In view of the paradigm shift that makes science ever more data-driven, we consider deterministic scientific hypotheses as uncertain data. This vision comprises a probabilistic database (p-DB) design methodology for the systematic construction and management of U-relational hypothesis DBs, viz., Υ-DBs. It introduces hypothesis management as a promising new class of applications for p-DBs. We il...

A pair of B 0 ¯ B 0 mesons from Υ(4S) decay exhibit EPR type non-local particle-antiparticle (flavor) correlation. It is possible to write down Bell Inequality (in the CHSH form: S ≤ 2) to test the non-locality assumption of EPR. Using semileptonic B 0 decays of Υ(4S) at Belle experiment, a clear violation of Bell Inequality in particle-antiparticle correlation is observed: S = 2.725 ± 0.167sta...

We investigate the SM Higgs decays into heavy quarkonia J/ψ and Υ in both color-singlet and color-octet mechanisms. It is found that in J/ψ production the contribution through color-octet processes overwhelm that in color-singlet processes all the intermediate region MZ < MH0 < 2Mw and the fraction ratio is comparatively large, but in Υ production the contribution through color-octet mechanism ...

Based on a data sample of 81.7 fb collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC, we present the current status of the measurement of the branching fraction of Υ(4S) → BB̄. Our study of the decay was performed through the exclusive decays B̄ → D∗+l−ν̄l using a partial reconstruction method, where the D ∗+ is detected only through the soft...

Heavy quark production probes QCD at the interface of the perturbative and non-perturbative regimes. Studying the production of heavy quarks is an important test of models in both regimes. In this article, recent results on beauty and charm production from the CDF and DØ experiments at the Tevatron are reported. These include measurements of correlated bb̄ production, the ψ(2S) production cross ...

We study the uncertainties in the MS bottom quark mass determination using relativistic sum rules to O(α2S). We include charm mass effects and secondary bb̄ production and treat the experimental continuum region more conservatively than previous analyses. The PDG treatment of the region between the resonances Υ(4S) and Υ(5S) is reconsidered. Our final result reads: m̄b(m̄b) = (4.20 ± 0.09) GeV. Ta...

In view of the paradigm shift that makes science ever more data-driven, we consider deterministic scientific hypotheses as uncertain data. This vision comprises a probabilistic database (p-DB) design methodology for the systematic construction and management of U-relational hypothesis DBs, viz., Υ-DBs. It introduces hypothesis management as a promising new class of applications for p-DBs. We il...

We show how string breaking on the lattice, treated as a mixing effect, can be related to decay rates for heavy quark systems. We use this to make a preliminary calculation of the energy split at maximum mixing for static quarks in QCD from the decay rate for Υ(4S) → B ¯ B. We extend the calculation to achieve rough estimates for the contributions of channels involving B, B * , B s and B * s me...

Abstract. Some new results on magnetic dipole (M1) transitions in heavy quarkonium from nonrelativistic effective field theories of QCD are briefly reported. This model-independent approach not only facilitates a systematic and lucid way to investigate the relativistic corrections, it also clarifies some inconsistent treatment in previous potential model approach. The impact of our formalism on...

The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) is a symmetric ee collider operating at the Υ(4S) resonance. The CLEO II and II.V detector configurations are described in detail elsewhere . The integrated luminosity is 9.2 fb at the Υ(4S) resonance, which corresponds to about 9.7 × 10 BB̄ pairs, and 4.6 fb at energies just below the BB̄ threshold. The results reviewed in this paper are based on this ful...