Dr. Michael Creutz

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsElementary Particle Physics
KeywordsMonte Carlo Simultations, Lattice QCD

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityUpton
InstitutionBrookhaven National Laboratory
InstituteDepartment of Physics 510 A

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hartmut WittigInstitut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2009

Program(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Dr. Creutz is a theoretical particle physicist who is known internationally for his pioneering contributions to lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). His seminal papers of the early 1980s demonstrated for the first time that confinement and asymptotic freedom coexist as fundamental properties of QCD. Owing to his work, numerical simulations have become the most important method for treating the strong nuclear force at low energies. During his stay in Germany, Dr. Creutz intends to extend his recent research on efficient discretizations of QCD, which preserve the so-called chiral symmetry. Dr. Creutz is hosted by Professor Wittig at the University of Mainz.

Publications (partial selection)

2010Stefano Capitani, Michael Creutz, Johannes Weber, Hartmut Wittig: Renormalization of minimally doubled fermions. In: http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2009 Submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010,
2009Michael Creutz: Anomalies and discrete chiral symmetries. In: Proceedings of Science PoS(QCD-TNT09)008, 2009,