A flavor-universal extension of the strong interactions was recently proposed in response to the apparent excess of high-ET jets in the inclusive jet spectrum measured at the Tevatron. This paper studies the color octet of massive gauge bosons (‘colorons’) that is present in the low-energy spectrum of the model’s Higgs phase. Constraints from searches for new particles decaying to dijets and fr...

The authors appreciate the assistance of Mary Ellen Wlvel, M.A., Science Writer, National Institute of Mental Health, In the preparation of this report. The ability to advance our knowledge about schizophrenia has been partially handicapped by our inability to define it precisely and consistently. There is no question that schizophrenia is a "real disorder" that produces severe and often persis...

This summer, Europe's Journal of Psychology hosts a fruitful discussion about phenomenology, its method, the possibilities of application in today's context and its current troubled waters stemming from recent historical-ideological debates. Prof. Roberta De Monticelli offers lush and informative answers to provocative issues like overdriving the epoché, Heidegger's dark undertones, the relatio...

Intentionalism is the claim that the phenomenological properties of a perceptual experience supervene on its intentional properties. The paper presents a counterexample to this claim, one that concerns visual grouping phenomenology. I argue that this example is superior to superficially similar examples involving grouping phenomenology offered by Peacocke (1983), because the standard intentiona...

Many topics are discussed in b physics including lifetimes, decay mechanisms, determinations of the CKM matrix elements |Vcb| and |Vub|, facilities for b quark studies, neutral B meson mixing, rare b decays, hadronic decays and CP violation. I review techniques for finding physics beyond the Standard Model and describe the complimentarity of b decay measurements in elucidating new physics that ...

These lectures present some topics of string phenomenology and contain two parts. In the first part, I review the possibility of lowering the string scale in the TeV region, that provides a theoretical framework for solving the mass hierarchy problem and unifying all interactions. The apparent weakness of gravity can then be accounted by the existence of large internal dimensions, in the sub-mi...