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Professor Bander earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1962) from Columbia University. He held postdoctoral positions at CERN, Copenhagen , and SLAC before joining the UCI Physics Department in 1966. He has served as the Department Chair from 1992-95, as well as during 1978-80, and was Dean of the School of Physical Sciences during 1980-86.
Most of my research has been in elementary particle theory. In the past I have also worked on problems in statistical mechanics and in general relativity.
Results from the CDF detector at Fermilab show an anomaly in the production of jets at large transverse energy. I showed that excited quark resonances, should these exist, could account for these data.
Quantum Chromodynamics simplifies when it is applied to hadrons containing heavy quarks, as the b or c quark. I looked at the spectroscopy of baryons containing two such quarks. Combining heavy quark effective theory and current algebra yields sum rules for pionic decay widths of meson resonances containing such quarks which are well satisfied even for mesons containing the strange quark.
Recently I have been working on a new mechanism of generating masses
of elementary fermions. In this scheme these particles interact with a
confining gauge theory that is broken at very short distances (the gauge
carrying particles acquire a heavy mass); this results in the fermions
being attached to short flux tubes that, at
larger distance scales, act as an effective mass. Consistency with
known phenomenology is being checked.
Neutrino Fluxes and Resonance Physics with Neutrino Telescopes, (with H. R. Rubinstein), Phys. Rev. D51, 1410 (1995).
Quark Resonances and High Et Jets, Phys. Rev. Letters 77, 601 (1996).
Sum Rule for Heavy Meson Decay Widths, in the Proceedings of The Blois 97 Workshop (International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering), June, 1997, eds. K.Kang, S. K. Lee and C. Lee (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998).