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The time-of-propagation counter for Belle II
The Belle II detector operating at the future upgrade to the KEKB accelerator
will perform high-statistics precision investigations into the flavor sector of
the Standard Model. As charged hadron identification is a vital element of the
experiment's success, the time-of-propagation (TOP) counter has been chosen as
the primary particle identification device in the barrel region of Belle II.
The TOP counter is a compact variant of the detection of internally reflected
Cherenkov light (DIRC) technique and relies heavily on exquisite single photon
timing resolution with micro-channel plate photomultiplier tubes. We discuss
the general principles of TOP operation and optimization of the Belle II TOP
configuration, which is expected to provide 4 sigma or better separation of
kaons and pions up to momenta of approximately 4 GeV/c.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; Submitted to special edition of NIMA,
Proceedings of RICH201
Implications of the non-universal Z boson in FCNC mediated rare decays
We analyze the effect of the non-universal boson in the rare decays , and decays. These
decays involve the FCNC mediated transitions, and are found to be
very small in the standard model. The smallness of these decays in the standard
model makes them sensitive probe for new physics. We find an enhancement of at
least an order in these branching ratios because of the non-universal
coupling.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, minor changes in the text, references added, to
appear in PR
The Buy Price in Auctions with Discrete Type Distributions
This paper considers second-price, sealed-bid auctions with a buy price where bidders' types are discretely distributed. We characterize all equilibria, restricting our attention to equilibria where bidders whose types are less than a buy price bid their own valuations. Budish and Takeyama (2001) analyzed the two-bidder, two-type framework, and showed that if bidders are risk-averse, a seller can obtain a higher expected revenue from the auction with a certain buy price than from the auction without a buy price. We extend their revenue improvement result to the n-bidder, two-type framework. However, in case of three or more types, bidders' risk aversion is not a sufficient condition for the revenue improvement. Our example illustrates that even if bidders are risk-averse, a seller cannot always obtain a higher expected revenue from the auction with a buy price.Auction; Buy price; Risk aversion
Finite Size Effects and Conformal Symmetry of Nonlinear Model in Three Dimensions
We study the nonlinear model on a three-dimensional compact
space (of radii and respectively) by means of large
expansion, focusing on the finite size effects and conformal symmetries of
this model at the critical point. We evaluate the correlation length and the
Casimir energy of this model and study their dependence on and . We
examine the modular transformation properties of the partition function, and
study the dependence of the specific heat on the mass gap in view of possible
extension of the theorem to three dimensions.Comment: 12 pages uuencoded compressed PostScript file including 1 figur
Ultraviolet Property of Noncommutative Wess-Zumino-Witten Model
We construct noncommutative extension of the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model
and study its ultraviolet property. The \beta-function of the U(N)
noncommutative WZW model resembles that of the ordinary WZW model. The U(1)
noncommutative model has also a nontrivial fixed point.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Reflection K-Matrices of the 19-Vertex Model and XXZ Spin-1 Chain with General Boundary Terms
We derive and classify all solutions of the boundary Yang-Baxter equation (or
the reflection equation) for the 19-vertex model associated with
. Integrable spin-1 chain hamiltonian with general
boundary interactions is also obtained.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, no figur
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