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We explore the CP violation in the charged Higgs production associated with a top quark at the LHC in the MSSM. The supersymmetric phases of gaugino masses and trilinear $A$ terms lead to a CP violating asymmetry of the cross section in the $ p p \to g b \to t H^\pm$ process through loop corrections to the $tbH^\pm$ vertex. We find that a CP violation more than 10 % is possible if the charged Higgs boson is heavy enough., Comment: 8 pages including 5 eps figures, JHEP, corrections made

The covariant density matrix formalism is used to obtain the joint angular distribution of the decay B_s -> J/\psi \phi(1020) with subsequent \phi -> \rho \pi and J/\psi -> \ell^+ \ell^- decays. The result is shown algebraically to be a special case of our previous work on the decay distribution of B_d -> J/\psi K_1(1270) with K_1 -> K \pi and J/\psi -> \ell^+ \ell^-., Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, published form in J. Korean Phys. Soc

The joint angular distribution of the decay B \to J/\Psi V, where V is an axial vector or vector resonance, followed by the subsequent decay processes of the J/\Psi and V is calculated using the covariant density method. In particular, the case where V is the axial vector meson K_1(1270) which decays into K \rho is considered as well as the case that V is the vector meson K^\ast(890) which decays into K \pi., Comment: 13 pages, revtex, 1 figure

When the Planck scale is as low as TeV scale, there will be chances to produce Black holes (BH's) at future colliders. Generally, BH's produced via pariticle collisions could have non-zero angular momentum. We estimate the production cross section of spinning and non-spinning BH's for future colliders. Although the production cross section for the rotating BH is much suppressed by angular momentum dependent factor, the total cross section could be $\sim 2 -3$ times enhanced for the case of $\delta =4-6$., Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, 1 eps Figures, reference added

We study the effects of extra dimensions on the muon anomalous magnetic moment with brane fluctuation. Since the coupling is naturally suppressed if brane fluctuation is considered by exponential softening factor for heavier states, the contribution from the whole Kaluza-Klein graviton tower is shown to be finite. The recent BNL E821 result is accomodated with $D=4+\delta$ dimensional gravitational scale, $M_D$, in the range of $M_D \simeq 1.0 - 5.1$ TeV ($\delta=2$), and $M_D \simeq 1.0 - 8.0 $ TeV ($\delta=6$) with the brane tension parameter $f=(4\pi^2 \tau)^{1/4}$, in the range $f = 1 - 10 $ TeV., Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps Figures, references added, version to appear in PLB

We explore signatures of large extra dimensions with a polarized electron/positrn beam at the Joint Linear Collider (JLC). We point out that spin informations can be useful to study indirect signals for large extra dimensions due to spin-2 nature of Kaluza-Klein gravitons. The spin configurations of the top quark pair production at $e^+ e^-$ and $\gamma \gamma$ collisions provide an unique testing ground to search for effects of the large extra dimensions. Especially we show the forward-backward asymmetry is a good probe at $e^+ e^- \to t \bar{t}$ process and we can define a new asymmetry observable effective for $\gamma \gamma \to t \bar{t}$ process., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. To be published in the proceedings of the theory meeting on physics at Linear Colliders, 15 - 17 March 2001, KEK, Japan

We study the Z boson pair production at LHC in the Randall-Sundrum scenario with the Goldberger-Wise stabilization mechanism. It is shown that comprehensive account of the Kaluza-Klein graviton and radion effects is crucial to probe the model: The KK graviton effects enhance the cross section of $g g \to Z Z$ on the whole so that the resonance peak of the radion becomes easy to detect, whereas the RS effects on the $q\bar{q} \to Z Z$ process are rather insignificant. The $p_T$ and invariant-mass distributions are presented to study the dependence of the RS model parameters. The production of longitudinally polarized Z bosons, to which the SM contributions are suppressed, is mainly due to KK gravitons and the radion, providing one of the most robust methods to signal the RS effects. The $1 \sigma$ sensitivity bounds on $(\Lambda_\pi, m_\phi)$ with $k/M_{\rm Pl} =0.1$ are also obtained such that the effective weak scale $\Lambda_\pi$ of order 5 TeV can be experimentally probed., Comment: 28 pages, LaTex file, 18 eps figures

We study the effects of extra dimension on the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the stabilized Randall-Sundrum scenario. The effects of the Kaluza-Klein states heavier than the cut-off scale expected to be of order $\Lambda_\pi$ are neglected. Contribution from the spin-2 Kaluza-Klein states dominates over that from the spin-0 radion. The recent BNL E821 results impose a strict constraint on the parameter space of the model: $\Lambda_\pi \approx 0.4 - 2.1$ TeV with $k/ M_{\rm Pl} =0.01 - 0.1$. Small $k/M_{\rm Pl}$ is preferred if $\Lambda_\pi$ is TeV scale., Comment: 9 pages, ReVTeX, reference added, version to appear in PLB

We study the elastic scattering of the lightest neutralino with a nucleus in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with explicit flavor preserving CP violation, including the one-loop CP-violating neutral Higgs-boson mixing effects induced dominantly by the CP phases in the top and bottom (s)quark sectors. We construct the most general form of the effective Lagrangian for the neutralino-nucleus scattering in the limit of vanishing momentum transfers and then we perform a comprehensive analysis of the effects of the complex CP phases on the mass spectra of the lightest neutralino, neutral Higgs bosons and top squarks, and on the the spin-dependent and spin-independent neutralino-nucleus scattering cross section for three neucleus targets F, Si and Ge. The CP phases can reduce or enhance the neutralino-nucleus cross sections significantly, depending on the values of the real parameters in the MSSM., Comment: LaTex file of 26 pages with 6 eps figures

The leading Isgur-Wise form factor $\xi(y)$ parametrizing the semileptonic transitions $\Lambda_b\to\Lambda^{1/2}_{c1}\ell\bar\nu$ and $\Lambda_b\to\Lambda^{3/2}_{c1}\ell\bar\nu$ is calculated by using the QCD sum rules in the framework of heavy quark effective theory, where $\Lambda^{1/2}_{c1}$ and $\Lambda^{3/2}_{c1}$ is the orbitally excited charmed baryon doublet with $J^P=(1^-/2,3^-/2)$. The interpolating currents with transverse covariant derivative are adopted for $\Lambda^{1/2}_{c1}$ and $\Lambda^{3/2}_{c1}$ in the analysis. The slope parameter $\rho^2$ in linear approximation of the Isgur-Wise function is obtained to be $\rho^2=2.01$, and the interception to be $\xi(1)=0.29$. The decay branching ratios are estimated., Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, to appear in PLB

We explore the effects of extra neutral gauge boson involved in the supersymmetric E6 model on the spin configuration of the top quark pair produced at the polarized e- e+ collider. Generic mixing terms are considered including kinetic mixing terms as well as mass mixing. In the off-diagonal spin basis of the standard model, we show that the cross sections for the suppressed spin configurations can be enhanced with the effects of the Z' boson through the modification of the spin configuration of produced top quark pair enough to be measured in the Linear Colliders, which provides the way to observe the effects of Z' boson and discriminate the pattern of gauge group decomposition. It is pointed out that the kinetic mixing may dilute the effects of mass mixing terms, and we have to perform the combined analysis., Comment: 19 pages including 5 figures, ReVTeX

We explore the possible enhancement of direct CP violating parameter epsilon'/epsilon in the general left-right model based on the SU(2)_L times SU(2)_R times U(1) gauge group. The mixing matrix of right-handed quarks, V_{CKM}^R is observable in the left-right model, and provides new source of CP violating phase. We calculate the parameter epsilon'/epsilon in the left-right model and show that the new phases from V_{CKM}^R can yield the sizable contribution to the direct CP violation enough to satisfy the recent measurements of Re(epsilon'/epsilon) from Fermilab KTeV and CERN NA48 experiments., Comment: 9 pages including 4 eps figures, ReVTeX

We have studied the $e^+ e^- \to Z \phi_i \to Z jj$ process, where $\phi_i$ is the Higgs and/or radion bosons. The implications of the radion effects on the preliminary ALEPH data are also discussed. The case of the lighter radion than Higgs boson is disfavored by the ALEPH analyses of the $b$ tagged four-jet data, since the radion predominantly decays into two gluon jets due to the QCD trace anomaly. If the radion is highly degenerate in mass with the Higgs, the cross section can be increased more than at one sigma level, with natural scale of the vacuum expectation value of the radion., Comment: 10 pages, 1 Postscript figure, final version to appear in PRD

The mass spectra of the L=1 orbitally excited heavy baryons with light quarks in both the spin-flavor symmetric and the mixed representations are studied by the $1/N_c$ expansion method in the framework of the heavy quark effective theory. The mixing effect between the baryons in the two representations is also considered. The general pattern of the spectrum is predicted which will be verified by the experiments in the near future., Comment: 9 pages, latex, no figure, uses sprocl.sty (included). Talk by Chun Liu at the workshop on Non-Perturbative Methods and Lattice QCD (Guangzhou, May 15-21, 2000)

We provide a detailed analysis of the supersymmetric tri-lepton signals for sparticle searches at the Tevatron in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with general CP-violating phases but without flavor mixing among sfermions of different generation. The stringent experimental constraints on the CP-violating phases from the electron and neutron electric dipole moments are included in the analysis for two exemplary scenarios of the SUSY parameters; one with decoupled first two generation sfermions and the other with non-decoupled sfermions. In both scenarios, the production cross section and the branching fractions of the leptonic chargino and neutralino decays are sensitive to CP-violating phases. The production-decay spin correlations lead to several non-trivial CP-even observables such as the lepton invariant mass distribution and the lepton angular distribution, and several interesting T-odd (CP-odd) momentum triple products. The possibility of measuring the CP-violating phases directly through those T-odd observables is investigated in detail., Comment: 46 pages, 14 eps figures

The mass spectrum of the L=1 orbitally excited heavy baryons with light quarks in the spin-flavor symmetric representation is studied by the $1/N_c$ expansion method in the framework of the heavy quark effective theory. The mixing effect from the baryons in the mixed representation is considered. The general pattern of the spectrum is predicted which will be verified by the experiments in the near future. The $1/m_Q$ and SU(3) corrections are also considered. Mass relations for the baryons $\Lambda_{c1}^{(*)}$, $\Sigma_{c1}^{(*)}$, $\Xi_{c1}^{(')(*)}$, and $\Omega_{c1}^{(*)}$ are derived., Comment: 13 pages, revTex, no figure, to appear in PRD, Liu's above address corrected

The mass parameter of orbitally excited $\Lambda_c$ baryons is calculated by using QCD sum rule in the framework of heavy quark effective theory. Two kinds of interpolating current for the excited heavy baryons are introduced. It is obtained that $\bar{\Lambda}=1.08^{+0.095}_{-0.104}$ GeV for the non-derivative current and $\bar{\Lambda}=1.06^{+0.090}_{-0.107}$ GeV for the current with derivative. These results are consistent with experimental data., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in PLB

In most supersymmetric theories charginos, $\tilde{\chi}^\pm_{1,2}$, belong to the class of the lightest supersymmetric particles. The chargino system can be reconstructed completely in $e^+e^-$ collider experiments: $e^+e^-\to\tilde{\chi}_i^+ \tilde{\chi}_j^- [i,j=1,2]$. By measuring the total cross sections and the asymmetries with polarized beams, the chargino masses and the gaugino-higgsino mixing angles of these states can be determined accurately. If only the lightest charginos $\tilde{\chi}_1^\pm$ are kinematically accessible in a first phase of the machine, transverse beam polarization or the measurement of chargino polarization in the final state is needed to determine the mixing angles. From these observables the fundamental SUSY parameters can be derived: the SU(2) gaugino mass $M_2$, the modulus and the cosine of the CP-violating phase of the higgsino mass parameter $\mu$, and $\tan\beta = v_2/v_1$, the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two neutral Higgs doublet fields. The remaining two-fold ambiguity of the phase can be resolved by measuring the normal polarization of the charginos. Sum rules of the cross sections can be exploited to investigate the closure of the two-chargino system., Comment: 25 pages, 6 figures

Top quark pair production at photon-photon colliders is studied in low scale quantum gravity scenario. From the dependence of the cross sections on the spin configuration of the top quark and anti-quark, we introduce a new observable, top spin asymmetry. It is shown that there exists a special top spin basis where with the polarized parent electron beams the top spin asymmetry vanishes in the standard model but retains substantial values with the large extra dimension effects. We also present lower bounds of the quantum gravity scale $M_S$ from total cross sections with various combinations of the laser, electron beam, and top quark pair polarizations. The measurements of the top spin state $(t_\uparrow\bar{t}_\downarrow)$ with unpolarized initial beams are shown to be most effective, enhancing by about 5% the $M_S$ bounds with respect to totally unpolarized case., Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, ReVTeX

The spontaneous violation of the CP symmetry in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard Model (NMSSM) is investigated. It is found that the spontaneous violation of the CP symmetry can occur in the Higgs sector of the NMSSM for a wide region of the parameter space of the model, at the 1-loop level where the radiative corrections due to the top quark and scalar-top quark loops are found to generate the scalar-pseudoscalar mixings between the two Higgs doublets of the NMSSM. In our model, we assume that the masses of the left-handed and the right-handed scalar-top quarks are not degenerate. And we investigate our model anaytically: We derive analytical formulae of the 1-loop mass matrix for the neutral Higgs bosons. We calculate the upper bound on the lightest neutral Higgs boson mass under the assumption. It is found to be about 140 GeV for our choice of parameter values in the presence of the spontaneous violation of the CP symmetry in the NMSSM. Thus, the possibility of the spontaneous violation of the CP symmetry is not completely ruled out in the Higgs sector of the NMSSM if the masses of the left-handed and the right-handed scalar-top quarks are not degenerate. Further, the phenomenology of the $K$-${\bar K}$ mixing within the context of our model is studied. The lower bound on CP violating phase in the $K$-${\bar K}$ mixing is found to increase if either $\tan\beta$ decreases or $A_t$ increases., Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, To appear in Phys. Rev.D

The decay of $\Lambda_b\to\Sigma_c^{(*)}\pi l{\bar\nu}$ processes are calculated in the framework of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with help of the $1/N_c$ expansion. The decay rate distributions over $v\cdot v^{\prime}$ where $v$ and $v^{\prime}$ are the 4-vector velocities of $\Lambda_b$ and $\Sigma_c^{(*)}$ respectively, and over the pion and lepton energies are given. The decay branching ratios amount to about $1.21(0.971)%$ for $\Lambda_b\to\Sigma_c\pi l{\bar\nu}$ and $0.798(0.640)%$ for $\Lambda_b\to\Sigma_c^*\pi l{\bar\nu}$ by using the baryonic Isgur-Wise function predicted by QCD sum rule (large $N_c$ QCD)., Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, to appear in PRD

We investigate the associated production of neutralinos $e^+e^-\to\tilde{\chi}^0_1\tilde{\chi}^0_2$ accompanied by the neutralino leptonic decay $\tilde{\chi}^0_2\to\tilde{\chi}^0_1 \ell^+\ell^-$, taking into account initial beam polarization and production-decay spin correlations in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with general CP phases but without generational mixing in the slepton sector. The stringent constraints from the electron EDM on the CP phases are also included in the discussion. Initial beam polarizations lead to three CP--even distributions and one CP--odd distribution, which can be studied independently of the details of the neutralino decays. We find that the production cross section and the branching fractions of the leptonic neutralino decays are very sensitive to the CP phases. In addition, the production--decay spin correlations lead to several CP--even observables such as lepton invariant mass distribution, and lepton angular distribution, and one interesting T--odd (CP--odd) triple product of the initial electron momentum and two final lepton momenta, the size of which might be large enough to be measured at the high--luminosity future electron--positron collider or can play a complementary role in constraining the CP phases with the EDM constraints., Comment: Revtex, 37 pages, 12 eps figures

We derive a new parton-like formula, which establishes a simple connection between the electroweak decay rate $\Gamma (\bar B \to X_s\gamma$) and the rate of a free b-quark decay. The main features of our approach are the treatment of the b-quark as an on-mass-shell particle and the inclusion of the effects arising from the b-quark transverse motion in the $\bar B$-meson. Using various b-quark light-front (LF) distribution functions, both phenomenological one and the ones derived from current constituent quark models, and neglecting perturbative corrections we compute the photon energy spectra and the moments of the shape function. It is shown that the parton-like approach is fully consistent with the Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) provided the b-quark constituent mass is redefined in the way similar to that used in HQET to define the pole mass of the b quark. In this way the correction to first order in $1/m_b$ can be eliminated from the total width in agreement with the general statement of HQET. We have also found that the photon energy spectra calculated in the LF approach agree well with the ones obtained in the ACM model, provided the same distribution function is used as input in both cases. In spite of the simplicity of the model our results show a fair good agreement both with the HQET predictions and available experimental data., Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, 3 ps figures

Event characteristics of $W$ boson production at HERA collider are untrivial and sensitive to the production mechanisms. We analyse the distributions of the four particle final state defined by the complete set of $W$ producing perturbative leading order diagrams in the Standard Model and its extension with the anomalous effective lagrangian in the gauge sector., Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, contribution to DESY Workshop 1998-1999 "Monte Carlo Generators for HERA Physics"

We perform the comprehensive analysis of the polarization effects on the e^+e^- -> W^+W^- process in the presence of the extra neutral gauge boson at the LC energies. Consideration of the polarizations of the produced W bosons and the beam polarizations provides substantial enhancements of the sensitivity to the Z-Z' mixing angles in various models and the asymmetry variables also give the strict constraints on the mixing angles. We find that the \chi-model and the left-right model get the strict constraint from \sigma_{LL}^{unpol} while the \psi-model and the \eta-model from the beam polarization asymmetry., Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, ReVTeX

Large extra dimension effects on the spin configuration of the top quark pair at the $e^+ e^-\to t\bar{t}$ process are studied. It is shown that the TeV scale quantum gravity effects cause significant deviations from the Standard Model predictions for the spin configuration in the off-diagonal basis: they lead to substantial cross sections of the like-spin states of the top quark pair, which vanish in the SM; they weaken the pure dominance of the processes, the Up-Down (Down-Up) spin states for the left-handed (right-handed) beam. In addition it is shown that the angular cut $-0.5<\cos\theta<0$ is very effective to determine the sign of the quantum gravity corrections., Comment: A discussion on the angular distribution is added with a table

We study large extra dimension effects on the polarizations of the $W$ pair and electron beam at the $e^+ e^-\to W^+ W^-$ process. It is shown that the measurements of the cross section for transversely polarized $W$ pair with the right-handed electron beam remarkably enhance the possibilities to see the low scale quantum gravity effects. Higher Linear Collider bounds on the string scale in this model can be obtained by using the left-handed electron beam., Comment: Final version to appear in Phys.Lett.B. More references are added

We have analyzed the supersymmetric tri-lepton signals for sparticle searches at the Tevatron in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with general CP phases without generational mixing. The CP phases may affect very strongly the chargino and neutralino mass spectrums and $\sigma(p\bar{p}\to\tilde{\chi}^-_1\tilde{\chi}^0_2)$ as well as ${\cal B}(\tilde{\chi}^-_1\to\tilde{\chi}^0_1\ell^-\nu)$ and ${\cal B}(\tilde{\chi}^0_2\to\tilde{\chi}^0_1\ell^+\ell^-)$. Even under the stringent constraints from the electron electric dipole moment the CP phases can lead to a minimum of the tri-lepton event rate for their non-trivial values., Comment: 10 pages, 3 eps figures, largely revised by including the electron EDM constraints

We provide a detailed investigation of single-photon production processes in $e^+e^-$ collisions with missing momenta carried by neutrinos or neutralinos. The transition amplitudes for both processes can be organized into a generic simplified, factorized form; each neutral V$\pm$A vector current of missing energy carriers is factorized out and all the characteristics of the reaction is solely included in the electron vector current. Firstly, we apply the generic form to give a unified description of a single-photon production with a Dirac-type or Majorana-type neutrino-pair and to confirm their identical characteristics as suggested by the so-called Practical Dirac-Majorana Confusion Theorem. Secondly, we show that the generic amplitude form is maintained with the anomalous P- and C-invariant WW$\gamma$ couplings in the neutrino-associated process and it enables us to easily understand large contributions of the anomalous WW$\gamma$ couplings at higher energies and, in particular, at the points away from the Z-resonance peak. Finally, the neutralino-associated process, which receives modifications in both the left-handed and right-handed electron currents due to the exchanges of the left-handed and right-handed selectrons, can be differentiated from the neutrino-associated ones through the left-right asymmetries and/or the circular polarization of the outgoing photon., Comment: 20 pages, REVTeX, epsfig.sty, 7 figures (7 eps files)

In most supersymmetric theories, charginos $\tilde{\chi}^\pm_{1,2}$, mixtures of charged color-neutral gauginos and higgsinos, belong to the class of the lightest supersymmetric particles. They are easy to observe at $e^+e^-$ colliders. By measuring the total cross sections and the left-right asymmetries with polarized electron beams in $e^+e^-\to\tilde{\chi}_i^-\tilde{\chi}_j^+ [i,j=1,2]$, the chargino masses and the gaugino-higgsino mixing angles can be determined. From these observables the fundamental SUSY parameters can be derived: the SU(2) gaugino mass $M_2$, the modulus $|\mu|$ and $\cos \Phi_\mu$ of the higgsino mass parameter, and $\tan\beta = v_2/v_1$, the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two neutral Higgs doublet fields. The solutions are unique; the CP-violating phase $\Phi_\mu$ can be determined uniquely by analyzing effects due to the normal polarization of the charginos., Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, uses axodraw.sty

A supersymmetric model which naturally accommodates MeV tau neutrino within the framework of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking is described. The lepton number violation is originally introduced in the messenger sector of the theory. A large slepton-Higgs mixing mass and a small lepton-higgsino mixing mass are generated at one-loop. Scalar tau neutrino has non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. These result in a non-zero \nu_{\tau} mass which is in the range of (1-10) MeV., Comment: 18 pages, latex, two figures

L=1 excited heavy baryon masses are analyzed by heavy quark and large N_c expansions. In heavy quark limit, mass is parameterized by \Lambda-bar and it is expanded further by spin-flavor breaking operators to the zeroth order of 1/N_c. Expanding coefficients will be fixed by more data on the excited baryons in the near future., Comment: 13 pages, revtex, one figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

One CP--odd rephase-invariant phase appears in the chargino mass matrix in the minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We investigate in detail the phenomenological impacts of the CP-odd complex phase in the production of light charginos in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. The values of the chargino masses and the mixing angles, determining the size of the wino and higgsino components in the chargino wave functions, are so sensitive to the CP-odd phase that the constraints on the supersymmetric parameters based on the conventional assumptions for the parameters are recommended to be re-evaluated including the CP-odd phase., Comment: 9 pages, latex with 3 eps figure

Polarizations of the prompt $J/\psi$'s produced in the $e^+e^-$ annihilation at CLEO energy ($\sqrt{s} = 10.58$ GeV) are considered in the framework of NRQCD factorization formalism. We find that the $J/\psi$ polarization has strong dependence on the production mechanism. At CLEO energy, the most dominant $J/\psi$ production mechanism in the most phase space is the color-singlet mechanism, $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+gg$, for which $J/\psi$'s are highly longitudinally polarized. On the other hand, the dominant $J/\psi$ production mechanism at the upper end point of $J/\psi$ energy distribution is the color-octet process, $e^+e^- \to (c\bar{c})^{(8)} +g$, for which $J/\psi$'s are almost unpolarized. Thus, the measurement of the polarization of the end point $J/\psi$'s can give another test of color-octet mechanism, and constraint on the NRQCD matrix elements., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, RevTex, to be published in J. Korean Phys. Soc

It is shown that the transition amplitudes of radiative electroweak processes like $e^-e^+ \to \nu_e \ol{\nu}_e \ga$, $\ga e^- \to \nu_e \ol{\nu}_e e^-$, and $\nu_e e^- \to \nu_e e^- \ga$ can be reduced and factorized into simpler forms in the Standard Model. This method can be used in reducing many calculations of complicated radiative electroweak processes in general., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, RevTex

The Lambda_b to Lambda_c semileptonic decay is analyzed in the framework of heavy quark effective theory to the order of 1/m_c and 1/m_b. The QCD sum rule and large N_c predictions to the decay form factors are applied. It argues that the subleading baryonic Isgur-Wise function in the large N_c limit vanishes. The decay rates, distributions and asymmetry parameters are calculated numerically. Some of the nonleptonic decay modes are discussed in the end., Comment: 20 pages, latex, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D (1998)

At the order of 1/m_b^3, the B meson lifetimes are controlled by the hadronic matrix elements of some four-quark operators. The nonfactorizable magnitudes of these four-quark operator matrix elements are analyzed by QCD sum rules in the framework of heavy quark effective theory. The vacuum saturation for color-singlet four-quark operators is justified at hadronic scale, and the nonfactorizable effect is at a few percent level. However for color-octet four-quark operators, the vacuum saturation is violated sizably that the nonfactorizable effect cannot be neglected for the B meson lifetimes. The implication to the extraction of some of the parameters from B decays is discussed. The B meson lifetime ratio is predicted as \tau(B^-)/\tau(B^0)=1.09\pm 0.02. However, the experimental result of the lifetime ratio \tau(\Lambda_b)/\tau(B^0) still cannot be explained., Comment: 20 pages, latex, 6 figures, discussion on non-factorizable effect of the four-quark condensate added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D57 (1998)

We present the results of complete tree level calculation for W boson production processes e^- p -> e^- mu^+ nu_mu X and e^- p -> e^- mu^- nu_mubar X introducing anomalous WWgamma and WWZ couplings. Detailed results for the distributions of final state particles are obtained. In the region of small momentum transferred we calculate the contribution of hadronlike photon component in the structure function approach., Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures LaTeX, 6 figures .ps, uses axodraw.sty

The inclusive D-wave charmonium production rates in B decays are considered in the Bodwin-Braaten-Lepage (BBL) approach. We find that the color-octet subprocesses B->cc_(^3S_1^(8) or ^3P_J^(8))+s,d, followed by the transition cc_(^3S_1^(8) or ^3P_J^(8)) -> ^3D_J, strongly dominate over any other subprocess, due to the large Wilson coefficient for the \Delta B = 1 effective lagrangian. Assuming that the numerical values of the matrix elements <0|O^{^3D_J}(^3S_1^(8))|0> and <0|O^{^3D_J}(^3P_J^(8))|0> are the same order of magnitudes with the <0| O^{\psi^'}(^3S_1^(8))|0>, we find that the ^{1,3}D_{2} can be observed at future B-factories., Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, Phys. Lett. B in press

Polarized heavy quarkonium productions in $Z^0$ decays are considered. We find that polarizations of the produced quarkonia are independent of that of the parent Z^0 provided that one considers the energy distribution or the total production rate. Produced J/psi's via the color-octet and the color- singlet mechanisms are expected to be 19% and 29% longitudinally polarized, respectively. The energy dependence of eta_{1,8}(x)=\frac{dGamma_{1,8}^L}{dx} /\frac{dGamma_{1,8}}{d x} is very sensitive to the production mechanism, and therefore the measurement of \eta(x)_exp will be an independent probe of the color-octet mechanism., Comment: 15 pages, minor changes, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D

Color-octet contributions to the associate J/psi+gamma hadroproduction are studied in detail, and found to be negligible, compared to the ordinary color-singlet contribution. Within the color-singlet model the J/psi+gamma production in the leading order is possible only through gluon-gluon fusion process. Therefore, the associate J/psi+gamma hadroproduction remains to be useful as a clean channel to probe the gluon distribution inside proton, to study heavy quarkonia production mechanism, and to find proton's spin structure., Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX using revtex and epsfig, corrections made for trivial misprints in labeling of figs. 6-8(should be read as nb not pb)

We consider the energy and the polar angle distributions of J/\psi's produced via the color-singlet and the color-octet (^3S_1^{(8)}) mechanisms in Z^0 \to J/\psi +X at LEP. Since both distributions of the J/\psi produced via color-octet mechanism are significantly different from those via color-singlet mechanism, these observables can be used as tests of color-octet production mechanism for heavy quarkonia. We also discuss Z^0 \rightarrow \Upsilon + X and W \to J/\psi ( or \Upsilon) + X in brief., Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX using revtex and epsfig. The version to appear in Phys. Lett. B. With more discussions on the angular distributions. Some references added and updated

Photoproduction of $J/\psi$ is considered including the color-octet contributions from the various partial wave states, $^{2S+1}L_J$ = $^1S_0$, $^3S_1$ and $^3P_J$. The production cross section depends on three new nonperturbative parameters defined in NRQCD, called the color-octet matrix elements. Using the color-octet matrix elements determined by fitting the $J/\psi$ production at the Tevatron, we find that the color-octet($c\bar{c}) _{8}({^1S_0}~{\rm and~}~{^3P_J})$ contributions to the $J/\psi$ photoproductions at the fixed target experiments and HERA are too large compared to the data on $\sigma (\gamma + p \to J/\psi +X)$ in the forward direction, the $z$ distribution of $J/\psi$. The $P_T^2$ distribution of $J/\psi$ and the total inelastic $J/\psi$ production rate as a function of $\sqrt{s_ {\gamma p}}$ are predicted including color-octet contributions. We also briefly digress on the $B \to J/\psi + X$ and observe the similar situation. This may be an indication that the color-octet matrix elements determined from the $J/\psi$ production at the Tevatron, especially $<0 | {\cal O}_{8}^{\psi} ({^1S_0}) | 0>$ and $<0 | {\cal O}_{8}^{\psi} ({^3P_J}) | 0>$, might have been overestimated by an order of magnitude., Comment: 22 pages, with 12 figures(merged into one postscript file), uses eqsecnum.sty, Eqs. (A1)-(A4) are corrected

The electroweak production processes of vector bosons, $e^+ e^- \rightarrow Z \gamma$, $\gamma e \rightarrow Ze$, and $\gamma e \rightarrow W \nu$ are considered simultaneousely and in the Standard model the covariant polarization density matrices of vector bosons for these processes are obtained explicitly from one of the processes, $\gamma e \rightarrow Z e$. The effect of the photon polarization as well as the vector meson polarization is considered and some special cases are discussed., Comment: 17 pages, figures are included , RevTex

The inclusive $S-$wave charmonium production rates in $B$ decays are considered using the Bodwin-Braaten-Lepage (BBL) approach, including the relativistic corrections and the color-octet mechanism suggested as a possible solution to the $\psi^{'}$ puzzle at the Tevatron. We first consider relativistic and radiative corrections to $J/\psi \rightarrow e^{+} e^{-}$ and $J/\psi \rightarrow$ Light Hadrons (LH), in order to determine two nonperturbative parameters, $\langle J/\psi | O_{1} (^{3}S_{1}) | J/\psi \rangle$, $\langle J/\psi | P_{1} (^{3}S_{1}) | J/\psi \rangle$, in the factorization formulae for these decays. Using these two matrix elements and including the color-octet $c\bar{c}(^{3}S_{1})$ state contribution, we get a moderate increase in the decay rates for $B$ decays into $J/\psi ~({\rm or}~\psi^{'}) ~+ X$. Our results, $B(B \rightarrow J/\psi~({\rm or}~\psi^{'}) + X) = 0.58~(0.23) \%$ for $M_{b} = 5.3$ GeV, get closer to the recent CLEO data. As a byproduct, we prefer a larger decay rate for $\eta_{c} \rightarrow$ LH compared to the present data., Comment: 12 pages

It is pointed out that the radiative decays of a $\phi$ meson, $\phirho$ and $\phiom$, receive dominant contributions from the pseudoscalar ($P = \eta, \eta^{'}$) exchanges. Using the vector meson dominance model, we find that $B (\phirho) \approx 1.3 \times 10^{-4}$ and $B (\phiom) \approx 1.5 \times 10^{-5}$, which are mainly from the $\eta^{'}$ pole. Thus, these decays are well within the reach of the $\phi$ factory. Our estimates are a few orders of magnitude larger than the chiral loop contributions in the heavy vector meson chiral lagrangian, which is about ( a few ) $\times 10^{-9}$., Comment: 10 pages, 2 Encapsuled-Postscript figures, uses epsfig.sty

We investigated how measurements of weak boson production at high energy $ep$ and $e\gamma$ collisions can provide important information on anomalous $WW\gamma$ couplings. We also considerd the sinlge muon production through the virtual $W$-decay at the Pohang Light Source (PLS) facility, and found this process is not adequate to be detected at the PLS until a large luminosity ($\sim 10^{33}$/sec/cm$^2$) Free Electron Laser is installed., Comment: 17 pages, need epsfig.sty file

We derive the simplest form of the $\kappa(\kappa^2)$ order graviton self-interaction Lagrangian density $\lag{1}(\lag{2})$ in the weak field approximation. With the divergenceless condition, de Donder gauge and some combinatoric techniques, we derive the mathematically independent basis expressions for $\lag{1}(\lag{2})$ composed of 8(24) terms. By using the basis expressions $\lag{1}(\lag{2})$ is reduced to 6(18) terms., Comment: 10 pages, Revtex; Some misprints corrected, results unchanged

The study of factorization in the linearized gravity is extended to the graviton scattering processes with a massive scalar particle, with a massless vector boson and also with a graviton. Every transition amplitude is shown to be completely factorized and the physical implications of their common factors are discussed., Comment: 5 pages, Revtex 3.0, SNUTP 93-71

We investigate the sensitivity of total cross sections of $e+p \rightarrow W,Z$ to CP-conserving non-standard $WW\gamma$ couplings. We include all the important production mechanisms and study the dependence of the total $W$ cross sections on the anomalous $WW\gamma$ couplings, $\kappa$ and $\lambda$. We argue that the ratio of $W$ and $Z$ production cross sections is particularly well suited, being relatively insensitive to uncertainties in the theoretical and experimental parameters., Comment: (Talk given C.S. Kim at the 2nd International Workshop on future $e^+ e^-$ colliders at Waikoloa, Hawaii in April 1993), 7pages, SNUTP 93-44