Highlights from the COMPASS experiment

The Compass experiment at CERN is studying the nucleon spin structure with a 160 GeV polarized muon beam and polarized targets as well as hadron structure with 190 GeV pion,kaon and proton beams.The paper gives an overview of the results for the helicity and transverse spin structure of the nucleon.A first result from the spectroscopy experiments,the observation of a resonance with exotic J P C = 1-＋ quantum numbers at 1660 MeV is also presented.The paper ends with an outlook to future measurements.     

Hadron program at COMPASS

The fixed target COMPASS experiment at CERN offers the opportunity to search for exotic mesons and glueball candidates in the light quark sector with unprecedented statistics.Preliminary results from the 2008 data taken with an incoming negative hadron beam （190 GeV/c,mainly pions） on a liquid hydrogen target are presented.New detectors dedicated to hadron beam measurements have been added.These give access to rare neutral and kaonic channels.An amplitude analysis which will allow to fit simultaneously diffractively and/or centrally produced resonances will be described and compared with those used in the CERN WA102 and BNL E852 experiments.     

Hadron spectroscopy from B-factories

We review the recent experimental results on hadron spectroscopy from B-factories focusing on the exotic charmonium-like states.Among them we discuss the X（3872）,Y（3940）,Z（4430） ＋,Z（4050） ＋,Z（4250） ＋ and Y（4140） states found in B-meson decays,the X（3940） and X（4160） states produced in double charmonium production,the Y（4260）,Y（4325）,Y（4660） and X（4630） states produced with initial-state radiation in e ＋ eannihilation and the X（3915）,Y（4350） states observed in two-photon collisions.     

Exotic and excited-state meson spectroscopy and radiative transitions from lattice QCD

We discuss recent progress in extracting the excited meson spectrum and radiative transition form factors from lattice QCD.We mention results in the charmonium sector,including the first lattice QCD calculation of radiative transition rates involving excited charmonium states,highlighting results for high spin and exotic states.We present recent results on a highly excited isovector meson spectrum from dynamical anisotropic lattices.Using carefully constructed operators we show how the continuum spin of extracted states can be reliably identified and confidently extract excited states,states with exotic quantum numbers and states of high spin.This spectrum includes the first spin-four state extracted from lattice QCD.We conclude with some comments on future prospects.     

Heavy quark spin symmetry and heavy flavor hadronic molecules

We argue that the heavy quark spin symmetry can lead to important consequences for heavy flavor hadronic molecules.It can be used to predict new heavy flavor hadronic molecules and hence provides a method to identify the nature of some newly observed exotic hadrons.For example,if the Y（4660） were an S-wave ψ f 0 （980） shallow bound state,then the mass,width and line shape of its spin partner are predicted.     

Strange quark dynamics on hot dense matter under the extreme condition

Production and properties of φ-meson under the extreme hot dense matter which is formed in Au ＋ Au collisions at RHIC energy have been briefly reviewed.The issues are focused on transverse momentum （p T ） spectra of φ,elliptic flow of φ,nuclear modification factor of φ,the ratio of Ω（p T ）/φ（p T ） versus p T,the ratio of Ω（p T /3）/φ（p T /2） versus p T /n q,spin alignment of φ and the enhancement of φ etc.These observables give the significant information of the strange quark dynamics in hot dense matter under the extreme condition.     

Recent results from LEPS

Photoproduction of baryons with strangeness,such as the Σ（1385）,Λ（1520） and possibly the Θ ＋,are described from measurements at the LEPS/SPring-8 facility in Japan.Linearly polarized photons in the energy range of 1.5–2.4 GeV,along with the forward-angle kinematics at LEPS,provide unique data to learn about these baryons,which are non-perturbative solutions of QCD.     

Charmed hadrons in nuclear medium

We study the properties of charmed hadrons in dense matter within a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner.We analyze the behaviour in this dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances as well as the open-charm meson spectral functions.We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the D s0 （2317） and the predicted X（3700） scalar resonances.     

Hadron molecules

We discuss a possible interpretation of the open charm mesons D＊s0 （2317）,D s1 （2460） and the hidden charm mesons X（3872）,Y（3940） and Y（4140） as hadron molecules.Using a phenomenological Lagrangian approach we review the strong and radiative decays of the D＊ s0 （2317） and D s1 （2460） states.The X（3872） is assumed to consist dominantly of molecular hadronic components with an additional small admixture of a charmonium configuration.Determing the radiative （γJ/ψ and γψ（2s）） and strong （J/ψ2π and J/ψ3π） decay modes we show that the present experimental observation is consistent with the molecular structure assumption of the X（3872）.Finally,we give evidence for molecular interpretations of the Y（3940） and Y（4140） related to the observed strong decay modes J/ψ＋ω or J/ψ＋φ,respectively.     

Anisotropic flow at RHIC

STAR’s measurement of directed flow for pions,kaons（K 0 S ）,protons and anti-protons,for Au＋Au collisions at 200 GeV obtained in Run7 are presented,as well as elliptic flow for identified particles measured in Au＋Au（Run7） and Cu＋Cu（Run5） collisions.It is found that the slope of proton v 1 （y） at midrapidity is extremely small.Elliptic flow results are compared to Hydro calculation and the discrepancy is discussed.     

Prospectives of the hadron program in ATLAS

One of the first measurements that will be made at the LHC by ATLAS deals with the properties of inelastic collisions,namely the central charged particle density and transverse momentum distributions.Current predictions of these distributions have large uncertainties in the LHC energy range.We describe the ATLAS minimum bias triggers,designed to select all kind of inelastic interactions,and the performance of the track reconstruction software which was adapted to soft particle track reconstruction.The precision with which the minimum bias distributions can be measured with early data is presented and the uncertainties on the inelastic distributions due to trigger bias is discussed.     

Entanglement in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ chain with different Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings and an inhomogeneous magnetic field

Ground state entanglement and thermal entanglement of a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ chain in the presence of the different Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction and inhomogeneous magnetic field are investigated.By the concept of concurrence,we find that the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field may make entanglement last for a long time and the critical temperature is dependent on Jz and b.The entanglement can be increased by increasing the temperature in some cases.We also find that the x-component parameter Dx has a higher critical temperature and more entanglement for a certain condition than the z-component parameter Dz.     

Decay properties of D and D_s mesons in coulomb plus power potential （CPPν）

The decay properties of the D and D s mesons are computed in a nonrelativistic phenomenological quark-antiquark potential of the type V （r） =-4 /3 α s /r＋ Ar ν with different choices of ν.Numerical method to solve the Schrdinger equation has been used to obtain the spectroscopy of qQ mesons.The numerically obtained radial solutions are employed to obtain the decay constant and leptonic decay widths.It has been observed that predictions of the ground state masses and the decay widths are consistent with other model predictions as well as with the known experimental values.     

Measurement of PV asymmetry in n＋p→d＋γ and γ＋d→n＋p

The measurement of parity-violating （PV） observables in few-nucleon system can shed light on our current understanding of the weak interaction between nucleons.Theoretical models describe the nucleonnucleon weak interaction at low energies use a series of undetermined parameters.Two parity violating measurements have been considered： the capture of polarized slow neutrons on hydrogen （n ＋ p → d ＋ γ） at Los Alamos National Laboratory for first phase and Oka Ridge National Laboratory for second phase and the helicity dependence of the deuteron photodisintegration cross section using circularly polarized photons （γ ＋ d → n ＋ p） at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics.The goal of both experiments is to constraint the weak meson-nucleon couplings to a precision of 1 ×10^-8 .The introduction of both experiments is presented.     

Hadrons from a hard wall AdS/QCD model

We review a recent work on masses of mesons and nucleons within a hard wall model of holographic QCD in a unified approach.In order to treat meson and nucleon properties on the same footing,we introduced the same infrared （IR） cut for both sectors.In framework of present approach,the best fit to the experimental data is achieved introducing the anomalous dimension for baryons.     

Search for new physics in the B→K^（＊）l^＋l^- decays at BABAR

Based on a data sample of 384 million BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-Ⅱ asymmetric e ＋ e ￣ storage ring,we measure branching fractions,direct CP,isospin and lepton-flavor asymmetries for the rare decays B → K （＊） l ＋ l￣ in two di-lepton mass bins above and below the J/ψ resonance.For the B → K＊ l ＋ l￣ decay,we also measure the K＊ longitudinal polarization fraction and the di-lepton forwardbackward asymmetry.     

Preliminary study of a niobium quarter-wave prototype cavity for a heavy-ion superconducting linac

Superconducting quarter-wave resonators,due to their compactness and their convenient shape for tuning and coupling,are very attractive for low-β beam acceleration.In this paper,two types of cavities with different geometry have been numerically simulated the first type with larger capacitive load in the beam line and the second type of lollipop-shape for 100 MHz,β=0.06 beams then the relative electromagnetic parameters and geometric sizes have been compared.It is found that the second type,whose structural design is optimized with the conical stem and shaping drift-tube,can support the better accelerating performance.At the end of the paper,some structural deformation effects on frequency shifts and appropriate solutions have been discussed.     

Measurement of （di）muons from heavy flavour decay in p-p collisions at 14 TeV with ALICE at the LHC

We present the performance of the ALICE muon spectrometer for measuring the charm and beauty inclusive p t differential production cross sections via single muons and unlike-sign dimuons in proton-proton collisions at√ s = 14 TeV.     

High pt and photon physics with ALICE at LHC

ALICE,A Large Ion Collider Experiment,is dedicated to study the QCD matter at extreme high temperature and density to understand the Quark Gluon Plasma （QGP） and phase transition.High-transversemomentum photons and neutral mesons from the initial hard scattering of partons can be measured with ALICE calorimeters,PHOS （PHOton Spectrometer） and EMCAL （ElectroMagnetic CALorimeter）.Combing the additional central tracking detectors,the γ-jet and π 0-jet measurements thus can be accessed.These measurements offer us a sensitive tomography probe of the hot-dense medium generated in the heavy ion collisions.In this paper,high p T and photon physics is discussed and the ALICE calorimeters capabilities of high-transverse-momentum neutral mesons and γ-jet measurements are presented.