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Colin Morningstar, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto

Email: colin_morningstar@cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 268-2728
FAX: (412) 681-0648
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/cmorning

My research interests primarily concern nonperturbative phenomena in quantum field theories, with particular emphasis on the study of hadron formation and confinement in quantum chromodynamics using computer simulations of quarks and gluons. Recent highlights include a first comprehensive determination of the glueball spectrum in pure Yang-Mills and the spectrum of heavy-quark hybrid mesons in the leading Born-Oppenheimer approximation (neglecting light quark loops).

Selected Publications

S. Basak et al., “Lattice QCD determination of patterns of excited baryon states,” Phys. Rev. D 76, 074504 (2007).

Y. Chen et al., “Glueball matrix elements on anistropic lattices,” Phys. Rev. D 73, 014516 (2006).

S. Basak et al., “Clebsch-Gordan construction of lattice interpolating fields for excited baryons,” Phys. Rev. D 72, 9074501 (2005).

S. Basak et al., “Group-theoretical construction of extended baryon operators in lattice QCD,” Phys. Rev. D 72, 094506 (2005).

C. Morningstar and M. Peardon, “Analytic smearing of SU(3) link variables in lattice QCD,” Phys. Rev. D 69, 054501 (2004).

K. Hornbostel, G. P. Lepage, and C. Morningstar, “Scale setting for  beyond leading order, Phys. Rev. D. 67, 034023 (2003).

K. Jimmy Juge, J. Kuti, and C. Morningstar, “Fine structure of the QCD string spectrum,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 161601 (2003).

S. Collins et al., “Scaling and further tests of heavy meson decay constant determinations from NRQCD,” Phys. Rev. D 63, 034505 (2001).

J. Hein et al., “Scaling of the B and D meson spectrum in lattice QCD,” Phys. Rev. D 62, 074503 (2000).

A. Ali Khan et al., “Heavy light mesons and baryons with b quarks,” Phys. Rev. D 62, 054505 (2000).

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