in deep inelastic scattering.


title: Measurements related to CKM angle alpha in BABAR

abstract:
  The BABAR collaboration measurements of the B -> pipi, B -> rhopi and B ->
rhorho decays are presented. New results, from a 113 fb-1 data sample, on the
time-dependent CP asymmetries of the longitudinally polarized component of the
B0 -> rho+rho- channel are S_{rhorho,long}=-0.19 +/- 0.33 +/- 0.11 and
C_{rhorho,long}=-0.23 +/- 0.24 +/- 0.14. Constraints on the Unitarity Triangle
angle alpha from the pipi and the rhorho systems are derived.


title:
Extraction of the b-quark shape function parameters using the Belle
  B->X_s gamma photon energy spectrum

abstract:
  We determine the b-quark shape function parameters, Lambda^SF and lambda_1^SF
using the Belle B->X_s gamma photon energy spectrum. We assume three models for
the form of the shape function; Exponential, Gaussian and Roman.


title: A Detector for Forward Physics at eRHIC: Feasibility Study

abstract:
  The eRHIC facility planned for the Brookhaven National Laboratory will allow
detailed studies of the strong hadronic interactions. Among the exciting
research topics discussed are the pursuit of the Color Glass Condensate, the
three dimensional scan of nucleons and nuclei, and the solution to the mystery
of how the proton spin is built up from its constituents. This document
describes a detector optimized for forward physics at such an accelerator. The
experience gained at HERA allows for the design of a detector which will give
optimal performance in the kinematic regions of highest priority, the small and
large $x$ regimes. Detailed simulations of the detector were carried out, and
performance results for structure function measurements are presented.


title:
Evidence for a 4th state related to the three JPC = 2++, pi- p -> phi
  phi n states explainable by 2++ Glueball production

abstract:
  Four separate experiments, observing the OZI forbidden disconnected reaction
pi- p -> phi phi n with increasing statistics were consistent. These
experiments very selectively completely broke down the OZI suppression by 3 phi
phi resonances with IG JPC = 0+ 2++ in the observed mass region 2.038 to 2.600
GeV. The only viable proposed explanation has been that the IG JPC = 0+ 2++
Glueball expected in this mass region caused the hard glue in the disconnection
to resonate and very selectively breakdown the OZI suppression for its quantum
numbers only. Recently a p p central production spin analysis found the
f2(1950) had a dominant decay mode f2(1270) pi pi. We consider if it is related
to the phi phi resonances, and find that it likely is.


title: Determination of psi(2S) Total Number by Inclusive Hadronic Decay

abstract:
  On the basis of the study of inclusive hadronic events, two methods are
adopted to determine the number of produced psi(2S) events collected by BES in
2001-2002 run, which is 14 Million with the uncertainty of 4%.


title: Top quark production cross section at the Tevatron

abstract:
  Preliminary results obtained by the CDF and D0 Collaborations on the top
quark pair production cross-section in p pbar collisions at a center-of-mass
energy of 1.96 TeV are presented. The measurements are obtained using various
final states from top quark pair production and decays, and are based on data
collected during years 2002-2004 of the Tevatron Run II.


title: Direct CP Violating Asymmetry in B0 -> K+pi- Decays

abstract:
  We present a measurement of the direct CP violating asymmetry in the decay B0
-> K+pi- using 227 x 10^6 Y(4S) -> BBbar decays collected with the BaBar
detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at SLAC, we observe a
total signal yield of n(K-pi+) + n(K+pi-) = 1606 +- 51 decays and measure the
asymmetry [n(K-pi+)-n(K+pi-)]/[n(K-p+-)+n(K+pi-)] = -0.133+-0.030 (stat) +-
0.009 (syst). The probability of observing such an asymmetry in the absence of
direct CP violation is 1.3 x 10^-5, corresponding to 4.2 standard deviations.


title: Heavy Quarkonia Spectroscopy

abstract:
  Recent experimental results on heavy quarkonia spectroscopy and decays are
reviewed. In particular, new results are discussed on charmonium spin singlet
states, bottomonium D-states, photon and hadronic transitions from heavy
quarkonium states, and the unexplained narrow X(3872) state.


title: Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetries in Pion Electroproduction at HERMES

abstract:
  We present the measurement of Single Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetries in pion
electroproduction off hydrogen in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering
(SIDIS). The measurement was made using the HERMES spectrometer with an
internal gas target and the polarized 27.6 GeV electron(positron) beam of HERA
using the data taken during the years 1996-2000. The $\sin\phi$ modulation of
the azimuthal asymmetry was measured for semi-inclusive $\pi^+,\pi^-$ and
$\pi^0$. The dependence of the asymmetry on the Bjorken $x$, pion relative
($z$) and transverse ($P_T$) momentum is presented. Results are compared to
theoretical model calculation.


title: Study of B0 -> rho+-pi-+ Time-dependent CP Violation at Belle

abstract:
  We present a time-dependent analysis of CP violation in B0 -> rho pi decays
based on a 140 1/fb data sample collected at the Y(4S) resonance with the Belle
detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We fully reconstruct one
neutral B meson in the rho+-pi-+ final state and identify the flavor of the
accompanying B meson from its decay products. We obtain the charge asymmetry
ACP = -0.16+-0.10(stat)+-0.02(syst). An unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the
proper-time distributions yields C = 0.25+-0.17(stat)+0.02-0.06(syst), DC =
0.38+-0.18(stat)+0.02-0.04(syst), S = -0.28+-0.23(stat)+0.10-0.08(syst), and DS
= -0.30+-0.24(stat)+-0.09(syst). The direct CP violation parameters for B ->
rho+pi- and B -> rho-pi+ decays are A+- = -0.02+-0.16(stat)+0.05-0.02(syst) and
A-+ = -0.53+-0.29(stat)+0.09-0.04(syst).


title: Other Particle Searches at the Tevatron

abstract:
  The CDF and D0 collider experiments at Fermilab have searched for evidence of
physics extending beyond the scope of the Standard Model of particles and
interactions. We report on the results of searches for heavy extra gauge
bosons, extra dimensions and composite electrons in 200 1/pb (per experiment)
of p anti p collisions at center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. No evidence of a
new signal has been found, therefore limits on model parameters have been
derived.


title: Exclusive $\rho^0$ meson electroproduction from hydrogen at CLAS

abstract:
  The longitudinal and transverse components of the cross section for the $e
p\to e^\prime p \rho^0$ reaction were measured in Hall B at Jefferson
Laboratory using the CLAS detector. The data were taken with a 4.247 GeV
electron beam and were analyzed in a range of $x_B$ from 0.2 to 0.6 and of
$Q^2$ from 1.5 to 3.0 GeV$^2$. The data are compared to a Regge model based on
effective hadronic degrees of freedom and to a calculation based on Generalized
Parton Distributions. It is found that the transverse part of the cross section
is well described by the former approach while the longitudinal part can be
reproduced by the latter.


title: Differential cross section results from NuTeV

abstract:
  The NuTeV experiment has collected high statistics, high energy samples of
$\nu$ and $\bar{\nu}$ charged-current interactions using the sign-selected
Fermilab neutrino beam. NuTeV has extracted $\nu$ and $\bar{\nu}$ differential
cross sections for DIS single-muon production at moderate $x>0.015$ and average
$Q^2\sim 15$ GeV$^2$. Differential cross sections and structure function
results are presented. The NuTeV measurement has improved systematic precision
and includes data over an expanded kinematic range up to high inelasticity.


title: CP Violation Results in Charm

abstract:
  Searches for CP violation in the charm sector from the E791, FOCUS, CLEO,
BABAR and BELLE experiments are presented. Most analyses consider CP violation
in two-body or quasi-two-body decays. Preliminary results from CLEO and FOCUS
using Dalitz-plot analyses are also presented.


title: MiniBooNE Status

abstract:
  MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will confirm or
refute the existence of the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the Liquid
Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) Experiment at Los Alamos National
Laboratory. The experiment will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos
in a beam of muon neutrinos. This work presents preliminary results from the
first round of analyses of charged current quasi-elastic events, neutral
current pi0 events, and neutral current elastic events. The neutrino
oscillation analysis is not presented in this work; it is a blind analysis
which will not be presented until the full set of data has been collected.


title: Dissociation of virtual photons in events with a leading proton at HERA

abstract:
  The ZEUS detector has been used to study dissociation of virtual photons in
events with a leading proton, gamma^* p -> X p, in e^+p collisions at HERA. The
data cover photon virtualities in two ranges, 0.03<Q^2<0.60 GeV^2 and 2<Q^2<100
GeV^2, with M_X>1.5 GeV, where M_X is the mass of the hadronic final state, X.
Events were required to have a leading proton, detected in the ZEUS leading
proton spectrometer, carrying at least 90% of the incoming proton energy. The
cross section is presented as a function of t, the squared four-momentum
transfer at the proton vertex, Phi, the azimuthal angle between the positron
scattering plane and the proton scattering plane, and Q^2. The data are
presented in terms of the diffractive structure function, F_2^D(3). A
next-to-leading-order QCD fit to the higher-Q^2 data set and to previously
published diffractive charm production data is presented.


title:
Measurment of the Muonic Branching Fraction of the Narrow Upsilon
  Resonances at CLEO

abstract:
  The decay branching fractions of the three narrow Upsilon resonances to
mu+mu- have been measured by analyzing about 4.3 1/fb e+e- data collected in
the vicinity of the resonances with the CLEO III detector. The branching
fraction B(Y(1S) to mu+mu-) = (2.49 +- 0.02 \+- 0.07)% is consistent with the
current world average but B(Y(2S) to mu+mu-) = (2.03 +- 0.03 +- 0.08)% and
B(Y(3S) to mu+mu-) = (2.39 +- 0.07 +- 0.10)% are significantly larger than
prior results. These new muonic branching fractions imply a narrower total
decay width for the Y(2S) and Y(3S) resonances and lower other branching
fractions that rely on these decays in their determination.


title:
Search for the Lepton-Flavor-Violating Leptonic B Decays B^0 -> \mu^\pm
  \tau^\mp and B^0 -> \mu^\pm \tau^\mp

abstract:
  We have searched a sample of 9.6 million BBbar events for the
lepton-flavor-violating leptonic B decays, B^0 -> \mu^\pm \tau^\mp and B^0 ->
e^\pm \tau^\mp. The \tau-lepton was detected through the decay modes \tau ->
\ell\nu\bar\nu, where \ell = e, \mu. There is no indication of a signal, and we
obtain the 90% confidence level upper limits [Br(B^0 -> \mu^\pm \tau^\mp)] <
3.8 X 10^-5 and [Br(B^0 -> e^\pm \tau^\mp)] < 1.1 X 10^-4.


title: Observation of $K^*(892)^0\bar K^*(892)^0$ in $\chi_{cJ}$ Decays

abstract:
  $K^*(892)^0\bar K^*(892)^0$ signals from $\chi_{cJ} (J=0,1,2)$ decays are
observed for the first time using a data sample of 14 million $\psi(2S)$ events
accumulated at the BES II detector. The branching fractions ${\cal
B}(\chi_{cJ}\to K^*(892)^0\bar K^*(892)^0)$ $(J = 0,1,2)$ are determined to be
$(1.55 \pm 0.35 \pm 0.30)\times 10^{-3}$, $(1.58 \pm 0.32 \pm 0.29)\times
10^{-3}$, and $(4.67 \pm 0.55 \pm 0.85)\times 10^{-3}$ for the $\chi_{c0}$,
$\chi_{c1}$ and $\chi_{c2}$ decays, respectively, where the first errors are
statistical and the second are systematic. The significances of these signals
are about 4.2$\sigma$, 4.3$\sigma$, and 7.5$\sigma$, respectively.


title:
Single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on a
  transversely polarized hydrogen target

abstract:
  Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions
in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with
transverse target polarization. The asymmetry depends on the azimuthal angles
of both the pion ($\phi$) and the target spin axis ($\phi_S$) about the virtual
photon direction and relative to the lepton scattering plane. The extracted
Fourier component $\cmpi$ is a signal of the previously unmeasured quark
transversity distribution, in conjunction with the so-called Collins
fragmentation function, also unknown. The Fourier component $\smpi$ of the
asymmetry arises from a correlation between the transverse polarization of the
target nucleon and the intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks, as represented
by the previously unmeasured Sivers distribution function. Evidence for both
signals is observed, but the Sivers asymmetry may be affected by exclusive
vector meson production


title: Plans for Kaon Physics at BNL

abstract:
  I give an overview of current plans for kaon physics at BNL. The program is
centered on the rare decay modes K+ --> pi+ nu nubar and KL --> pi0 nu nubar.


title: Neutral Current Pi0 Interactions at MiniBooNE

abstract:
  MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will search for
the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos, and in the
process will accumulate more neutrino interactions in the 0-2 GeV energy range
than all past experiments. This work presents preliminary results from the
neutral current pi0 analysis at MiniBooNE, with comparisons of the NUANCE,
NEUGEN, and NEUT neutrino cross section Monte Carlos. Also presented are
comparisons of these three Monte Carlo simulations with MiniBooNE data taken
during the runningperiod from September, 2002, to September, 2003.


title: Bremsstrahlung radiation in the deuteron - proton collision

abstract:
  Despite the fact that Bremsstrahlung radiation has been observed many years
ago, it is still the subject of interest of many theoretical and experimental
groups. Due to the high sensitivity of the NN --> NNgamma reaction to the
nucleon-nucleon potential, Bremsstrahlung radiation is used as a tool to
investigate details of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. Such investigations can
be performed at the cooler synchrotron COSY in the Research Centre Juelich, by
dint of the COSY-11 detection system. For the first time at the COSY--11
experiment signals from gamma - quanta were observed in the time-of-flight
distribution of neutral particles measured with the neutral particle detector.
In this thesis the results of the identification of Bremsstrahlung radiation
emitted via the dp --> dpgamma reaction in data taken with a proton target and
a deuteron beam are presented and discussed. The time resolution of the neutral
particle detector and its timing calibration are crucial for the identification
of the dp --> dpgamma reaction. Therefore, methods of determining the relative
timing between individual modules - constituting the neutron detector - and of
the general time offset with respect to the other detector components are
described. Furthermore the accuracy of the momentum determination of the
registered neutron which defines the precision of the event reconstruction was
extracted from the data.


title: Measurement of the B0->PhiK*0 Decay Amplitudes

abstract:
  With a sample of about 227 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector
at the PEP-II storage ring we perform a full angular analysis of the decay
B0->PhiK*0(892). We measure the branching fraction to be (9.2+-0.9+-0.5)10^-6
and determine the fractions of longitudinal and parity-odd transverse
contributions as f_L=0.52+-0.05+-0.02 and f_perp=0.22+-0.05+-0.02,
respectively. The phases of the parity-even and parity-odd transverse
amplitudes relative to the longitudinal amplitude are found to be phi_parallel=
2.34+0.23-0.20+-0.05 rad and phi_perp=2.47+-0.25+-0.05 rad, respectively. We
measure five CP asymmetries which provide important limits on CP violation
originating from new physics. We also observe the decay B0->PhiK*0(1430).


title: Search for the decay B0 --> J/psi gamma

abstract:
  We present the results of a search for the radiative decay B0 --> J/psi gamma
in a data set containing 123 million Y(4S)--> B B-bar decays, collected by the
BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- storage ring at SLAC. We
find no evidence for a signal and place an upper limit of B(B0 --> J/psi gamma)
< 1.6 x 10^-6 at 90% confidence level.


title:
Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Interactions at MiniBooNE Confront Cross
  Section Monte Carlos

abstract:
  Neutrino oscillations have been established in solar and atmospheric
neutrinos, but a third signal from the LSND experiment is incompatible with
three Standard Model neutrinos. The MiniBooNE experiment can confirm or refute
the LSND signal with 1E21 protons on target. While working towards the
oscillation result, MiniBooNE will accumulate more than 1E6 neutrino
interactions in the 0 to 2 GeV range which will greatly increase the world's
knowledge of neutrino cross sections in this energy regime. Preliminary results
on the MiniBooNE muon neutrino charged current quasi-elastic analysis are
presented and compared to the NUANCE, NEUT, and NEUGEN cross section Monte
Carlos.


title: Charm and beauty production at CDF

abstract:
  Recent results from the CDF collaboration are presented on the production of
final states containing charm and beauty quarks.


title: Observation of B0 Meson decays to a1(1260) pi

abstract:
  We present a preliminary measurement of the branching fraction of the B meson
decay B0--> a1(1260)+ pi- with a1(1260)+ --> pi+ pi+ pi- . The data were
recorded with the BaBar detector at the SLAC B factory PEP-II and correspond to
124 million B Bbar pairs produced in e+ e- annihilation through the Upsilon(4S)
resonance. We find the branching fraction Br(B0 --> a1(1260)+ pi-) = (42.6 +-
4.2 +- 4.1) 10^-6. The fitted values of the a1(1260) parameters are M_a1 = 1.19
+- 0.02 GeV/c^2 and Gamma_a1 = 312 +- 55 MeV/c^2


title:
Measurement of the Branching Fraction of e^+e^- --> B0B0bar at the
  Upsilon(4S) Resonance

abstract:
  We report a measurement of the branching fraction e^+e^- --> B0B0bar with a
data sample of 81.7 fb^-1 collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR
detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e^+e^- storage ring. Using partial
reconstruction of the decay B0bar --> D^{*+} \ell^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\ell} we
obtain a preliminary result of f00 = 0.486 +- 0.010(stat.) +- 0.009(sys.). Our
result does not depend on branching fractions of the B0bar and the D^{*+} decay
chains, on the simulated reconstruction efficiency, on the ratio of the charged
and neutral B meson lifetimes, nor on assumption of isospin symmetry. This
measurement is important for normalizing many B decay branching fractions, and
contributes to our understanding of isospin violation in the Upsilon(4S)
system.


title:
Search for flavor-changing neutral current and lepton-flavor violating
  decays of D0->l+l-

abstract:
  We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays $\Dz\to
e^+e^-$ and $\Dz\to\mu^+\mu^-$, and the lepton-flavor violating decay $\Dz\to
e^\pm\mu^\mp$. The measurement is based on $122 {fb}^{-1}$ of data collected by
the \babar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider. No evidence is
found for any of the decays. The upper limits on the branching fractions, at
the 90 % confidence level, are $1.2\times 10^{-6}$ for $\Dz\to e^+e^-$,
$1.3\times 10^{-6}$ for $\Dz\to\mu^+\mu^-$, and $8.1\times 10^{-7}$ for $\Dz\to
e^\pm\mu^\mp$.


title:
Measurements of $\Lambda^+_c$ Branching Fractions of Cabibbo-Suppressed
  Decay Modes

abstract:
  We have measured the branching fractions of the Cabibbo-suppressed decays
$\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Lambda^{0}$ $K^+$ and $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Sigma^0$
$K^+$ %(measured with improved accuracy). relative to the Cabibbo-allowed decay
modes $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Lambda^{0}$ $\pi^+$ and $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$
$\Sigma^0$ $\pi^+$ to be $ 0.044 \pm 0.004 (\textnormal{stat.}) \pm 0.002
(\textnormal{syst.})$ and $ 0.040 \pm 0.005 (\textnormal{stat.}) \pm 0.004
(\textnormal{syst.})$, respectively. We also present the first observation of
$\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Lambda^{0}$ $K^+ \pi^+ \pi^-$ and have measured the
branching fraction relative to $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Lambda^{0}$ $\pi^+$ to be
$0.266 \pm 0.027 (\textnormal{stat.}) \pm 0.032 (\textnormal{syst.})$. The
upper limit of the branching fraction into the decay $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$
$\Sigma^0$ $K^+ \pi^+ \pi^-$ relative to $\Lambda^+_c$ $\to$ $\Sigma^0$ $\pi^+$
has been measured to be %7.6 \times 10^{-4}$ $ < 3.9 \times 10^{-2}$ at the 90%
confidence level. This analysis was performed using a data sample of
%approximately 125 fb$^{-1}$ (integrated luminosity) collected by the \babar$
$detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center. All results presented in this conference contribution are
preliminary.


title: Pentaquark Searches at CDF

abstract:
  Experimental results of a search for the Xi_(3/2)(1860) cascade pentaquark
state in data collected with the CDF 2 Detector in Run II at the Tevatron are
presented. No evidence for these states in the neutral Xi-pi+ and doubly
charged Xi-pi- modes has been found. Preliminary upper limits on yields at 1862
MeV/c**2 relative to the well established resonance Xi*0(1530) are presented.


title:
First Measurement of the Branching Ratio of $J/\psi\to\gamma f_{2}(1270)
  f_{2}(1270)$

abstract:
  Using 58 million $J/\psi$ events taken with the BES II detector at the
Beijing Electron Positron Collider, a new decay mode $J/\psi\to\gamma
f_{2}(1270) f_{2}(1270) \to \gamma \pi^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^-$ is observed for the
first time. The branching ratio is determined to be $Br(J/\psi\to\gamma
f_{2}(1270) f_{2}(1270))=(9.5\pm0.7\pm1.6)\times 10^{-4}$, where the quoted
errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.


title: Measurement of the B0bar --> D*+ l- nubar_l Decay Rate and |Vcb|

abstract:
  We present a measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element
|Vcb| based on a sample of about 53,700 B0bar --> D*+ l- nubar_l decays
observed by the BaBar detector. We obtain the branching fraction averaged over
l = e, mu,
  BR(B0bar --> D*+ l- nubar_l) = (4.90 +- 0.07(stat.) +0.36-0.35(syst.))%.
  We measure the differential decay rate as a function of w, the relativistic
boost gamma of the D*+ in the B0bar rest frame. By extrapolating dGamma/dw to
the kinematic limit w --> 1, we extract the product of |Vcb| and the axial form
factor A_1(w=1). We combine this measurement with a lattice QCD calculation of
A_1(w=1) to determine |Vcb| = (38.7 +- 0.3(stat.) +- 1.7(syst.)
+1.5-1.3(theory)) * 10^-3.


title: Search for b --> u Transitions in B- to D0(bar)K- and B- to D*0(bar)K-

abstract:
  We report on searches for B- to D0(bar) K- and B- to D*0(bar) K-, with
D*0(bar) to D0(bar) pi0 or D*0(bar) to D0(bar) gamma, and D0(bar) to K+ pi-
(and charge conjugates). These final states, which we denote as [K+pi-]_D K-
and [K+pi-]_D* K-, can be reached through the b --> c transition B- to D(*)0 K-
followed by the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed D0 to K+ pi-, or through the b --> u
transition B- to D0bar K- followed by the Cabibbo-favored D0bar to K+ pi-, or
through interference of the two. Our results are based on 227 million
Upsilon(4s) to BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at SLAC. We
measure the ratio R_Kpi == (Gamma(B+ to [K-pi+]_D K+) + Gamma(B- to [K+pi-]_D
K-))/ (Gamma(B+ to [K+pi-]_D K+) + Gamma(B- to [K-pi+]_D K-)) = 0.013 + 0.011 -
0.009, R*_Kpi,D0pi0 == (Gamma(B+ to [K-pi+]_D*(pi0) K+) + Gamma(B- to
[K+pi-]_D*(pi0) K-)) (Gamma(B+ to [K+pi-]_D*(pi0) K+) + Gamma(B- to
[K-pi+]_D*(pi0) K-)) = -0.001 + 0.010 - 0.006 and R*_Kpi,D0gam == (Gamma(B+ to
[K-pi+]_D*(gam) K+) + Gamma(B- to [K+pi-]_D*(gam) K-)) (Gamma(B+ to
[K+pi-]_D*(gam) K+) + Gamma(B- to [K-pi+]_D*(gam) K-)) = 0.011 + 0.019 - 0.013.
We set R_Kpi < 0.030 (90% C.L.) and from this limit we extract the amplitude
ratio rB == |A(B- to D0bar K-)/A(B- to D0 K-)| < 0.23 at the 90% confidence
level. This limit is obtained with the most conservative assumptions on the
values of the CKM angle gamma and the strong phases in the B and D decay
amplitudes. From the measurements of R*_Kpi,D0pi0 and R*_Kpi,D0gam we extract
rB*^2 == |A(B- to D*0bar K-)/A(B- to D*0 K-)|^2 = 4.6 + 15.2 - 7.3 x 10-3 and
rB*^2<(0.16)^2 at the 90% confidence level.


title: A Search for the Rare Decay B0 --> D_S+ rho-

abstract:
  We report on a search for the decay B0 --> D_S+ rho- in a sample of 90
million Y(4S) decays into B meson pairs collected between 1999 and 2001 with
the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. No
significant excess of signal events above the expected background is observed.
We set a 90% C.L. limit on the branching fraction Br(B0 --> D_S+ rho-)<
1.9*10^{-5}. Assuming a flavor SU(3) symmetry relation between the decays B0
--> D_S+ rho- and B0 --> D+ rho-, we set a limit on the ratio of CKM-suppressed
to CKM-favored amplitudes r(D rho)<9.5*10^{-3} at 90% C.L. All results are
preliminary.


title: Towards Precision Measurements at the LHC

abstract:
  This article discusses some basic aspects of cross section measurements at
the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.


title: Recent BES Results on psi' Decay

abstract:
  With 14 Million psi' events, many two-body decay channels are studied, which
include Vector Pseudoscalar, Vector Tensor, Pseudoscalar Pseudoscalar channels.
Based on systematical measurements for charmonium decay, 12% rule is tested,
the phase between strong and electromagnetic amplitudes is studied. In
addition, hadronic and radiative transitions of charmonia are measured to
improve experimental accuracy and test theoretical calculations.


title: Amplitude Analysis of B -> pi pi pi and B -> K pi pi

abstract:
  We present preliminary results of a maximum-likelihood Dalitz-plot analysis
of the charmless hadronic B decays to the final states pi pi pi and K pi pi
from data corresponding to an integrated on-resonance luminosity of 166 fb^-1
recorded by the BABAR experiment at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy B
Factory. We measure the total branching fractions B(B -> pi pi pi) = (16.2 +-
2.1 +- 1.3) x 10^-6 and B(B -> K pi pi) = (61.4 +- 2.4 +- 4.5) x 10^-6, and
provide fit fractions and phases for intermediate resonance states.


title: Search for B --> chi_c K(*) decays

abstract:
  We report on the search for the factorization suppressed decays B -> chi_c0
K(*) and B -> chi_c2 K(*), with chi_c0 and chi_c2 decaying into J/psi gamma. We
use a sample of 124 million BBbar events collected with the BABAR detector at
the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. No
significant signal is found and upper bounds for the branching fractions are
obtained. All results are preliminary.


title:
Search for the Radiative Penguin Decays B+ -> rho+ gamma, B0 -> rho0
  gamma, and B0 -> omega gamma

abstract:
  A search for the decays B --> rho(770) gamma and B0 --> omega(782)gamma is
performed on a sample of 211x10^6 Y(4S)->BBbar events collected by the BABAR
detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- storage ring. No evidence for the
decays is seen. We set the following limits on the individual branching
fractions: BF(B --> rho+ gamma)<1.8 x 10^-6, BF(B --> rho0 gamma)<0.4 x 10^-6,
and BF(B --> omega gamma)<1.0 x 10^-6 at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). We
use the quark model to limit the combined branching fraction BFbar[B -->
(rho/omega) gamma]<1.2 x 10^-6, from which we determine a constraint on the
ratio of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |V_td|/|V_ts|.


title:
Measurement of the Branching Fractions for the Decays B0->D^{*-} ppbar
  pi^+, B0->D^-ppbar pi^+, B0->D^{*0} ppbar and B0->D^0 ppbar

abstract:
  The $B^0$ meson decay modes $B^0 \to D^{*-} p {\bar p} \pi^+$, $D^{-} p {\bar
p} \pi^+$, ${\bar D}^{*0} p {\bar p}$, and ${\bar D}^{0} p {\bar p}$ are
studied in a sample of $124\times 10^{6}$ $B{\bar B}$ pairs collected with the
$BaBar$ detector at the PEP-II collider. The decay of $B^0 \to D^{-} p {\bar p}
\pi^+$ is observed for the first time, with a measured branching fraction
${\cal B}(B^0 \to D^{-} p {\bar p} \pi^+)=(3.80\pm 0.35\pm 0.46)\times
10^{-4}$. The following branching fractions are also determined: ${\cal B}(B^0
\to D^{*-} p {\bar p} \pi^+)= (5.61\pm 0.59\pm 0.73)\times 10^{-4}$, ${\cal
B}(B^0 \to {\bar D}^{*0} p {\bar p})= (0.67\pm 0.21\pm 0.09)\times 10^{-4}$,
and ${\cal B}(B^0 \to {\bar D}^{0} p {\bar p})= (1.24\pm 0.14\pm 0.12)\times
10^{-4}$. In each decay mode the invariant mass spectra of the charmed mesons
and the baryons are compared with a pure phase-space hypothesis in order to
gain insight into the $B$ meson decay dynamics. In particular, the Dalitz plots
of ${\bar D}^{*0} p$ versus ${\bar D}^{*0} {\bar p}$ for $B^0 \to {\bar D}^{*0}
p {\bar p}$ and of ${\bar D}^{0} p$ versus ${\bar D}^{0} {\bar p}$ for $B^0 \to
{\bar D}^{0} p {\bar p}$ are presented. All results are preliminary.


title:
Measurement of exclusive B decays to charmonium and K or K* branching
  fractions with the BABAR detector

abstract:
  We report preliminary results on the measurement of branching fractions of
exclusive decays of neutral and charged B mesons into two-body final states
containing a charmonium state and a light strange meson. The charmonium mesons
considered are J/psi, psi(2S) and chic_c1, and the light mesons are either K or
K*. We use a sample of about 124 million BBbar events collected with the BABAR
detector at the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.


title: A Search for the Theta^*++ Pentaquark in B+ -> p pbar K+

abstract:
  We report the results of a search for the Theta*++ pentaquark in the decay B+
-> Theta*++ pbar where Theta*++ -> pK+ using 81fb^-1 of data collected on the
Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at PEP-II. We find an upper limit
on the branching fraction of B+ -> Theta*++ pbar where Theta*++ -> pK+ to be
1.5x10^-7 for 1.43<m(Theta*++)<1.85GeV/c^2, 2.4x10^-7 for
1.85<m(Theta*++)<2.00GeV/c^2 and 3.3x10^-7 for 2.00<m(Theta*++)<2.36GeV/c^2, at
90% confidence level. All results are preliminary.


title:
Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries and Constraints on sin(2
  beta+gamma) with Partial Reconstruction of B0->D*-+ pi+- Decays

abstract:
  We present a preliminary measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating
asymmetry in decays of neutral B mesons to the final states D*-+ pi+- using
approximately 178 million BB events recorded by the BaBar experiment at the
PEP-II e+e- storage ring. Events containing these decays are selected with a
partial reconstruction technique, in which only the high-momentum pi+- from the
B decay and the low-momentum pi-+ from the D*-+ decay are used. % We measure
the amplitude of the asymmetry to be $-0.041 \pm 0.016 (stat.) \pm 0.010
(syst.)$ and determine bounds on $|\sin(2 \beta + \gamma)|$.


title:
Measurement of the B0bar Lifetime and of the B0-B0bar Oscillation
  Frequency Using Partially Reconstructed B0bar -> D*+ l- anti-nu(l) Decays

abstract:
  We present a simultaneous measurement of the B0bar lifetime tau(B0) and
mixing parameter $Delta m_d$. We use a sample of about 50000 B0bar -> D*+ l-
anti-nu(l) partially reconstructed decays identified with the BABAR detector at
the PEP-II storage ring at SLAC, where the flavor of the other B meson is
determined from the charge of another high momentum lepton in the same event.
The preliminary results are: tau(B0) = (1.501+/-0.008(stat.) +/- 0.030 (syst.))
ps, $Delta m_d$ = (0.523+/-0.004(stat.) +/- 0.007 (syst.)) ps^{-1}.


title:
Partial Reconstruction of $B^0\to D_s^{\ast+} D^{\ast-}$ Decays and
  Measurement of the $D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+$ Branching Fraction

abstract:
  We present preliminary results on the branching fractions $BF(B^0\to
D_s^{\ast+} D^{\ast-})$ and $BF(D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+)$, based on a data sample of
approximately $124\times10^6$ \BB events collected by the \babar detector at
the PEP-II $e^+ e^-$ \B--factory. $BF(B^0\to D_s^{\ast+} D^{\ast-})$ is
measured selecting neutral \B meson decays to the final state $D_s^{\ast+}
D^{\ast-}$ with partial reconstruction of the $D_s^{\ast+}$, in which only the
$D^{\ast-}$ and the soft photons from the decay $D_s^{\ast+} \to D_s^+ \gamma$
are reconstructed. The branching fraction product $BF(B^0\to D_s^{\ast+}
D^{\ast-}) \cdot BF(D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+)$ is measured via a complete
reconstruction of the whole decay chain. Comparing these two measurements
provides a model-independent determination of the $BF(D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+)$
branching fraction. We obtain the following preliminary results:
  $BF(B^0\to D_s^{\ast+} D^{\ast-}) = (1.85 \pm 0.09 \pm 0.16)%$,
  $BF(D_s^+\to\phi\pi^+) = (4.71 \pm 0.47 \pm 0.35)%$ where the first error in
each measurement is statistical, the second systematic.


title: Study of B -> DsJ(*)+ Dbar(*) Decays

abstract:
  We report a study of DsJ*(2317)+ and DsJ(2460)+ meson production in B decays.
We observe the decays B+ -> DsJ(*)+ Dbar(*)0 and B0 -> DsJ(*)+ D(*)- with the
subsequent decays DsJ*(2317)+ -> Ds+ pi0, DsJ(2460)+ -> Ds+ gamma, and
DsJ(2460)+ -> Ds*+ pi0. Based on a data sample of 122.1 million BBbar pairs
collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II B factory, we obtain branching
fractions for these modes, including the previously unseen decays B -> DsJ(*)+
D*. In addition, we perform an angular analysis of DsJ(2460)+ -> Ds+ gamma
decays to test the different DsJ(2460)+ spin hypotheses.


title:
A new limit of T-violating transverse muon polarization in the
  $K^{+}\to\pi^{0}\mu^{+} \nu$ decay

abstract:
  A search for T-violating transverse muon polarization ($P_T$) in the
$K^{+}\to \pi^{0}\mu^{+}\nu$ decay was performed using kaon decays at rest. A
new improved value, $P_T= -0.0017\pm 0.0023 (stat)\pm 0.0011 (syst)$, was
obtained giving an upper limit, $| P_T | < 0.0050$. The T-violation parameter
was determined to be Im$\xi = -0.0053 \pm 0.0071(stat)\pm 0.0036(syst)$ giving
an upper limit, $|$Im$\xi| <0.016$.


title:
Heavy Flavor Production in Hadron Collisions (with a few leptons and
  photons thrown in)

abstract:
  Substantial advances in our understanding of several aspects of QCD have been
achieved in the recent past using heavy quarks as a tool. However, many open
questions still remain. These successes and puzzles are highlighted by the
latest measurements of heavy quark production at the Tevatron, HERA and fixed
target experiments, which will be reviewed here. Results in both open heavy
flavor and heavy quarkonium production as well as evidence for new particles
containing heavy quarks will be presented. The impact of these measurements on
gaps in our understanding of QCD and how we hope to close these gaps in the
future will be outlined.


title: A general search for new phenomena in ep scattering at HERA

abstract:
  A model-independent search for deviations from the Standard Model prediction
is performed in e^+ p and e^- p collisions at HERA using H1 data corresponding
to an integrated luminosity of 117 pb^-1. For the first time all event
topologies involving isolated electrons, photons, muons, neutrinos and jets
with high transverse momenta are investigated in a single analysis. Events are
assigned to exclusive classes according to their final state. A statistical
algorithm is developed to search for deviations from the Standard Model in the
distributions of the scalar sum of transverse momenta or invariant mass of
final state particles and to quantify their significance. A good agreement with
the Standard Model prediction is observed in most of the event classes. The
most significant deviation is found for a topology containing an isolated muon,
missing transverse momentum and a jet, consistent with a previously reported
observation.


title: Determination of |Vub| in inclusive semileptonic B meson decays

abstract:
  We present a preliminary determination of the CKM matrix element |Vub| based
on the analysis of semileptonic B decays from a sample of 88 million
Upsilon(4S) decays collected with the BaBar detector at the e+e- storage ring.
Charmless semileptonic B decays are selected using the electron energy E_e and
the invariant mass q^2 of the electron-neutrino pair. The neutrino momentum is
inferred from a measurement of the visible energy and momentum in the detector
and knowledge of the e+e- beam momenta. The partial branching fraction is
determined in a region of the q^2-E_e plane where semileptonic B decays to
charm are highly suppressed. The total charmless semileptonic branching
fraction is extracted using a theoretical calculation based on the heavy quark
expansion. Preliminary results yield |Vub| = (4.57 +/- 0.21 +/- 0.25 +/- 0.34
+0.59/-0.29 +/- 0.22) x 10^{-3} where the uncertainties are from statistics
(data and MC), detector modeling, background modeling, the shape function, and
the heavy quark operator product expansion, respectively.


title: Search for K_S K_L in psi'' decays

abstract:
  K_S K_L from psi'' decays is searched for using the psi'' data collected by
BESII at BEPC, the upper limit of the branching fraction is determined to be
B(psi''--> K_S K_L) < 2.1\times 10^{-4} at 90% C. L. The measurement is
compared with the prediction of the S- and D-wave mixing model of the
charmonia, based on the measurements of the branching fractions of J/psi-->K_S
K_L and psi'-->K_S K_L.


title: Observation of $\psp$ decays to $\rho(770)\pi$ and $\rho(2150)\pi$

abstract:
  \pspto \rho\pi is observed for the fisrt time in a data sample of 14M \psp
decays collected by the BESII detector at BEPC. The branching fraction is
measured to be \BR(pspto\rho\pi)=(5.1+-0.7+-0.8)10-5, where the first error is
statistical and the second one is systematic. A high mass excited \rho state
wirh mass around 2.15GeV/c2 is also observed wirh \BR(pspto \rho(2150)\pi) \ra
pi+pi-pi0) =(19.4+-2.5+11.2-2.1)10-5. The branching fraction of \pspto
pi+pi-pi0 is measued with improved precision, \BR(\pspto
pi+pi-pi0)=(18.1+-1.8+-1.9)10-5. The results may shed light on the
understanding of the longstanding "\rhopi puzzle" between \jpsi and \psp
hadronic decays.


title:
Limits for the central production of Theta^+ and Xi^{--} pentaquarks in
  920 GeV pA collisions

abstract:
  We have searched for Theta^+(1540) and Xi^{--}(1862) pentaquark candidates in
proton-induced reactions on C, Ti and W targets at mid-rapidity and \sqrt{s} =
41.6 GeV. In 2x10^8 inelastic events we find no evidence for narrow (sigma~5
MeV) signals in the Theta^+ -> pK_s and Xi^{--} -> Xi^-pi^- channels; our 95%
CL upper limits (UL) for the inclusive production cross section times branching
fraction Bx(dsigma/dy)|_{y~0} are 3.7 and 2.5 microb/N. The UL of the yield
ratio of [Theta^+ / Lambda(1520)] < 2.7% is significantly lower than model
predictions. Our UL of [BxXi^{--} / Xi(1530)^0] < 4% is at variance with the
results that have provided first evidence for the Xi^{--} signal.


title: Comparison of diffractive final states with LO and NLO QCD predictions

abstract:
  Measurements of hard diffractive final states performed with the H1
experiment at HERA are presented and confronted with leading order and
next-to-leading order QCD predictions based on diffractive parton densities to
test QCD factorisation in diffraction


title: Study of the tau- -> 3h- 2h+ nu-tau Decay

abstract:
  A preliminary measurement of the branching fraction of the tau- -> 3h-2h+nu
decay (h= pi, K$) with the BaBar detector is found to be {8.52 +/- 0.09 +/-
0.40} x 10E-4, where the first error is statistical and the second is
systematic. The data show evidence that the rho resonance plays a strong role
in the decay of the tau lepton to five charged hadrons.


title: Search for CP violation in the decay B0->D*+-D-+

abstract:
  We report a search for CP-violating asymmetry in B0 -> D*+- D-+ decays. The
analysis employs two methods of B0 reconstruction: full and partial. In the
full reconstruction method all daughter particles of the B0 are required to be
detected; the partial reconstruction technique requires a fully reconstructed
D- and only a slow pion from the D*+ -> D0 pi_slow+ decay. From a fit to the
distribution of the time interval corresponding to the distance between two B
meson decay points we calculate the CP-violating parameters and find the
significance of nonzero CP asymmetry to be 2.7 standard deviations.