Baryon formation and dissociation in dense hadronic and quark matter
We study the formation of baryons as composed of quarks and diquarks in hot and dense hadronic matter in a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL)-type model. We first solve the Dyson–Schwinger equation for the diquark propagator and then use this to solve the Dyson–Schwinger equation for the baryon propagator. We find that stable baryon resonances exist only in the phase of broken chiral symmetry. In the chirally symmetric phase, we do not find a pole in the baryon propagator. In the color-superconducting phase, there is a pole, but it has a large decay width. The diquark does not need to be stable in order to form a stable baryon, a feature typical for so-called Borromean states. Varying the strength of the diquark coupling constant, we also find similarities to the properties of an Efimov state.

title: Magnetic tuning of the relativistic BCS-BEC crossover
abstract: The effect of an applied magnetic field in the crossover from Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) pairing regimes is investigated. We use a model of relativistic fermions and bosons inspired by those previously used in the context of cold fermionic atoms and in the magnetic-color-flavor-locking phase of color superconductivity. It turns out that as with cold atom systems, an applied magnetic field can also tune the BCS-BEC crossover in the relativistic case. We find that no matter what the initial state is at B=0, for large enough magnetic fields the system always settles into a pure BCS regime. In contrast to the atomic case, the magnetic field tuning of the crossover in the relativistic system is not connected to a Feshbach resonance, but to the relative numbers of Landau levels with either BEC or BCS type of dispersion relations that are occupied at each magnetic field strength.

title: BCS-BEC crossover in a relativistic boson-fermion model beyond mean field approximation
abstract: We investigate the fluctuation effect of the di-fermion field in the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) pairing to a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a relativistic superfluid. We work within the boson-fermion model obeying a global U(1) symmetry. To go beyond the mean field approximation we use Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis formalism to include higher-order contributions. The quantum fluctuations of the pairing condensate is provided by bosons in nonzero modes, whose interaction with fermions gives the two-particle-irreducible effective potential. It changes the crossover property in the BEC regime. With the fluctuations the superfluidity phase transition becomes the first order in a grand canonical ensemble. We calculate the condensate, the critical temperature T{sub c} and particle abundances as functions of a crossover parameter of the boson mass.

title: Pairing fluctuation effects in a strongly coupled color superfluid/superconductor
abstract: We investigate the effects of pairing fluctuations in fermionic superfluids/superconductors where pairing occurs among three species (colors) of fermions. Such color superfluids/superconductors can be realized in three-component atomic Fermi gases and in dense quark matter. The superfluidity/superconductivity is characterized by a three-component order parameter which denotes the pairing among the three colors of fermions. Due to the SU$(3)$ symmetry of the Hamiltonian, one color does not participate pairing. This branch of fermionic excitation is gapless in the naive BCS mean-field description. In this paper, we adopt a pairing-fluctuation theory to investigate the pairing fluctuation effects on the unpaired color in strongly coupled atomic color superfluids and quark color superconductors. At low temperature, a large pairing gap of the paired colors suppresses the pairing fluctuation effects for the unpaired color, and the spectral density of the unpaired color shows a single Fermi-liquid peak, which indicates the naive mean-field picture remains valid. As the temperature is increased, the spectral density of the unpaired color generally exhibits a three-peak structure: the Fermi-liquid peak remains but get suppressed, and two pseudogap-like peaks appears. At and above the superfluid transition temperature, the Fermi-liquid peak disappears completely and the all three colors exhibits pseudogap-like spectral density. The coexistence of Fermi liquid and pseudogap behavior is generic for both atomic color superfluids and quark color superconductors.

title: Observation of the Hadronic transitions chi(b1,2)(2P)-->omegaUpsilon(1S).
abstract: The CLEO Collaboration has made the first observations of hadronic transitions among bottomonium (bbmacr;) states other than the dipion transitions among Upsilon(nS) states. In our study of Upsilon(3S) decays, we find a significant signal for Upsilon(3S)-->gammaomegaUpsilon(1S) that is consistent with radiative decays Upsilon(3S)-->gammachi(b1,2)(2P), followed by chi(b1,2)(2P)-->omegaUpsilon(1S). The branching ratios we obtain are B[chi(b1)(2P)-->omegaUpsilon(1S)]=(1.63(+0.35+0.16)(-0.31-0.15))% and B[chi(b2)(2P)-->omegaUpsilon(1S)]=(1.10(+0.32+0.11)(-0.28-0.10))%, in which the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.

title: Radiative decay width measurements of neutral kaon excitations using the primakoff effect.
abstract: We use K(L)'s in the 100-200 GeV energy range to produce 147 candidate events of the axial vector pair K1(1270)-K1(1400) in the nuclear Coulomb field of a Pb target and determine the radiative widths Gamma(K1(1400)-->K0+gamma)=280.8+/-23.2(stat)+/-40.4(syst) keV and Gamma(K1(1270)-->K0+gamma)=73.2+/-6.1(stat)+/-28.3(syst) keV. These first measurements appear to be lower than the quark-model predictions. We also place upper limits on the radiative widths for K(*)(1410) and K(*)(2)(1430) and find that the latter is vanishingly small in accord with SU(3) invariance in the naive quark model.

title: Studies of Room Temperature Accelerator Structures for the ILC Positron Source
abstract: There are many challenges in the design of the normal-conducting portion of the ILC positron injector system such as achieving adequate cooling with the high RF and particle loss heating, and sustaining high accelerator gradients during millisecond-long pulses in a strong magnetic field. The proposed design for the positron injector contains both standing-wave and traveling-wave L-band accelerator structures for high RF efficiency, low cost and ease of fabrication. This paper presents results from several studies including particle energy deposition for both undulator based and conventional positron sources, cooling system design, accelerator structure optimization, RF pulse heating, cavity frequency stabilization, and RF feed system design.

title: Observation of B+ ---> K(1)(1270)+ gamma

title: Absence of dynamical gap generation in suspended graphene
abstract: There is an interesting proposal that the long-range Coulomb interaction in suspended graphene can generate a dynamical gap, which leads to a semimetal–insulator phase transition. We revisit this problem by solving the self-consistent Dyson–Schwinger equations of wave function renormalization and fermion gap. In order to satisfy the Ward identity, a suitable vertex function is introduced. The impact of singular velocity renormalization and that of dynamical screening on gap generation are both included in this formalism, and prove to be very important. We obtain a critical interaction strength, 3.2 < αc < 3.3, which is larger than the physical value α = 2.16 for suspended graphene. It therefore turns out that suspended graphene is a semimetal, rather than an insulator, at zero temperature.