NMSU - Department of Physics - Dr. Michael Engelhardt


Dr. Michael Engelhardt		Ph.D., University of Erlangen, Germany (1994)
Department of Physics Office: Regents Row 412 MSC 3D New Mexico State University PO Box 30001 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 Phone: 575-646- 4393 FAX: 575-646-1934 E-mail: engel@nmsu.edu

Dr. Engelhardt's research in theoretical physics is focused on the low-energy sector of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the gauge field theory which describes the strong interaction. At low energies, the strong interaction is characterized by a number of phenomena which can only be analyzed using non-perturbative methods. Most prominent among these are the confinement of quarks and gluons into hadrons, the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry, and the axial U(1) anomaly which arises due to topological properties of the gauge field.

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