1994 PhD (Dr.rer.nat) University of Karlsruhe

1991 B. sc.  University of Zagreb

Heavy Hadron Decays and Lifetimes  2/2020 - 1/2024

Physics of the Standard Model and Beyond (PhySMaB) - HrZZ projekt 10/2014-9/2018

Alexander von Humboldt fellow

Fulbright fellow

Elementarne čestice - doktorski studij - PMF, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Radovi u časopisima

Znanstveni i pregledni radovi

• Leljak, D. & Melić, B. (2020) |Vub| determination and testing of lepton flavour universality in semileptonic Bc → D(∗) decays. The Journal of high energy physics, 2020 (2), 171, 44 doi:10.1007/jhep02(2020)171.

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• Groote, S., Körner, J. & Melić, B. (2019) A new angle on an old problem: helicity approach to neutron beta decay in the Standard Model. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 79 (11), 948, 18 doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7453-5.

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• Leljak, D., Melić, B. & Patra, M. (2019) On lepton flavour universality in semileptonic Bc → ηc, J/ψ decays. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 (5), 094, 39 doi:10.1007/jhep05(2019)094.

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• Antipin, O. & Melić, B. (2018) Revisiting the decoupling effects in the running of the Cosmological Constant. International journal of modern physics A, 33 (34), 33, 4 doi:10.1142/s0217751x18450136.

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• Fajfer, S., Melić, B. & Patra, M. (2018) Testing a spin-2 mediator by angular observables in b→sμ+μ−. Physical review. D, 97 (9), 095036, 8 doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.095036.

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• Bečirević, D., Melić, B., Patra, M. & Sumensari, O. (2018) Seeking a CP -odd Higgs boson via h→ηc, bℓ+ℓ−. Physical review. D, 97 (1), 015008, 14 doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.015008.

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• Antipin, O. & Melić, B. (2017) Revisiting the decoupling effects in the running of the Cosmological Constant. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 77 (9), 583-597 doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5153-6.

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• Melić, B. & Patra, M. (2017) Exploring the Top-Higgs FCNC Couplings at Polarized Linear Colliders with Top Spin Observables. The Journal of high energy physics, 01, 048, 33 doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2017)048.

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• Duplančić, G. & Melić, B. (2015) Form factors of B, Bs → η(′) and D, Ds → η(′) transitions from QCD light-cone sum rules. Journal of High Energy Physics, 11, 138-176 doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2015)138.

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• Goritschnig, A., Melić, B., Passek- Kumerički, K. & Schweiger, W. (2014) Hard Exclusive Φ and J/Ψ Photoproduction off a Proton. Proceedings of Science, DIS2014.

• Melić, B. (2014) DisCERNing new physics in tt¯–production from top–spin observables. Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 485, 012052-1 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/485/1/012052.

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• Bečirević, D., Duplančić, G., Klajn, B., Melić, B. & Sanfilippo, F. (2014) Lattice QCD and QCD sum rule determination of the decay constants of ηc, J/ψ and hc states. Nuclear physics. B, 883, 306-327 doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.03.024.

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• Bhattacharya, S., Melić, B. & Wudka, J. (2014) Pionic dark matter. Journal of high energy physics, 2014 (2), 115-1 doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2014)115.

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• Ma, E. & Melić, B. (2013) Updated S3 model of quarks. Physics letters. B, 725 (4/5), 402-406 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.015.

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• Bhattacharya, S., Melić, B. & Wudka, J. (2013) Dark matter pions. Acta physica Polonica B, 44 (11), 2359-2366 doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.44.2359.

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• Fajfer, S., Kamenik, J., F. & Melić, B. (2012) Discerning New Physics in Top-Antitop Production using Top Spin Observables at Hadron Colliders. The Journal of high energy physics, (8), 114-1 doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2012)114.

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• Groote, S., Koerner, J., Melić, B. & Prelovšek, S. (2011) Survey of top quark polarization at a polarized linear e+e− collider. Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 83 (5), 054018, 24 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.054018.

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• Melić, B. (2010) Charmless two-body B-meson decays in QCD. Nuclear physics. B - Proceedings Supplements, 209 (1), 129-134 doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.12.022.

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• Eilam, G., Melić, B. & Trampetić, J. (2009) CP violation and the fourth generation. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 80, 116003-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.116003.

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• Goritschnig, A., Melić, B., Passek- Kumerički, K. & Schweiger, W. (2008) Hard exclusive photoproduction of Phi and J/Psi mesons. Progress in particle and nuclear physics, 61 (1), 173-174 doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2007.12.013.

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• Duplančić, G. & Melić, B. (2008) B, B(s) ---> K form factors: An Update of light-cone sum rule results. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 78 (5), 054015-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.054015.

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• Duplančić, G., Khjodamirian, A., Mannel, T., Melić, B. & Offen, N. (2008) Light-cone sum rules for B ---> pi form factors revisited. The Journal of high energy physics, 4, 014-1 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/014.

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• Khodjamirian, A., Mannel, T., Melcher, M. & Melić, B. (2005) Annihilation effects in B -> pi pi from QCD light-cone sum rules. Physical Review D, 72 (9), 094012-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.094012.

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• Melić, B., Passek-Kumerički, K. & Trampetić, J. (2005) Quarkonia decays into two photons induced by the space-time non-commutativity. Physical review. D, 72, 054004-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.054004.

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• Melić, B., Passek-Kumerički, K., Trampetić, J., Schupp, P. & Wohlgenannt, M. (2005) The standard model on non-commutative space-time: electroweak currents and Higgs sector. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 42 (4), 483-497 doi:10.1140/epjc/s2005-02318-6.

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• Melić, B., Passek-Kumerički, K., Trampetić, J., Schupp, P. & Wohlgenannt, M. (2005) The standard model on non-commutative space-time : strong interactions included. European physical journal C : particles and fields, 42 (4), 499-504 doi:10.1140/epjc/s2005-02301-3.

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• Melić, B., Passek-Kumerički, K. & Trampetić, J. (2005) K - > Pi gamma decays and space-time noncommutativity. Physical review. D, 72 (5), 057502-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.057502.

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• Babić, A., Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (2004) Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the Omega_c^0 - feedback to the Xi_c^+ lifetime. Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 70, 117501-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.11750.

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• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (2004) A note on the factorization scale independence of the PQCD predictions for exclusive processes. European physical journal. C, 36, 453-458 doi:10.1140/epjc/s2004-01963-5.

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• Melić, B. (2004) LCSR analysis of exclusive two-body B decay into charmonium. Physics Letters B, 591 (1-2), 91-96 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.019.

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• Khodjamirian, A., Mannel, T. & Melić, B. (2003) QCD light-cone sum rule estimate of charming penguin contributions in B -> pi pi. Physics letters. B, 571 (3-4), 75-84 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.08.012.

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• Melić, B. (2003) Nonfactorizable corrections to B -> J/psi K. Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 68 (3), 034004-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.034004.

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• Melić, B., Muller, D. & Passek-Kumerički, K. (2003) Next-to-next-to-leading order prediction for the photon-to-pion transition form factor. Physical Review D, 68 (1), 014013-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.014013.

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• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (2002) Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie scale for the pion transition form factor. Physical Review D, 65 (5), 053020-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.053020.

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• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (2000) Lifetime-difference pattern of heavy hadrons. Physics Letters B, 484 (1-2), 43-50 doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00620-1.

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• Korner, J. & Melić, B. (2000) Exclusive/inclusive ratio of semileptonic Lambda(b) decays. Physical Review D, 62 (7), 074008-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.074008.

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• Korner, J., Melić, B. & Merebashvili, Z. (2000) Analyticity, crossing and the absorptive parts of the one-loop contributions to the quark-quark-gluon gauge boson four-point function. Physical Review D, 62 (9), 096011-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.096011.

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• Klabučar, D., Kumerički, K., Melić, B. & Picek, I. (1999) Nucleon strangeness as a response to a strangeness-sensitive probe in a class of hadron models. Fizika B : a journal of experimental and theoretical physics : general physics, nuclear physics, particles and fields, 8 (4), 505-534.

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• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (1999) Enhancement of preasymptotic effects in inclusive beauty decays. Physics letters B, 469 (1-4), 253-258 doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01198-3.

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• Klabučar, D., Kumerički, K., Melić, B. & Picek, I. (1999) On the instanton-induced portion of the nucleon strangeness. European physical journal C, 9 (4), 589-599 doi:10.1007/s100529900056.

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• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (1999) Inclusive decays and lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons. European physical journal C, 9 (2), 213-219.

• Li, H. & Melić, B. (1999) Determination of heavy meson wave function from B decays. European physical journal C, 11 (4), 695-702 doi:1007/s100529900204.

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• Melić, B. (1999) Perturbative approach to the penguin induced B --> pi phi decay. Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 59 (7), 074005-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.074005.

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• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (1999) On the complete next-to-leading order pQCD prediction for the pion form factor. Fizika B : a journal of experimental and theoretical physics : general physics, nuclear physics, particles and fields, astrophysics, 8 (1/2), 327-334.

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• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (1999) Complete next-to-leading order perturbative QCD prediction for the pion electromagnetic form factor. Physical Review D, 60 (7), 074004-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.074004.

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• Melić, B. & Meljanac, S. (1997) Permutation invariant statistics, duality and simple interpolations. Physics letters A, 226 (1), 22-30 doi:10.1016/S0375-9601(96)00913-9.

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• Melić, B. (1994) Zeeman splitting in neutral hydrogenic atoms with spinless nucleus. Journal of physics. B, Atomic molecular and optical physics, 27 (5), 993-1003 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/27/5/018.

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• Melić, B. (1994) Hydrogenic atoms with spinless nucleus in a magnetic field. Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, 27 (17), 3849-3862 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/27/17/010.

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Znanstveni radovi u zbornicima skupova

• Bečirević, D., Melić, B., Patra, M. & Sumensari, O. (2018) Seeking a light CP-odd Higgs state. U: Checchia, P. (ur.)Proceedings, 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017) : Venice, Italy, July 5-12, 2017 doi:10.22323/1.314.0678.

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• Melić, B. & Patra, M. (2017) Probing Chirality of Top-Higgs FCNC Couplings at Linear Colliders. U: Checchia, P. (ur.)Proceedings of 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017) doi:10.22323/1.314.0316.

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• Melić, B. & Patra, M. (2017) Using Spin Observables and Polarizations to Probe Top-Higgs FCNC Couplings at Colliders. U: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 878, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/878/1/012026.

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• Bhattacharya, S., Melić, B. & Wudka, J. (2016) Pion-like dark matter. U: Aguilar-Benítez, M., Fuster, J., Martí-García, S. & Santamaría, A. (ur.)Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings, vol. 273-275 doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.09.381.

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• Bečirević, D., Duplančić, G., Klajn, B., Melić, B. & Sanfillipo, F. (2016) Charmonia decay constants from the QCD lattice and QCD sum rules. U: Aguilar-Benítez, M., Fuster, J., Martí-García, S. & Santamaría, A. (ur.)Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings 273-275.

• Melić, B. (2008) B -> pi and B(s) -> K form factors and Vub determination. U: Proceeding of the 34th International Conference on the High Energy Physics : ICHEP08.

• Duplančić, G., Khodjamirian, A., Mannel, T., Melić, B. & Offen, N. (2008) |Vub| determination using B → π form factor from light-cone sum rule. U: Barlow, R. (ur.)Journal of Physics: Conference Series 110 (2008) 052026 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/110/5/052026.

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• Khodjamirian, A., Mannel, T., Melcher, M. & Melić, B. (2006) B -> pi pi hadronic amplitudes from QCD light-cone sum rules. U: Barreira, G. (ur.)EPS International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP-EPS 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, PoS HEP2005:194, 2006..

• Melić, B. (2006) Introduction to phi2 from charmless B decays. U: Proceeding of the 4th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, CKM2006, Nagoya, Japan.

• Melić, B. (2004) Exclusive Nonleptonic B Decays from QCD Light-Cone Sum Rules. U: Proceedings of International School "Heavy Quark Physics" ; Lecture Notes in Physics 647 (2004).

• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (2003) BLM scale for the pion transition form factor. U: Trampetić, J. & Wess, J. (ur.)Proceedings of the 8th Adriatic Meeting Particle Physics in the New Millennium.

• Melić, B. (2003) Estimate of Charming Penguins in B -> pi pi. U: Abstracts of the Conference on High Energy Physics : EPS ; u: European physical journal C : particles and fields (1434-6044) 33 (2004) (S).

• Melić, B. (2003) Some aspects of charmless B decays from QCD light-cone sum rules. U: Proceedings of International eConf C030603:JEU03 on Flavor physics & CP violation : FPCP 2003.

• Khodjamrian, A., Mannel, T. & Melić, B. (2003) Charming penguis in B -> pi pi from QCD light-cone sum rules. U: Electronic Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle : eConf C0304052:WG409, 2003.

• Melić, B. & Rueckl, R. (2002) Nonfactorizable effects in B -> J/psi K. U: Frascati Physics Series, Proceedings of Workshop on B physics and CP Violation.

• Melić, B. (2002) Heavy flavour hadrons : inclusive decays and lifetimes. U: 2002 LHC Days in Split : Proceedings.

• Melić, B. (2001) The lifetimes of heavy hadrons - A theoretical appraisal. U: Sanda, A. (ur.)Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation, BCP4, 2001, Ise-Shima, Japan.

• Klabučar, D., Kumerički, K., Melić, B. & Picek, I. (2001) On the instanton induced nucleon strangeness. U: Tran Thanh Van, J. (ur.)Frontiers of Matter. (https://www.bib.irb.hr/89987).

• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (2001) Lifetime pattern of heavy hadrons. U: Lim, C. & Yamanaka, T. (ur.)Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2000).

• Melić, B. & Koerner, J. (2001) Exclusive and inclusive semileptonic Lambda_b-Decays. U: C.S. Kalman, Z. Ligeti, M.A.Sanchis-Lozano, J. Salt, V. Gimenez (ur.)Valencia 2000, Hyperons, charm and beauty hadrons, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 93 (2001).

• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (2001) Inclusive decays and lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons. U: Ferreira, L., Nogueira, P. & Silva-Marcos, J. (ur.)Proceedings of the XVII Autumn School, QCD: Perturbative or Nonperturbative?.

• Guberina, B., Melić, B. & Štefančić, H. (2001) Preasymptotic effects in beauty decays. U: Cheng, H. & Hou, W. (ur.)Proceedings of the Third International Conference on B Physics And CP Violation.

• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (2000) Scale dependence and NLO predictions for the pion form factor. U: Blok, H. & Mack, D. (ur.)Proceedings of the Workshop on the Pion Form Factor.

• Melić, B. (2000) On the perturbative approach to the penguin induced B --> PI PHI decay. U: Huitu, K., Kurki-Suonio, H. & Maalampi, J. (ur.)Tampere 1999, High energy physics.

• Melić, B., Nižić, B. & Passek, K. (2000) On the PQCD prediction for the pion form factor. U: Carlson, C. & Radyushkin, A. (ur.)6th INT Jefferson Lab Workshop "Exclusive and Semi-Exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer" : Proceedings.