b-quark physics at LEP

A summary of important LEP measurements in the b-quark physics is presented. The following topics are reviewed: b-fragmentation, the spectroscopy and lifetimes of beauty hadrons, B/sup 0/-B/sup 0/ oscillations and the extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements V/sub cb/ and V/sub ub/. (87 refs)

Faddeev study of heavy baryon spectroscopy

We investigate the structure of heavy baryons containing a charm or a bottom quark. We employ a constituent quark model successful in the description of the baryon-baryon interaction which is consistent with the light baryon spectra. We solve exactly the three-quark problem by means of the Faddeev method in momentum space. Heavy baryon spectrum shows a manifest compromise between perturbative and nonperturbative contributions. The flavor dependence of the one-gluon exchange is analyzed. We assign quantum numbers to some already observed resonances and we predict the first radial and orbital excitations of all states with $J=1/2$ or 3/2. We combine our results with heavy quark symmetry and lowest-order SU(3) symmetry breaking to predict the masses and quantum numbers of six still non-measured ground-state beauty baryons.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication in J. Phys.

New Particles from Belle

I report recent results on hidden charm spectroscopy from Belle. These include: observation of a near-threshold enhancement in the omega-J/psi invariant mass distribution for exclusive B-->K omega J/psi decays; evidence for the decay X(3872)-->pi+pi-pi0 J/psi, where the pi+pi-pi0 invariant mass distribution has a strong peak between 750 MeV and the kinematic limit of 775 MeV, suggesting that the process is dominated by the sub-threshold decay X-->omega J/psi; and the observation of a peak near 3940 MeV in the J/psi recoil mass spectrum for the inclusive continuum process e+e- --> J/psi X. The results are based on a study of a 287 fb-1 sample of e+e- annihilation data collected at center- of-mass energies around the Upsilon(4S) in the Belle detector at the KEKB collider.Comment: 10 pages 12 figures. Invited talk at the 1st meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Fermilab, October 24-26, 2004; revised to correct some reference

Some clinical applications of MTS-type TLD detectors

An important part of any QA programme for radiotherapy is verification, in vitro or in vivo, of calculated doses and dose distributions. We studied the clinical applicability of LiF:MG, Ti sintered TL detectors produced, as type MTS-N, by the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków (INP). These are solid pellets of diam 4.5mm and 0.8mm thickness. The TL reader was a modified planchet-type 770A, also produced at the INP, with linear heating and computerised glow curve recording.For analysis of in vivo applications, we measured, in a water phantom, the dose at 14 points aroud the Standard gynaecological applicator of our SELECTRON LDR/MDR afterloading unit with Cs-137 pellets and compared the measured values with doses calculated at these points by the in-house developed SELKOM computer code used for planning gynaecological brachytherapy at the Centre of Oncology in Kraków (COK). Agreement to within 5% was stated.To demonstrate the applicability of MTS dosemeters in calibration dosimetry, we studied the accuracy, stability and reproducibility of a batch of 100 detectors over several readout cycles at doses ranging from 0.5 to 2.5 Gy. At 1 Gy, the relative standard deviation of Individual Calibration Factors (ICF) over six readout cycles did not exceed 2.5% indicating that the error of dose estimation using individual MTS detectors should not exceed 2%.In an intercomparison of Co-60 beams at the COK and at Louvain performed with MTS detectors agreement to within less than 0.5% was found with an accuracy better than 1%.This work is partly supported by KBN Polish State Committee for Scientific Research, Research Project No. 8T11E02908

Measurement of shower development and its Moli\`ere radius with a four-plane LumiCal test set-up

A prototype of a luminometer, designed for a future e+e- collider detector, and consisting at present of a four-plane module, was tested in the CERN PS accelerator T9 beam. The objective of this beam test was to demonstrate a multi-plane tungsten/silicon operation, to study the development of the electromagnetic shower and to compare it with MC simulations. The Moli\`ere radius has been determined to be 24.0 +/- 0.6 (stat.) +/- 1.5 (syst.) mm using a parametrization of the shower shape. Very good agreement was found between data and a detailed Geant4 simulation.Comment: Paper published in Eur. Phys. J., includes 25 figures and 3 Table

An inclusive measurement of the photon energy spectrum in b->s gamma decays

We report a fully inclusive measurement of the flavour changing neutral current decay b->s gamma in the energy range 1.8 GeV < E* < 2.8 GeV, covering 95% of the total spectrum. Using 140 fb^-1 we obtain BF(b->s gamma)= 3.55 +/- 0.32 +0.30-0.31 +0.11-0.07, where the errors are statistical, systematic and from theory corrections. We also measure the first and second moments of the photon energy spectrum above 1.8 GeV and obtain = 2.292 +/- 0.026 +/- 0.034 GeV and -^2 = 0.0305 +/- 0.0074 +/- 0.0063 GeV^2, where the errors are statistical and systematic.Comment: RevTex4, 6 pages, Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. Replaced: added table of systematic errors. New results take into account radiative J/Psi decay

Evidence of the Purely Leptonic Decay B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar

We present the first evidence of the decay B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar using 414 fb^-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. Events are tagged by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in hadronic modes. We detect the signal with a significance of 3.5 standard deviations including systematics, and measure the branching fraction to be Br(B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar) = (1.79 +0.56-0.49(stat) +0.46-0.51(syst))*10^-4. This implies that f_B = 0.229 +0.036-0.031(stat) +0.034-0.037(syst) GeV and is the first direct measurement of this quantity.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letter