Publications of Dr. Mark G. Alford
Department of Physics
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Publications
  1. Q-Clouds, M. Alford, Nucl. Phys. B298, 323, 1988.
  2. Aharonov-Bohm interaction of cosmic strings with matter, M. Alford and F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1071, 1989.
  3. Enhanced baryon number violation due to cosmic strings, M. Alford, J. March-Russell and F. Wilczek, Nucl. Phys. B328, 140, 1990.
  4. Discrete quantum hair on black holes and the nonabelian Aharonov-Bohm effect, M. Alford, J. March-Russell and F. Wilczek, Nucl. Phys. B337, 695, 1990.
  5. The interactions and excitations of nonabelian vortices, M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman, J. March-Russell and F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1632, 1990.
  6. Zero modes of nonabelian vortices, M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman, J. March-Russell and F. Wilczek, Nucl. Phys. B349, 414, 1991.
  7. Disentangling nonabelian discrete quantum hair, M. Alford, S. Coleman and J. March-Russell, Nucl. Phys. B351, 735, 1991.
  8. New order parameters for nonabelian gauge theories, M. Alford and J. March-Russell, Nucl. Phys. B369, 276, 1992.
  9. Discrete gauge theories, M. Alford and J. March-Russell, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B5, 2641, 1991, and "Anyons in action," (World Scientific, 1992) edited by F. Wilczek.
  10. Thermal nucleation of kink-antikink pairs, M. Alford, H. Feldman, and M. Gleiser, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1645, 1992.
  11. Quantum field theory of nonabelian strings and vortices, M. Alford, K.M. Lee, J. March-Russell, and J. Preskill, Nucl. Phys. B384, 251, 1992.
  12. S-Wave scattering of charged fermions by a magnetic black hole, M. Alford and A. Strominger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 563, 1992.
  13. Thermal activation of metastable decay: Testing classical nucleation theory, M. Alford, H. Feldman and M. Gleiser, Phys. Rev. D47 (RC), 2168, 1993.
  14. Metastability in two dimensions and the effective potential, M. Alford and M. Gleiser, Phys. Rev. D48, 2838, 1993.
  15. Radiatively-induced first-order phase transitions: the necessity of the renormalization group, M. Alford and J. March-Russell, Nucl. Phys. B417, 527, 1994.
  16. Critical exponents without the epsilon expansion, M. Alford, Phys. Lett. B336, 237, 1994.
  17. Lattice QCD on small computers, M. Alford, W. Dimm, P. Lepage, G. Hockney, P. Mackenzie, Phys. Lett. B361, 87, 1995.
  18. Improving lattice quark actions, M. Alford, T. Klassen, P. Lepage, Nucl. Phys. B496, 377, 1997.
  19. QCD at finite baryon density: nucleon droplets and color superconductivity, M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, F. Wilczek, Phys. Lett. B422, 247, 1998.
  20. A quark action for very coarse lattices, M. Alford, T. Klassen, P. Lepage, Phys. Rev. D58:034503, 1998.
  21. Color-avor locking and chiral symmetry breaking in high density QCD, M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, F. Wilczek, Nucl. Phys. B537, 443, 1999.
  22. Imaginary chemical potential and finite fermion density on the lattice, M. Alford, A. Kapustin, F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. D59:054502 1999.
  23. Unlocking color and flavor in superconducting strange quark matter, M. Alford, J. Berges, K. Rajagopal, Nucl. Phys. B558, 219, 1999.
  24. Gapless color superconductivity, M. Alford, J. Berges, K. Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 598, 2000.
  25. Magnetic fields within color superconducting neutron star cores, M. Alford, J. Berges, K. Rajagopal, Nucl. Phys. B571, 269, 2000.
  26. Insight into the scalar mesons from a lattice calculation, M. Alford and R. Jaffe, Nucl. Phys. B578, 367, 2000.
  27. Measuring the aspect ratio renormalization of anisotropic-lattice gluons, M. Alford, I.T. Drummond, R.R. Horgan, M. Peardon, H. Shanahan, Phys. Rev. D63:074501, 2001.
  28. Crystalline color superconductivity, M. Alford, J. Bowers, K. Rajagopal, Phys. Rev. D63:074016, 2001.
  29. Solution of the complex action problem in the Potts model for dense QCD, M. Alford, S. Chandrasekharan, J. Cox, U-J. Wiese, Nucl. Phys. B602:61-86, 2001.
  30. Color superconducting quark matter, M. Alford, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 51, 131, 2001.
  31. The minimal CFL-nuclear interface, M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, S. Reddy, F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. D64:074017, 2001.
  32. Absence of two-flavor color superconductivity in compact stars, M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, JHEP 0206 (2002) 031
  33. Single color and single flavor color superconductivity, Mark G. Alford, Jeffrey A. Bowers, Jack M. Cheyne, Greig A. Cowan, hep-ph/0210106
Conference Proceedings

  1. Testing classical nucleation theory, M. Alford, H. Feldman, M. Gleiser, in "Quarks 92", (World Scientific 1993).
  2. Critical exponents without the epsilon expansion, M. Alford, in "MRST 94, What Next?" (World Scientific 1994).
  3. QCD on coarse lattices, M. Alford, W. Dimm, G. Hockney, P. Lepage, P. Mackenzie, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 42, 787, 1995 (Lattice 94).
  4. The D234 action for light quarks, M. Alford, T. Klassen, P. Lepage, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl 47, 370, 1996 (Lattice 95).
  5. Towards highly improved quark actions, M. Alford, T. Klassen, P. Lepage, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 53, 861, 1997 (Lattice 96).
  6. Mean-link tadpole improvement of SW and D234 actions, M. Alford, T. Klassen, P. Lepage, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 63A-C, 862, 1998 (Lattice 97).
  7. Color superconductivity and signs of its formation, M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, F. Wilczek, Nucl. Phys. A638, 515c, 1998 (Quark Matter 97).
  8. New possibilities for QCD at finite density, M. Alford, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 73, 161, 1999 (Lattice 98).
  9. High-density QCD: the effects of strangeness, M. Alford, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl) 83-84, 345, 2000 (Lattice 99).
  10. Color superconductivity in dense quark matter, M. Alford, "Dynamics of gauge fields", Frontiers Science series No. 33, Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 2000.
  11. Color Superconductivity in Compact Stars, M. Alford, J. Bowers, K. Rajagopal, J. Phys. G27:541, 2001. (ECT Workshop on Neutron Star Interiors, Trento, Italy, June 2000).
  12. Color superconducting quark matter in compact stars, M. Alford, hep-ph/0110150 (Conference on Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram, Copenhagen, August 15-18, 2001)
  13. The determination of alpha(s) from lattice QCD with 2+1 flavors of dynamical quarks C, Davies et al, hep-lat/0209122
  14. The Upsilon spectrum from lattice QCD with 2+1 flavors of dynamical quarks, A. Gray et al, hep-lat/0209022
  15. QCD at high density/temperature, M. Alford, hep-ph/0209287 (ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam, July 24-31, 2002)
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