Lorenz von Smekal, recent publications

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  1. Curci-Ferrari mass and the Neuberger problem,
    A. C. Kalloniatis, L. von Smekal, and A. G. Williams,
    Phys. Lett. B609 (2005), 424, hep-lat/0501016.

  2. Geometric misalignment and calibration in cone-beam tomography,
    L. von Smekal, M. Kachelriess, E. Stepina, and W. A. Kalender,
    Med. Phys. 31 (2004), 3242.

  3. Signatures of confinement in Landau gauge QCD,
    J. M. Pawlowski, D. F. Litim, S. Nedelko, and L. von Smekal, for the
    6th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum,
    Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, 21-25 Sep 2004, hep-th/0412326.

  4. Infrared QCD and the renormalization group,
    D. F. Litim, J. M. Pawlowski, S. N. Nedelko, L. von Smekal, in
    Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004, World Scientific (2005), hep-th/0410241.

  5. Spectral density in resonance region and analytic confinement,
    A. C. Kalloniatis, S. N. Nedelko, and L. von Smekal,
    Phys. Rev. D70 (2004), 094037, hep-ph/0406069.

  6. Infrared behavior and fixed points in Landau gauge QCD,
    J. M. Pawlowski, D. F. Litim, S. N. Nedelko, and L. von Smekal,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004), 152002, hep-th/0312324.

  7. Infrared behavior of gluons and ghosts in ghost-antighost symmetric gauges,
    R. Alkofer, C. S. Fischer, H. Reinhardt, and L. von Smekal,
    Phys. Rev. D68 (2003), 045003, hep-th/0304134.

  8. More on electric and magnetic fluxes in SU(2),
    L. von Smekal, with Ph. de Forcrand and O. Jahn, talk presented at Quark Confinement and the
    Hadron Spectrum V, Gargnano, Italy, September 10-14, 2002, hep-lat/0212019.

  9. Kugo-Ojima confinement and QCD Green's functions in covariant gauges,
    R. Alkofer, C. S. Fischer and L. von Smekal, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 50 (2003), 317-327, nucl-th/0301048; and
    Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion, Zwanziger-Gribov horizon condition,
    and infrared critical exponents in Landau gauge QCD, for Quark Confinement
    and the Hadron Spectrum V, Gargnano, Italy, September 10-14, 2002, hep-ph/0301107.

  10. Electric and magnetic fluxes in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory,
    L. von Smekal, with Ph. de Forcrand, Nucl. Phys.B - Proc. Suppl. 119 (2003), 655, hep-lat/0209149.

  11. Infrared exponents and the running coupling of Landau gauge QCD, and their relation to confinement,
    R. Alkofer, C. S. Fischer and L. von Smekal, for Quark Nuclear Physics, Juelich, June 9-14, 2002, hep-ph/0209366;
    see also, The Infrared Behaviour of the Running Coupling in Landau Gauge QCD, in
    Renormalization Group 2002, Acta Physica Slovaca 52 (2002), 191, hep-ph/0205125.

  12. Electric flux sectors and confinement,
    L. von Smekal with Ph. de Forcrand, in Confinement, Topology and other
    Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD    , Eds. J. Greensite and S. Olejnik, NATO Science Series,
    Kluwer (2002), pp. 287 - 294, hep-ph/0205002.

  13. Infrared exponent for gluon and ghost propagation in Landau gauge QCD,
    Ch. Lerche and L. von Smekal, Phys. Rev. D65 (2002), 125006, hep-ph/0202194.

  14. 't Hooft loops, and consistent order parameters for confinement,
    Ph. de Forcrand and L. von Smekal, Nucl. Phys. B - Proc. Suppl. 106 (2002), 619, hep-lat/0110135.

  15. Relativistic three quark bound states in separable two quark approximation,
    M. Oettel, L. v. Smekal and R. Alkofer, Comput. Phys. Commun. 144 (2002), 63,
    hep-ph/0109285.

  16. 't Hooft loops, electric flux sectors and confinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory,
    Ph. de Forcrand and L. von Smekal, Phys. Rev. D66 (2002), 011504(R), hep-lat/0107018.

  17. The Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion from Dyson-Schwinger equations,
    R. Alkofer, L. v. Smekal and P. Watson, hep-ph/0105142.

  18. What the infrared behavior of QCD Green functions can tell us about confinement
    in the covariant gauge    , in Fundamental Problems of High Energy Physics
    and Field Theory    , State Research Center of Russia IHEP (2000), 89, FAU-TP3-00/12;
    see also my plenary talk at Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IV,
    Vienna, July 4-8, 2000, hep-ph/0009219.

  19. The infrared behavior of QCD Green's functions,
    R. Alkofer and L. v. Smekal, Physics Reports 353/5-6 (2001), 281 ,
    FAU-TP3-00/8 (890KB), hep-ph/0007355.

  20. Nucleon properties in the covariant quark-diquark model,
    M. Oettel, R. Alkofer and L. v. Smekal,
    Eur. Phys. J. A8 (2000) pp. 553 - 566, nucl-th/0006082.

  21. The infrared behavior of QCD propagators in Landau gauge,
    R. Alkofer and L. v. Smekal, Nucl. Phys. A680 (2001) 133,
    hep-ph/0004141.

  22. Current conservation in the covariant quark-diquark model of the nucleon,
    M. Oettel, M. A. Pichowsky and L. v. Smekal,
    Eur. Phys. J. A8 (2000) pp. 251 - 281, nucl-th/9909082.

  23. The infrared behavior of propagators in Landau gauge QCD,
    R. Alkofer, S. Ahlig and L. v. Smekal, in Understanding Deconfinement
    in QCD, World Scientific (1999), pp. 196 - 201, hep-ph/9905324.

  24. The infrared behavior of gluon, ghost, and quark propagators in Landau gauge QCD,
    R. Alkofer, S. Ahlig and L. v. Smekal, Fizika B8 (1999), pp. 277 - 284,
    hep-ph/9901322.

  25. A solution to coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for gluons and ghosts in Landau gauge,
    A. Hauck, L. von Smekal and R. Alkofer, in Nonperturbative Methods in
    Quantum Field Theory, World Scientific (1999), 81, hep-ph/9804387.

  26. Solving a coupled set of truncated QCD Dyson-Schwinger equations,
    A. Hauck, L. von Smekal and R. Alkofer,Comput. Phys.Commun. 112 (1998), 166,
    FAU-TP3-98/2 .

  27. Solving the gluon Dyson-Schwinger equation in the Mandelstam approximation,
    A. Hauck, L. von Smekal and R. Alkofer, Comput. Phys. Commun. 112 (1998), 149,
    FAU-TP3-98/1 .

  28. A solution to the coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for gluons and ghosts in Landau gauge,
    L. von Smekal, A. Hauck and R. Alkofer, Ann. Phys. 267 (1998), pp. 1 - 60,
    hep-ph/9707327.

  29. The infrared behaviour of gluon and ghost propagators in Landau guage QCD,
    L. von Smekal, A. Hauck and R. Alkofer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997), 3591,
    hep-ph/9705242.

  30. A dynamical eta'-mass from an infrared enhanced gluon exchange,
    L. von Smekal, A. Mecke and R. Alkofer, in Intersections of
    Particle and Nuclear Physics, 6th Conference, World Scientific (1997), 746-749,
    hep-ph/9707210.

  31. The strong running coupling from an approximate gluon Dyson-Schwinger equation,
    R. Alkofer, A. Hauck, and L. von Smekal, in Quark Confinement and the
    Hadron Spectrum II    , World Scientific (1997), 258, hep-ph/9608471.

  32. The infrared behaviour of alpha_S from Mandelstam's approximation to the gluon Dyson-Schwinger equation,
    A. Hauck, L. von Smekal and R. Alkofer, in Procs. of the 14th International Conference on
    Particles and Nuclei, World Scientific (1997), 662, see also,
    Argonne National Laboratory, report, ANL-PHY-8386-TH-96.

  33. Goldstone theorem and diquark confinement beyond rainbow-ladder approximation,
    A. Bender, C. D. Roberts and L. von Smekal, Phys. Lett. B380 (1996), 7,
    nucl-th/9602012.

  34. Natural slow-roll inflation,
    R. F. Langbein, K. Langfeld, H. Reinhardt and L. von Smekal,
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A 11 (1996), 631.

  35. Landau pole screening in the Gross-Neveu model,
    K. Langfeld, L. von Smekal and H. Reinhardt,
    Phys. Lett. B362 (1995), 128, UNITU-THEP 20/94.

Some further material:

  1. Papers before 1995.

  2. You can download my Habilitation Thesis here:
    Perspectives for Hadronic Physics from Dyson-Schwinger Equations
    for the Dynamics of Quark and Glue     (compressed Postscript, 676KB).

  3. My Ph.D. Thesis is available here (in German):
    (compressed Postscript, 560KB).

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