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B. A. Gelman

Publications and source records attributed to B. A. Gelman.

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arXiv2006

Matter formed at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider

We suggest that the "new form of matter" found just above $T_c$ by RHIC is made up of tightly bound quark-antiquark pairs, essentially 32 chirally restored (more precisely, nearly massless) mesons of the quantum numbers of $π$, $σ$, $ρ$ and $a_1$. Taking the results of lattice gauge simulations (LGS) for the color Coulomb potential from the work of the Bielefeld group and feeding this into a relativistic two-body code, after modifying the heavy-quark lattice results so as to include the velocity-velocity interaction, all ground-state eigenvalues of the 32 mesons go to zero at $T_c$ just as they do from below $T_c$ as predicted by the vector manifestation (VM in short) of hidden local symmetry. This could explain the rapid rise in entropy up to $T_c$ found in LGS calculations. We argue that how the dynamics work can be understood from the behavior of the hard and soft glue.

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arXiv2006

Renormalized atomic interaction and quadrupole excitations of cold Fermi gas near Feshbach resonance

We present a model space particle-hole Green's function calculation for the quadrupole excitations of cold Fermi gas near Feshbach resonance using a simple model where atoms are confined in a harmonic oscillator potential. Both the Tamm-Dancoff and random phase approximations are employed. By summing up exactly the ladder diagrams between a pair of interacting atoms to all orders, we obtain a renormalized atomic interaction which has well defined and identical limits as the scattering length tends to $\pm \infty$. The experimentally observed abrupt rise in the excitation spectrum and its associated large decay width are satisfactorily reproduced by our calculation.

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arXiv2004

Generalized Seniority Description of Cold Fermi Gases

We suggest that the extension of the Racah seniority description of strongly interacting fermions in the nuclear shell model is directly generalizable to describe pairing of atoms in cold Fermi systems. We illustrate this by the fermionic pairing in the much studied cold two-component gas of Li atoms. Our pairing interaction is two orders of magnitude stronger than that used in the usual BCS approach. We also explain why the Racah scheme is less applicable to nuclei, and discuss the similarities of the strongly-coupled matter in cold fermion systems and the new form of matter found in RHIC close to T_c.

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