Volume 234, January 2013

CONTENTS

Preface vCommittees viiGroup photo ixOrganizing Committee photos xiDedicace xiii

Part 1. Opening Address

Welcome and acknowledgement by the Chairman of QCD 12S. Narison 3

Part 2. Higgs Boson Discovery? Search for Light Higgs and Dark BosonsChairman: S. Narison

Observation of a Higgs-like boson in CMS at the LHCP.C. Bhat for the CMS Collaboration 7

Observation of an excess of events in the Higgs boson search in ATLASR.D. Harrington on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 15

Tau reconstruction, identification algorithms and performance in ATLASM. Simonyan on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 21

Differential Higgs+jet production in bottom quark annihilation and gluon fusionM. Wiesemann 25

Diphoton production at next-to-next-to-leading-orderL. Cieri 29

Search for the “Dark Photon” and the “Dark Higgs” at BelleI. Jaegle for the Belle Collaboration 33

Searches for low-mass Higgs and dark bosons at BaBarB. Oberhof on behalf of the BaBar Collaboration 37

Part 3. QCD at Colliders: Jets, PDF and Structure FunctionsChairmen: F. Hautmann, S. Narison

Jet studies in ATLASM.J. Oreglia on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 43

Soft QCD in ATLASE. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum for the ATLAS Collaboration 47

Kinematic corrections to collinear parton showering algorithmsF. Hautmann and H. Jung 51

A Mathematica interface to NNPDFsN.P. Hartland and E.R. Nocera 54

Probing the nucleon structure with SIDIS at Jefferson Lab.S.A. Pereira 58

Proton structure measurements from HERA to LHCV. Chekelian on behalf of the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations 62

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Symmetry breaking effect on determination of polarized and unpolarized parton distributionsF. Arbabifar, A.N. Khorramian, H. Khanpour and S. Atashbar Tehrani 66

Photon structure functions with heavy particle mass effectsT. Uematsu 70

Part 4. QCD at Colliders: W, Z, Top and Heavy Quark ProductionsChairmen: F. Hautmann, S. Narison

W and Z production in ATLAS and constraints on proton structureM. Goulette 77

Heavy flavor and vector boson associated productionC. Favaro on behalf of the CMS Collaboration 81

Massive boson production at small qT in soft-collinear effective theoryT. Becher, M. Neubert and D. Wilhelm 85

Measurement of W-boson charge asymmetry with the CMS experimentA. Saha on behalf of the CMS Collaboration 89

On the W + 4 jets background to the top quark asymmetry at the TevatronY. Takaesu 93

Top quark production at ATLASN. Kimura on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 97

The total top-pair production cross section at NNLLM. Beneke, P. Falgari, S. Klein, J. Piclum, C. Schwinn, M. Ubiali and F. Yan 101

Production cross section of b-hadrons from decays to D∗+μ−X final statesA. Ferretto Parodi on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration 105

Studies of open charm, charmonium and bottomonium production at LHCbM. Britsch on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration 109

χc production in proton–proton collisions at 7 TeV with CMS experimentI.V. Akin 113

ϒ(nS) polarization in pp collisions at the LHC with the CMS experimentI. Krätschmer on behalf of the CMS Collaboration 117

Investigating charmonium production at LHC with the pp final stateE. Kou 121

Part 5. Heavy Quark SpectroscopyChairmen: H.G. Dosch, M. Loewe, S. Narison

Recent results on new resonances at BelleR. Mussa 127

Review of BESIII resultsR.-G. Ping 133

Heavy flavour spectroscopy at LHCbD. Milanés on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration 139

Onia production and heavy quark spectroscopy at ATLASN. Amram *

Strong decays of 2S and 1D 1− DS

A. Zhang 143Charmonium-like states at BABAR

E. Fioravanti 147

∗ Manuscript not received.

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J PC = 1++ heavy hybrid masses from QCD sum-rulesR.T. Kleiv, D. Harnett, T.G. Steele and H.-y. Jin 150

A Laplace sum-rules analysis of heavy pseudoscalar (J PC = 0−+) hybridsD. Harnett, R. Berg, R.T. Kleiv and T.G. Steele 154

1−− and 0++ heavy four-quark and molecule states in QCDR.M. Albuquerque, F. Fanomezana, S. Narison and A. Rabemananjara 158

Part 6. B-Decays and Searches for New PhysicsChairmen: H.G. Dosch, K. Konishi

Baryonic B decays at BABARC. Voss *

Studies of hadronic B decays at LHCbF. Zhang 165

QCD calculation of soft effects in exclusive B-decaysA. Khodjamirian *

Semileptonic B decays and new physics at BABARE. Feltresi *

Search for new physics in heavy quark decays at LHCbR. Vazquez Gomez 169

Future prospects for the determination of the Wilson coefficient C′7γ

A. Tayduganov 173Complementarity of Bs → μ+μ− and B → K�+�− in New Physics searches

D. Becirevic, N. Košnik, F. Mescia and E. Schneider 177B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD

F. Bernardoni, B. Blossier, J. Bulava, M. Della Morte, P. Fritzsch, N. Garron, A. Gérardin,J. Heitger, G.M. von Hippel, H. Simma and the ALPHA Collaboration 181

Summary on mc,b(mc,b) and precise fD(s),B(s) from heavy-light QCD spectral sum rulesS. Narison 187

Part 7. Physics of Leptons and Alphas DeterminationsChairmen: S. Bethke, H.G. Dosch, S. Narison

Update of the electron and muon g-factorsE. de Rafael 193

Hadronic effects in low-energy QCD: Inclusive τ lepton decayA.V. Nesterenko 199

Updated determination of αs from hadronic τ decaysD. Boito, M. Golterman, M. Jamin, A. Mahdavi, K. Maltman, J. Osborne and S. Peris 203

Precision QCD at HERAJ. Behr 207

Evaluation of αS using the ATLAS inclusive jet cross-section dataB. Malaescu 213

Lattice measurement of αs with a realistic charm quarkB. Blossier, Ph. Boucaud, M. Brinet, F. De Soto, X. Du, V. Morénas, O. Pène, K. Petrovand J. Rodríguez-Quintero 217

αS from the static energy in QCDX. Garcia i Tormo 221

Measurement of the strong coupling αS in e+e−-annihilation using the three-jet rateJ. Schieck 225

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World summary of αS (2012)S. Bethke 229

Part 8. Physics of Light FlavoursChairmen: E. de Rafael

Recent results on light hadron spectroscopy at BESIIIY. Yang for the BESIII Collaboration 237

The QCD constituent quark masses as SM parametersS. Sukhoruchkin 241

Chiral behavior of pion properties from lattice QCDA. Sastre *

Essentials of the σ resonance in meson–meson scattering and spectral functionsZ.-H. Guo, J.A. Oller and J. Ruiz de Elvira 245

Pion–nucleon elastic scattering amplitude within covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory up toO(p4) level

Y.-h. Chen, D.-l. Yao and H.Q. Zheng 249Precise determination of the f0(500) and f0(980) parameters in dispersive analysis of the ππ data

R. Kaminski, R. Garcia-Martin, J.R. Pelaez and J. Ruiz de Elvira 253Chiral-symmetry-violating effects and near-maximal mixing of scalar gluonium and quark mesons

T.G. Steele, D. Harnett, R.T. Kleiv and K. Moats 257Wilson-loop formalism for Reggeon exchange at high energy

M. Giordano 261Higher spin states in holographic QCD

H.G. Dosch 265

Part 9. Kaon Decays and Pion Form FactorsChairmen: M. Frasca, A. Khodjamirian

High precision measurement of Kl3 decays form factors at NA48/2S. Venditti 271

Rare kaon decay measurements with NA48/NA62 minumum bias dataA. Cassese on behalf of the NA48 and NA62 Collaborations 275

Ke4 measurements with NA48/NA62D. Madigozhin on behalf of the NA48/2 Collaboration 279

Measurement of the π0, η, η′ transition form factors at BABARA. Denig the BABAR Collaboration 283

Measurement of γ γ ∗ → π0 transition form factor at BelleV. Savinov for the Belle Collaboration 287

BaBar and Belle measurements of the γ γ ∗ → π0 transition form factor and chiral anomalyT.N. Pham 291

Anomalous AV ∗V vertex in the soft-wall holographic model of QCDS. Nicotri 295

ChPT calculations of pionic formfactorsK. Kampf 299

Part 10. Quark–Gluon Plasma and Some Non-perturbative ApproachesChairmen: S. Bethke, E. Meggiolaro, S. Narison

The a1(1260) meson and chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinment at finite temperature QCDC.A. Dominguez, M. Loewe and Y. Zhang 305

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Holographic vector mesons in a hot and dense mediumF. Giannuzzi 309

The hadron resonance gas model: Thermodynamics of QCD and Polyakov loopE. Megías, E. Ruiz Arriola and L.L. Salcedo 313

Resonance results in 7 TeV pp collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHCM. Venaruzzo for the ALICE Collaboration 317

Overview talk on recent ALICE resultsG. Martinez *

J/ψ production in pp collisions and in Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC with the ALICE experimentL. Manceau for the ALICE Collaboration 321

Heavy-flavour production measurements with ALICE at the CERN-LHCP. Crochet for the ALICE Collaboration 325

Low energy limit of QCD and the emerging of confinementM. Frasca 329

Physics of non-Abelian confinement and the dual gauge symmetry: Many faces of flavor symmetryK. Konishi 333

High-energy behavior of hadronic total cross sections from lattice QCDE. Meggiolaro, M. Giordano and N. Moretti 337

Closing of the Conference

Closing contentS. Narison 343

Some Photos During the Conference

Registration and opening of QCD 12 347Welcome reception at the CNRS conference hall 348Coffee-break at the CNRS conference hall 350Visit of the old part of Montpellier City 353Visit of the Wine Domain le Jarasse at Combaillaux 355Visit and brunch at the Oulivie Domain of St. Gely du Fesc 357Welcome reception by the mayor of Montpellier honoured by Prof. J. Touchon (neurolog, vice-mayor) 359Closing of QCD 12 361Closing aperitif at Mas de Saporta 362Closing dinner and Tahitian dances at Mas de Saporta 363

List of participants 366Author index 368General information I