We investigate the static potential in the confinement phase of the SU(2) Higgs model on the lattice, where this model is expected to have properties similar to QCD. We observe that Wilson loops are inadequate to determine the potential at large distances, where the formation of two color-neutral mesons is expected. Introducing smeared fields and a suitable matrix correlation function, we are a...

A mathematical model is presented for the lithium intercalation of a single spinel particle as a microelectrode under the stimulus of a cyclic linear potential sweep. The model includes both lithium diffusion within the particle and kinetics at the particle/electrolyte interface. The model is used to predict that peak current densities depend linearly on the scan rate to a certain power with a ...

Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0:35 fb 1 collected by LHCb in 2011, we report the first evidence of CP violation in the decays of Bs mesons to K pairs, ACPðBs ! K Þ 1⁄4 0:27 0:08ðstatÞ 0:02ðsystÞ, with a significance of 3:3 . Furthermore, we report the most precise measurement of CP violation in the decays of B mesons to K pairs, ACPðB ! K Þ 1⁄4 0:088 0:011ðsta...