Angle-resolved photoelectron momentum distributions of rescattering electron generated by intense infrared laser pulses were measured for CO2 molecules. It is shown that the measured distributions along the out-ermost backward rescattering caustic are well reproduced by calculations based on a newly developed factorization formula with the analytical returning photoelectron wave packet.

We present a measurement of the branching fractions for B → D/D */D(*)πℓ-̄νℓ decays based on 341.1 fb-1 of data collected at the γ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are tagged by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in a hadronic decay mode. We obtain B(B- → D0ℓ-̄νℓ) = (2.33 ± 0.09 (stat.) ± 0.09 (syst.))%, B(B- → D*0ℓ-̄νℓ) = (5.83±0.15 (stat.)±0.30 (syst.))%, B(B0 → D+ℓ-̄νℓ) = (2.21±0.11 (stat.)±0.12 (syst.))%, B(B0 → D*+ℓ-̄νℓ) = (5.49 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.25 (syst.))%, B(B- → D+π-ℓ-̄νℓ) = (0.42 ± 0.06 (stat.) ± 0.03 (syst.))%, B(B- → D *+π-ℓ-̄νℓ) = (0.59±0.05 (stat.)±0.04 (syst.))%, B(B0 → D*π+ℓ- ̄νℓ) = (0.43±0.08 (stat.)±0.03 (syst.))% and B(B0 → D*0π+ℓ-̄νℓ) = (0.48±0.08 (stat.)±0.04 (syst.))%.

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic experiment searching for 0 νββ decay that has been able to reach the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO 2 crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK and in April 2021 released its 3 rd result of the search for 0 νββ, corresponding to a tonne-year of TeO 2 exposure. This is the largest amount of data ever acquired with a solid state detector and the most sensitive measurement of 0 νββ decay in 130Te ever conducted. We present the current status of CUORE search for 0 νββ with the updated statistics of one tonne-yr. We finally give an update of the CUORE background model and the measurement of the 130Te 2 νββ decay half-life and decay to excited states of 130Xe , studies performed using an exposure of 300.7 kg yr.

We study the decay B 0 → ρ 0 ρ 0 in a sample of about 427 million γ(4S) → BB decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e + e - collider at SLAC. We find the branching fraction B = (0.84 ± 0.29 ± 0.17) × 10-6 and longitudinal polarization fraction of fL = 0.70 ± 0.14 ± 0.05, where the first uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. The evidence for the B 0 → ρ 0 ρ 0 signal has 3.6σ significance. We investigate the proper-time dependence of the longitudinal component in the decay and measure the CP-violating coefficients S00 L = (0.5± 0.9 ± 0.2) and C00 L = (0.4 ± 0.9 ± 0.2), corresponding to the sine and cosine terms in the time evolution of asymmetry. We study the implication of these results for penguin contributions in B → ρρ decays and for the CKM unitarity angle α.

We present updated measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in fully reconstructed neutral B decays containing a charmonium meson. The measurements reported here use a data sample of (465±5)×106 Υ(4S) →BB̄ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric energy e+e- storage rings operating at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The time-dependent CP asymmetry parameters measured from JψKS0, JψKL0, ψ(2S)KS0, ηcKS0, χc1KS0, and J/ψK*(892)0 decays are: Cf=0.024±0.020(stat)±0.016(syst) and -ηfSf=0. 687±0.028(stat)±0.012(syst). © 2009 The American Physical Society.

We present a search for B decays to a charged scalar meson a0+ and a π0 where the a0+ decays to an η meson and a π+. The analysis was performed on a data sample consisting of 383×106 BB̄ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. We find no significant signal and set an upper limit on the product branching fraction B(B+→a0+π0)×B(a0+→ηπ+) of 1.4×10-6 at the 90% confidence level. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

The branching ratio for inclusive ψ production in ψ(1S) decays is measured to be (0.11 ± 0.04 ± 0.02)%. © 1989.

CUORE is a tonne-scale cryogenic experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso that exploits bolometric technique to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. Thanks to its very low background and large mass, CUORE is also a powerful tool to study a broad class of phenomena, such as solar axions and WIMP scattering. The ability to conduct such sensitive searches crucially depends on the energy threshold, which has to be kept as low as possible. In this contribution, we show how the trigger algorithm affects the sensitivity to low-energy phenomena and the interpretation of the energy spectrum. In particular, we focus on the impact that the trigger algorithm has on the identification of the coincidence events among different crystals and, consequently, on the reconstruction of the background.

We report a measurement of the branching fractions of B̄→D* *ℓ-ν̄ℓ decays based on 417fb-1 of data collected at the Υ(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are selected by fully reconstructing one of the B mesons in a hadronic decay mode. A fit to the invariant mass differences m(D(*)π)- m(D(*)) is performed to extract the signal yields of the different D** states. We observe the B̄→D**ℓ- ν̄ℓ decay modes corresponding to the four D** states predicted by heavy quark symmetry with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta ($0 u\beta\beta$) decay that has been able to reach the one-ton scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO$_2$ crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. Following the completion of the detector construction in August 2016, CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK. Following multiple optimization campaigns in 2018, CUORE is currently in stable operating mode. In 2019, CUORE released its 2\textsuperscript{nd} result of the search for $0 u\beta\beta$ with a TeO$_2$ exposure of 372.5 kg$\cdot$yr and a median exclusion sensitivity to a $^{130}$Te $0 u\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $1.7\cdot 10^{25}$ yr. We find no evidence for $0 u\beta\beta$ decay and set a 90\% C.I. (credibility interval) Bayesian lower limit of $3.2\cdot 10^{25}$ yr on the $^{130}$Te $0 u\beta\beta$ decay half-life. In this work, we present the current status of CUORE's search for $0 u\beta\beta$, as well as review the detector performance. Finally, we give an update of the CUORE background model and the measurement of the $^{130}$Te two neutrino double-beta ($2 u\beta\beta$) decay half-life.