Most cited papers in Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
What are the most cited papers in Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions?
The most cited paper in Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions is "Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory" (S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 1998), with 9,403 citations. Next come "PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual" (9,135) and "The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations" (7,957).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,949 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov · Physics Letters B | May 1998 | 9,403 |
| 2 | PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Journal of High Energy Physics | 9 May 2006 | 9,135 |
| 3 | The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations Johan Alwall, Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Jul 2014 | 7,957 |
| 4 | A Model of Leptons Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters | 20 Nov 1967 | 7,399 |
| 5 | Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory Gubser, S S, Klebanov, Igor R, Polyakov, A M · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 17 Feb 1998 | 6,891 |
| 6 | A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, S. Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands · Computer Physics Communications | 2 Feb 2008 | 5,734 |
| 7 | An introduction to PYTHIA 8.2 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Stefan Ask, Jesper Roy Christiansen et al. · Computer Physics Communications | 11 Feb 2015 | 5,680 |
| 8 | Asymptotic freedom in parton language Guido Altarelli, G. Parisi · Nuclear Physics B | Aug 1977 | 5,320 |
| 9 | A New Light Boson? Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters | 23 Jan 1978 | 5,239 |
| 10 | μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? Peter Minkowski · Physics Letters B | Apr 1977 | 4,789 |
| 11 | QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations Mikhail A Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, В. И. Захаров · Nuclear Physics B | Feb 1979 | 4,739 |
| 12 | Regularization and renormalization of gauge fields Gerard ’t Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman · Nuclear Physics B | Jul 1972 | 4,620 |
| 13 | Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons Peter W. Higgs · Physical Review Letters | 19 Oct 1964 | 4,600 |
| 14 | A planar diagram theory for strong interactions Gerard ’t Hooft · Nuclear Physics B | Apr 1974 | 4,547 |
| 15 | Confinement of quarks Kenneth G. Wilson · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Oct 1974 | 4,521 |
| 16 | Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories David J. Gross, Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,340 |
| 17 | Axial-Vector Vertex in Spinor Electrodynamics Stephen L. Adler · Physical Review | 25 Jan 1969 | 4,326 |
| 18 | New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis Jonathan Pumplin, Daniel Robert Stump, Joey Huston et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 4 Jul 2002 | 4,237 |
| 19 | Parton distributions for the LHC Alan D. Martin, W. J. Stirling, Robert Samuel Thorne et al. · The European Physical Journal C | 3 Jul 2009 | 4,164 |
| 20 | Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions? H. David Politzer · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,130 |
| 21 | Chiral perturbation theory to one loop Jürg Gasser, H. Leutwyler · Annals of Physics | Nov 1984 | 4,057 |
| 22 | Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons F. Englert, R. Brout · Physical Review Letters | 31 Aug 1964 | 4,055 |
| 23 | The EvtGen particle decay simulation package David Lange · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | Apr 2001 | 3,929 |
| 24 | Lepton number as the fourth "color" Jogesh C. Pati, Abdus Salam · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 1974 | 3,919 |
| 25 | Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory Nathan Seiberg, Edward H. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Sep 1994 | 3,845 |
| 26 | Dynamical breaking of supersymmetry Edward H. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Oct 1981 | 3,812 |
| 27 | The anti-k_t jet clustering algorithm Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Grégory Soyez | 8 Feb 2008 | 3,770 |
| 28 | Chiral perturbation theory: Expansions in the mass of the strange quark Jürg Gasser, H. Leutwyler · Nuclear Physics B | 1985 | 3,496 |
| 29 | Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark–gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions Joseph R. Adams et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 19 May 2005 | 3,424 |
| 30 | Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories Gerard ’t Hooft · Nuclear Physics B | Sep 1974 | 3,417 |
| 31 | Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories J. Schechter, José W.F. Valle · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Nov 1980 | 3,295 |
| 32 | A PCAC puzzle: π0→γγ in the σ-model James S. Bell, R. Jackiw · Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields | Mar 1969 | 3,284 |
| 33 | Constraints imposed by CP conservation in the presence of pseudoparticles R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Sep 1977 | 3,214 |
| 34 | Accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking Robert B. Wiringa, V. G. J. Stoks, Rocco Schiavilla · Physical Review C | 1995 | 3,196 |
| 35 | Quantum geometry of bosonic strings Alexander M. Polyakov · Physics Letters B | Jul 1981 | 3,186 |
| 36 | A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX Simone Alioli, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Jun 2010 | 3,144 |
| 37 | New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis Pumplin, Jon, Stump, D R, Huston, J et al. | 2002 | 3,086 |
| 38 | Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields Peter W. Higgs · Physics Letters | Sep 1964 | 3,073 |
| 39 | Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration K. Adcox et al. · Nuclear Physics A | 5 Jul 2005 | 3,069 |
| 40 | Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry Sheldon L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Oct 1970 | 2,978 |
| 41 | Exclusive processes in perturbative quantum chromodynamics G. Peter Lepage, Stanley J. Brodsky · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Nov 1980 | 2,963 |
| 42 | Computation of the quantum effects due to a four-dimensional pseudoparticle Gerard ’t Hooft · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Dec 1976 | 2,943 |
| 43 | Mesons in a relativized quark model with chromodynamics Stephen Godfrey, Nathan Isgur · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 1985 | 2,929 |
| 44 | A schematic model of baryons and mesons Murray Gell‐Mann · Physics Letters | Feb 1964 | 2,919 |
| 45 | J/ψ suppression by quark-gluon plasma formation Tetsuo Matsui, Helmut Satz · Physics Letters B | Oct 1986 | 2,914 |
| 46 | A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms Paolo Nason · Journal of High Energy Physics | 15 Nov 2004 | 2,912 |
| 47 | Consequences of anomalous ward identities Jane A. Wess, Bruno Zumino · Physics Letters B | Nov 1971 | 2,910 |
| 48 | Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hägen, T. W. B. Kibble · Physical Review Letters | 16 Nov 1964 | 2,840 |
| 49 | Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region James D. Bjorken · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 1983 | 2,804 |
| 50 | Matching NLO QCD computations with parton shower simulations: the POWHEG method Stefano Frixione, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari · Journal of High Energy Physics | 23 Nov 2007 | 2,758 |
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