Speculations on Isolated Lepton Events at HERA

Speculations on mechanisms which might be responsible for events with an isolated high p_T lepton, a hadron jet and missing energy, as observed in the H1 experiment at HERA, are discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 6 pages, 2 figures, presented at the XXXI Conference of Theoretical Physics "Matter to the Deepest", Ustron, Poland, September 5-11, 200

Production of Bc mesons in photon-photon and hadron-hadron collisions

We discuss two-photon and hadronic production of Bc mesons in nonrelativistic bound state approximation and to lowest order in the coupling constants a and a s . It is shown that in photon-photon collisions, heavy quark fragmentation is dominated by recombination of b and c quarks up to the highest accessible transverse momenta. In contrast, in hadroproduction, which at high energies mainly involves gluon-gluon collisions, the fragmentation mechanism dominates at transverse momenta py > mRc, providing a simple and satisfactory approximation of the complete 0(a ) ) results in the high-px regime. Contradictions in previous publications on hadroproduction of Bc mesons are clarified. We also present predictions for cross sections and differential distributions at present and future accelerators

Discriminating graviton exchange effects from other new physics scenarios in e^+e^- collisions

We study the possibility of uniquely identifying the effects of graviton exchange from other new physics in high energy e^+e^- annihilation into fermion-pairs. For this purpose, we use as basic observable a specific asymmetry among integrated differential distributions, that seems particularly suitable to directly test for such gravitational effects in the data analysis.Comment: 18 pages, including figures; v2: additional references and acknowledgements. To appear in PR

TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear Collider

The TESLA Technical Design Report Part III: Physics at an e+e- Linear ColliderComment: 192 pages, 131 figures. Some figures have reduced quality. Full quality figures can be obtained from http://tesla.desy.de/tdr. Editors - R.-D. Heuer, D.J. Miller, F. Richard, P.M. Zerwa

The Physics of the B Factories

This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and data taking related issues. Part B discusses tools and methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results themselves can be found in Part C