[en] The authors show that Regge phenomenology is consistent with the only scaling law for the hadron masses, M^*/M = (α'/α'^*)^1/2, where asterisk indicates a finite-temperature quantity. Phenomenological models further suggest the following expression of the above scaling in terms of the temperature-dependent gluon condensate: M^*/M = (α'/α'^*)^1/2 (< G_μν^α>^*/< G^αμν>)^1/4

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[en] We study the tunneling of massless scalars across black hole horizons in any number of spacetime dimensions greater than three. Our analysis finds that corrections due to backreaction and the inverse dimensional expansion are naturally concomitant, and furnishes a simple proof of the classic relation between entropy and area in all spacetime dimensions, finite or infinite. We conclude with a discussion of the limit in which the number of spacetime dimensions is taken to infinity, where we find that thermodynamic quantities are related to the “thickness” of the membrane on which all the curvature is localized.

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[en] The CHARM 2010 meeting had over 30 presentations of experimental results, plus additional future facilities talks just before this summary talk. Since there is not enough time to even summarize all that has been shown from experiments and to recognize all the memorable plots and results - tempting as it is to reproduce the many clean signals and data vs theory figures, the quantum correlations plots, and the D-mixing plots before and after the latest CLEO-c data is added. So, this review will give only my personal observations, exposing my prejudices and my areas of ignorance, no doubt. This overview will be at a fairly high level of abstraction - no re-showing individual plots or results. I ask the forgiveness of those who will have been slighted in this way - meaning all the presents.

[en] B-factories have been successfully operating for more than 8 years, providing an unprecedented data sample of e⁺e⁰ → hadrons events. The BABAR and Belle experiments have in fact already collected over 550 fb^-1 and 800 fb^-1 respectively at the Υ(4s) center-of-mass (CM) energy. At this energy, the cross-section for tau production is of the same order of the cross-section for b production: σ(b(bar b)) ∼ 1.1 nb ∼ σ(τ⁺τ^-) ∼ 0.9 nb. For this reason, B-factories can now be considered also Tau-factories. A review of the most recent results on standard tau decays from the BABAR and Belle experiments is presented in this article.

[en] We report on the spontaneous production of fluxons in annular Josephson tunnel junctions during a thermal quench in the presence of a symmetry-breaking magnetic field. The dependence on field intensity B of the probability f₁ to trap a single defect during the N-S phase transition depends drastically on the sample circumferences. We show that this can be understood in the framework of the same picture of spontaneous defect formation that leads to the experimentally well attested scaling behavior of f₁ with quench rate in the absence of an external field

[en] Requirements for tune and chromaticity control in most superconducting hadron machines, and in particular the LHC, are stringent. In order to reach nominal operation, the LHC will almost certainly require feedback on both tune and chromaticity. Experience at RHIC has also shown that coupling control is crucial to successful tune feedback. A prototype baseband phase-locked loop (PLL) tune measurement system has recently been brought into operation at RHIC as part of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP). We report on the performance of that system and compare it with the extensive accumulation of data from the RHIC 245MHz PLL

[en] In the 't Hooft-Veltman dimensional regularization scheme it is necessary to introduce finite counterterms to satisfy chiral Ward identities. It is a non-trivial task to evaluate these counterterms even at two loops. We suggest the use of Wilsonian exact renormalization group techniques to reduce the computation of these counterterms to simple master integrals. We illustrate this method by a detailed study of a generic Yukawa model with massless fermions at two loops