Department of Physics, Washington University

Claude Bernard

Information for Prospective Physics Graduate Students:

• Overview of Program at Wash. U. (3/9/12)

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Course Information:

• Spring, 2012: Physics 422, "Electricity and Magnetism II"

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Some Recent Papers: (see Publications for a complete list)

• B- and D-meson decay constants from three-flavor lattice QCD [arXiv:1112.3051], submitted to Phys. Rev. D
• Transfer matrix for partially quenched QCD [Lattice 2010; arXiv:1011.0184]
• Electromagnetic corrections in staggered chiral perturbation theory [Lattice 2010; arXiv:1011.3994]
• Results for light pseudoscalar mesons [Lattice 2010; arXiv:1012.0868]
• Scaling studies of QCD with the dynamical HISQ action [PRD: arXiv:1004.0342]
• Topological susceptibility with the asqtad action [PRD: arXiv:1003.5695]
• Results from the MILC collaboration's SU(3) chiral perturbation theory analysis [Lattice 2009; arXiv:0910.3618]
• MILC results for light pseudoscalars [Chiral Dynamics 2009; arXiv:0910.2966]
• Nonperturbative QCD simulations with 2+1 flavors of improved staggered quarks [Rev. Mod. Phys.; arXiv:0903.3598]
• The B->pi ell nu semileptonic form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor QCD: A model independent determination of |Vub| [PRD; arXiv:0811.3640]
• The B->D* ell nu form factor at zero recoil from three-flavor QCD: A model independent determination of |Vcb| [PRD; arXiv:0808.2519]
• Effective field theories for QCD with rooted staggered fermions [PRD; arXiv:0712.2560]
• 't Hooft vertices, partial quenching, and rooted staggered QCD [PRD; arXiv:0711.0696]
• Status of the MILC light pseudoscalar meson project [Lattice 2007; arXiv:0710.1118]
• Scalar Meson Spectroscopy with Lattice Staggered Fermions [PRD; arXiv:0707.2402]
• Heavy-Light Semileptonic Decays in Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory [PRD; arXiv:0704.0795v2]
• Low energy constants from the MILC Collaboration [Chiral Dynamics 2006; hep-lat/0611024]
• Regularizing QCD with staggered fermions and the fourth root trick [Lattice 2006; hep-lat/0610003]
• Update on the physics of light pseudoscalar mesons [Lattice 2006; hep-lat/0609053]
• Observations on staggered fermions at non-zero lattice spacing [PRD; hep-lat/0604017]
• Comment on "Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions" [PLB; hep-lat/0603027]
• Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory and the Fourth-Root Trick [PRD; hep-lat/0603011]
• Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory for Heavy-Light Mesons [PRD; hep-lat/0510088]
• Update on pi and K Physics [Lattice 2005; hep-lat/0509137]
• Charmed meson decay constants in three-flavor lattice QCD [PRL; hep-lat/0506030]
• Chiral Perturbation Theory for Staggered Sea Quarks and Ginsparg-Wilson Valence Quarks [PRD; hep-lat/0504009]
• Order of the Chiral and Continuum Limits in Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory [PRD; hep-lat/0412030]
• Semileptonic decays of D mesons in three-flavor lattice QCD [PRL; hep-lat/0408306]
• Light pseudoscalar decay constants, quark masses, and low energy constants from three-flavor lattice QCD [PRD; hep-lat/0407028]
• First determination of the strange and light quark masses from full lattice QCD [PRD (Rapid Communications); hep-lat/0405022]
• Light hadrons with improved staggered quarks: approaching the continuum limit [PRD; hep-lat/0402030]
• Pion and kaon physics with improved staggered quarks [hep-lat/0309088; writeup of Lattice 2003 poster]
• Pion and kaon physics with improved staggered quarks [Lattice 2003 poster (pdf; BIG!]
• Pseudoscalar Decay Constants in Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory [hep-lat/0306026; PRD]
• Pion and Kaon masses in Staggered Chiral Perturbation Theory [hep-lat/0304014; PRD]
• High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment [hep-lat/0304004; PRL]
• Chiral logs with staggered fermions [hep-lat/0209066; Lattice 2002, Boston]
• Heavy-light meson decay constants with Nf=3 [Lattice 2002, Boston]
• Lattice Calculation of Heavy-Light Decay Constants with Two Flavors of Dynamical Quarks [PRD; hep-lat/0206016]
• Chiral Logs in the Presence of Staggered Flavor Symmetry Breaking [PRD]
• Heavy-light decay constants with three dynamical flavors [Lattice 2001, Berlin]
• Lattice results for the decay constant of heavy-light vector mesons[PRD]
• Numerical Simulations of PT-Symmetric Quantum Field Theories[PRD]
• The QCD Spectrum with Three quark Flavors[PRD]
• Heavy Quark Physics on the Lattice[Plenary talk at Lattice 2000]
• Continuum limit of fB with dynamical fermions[Lattice 2000]
• Perturbation theory for fat-link fermion actions [Lat99]
• Talk at Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics[Jan., 1999]
• Lattice determination of heavy-light decay constants [PRL]
• Heavy-light decay constants: conclusions from the Wilson action [Lat98]
• A calculation of the Lepage-Mackenzie scale for the lattice axial and vector currents [PRD]
• Continuum Limit of Lattice QCD with Staggered Quarks in the Quenched Approximation --- A Critical Role for the Chiral Extrapolation [PRL]
• SU(3) Flavor Breaking in B mixing [PRD]
• Heavy Flavor 97 writeup
• Lattice 97 writeup
• writeup for "b20" (20th aniversary of b quark discovery)