H. B. Thacker

5.3k citations

98 papers · 3.7k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 29

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.5%
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics top 1%
- Nonlinear Waves and Solitons

Papers in ⓘ

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 70
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 64
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 54
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 26
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics 22
Condensed Matter Physics 19
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 16

Co-authors: Chris Quigg (8 shared papers)Benjamin W. Lee (2 shared papers)E. Eichten (32 shared papers)A. Duncan (24 shared papers)David Wilkinson (6 shared papers)Paul B. Mackenzie (3 shared papers)J. J. Sakurai (3 shared papers)William A. Bardeen (11 shared papers)
Journals: Physics Letters B (7 papers)Nuclear Physics B (6 papers)Physical Review Letters (6 papers)IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (2 papers)Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

H. B. Thacker

95 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Weak interactions at very high energies: The role of the Higgs-boson mass 1977 · 976 citations

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it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1977 Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

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1	Weak interactions at very high energies: The role of the Higgs-boson mass Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Benjamin W. Lee, Chris Quigg, H. B. Thacker Hit paper breakdown →	1977	976
2	Strength of Weak Interactions at Very High Energies and the Higgs Boson Mass Physical Review Letters ·Benjamin W. Lee, Chris Quigg, H. B. Thacker	1977	402
3	Exact integrability in quantum field theory and statistical systems Reviews of Modern Physics ·H. B. Thacker	1981	345
4	Structure and solution of the massive Thirring model Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·H. Bergknoff, H. B. Thacker	1979	117
5	Electromagnetic Splittings and Light Quark Masses in Lattice QCD Physical Review Letters ·A. Duncan, E. Eichten, H. B. Thacker	1996	116
6	Lifetimes and branching ratios of heavy leptons Physics Letters B ·H. B. Thacker, J. J. Sakurai	1971	92
7	Hadronic coupling constants in lattice gauge theory Nuclear Physics B ·Steven Gottlieb, Paul B. Mackenzie, H. B. Thacker, D. Weingarten	1986	74
8	Method for Solving the Massive Thirring Model Physical Review Letters ·H. Bergknoff, H. B. Thacker	1979	69
9	Low-dimensional long-range topological charge structure in the QCD vacuum Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Ivan Horváth, S.J. Dong, T. Draper, Frank Lee, K. F. Liu, Nilmani Mathur, H. B. Thacker, J.B. Zhang	2003	65
10	Gelfand-Levitan method for operator fields Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Dennis B. Creamer, H. B. Thacker, David Wilkinson	1980	63
11	Chiral loops and ghost states in the quenched scalar propagator Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·William A. Bardeen, A. Duncan, E. Eichten, Nathan Isgur, H. B. Thacker	2001	60
12	Inverse scattering transform as an operator method in quantum field theory Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·H. B. Thacker, David Wilkinson	1979	58
13	Properties ofBmesons in lattice QCD Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·A. Duncan, E. Eichten, J. M. Flynn, Brian R. Hill, G. Hockney, H. B. Thacker	1995	53
14	Evidence against a Stable Dibaryon from Lattice QCD Physical Review Letters ·Paul B. Mackenzie, H. B. Thacker	1985	52
15	Inverse scattering problem for quarkonium systems. I. One-dimensional formalism and methodology Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·H. B. Thacker, Chris Quigg, Jonathan L. Rosner	1978	51
16	Lattice Virasoro algebra and corner transfer matrices in the Baxter eight-vertex model Physical Review Letters ·H. Itoyama, H. B. Thacker	1987	42
17	Local structure of topological charge fluctuations in QCD Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Ivan Horváth, S.J. Dong, T. Draper, Frank Lee, K. F. Liu, H. B. Thacker, J. B. Zhang	2003	41
18	On the convergence of reflectionless approximations to confining potentials Annals of Physics ·Jonathan Schonfeld, Waikwok Kwong, Jonathan L. Rosner, Chris Quigg, H. B. Thacker	1980	41
19	Light quarks, zero modes, and exceptional configurations Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·William A. Bardeen, A. Duncan, E. Eichten, G. Hockney, H. B. Thacker	1998	41
20	The negativity of the overlap-based topological charge density correlator in pure-glue QCD and the non-integrable nature of its contact part Physics Letters B ·Ivan Horváth, Andrei Alexandru, J.B. Zhang, Y. Chen, S.J. Dong, T. Draper, K.F. Liu, Nilmani Mathur, Sonali Tamhankar, H. B. Thacker	2005	39

About H. B. Thacker

H. B. Thacker is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Geometry and Topology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 98 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (64 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (54 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (26 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (16 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (9 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.8k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (613 citations), Condensed Matter Physics (437 citations), Geometry and Topology (314 citations) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (477 citations). H. B. Thacker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Chris Quigg, Benjamin W. Lee, E. Eichten, A. Duncan, David Wilkinson, Paul B. Mackenzie, J. J. Sakurai, William A. Bardeen, Jonathan L. Rosner and Dennis B. Creamer. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena.

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