We report an analysis of charmless hadronic decays of neutral B mesons to the final state K{sub S}°K{sup ±}[pi]{sup {-+}}, using a data sample of (465 ± 5) x 106 B{bar B} events collected with the BABAR detector at the [Upsilon](4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties and measure the branching fraction to be [Beta](B° → K{sub S}°K{sup ±}[pi]{sup {-+}}) = (3.2 {+-} 0.5 {+-} 0.3) x 10−6, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

We report an analysis of charmless hadronic decays of neutral B mesons to the final state K{sub S}°K{sup ±}?{sup ∓}, using a data sample of (465 ± 5) x 106 B{bar B} events collected with the BABAR detector at the ?(4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties and measure the branching fraction to be ?(B° → K{sub S}°K{sup ±}?{sup ∓}) = (3.2 ± 0.5 ± 0.3) x 10−6, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

The authors report the study of the B meson decays B{sup ±} 2!J/[psi][phi]K{sup ±}, B° 2!J/[psi][phi]K° using 433 million of B{bar B} events collected at the [Upsilon](4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II ee− asymmetric-energy collider. They obtain the branching fraction measurements: [Beta](B{sup ±} 2!J[psi][phi]K{sup ±}) = (5.6 {+-} 0.9(stat) {+-} 0.3(sys)) x 10−5, [Beta](B{sup {+-}} 2!J[psi][phi]K°) = (5.4 {+-} 1.2(stat) {+-} 0.4(sys)) x 10−5.

We report an analysis of charmless hadronic decays of charged B mesons to the final state K?°?°, using a data sample of 470.9 ± 2.8 million B{bar B} events collected with the BABAR detector at the?(4S) resonance. We observe an excess of signal events with a significance above 10 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties and measure the branching fraction to be?(B+??2192?K+?°?°) = (15.5 ± 1.1 ± 1.6) x 10−6, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

This volume of proceedings deals with a wide variety of topics — both in theory and in experiment — in particle physics, such as electroweak theory, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, heavy quark physics, nonperturbative QCD, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, quantum gravity effects, and physics at the future accelerators.

This book is dedicated to Lev Okun, who passed away in November 2015. He was a true pioneer in probing fundamental dynamics.The book has two objectives. First is to showcase Okun's impact for decades since 1963, when he published his remarkable book Weak Interaction of Elementary Particles. Second is to present the current progress of our scientific community in the studies of our Universe. New directions and possible future developments are discussed, often using the past as a guide. The authors mostly focus on CP asymmetries in the transitions of hadrons and leptons, but they also discuss their rare decays, and talk about axions and supersymmetry, and possible connections with dark matter, extra dimensions, baryogenesis and multiverse.This book is suitable for readers who know quantum mechanics and quantum field theories in general.