Claude Bernard

Department of Physics, Washington University

Claude Bernard

Research Descriptions:

Claude Bernard

Course Information:

Physics 524, Quantum Mechanics II (Spring, 2008)

Bio/EPSc/Physics 210A, Epic of Evolution

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

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)

fB with Nf=2 (9/4/02) raw data

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