Craig D. Roberts

Group Leader, Theory

Phone: 630/252-4095 Fax: 630/252-3903 EMail: cdroberts@anl.gov inSPIRE Overview of Citation Statistics SPIRES Overview of Citation Statistics 2011 - August Curriculum Vitae PDF file

Education/Employment

• 1 May 2001-Present: Group Leader, Theory, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2006-Present: Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1996-2006: Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1991-96: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1989-91: Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1987-89: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• 1988 (10 May): Ph.D., Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Honors/Awards

• 2009 Recipient of the Convocation Medal, Flinders University
  • Presentation 5 October 2010
  • Award text and List of Previous Recipients
• 2003, Recipient, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2001, Fellow, American Physical Society

• 2011-Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
• 2009-Present: Guest Professor, Peking University, Beijing, China
• 2011 (Jul) Visiting Scholar, Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• 2010 (Jun/Jul) Visiting Scholar, Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• 2008, Gordon Godfrey Fellow, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
• 2001-2002: DFG Mercator Guest Professor, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  Two Semester Course in Quantum Field Theory for Hadron Physics
• 1996 (Nov/Dec): Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Science, University of Adelaide

• 1997-2006: Adjunct Research Professor, Kent State University
• 1991-95: Adjunct Research Scientist, Kent State University

• Member, Australian Institute of Physics

Professional Activities

• 2002-Present: Field Editor (Elementary Particles and Fields) Few Body Systems
• 2011-2013: Member, Editorial Board, Physical Review C

• 2010: Member, Advisory Council (Beirat), Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• 2009: Member, Review Panel for Excited Baryon Analysis Center at JLab
• 2007: Chairman, National Science Foundation Nuclear Theory Proposal Review Panel
• 2006: Member, National Science Foundation Nuclear Theory Proposal Review Panel
• 2004 & 2005: Member, Science and Technology Review Panel for Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab)

• 2006-2009: Chairman, Argonne National Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Comittee
• 2006-2009: Member, Science Advisory Board, Argonne/U.Chicago Joint Theory Institute
• 2007: Chairman, Search Committee for Director of Physics Division

• Hadron Physics Topical Group, American Physical Society
  • 2010-2012: Secretary & Treasurer
  • 2008: Past Chair
  • 2007: Chair
  • 2006: Chair-Elect
  • 2005: Vice-Chair
  • 2003-2004: Member-at-Large (Executive Committee)
  Newsletters of the Hadron Physics Topical Group ... found here

Presentations

• List of Recent Presentations

Recent Articles

1. Spectrum of hadrons with strangeness
   Chen Chen, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts, Shaolong Wan and David J. Wilson
   arXiv:1204.2553 [nucl-th]

2. Strong QCD and Dyson-Schwinger Equations
   Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1203.5341 [nucl-th]
   Notes based on 5 lectures to the conference on "Dyson-Schwinger Equations & Faà di Bruno Hopf Algebras in Physics and Combinatorics (DSFdB2011)", Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, l'Universite de Strasbourg et CNRS, Strasbourg, France, 27.06-01.07/2011. To appear in "IRMA Lectures in Mathematics & Theoretical Physics," published by the European Mathematical Society (EMS)

3. Confinement contains condensates
   Stanley J. Brodsky, Craig D. Roberts, Robert Shrock and Peter C. Tandy
   arXiv:1202.2376 [nucl-th]

4. Hadron physics and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
   Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts and David J. Wilson, arXiv:1201.3918 [nucl-th]
   Contribution to the proceedings of the International Workshop on QCD Green's Functions, Confinement and Phenomenology,
   5-9 September 2011, Trento, Italy

5. Collective perspective on advances in Dyson-Schwinger Equation QCD
   Adnan Bashir, Lei Chang, Ian C. Cloët, Bruno El-Bennich, Yu-xin Liu, Craig D. Roberts and Peter C. Tandy,
   Summary of lectures delivered by the authors at the Workshop on AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics,
   11 Oct. -- 3 Dec. 2010, hosted by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, China, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
   arXiv:1201.3366 [nucl-th], Commun. Theor. Phys. to appear

6. Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and the fermion--gauge-boson vertex
   A. Bashir, R. Bermudez, L. Chang and C. D. Roberts
   arXiv:1112.4847 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C85 (2012) 045205 [7 pages]

7. Nucleon and Roper electromagnetic elastic and transition form factors
   D. J. Wilson, I. C. Cloët, L. Chang and C. D. Roberts
   arXiv:1112.2212 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C85 (2012) 025205 [21 pages]

8. Flavor SU(4) breaking between effective couplings
   Bruno El-Bennich, Gastão Krein, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts and David J. Wilson
   arXiv:1111.3647 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 031502(R) [6 pages]

9. Looking into the matter of light-quark hadrons
   Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1109.6325 [nucl-th]
   Few Body Syst. 52 (2012) pp. 345-355
   Contribution to the Proceedings of LIGHTCONE 2011 - Applications of light-cone coordinates to highly relativistic systems, SMU, Dallas, 23-27 May, 2011.

10. Commentary on rainbow-ladder truncation for excited states and exotics
    Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Yu-xin Liu, Craig D. Roberts and David J. Wilson
    arXiv:1109.3459 [nucl-th], Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 035202 [10 pages]

11. Expanding the concept of in-hadron condensates
    Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts and Peter C. Tandy
    arXiv:1109.2903 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C85 (2012) 012201(R)

12. Dressed-quarks and the Roper resonance
    Craig D. Roberts, Ian C. Cloët, Lei Chang and Hannes L.L. Roberts, arXiv:1108.1327 [nucl-th]
    Contribution to the Proceedings of NSTAR2011 - The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia USA, 17-20 May 2011

13. Opportunities and Challenges for Theory in the N* program
    Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1108.1030 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1432 (2012) pp. 19-25
    Contribution to the Proceedings of NSTAR2011 - The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia USA, 17-20 May 2011
    

14. Interaction model for the gap equation
    Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Yu-xin Liu, Craig D. Roberts and David J. Wilson
    arXiv:1108.0603 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 84 042202(R) (2011)

15. Selected highlights from the study of mesons
    Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts and Peter C. Tandy
    arXiv:1107.4003 [nucl-th], Chin. J. Phys. 49 (2011) pp. 955-1004

16. Tracing masses of ground-state light-quark mesons
    Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1104.4821 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C (Rapid Comm.) in press

17. Baryon Properties from Continuum-QCD
    Ian C. Cloët, Craig D. Roberts and David J. Wilson, arXiv:1103.2432 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1388 (2011) pp. 121-127
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure of Baryons - Baryons 2010, Suita Campus, Osaka University, Japan 7-11 December 2010

18. pi- and rho-mesons, and their diquark partners, from a contact interaction
    H.L.L. Roberts, A. Bashir, L.X. Gutierrez-Guerrero, C.D. Roberts and D.J. Wilson
    arXiv:1102.4376 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 83, 065206 (2011) [12 pages]

19. Pion and kaon valence-quark parton distribution functions
    Trang Nguyen, Adnan Bashir, Craig D. Roberts and Peter C. Tandy
    arXiv:1102.2448 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 83, 062201(R) (2011) [5 pages]

20. Masses of ground and excited-state hadrons
    Hannes L.L. Roberts, Lei Chang, Ian C. Cloët and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1101.4244 [nucl-th], Few Body Syst. 51 (2011) pp. 1-25; DOI:10.1007/s00601-011-0225-x

21. Quark Spectral Function above Tc
    Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Yu-xin Liu and Craig D. Roberts,
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1354 (2011) pp. 220-223
    Contribution to the proceedings of "T(r)opical QCD 2010: Cairns CSSM 2010 Workshop," Cairns Colonial Club, Cairns, Australia, 26 September - 1 October

22. T(r)opical Dyson-Schwinger Equations
    Lei Chang, Ian C. Cloët, Craig D. Roberts and Hannes L.L. Roberts, arXiv:1101.3787 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1354 (2011) pp. 110-117
    Contribution to the proceedings of "T(r)opical QCD 2010: Cairns CSSM 2010 Workshop," Cairns Colonial Club, Cairns, Australia, 26 September - 1 October

23. QCD Phase Diagram Using Dyson-Schwinger Equations
    Yu-xin Liu, Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1354 (2011) pp. 91-96
    Contribution to the proceedings of "T(r)opical QCD 2010: Cairns CSSM 2010 Workshop," Cairns Colonial Club, Cairns, Australia, 26 September - 1 October

24. Strong D* -> D+pi and B* -> B+pi couplings
    Bruno El-Bennich, Mikhail A. Ivanov and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1012.5034 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 83, 025205 (2011) [5 pages]

25. Phase diagram and critical endpoint for strongly-interacting quarks
    Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Yu-xin Liu, Huan Chen and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1011.2876 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 172301

26. Quark spectral density and a strongly-coupled QGP
    Si-xue Qin, Lei Chang, Yu-xin Liu and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1010.4231 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 014017 [6 pages]

27. Dressed-quark anomalous magnetic moments
    Lei Chang, Yu-Xin Liu and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1009.3458 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 072001

28. Abelian anomaly and neutral pion production
    Hannes L.L. Roberts, Craig D. Roberts, Adnan Bashir, L. Xiomara Gutiérrez-Guerrero and Peter C. Tandy
    arXiv:1009.0067 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C82 (2010) 065202 [10 pages]

29. Impact of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking on meson structure and interactions
    Hannes L.L. Roberts, Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1007.4318 [nucl-th]
    Intern. J. Mod. Phys. A 26 (2011) pp. 371-377, DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X11051688
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the "11th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction," Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Fizyki, Krakow, Poland, 10-15 June 2010

30. Exposing the dressed quark's mass
    Hannes L.L. Roberts, Lei Chang, Ian C. Cloët and Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1007.3566 [nucl-th]
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the "4th Workshop on Exclusive Reactions at High Momentum Transfer," Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Newport News, Virginia, 18-21 May 2010

31. New perspectives on the quark condensate
    Stanley J. Brodsky, Craig D. Roberts, Robert Shrock and Peter C. Tandy
    arXiv:1005.4610 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) 022201(R) (2010) (5 pages)
    New Scientist report: Void that is truly empty solves dark energy puzzle

32. A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers
    G. Gregori et al. (incl. C.D. Roberts)
    arXiv:1005.3280 [hep-ph], High Energy Density Physics 6 (2010) pp. 166-170 (PDF)

33. Empirically Charting Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking, PDF
    Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1004.1848 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1261 (2010) pp. 25-30
    Contribution to the proceedings of "Achievements and New Directions in Subatomic Physics: Workshop in Honour of Tony Thomas' 60th Birthday," Special Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, Adelaide, South Australia, February 15 - February 19, 2010.

34. Hadron Physics: The Essence of Matter, PDF
    Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:1003.5006 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1361 (2011) pp. 91-114 (Contents)
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the "XII Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields," based on presentations at the Workshop (9-14 Nov. 2009, Mazatlan, Mexico) and at the preceding Mini-School (5-8 Nov. 2009, Culiacan, Mexico).

35. Distribution Functions of the Nucleon and Pion in the Valence Region
    Roy J. Holt and Craig D. Roberts
    arXiv:1002.4666 [nucl-th], Rev. Mod. Phys. 82 (2010) pp. 2991-3044

36. Pion form factor from a contact interaction
    L. X. Gutiérrez-Guerrero, A. Bashir, I. C. Cloët and C. D. Roberts
    arXiv:1002.1968 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 81 (2010) 065202 (5 pages)

37. Vacuum pseudoscalar susceptibility
    Lei Chang, Yu-Xin Liu, Craig D. Roberts, Yuan-Mei Shi, Wei-Min Sun and Hong-Shi Zong
    arXiv:0912.2687 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 81 (2010) 032201(R) (5 pages)

38. Cold quarks in medium: an equation of state
    Thomas Klähn, Craig D. Roberts, Lei Chang, Huan Chen and Yu-Xin Liu
    arXiv:0911.0654 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) 035801 (5 pages)

39. Flavourful hadronic physics
    B. El-Bennich, M.A. Ivanov and C.D. Roberts, arXiv: 0910.4523 [nucl-th],
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Light Cone 2009: Relativistic Hadronic and Particle Physics," Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8-13 July 2009

40. Theory Support for the Excited Baryon Program at the JLab 12-GeV Upgrade
    I. Aznauryan et al., arXiv:0907.1901 [nucl-th]

41. Exploring the light-quark interaction
    Lei Chang, Ian C. Cloët, Bruno El-Bennich, Thomas Klähn and Craig D. Roberts, arXiv:0906.4304 [nucl-th]
    Chin. Phys. C33 (2009) pp. 1189-1196
    Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Workshop on the Physics of the Excited Nucleon (NSTAR2009)" -- Contents
    Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 19-22 April 2009

42. Gauge invariance of a critical number of flavours in QED3
    A. Bashir, A. Raya, S. Sánchez-Madrigal and C.D. Roberts,
    arXiv:0905.1337 [hep-ph], Few Body Syst. 46 (2009) pp. 229-237 DOI:10.1007/s00601-009-0069-9

43. Neutron stars and the high density Equation of State
    T. Klähn, C.D. Roberts, D.B. Blaschke and F. Sandin, arXiv:0904.4729 [nucl-th]
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1128 (2009) pp. 175-185
    Contribution to Proceedings of "5th Argonne/MSU/JINA/INT FRIB Workshop on Bulk Nuclear Properties," East Lansing, MI, 19-22 November 2008

44. Sketching the Bethe-Salpeter kernel
    Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts,
    arXiv:0903.5461 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 081601 (4 pages)
    

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