Research Focus
Theory of Elementary Particles and Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice
field theories on the lattice, Monte-Carlo simulations, precision computations of QCD and Standard Model parameters by means of lattice QCD, hadron and flavour physics on the lattice (particularly heavy quark systems; charm, beauty), D; and B-meson decays, Heavy Quark Effective Theory, non-perturbative renormalization and O(a) improvement on the lattice
CV
Academic Education
- Ph.D.
- Diploma in Physics
Positions
- außerplanmäßiger Professor
- Privatdozent
- DFG Research Fellowship (Eigene Stelle)
- WWU Münster
- DESY Theory Fellowship, Zeuthen
External Function
- Member of the Scientific Council of the John von Neumann-Institute for Computing (NIC)
Articles
- Blossier, B., Neuendorf, J., Heitger, J., and San José, T. . “Hadronic decay of vector charmonium from the lattice.” Journal of High Energy Physics 04: 139. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.10123.
- Blossier, B., Neuendorf, J., Heitger, J., and San José, T. . “The hadronic decay of vector charmonium.” contribution to the 41th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2024), Liverpool doi: 10.22323/1.466.0428.
- Petrak, Pia Leonie Jones, Heitger, Jochen, and Joswig, Fabian. . “O(a) improvement of the flavour singlet scalar density in a setup with Wilson fermions.” PoS - Proceedings of Science LATTICE2024 290. doi: 10.22323/1.466.0290.
- Fritzsch, Patrick, Heitger, Jochen, Joswig, Fabian, and Kuhlmann, Justus T. . “Towards charm physics with stabilised Wilson fermions.” Preprint. contribution to the 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), Fermilab, USA doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.05885.
- Neuendorf, Jan, Heitger, Jochen, Egbring, Giulia, Höllwieser, Roman, Knechtli, Francesco, Korzec, Tomasz, and Urrea-Nino, Juan Andres. . “Optimized Distillation Profiles for Heavy-Light Spectroscopy.” contribution to the 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), Fermilab, USA doi: 10.22323/1.453.0057.
- Conigli, Alessandro, Frison, Julien, Fritzsch, Patrick, Gerardin, Antoine, Heitger, Jochen, Herdoiza, Gregorio, Kuberski, Simon, Pena, Carlos, Simma, Hubert, and Sommer, Rainer. . “A strategy for B-physics observables in the continuum limit.” Preprint. contribution to the 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), Fermilab, USA doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.09811.
- Conigli, Alessandro, Frison, Julien, Fritzsch, Patrick, Gerardin, Antoine, Heitger, Jochen, Herdoiza, Gregorio, Kuberski, Simon, Pena, Carlos, Simma, Hubert, and Sommer, Rainer. . “m_b and f_B^(*) in 2 + 1 flavour QCD from a combination of continuum limit static and relativistic results.” Preprint. contribution to the 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), Fermilab, USA doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.10017.
- Kuberski, S., Joswig, F., Collins, S., Heitger, J., and Söldner, W. . “D and D_s decay constants in N_f = 2 + 1 QCD with Wilson fermions.” Journal of High Energy Physics 07 90. doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2024)090.
- Chimirri, L., Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., Joswig, F., Panero, M., Pena, C., and Preti, D. . “Non-perturbative renormalisation and improvement of non-singlet tensor currents in N_f = 3 QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 07 089. doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2024)089.
- A., Conigli, Frison, J., Fritzsch, P., Gérardin, A., Heitger, J., Herdoiza, G., Kuberski, S., Pena, C., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “B-physics observables in the continuum from a combination of static and relativistic results.” contribution to the EuroPLEx Final Conference, Berlin doi: 10.22323/1.451.0005.
- Collins, S., Heitger, J., Joswig, F., S. Kuberski, S., and W. Söldner, W. . “D and D_s decay constants from N_f=2+1 lattice QCD.” contribution to the EuroPLEx Final Conference, Berlin doi: 10.22323/1.451.0033.
- Blossier, B., Cahue, P.-H., Heitger, J., La Cesa, S., Neuendorf, J., and Zafeiropoulos, S. . “On the extraction of B_s to D^(*)_s form factors from N_f=2 lattice QCD.” Physical Review D (PRD) 105 (5): 054515. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.054515.
- Boyle, Peter, Heitger, Jochen, and al., et. . “A lattice QCD perspective on weak decays of bb and cc quarks Snowmass 2022 White Paper.” Preprint. contribution to the 2022 Snowmass Summer Study, Washington U., Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
- Petrak, Pia, Bali, Gunnar, Collins, Sara, Heitger, Jochen, and Jenkins, Daniel Weißhäupl Simon. . “Sigma terms of the baryon octet in N_f=2+1 QCD with Wilson quarks.” Preprint. contribution to the 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2022), Bonn, Germany doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.03871.
- Fritzsch, Patrick, Heitger, Jochen, and Kuhlmann, Justus T. . “On improvement of the axial-vector current with stabilised Wilson fermions.” Preprint. contribution to the 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2022), Bonn, Germany doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.11063.
- Neuendorf, Jan, Heitger, Jochen, José, Teseo San, and Blossier, Benoît. . “Direct access to hadronic decay parameters with twisted boundary conditions.” contribution to the 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2022), Bonn, Germany doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.11206.
- Heitger, J., and Joswig, F. . “The renormalised O(a) improved vector current in three-flavour lattice QCD with Wilson quarks.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 81 (3): 254.. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09037-4.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., and Kuberski, S. . “Determination of the charm quark mass in lattice QCD with 2+1 flavours on fine lattices.” Journal of High Energy Physics 05: 288.. doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2021)288.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., Petrak, P.L.J., and Vladikas, A. . “Ratio of flavour non-singlet and singlet scalar density renormalisation parameters in N_f=3 QCD with Wilson quarks.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 81 (7): 606.. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09387-z.
- Cali, S., Eckert, K., Heitger, J., Knechtli, F., and Korzec, T. . “Charm sea effects on charmonium decay constants and heavy meson masses.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 81 (8): 733.. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09520-y.
- Gérardin, A., Heitger, J., Kuberski, S., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “Precision $B^*Bπ$ coupling from three-flavor lattice QCD.” in Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, PoS SISSA. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.04693.
- Blossier, B., Cahue, P.-H., Heitger, J., La Cesa, S., Neuendorf, J., and Zafeiropoulos, S. . “B_s to D^(*)_s form factors from lattice QCD with N_f=2 Wilson-clover quarks.” in Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, PoS SISSA. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.05733.
- Petrak, P.L.J., Bali, G., Collins, S., Heitger, J., Jenkins, D., Weishäupl, S., and Wurm, T. . “Towards the determination of sigma terms for the baryon octet on N_f=2+1 CLS ensembles.” in Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, PoS SISSA. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2112.00586.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., and Vladikas, A. . “Ward identity determination of Z_S/Z_P for N_f=3 lattice QCD in a Schrödinger functional setup.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 80 (8) 765. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8266-2.
- Chimirri, L., Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., Joswig, F., Panero, M., Pena, C., and Preti, D. . “Non-perturbative renormalization of O(a) improved tensor currents.” in Lattice 2019, Vol. PoS LATTICE2019 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., and Kuberski, S. . “Towards the determination of the charm quark mass on N_f=2+1 CLS ensembles.” in Lattice 2019, Vol. PoS LATTICE2019 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- de Divitiis, G.M., Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., Köster, C.C., Kuberski, S., and Vladikas, A. . “Non-perturbative determination of improvement coefficients b_m and b_A-b_P and normalisation factor Z_m*Z_P/Z_A with N_f=3 Wilson fermions.” European Physical Journal C 79 (9): 797.
- Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., and Kuberski, S. . “O(a) improved quark mass renormalization for a non-perturbative matching of HQET to three-flavor QCD.” in Lattice 2018, Vol. PoS LATTICE2018 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., and Vladikas, A. . “Z_S/Z_P from three-flavour lattice QCD.” in Lattice 2018, Vol. PoS LATTICE2018 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Blossier, B., Heitger, J., and Post, M. . “Leptonic D_s decays in two-flavour lattice QCD.” Phys. Rev. D 98 (5): 054506.
- Collins, S., Eckert, K., Heitger, J., Hofmann, S., and Söldner, W. . “Leptonic decay constants for D-mesons from 3-flavour CLS ensembles.” in Lattice 2017, Vol. 175 (2018) of EPJ Web Conf. Springer.
- Bailas, G., Blossier, B., Heitger, J., Morenas, V., and Post, M. . “On the D_s^* and charmonia leptonic decays.” in Lattice 2017, Vol. 175 (2018) of EPJ Web Conf. Springer.
- Heitger, J., Joswig, F., Vladikas, A., and Wittemeier, C. . “Non-perturbative determination of c_V, Z_V and Z_S/Z_P in N_f=3 lattice QCD.” in Lattice 2017, Vol. 175 (2018) of EPJ Web Conf. Springer.
- de Divitiis, G.M., Firrotta, M., Heitger, J., Köster, C., and Vladikas, A. . “Non-perturbative determination of improvement b-coefficients in N_f=3.” in Lattice 2017, Vol. 175 (2018) of EPJ Web Conf. Springer.
- Collins, S., Eckert, K., Heitger, J., Hofmann, S., and Söldner, W. . “Charmed pseudoscalar decay constants on three-flavour CLS ensembles with open boundaries.” in LATTICE2016, Vol. LATTICE2016 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Della, Morte M., Heitger, J., Korcyl, P., Simma, H., and Wittemeier, C. . “Non-perturbative matching of HQET heavy-light axial and vector currents in N_f=2 lattice QCD.” in LATTICE2016, Vol. LATTICE2016 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., and Heitger, J. . “Non-perturbative tests of continuum HQET through small-volume two-flavour QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016 (1): 1–44. doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)093.
- Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Heitger, J., and Wittemeier, C. . “Nonperturbative renormalization of the axial current in N f=3 lattice QCD with Wilson fermions and a tree-level improved gauge action.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 93 (11): 114513. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.114513.
- Bulava, J., Morte, M., Heitger, J., and Wittemeier, C. . “Non-perturbative improvement of the axial current in N<inf>f</inf>=3 lattice QCD with Wilson fermions and tree-level improved gauge action.” Nuclear Physics B 896: 555–568. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.05.003.
- Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Gérardin, A., Heitger, J., Von Hippel, G., and Simma, H. . “B-meson spectroscopy in HQET at order 1/m.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 92 (5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054509.
- Della, Morte M, Heitger, J, Simma, H, and Sommer, R. . “Non-perturbative Heavy Quark Effective Theory: An application to semi-leptonic B-decays.” Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings 2015 (261-262): 368.
- Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della Morte, M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Gérardin, A., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “Decay constants of B-mesons from non-perturbative HQET with two light dynamical quarks.” Physics Letters B 735: 349. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.06.051.
- Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della Morte, M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Gérardin, A., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “The b-quark mass from non-perturbative N_f=2 Heavy Quark Effective Theory at O(1/m_h).” Physics Letters B 730: 177. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.01.046.
- Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Heitger, J., and Wittemeier, C. . “Non-perturbative improvement and renormalization of the axial current in N_f=3 lattice QCD.” in LATTICE 2014, Vol. LATTICE2014 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Della Morte, M., Dooling, S., Heitger, J., Hesse, D., and Simma, H. . “Matching of heavy-light flavour currents between HQET at order 1/m and QCD: I. Strategy and tree-level study.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2014 (5): 060. doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)060.
- Heitger, J, von Hippel, G, Schaefer, S, and Virotta, F. . “Charm quark mass and D-meson decay constants from two-flavour lattice QCD.” in LATTICE 2013, Vol. LATTICE2013 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Bulava, J, Della, Morte M, Heitger, J, and Wittemeier, C. . “Determination of c_A in three-flavour lattice QCD with Wilson fermions and tree-level improved gauge action.” in LATTICE 2013, Vol. LATTICE2013 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Bernardoni, B, Blossier, B, Bulava, J, Della, Morte M, Fritzsch, P, Garron, N, Gerardin, A, Heitger, J, von Hippel, G, Simma, H, and Sommer, R. . “B-physics with N_f=2 Wilson fermions.” in LATTICE 2013, Vol. LATTICE2013 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Bahr, F., Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Geradin, A., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Ramos, A., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “|V_ub| determination in lattice QCD.” in ICHEP 2012, Vol. ICHEP2012 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Geradin, A., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “B-physics from HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD.” in LATTICE 2012, Vol. LATTICE2012 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Blossier, B., Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Heitger, J., Sommer, R., Simma, H., and Tanatalo, N. . “Parameters of Heavy Quark Effective Theory from N_f=2 lattice QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 1209: 132.
- Bernardoni, F., Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Geradin, A., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., and Simma, H. . “B-physics from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD.” in QCD 12, Vol. 234 of Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, edited by S. Narison. Elsevier.
- Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Donnellan, M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “M_b and f_B from non-perturbatively renormalized HQET with N_f=2 light quarks.” in LATTICE 2011, Vol. LATTICE2011 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Heitger, J. . “Towards precision heavy flavour physics from lattice QCD.” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics, Vol. 209 of Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, edited by Ricciardi et al.. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2010.12.020.
- Blossier, B., Bulava, J., Della, Morte M., Donnellan, M., Fritzsch, P., Garron, N., Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Leder, B., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “B meson spectrum and decay constant from N_f=2 simulations.” in LATTICE 2010, Vol. LATTICE2010 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Della, Morte M., and Heitger, J. . “Towards Precision B-physics from Non-Perturbative Heavy Quark Effective Theory.” in NIC Symposium 2010, Vol. 3 of IAS Series, edited by G. Münster, D. Wolf and M. Kremer. Forschungszentrum Jülich.
- Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., and Tantalo, N. . “Non-perturbative improvement of quark mass renormalization in two-flavour lattice QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2010 (1008): 074. doi: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)074.
- Heitger, J., and Jüttner, A. . “Lattice cutoff effects for f_Ds with improved Wilson fermions - a final lesson from the quenched case.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2009 (0905): 101. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/101.
- Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Meyer, H., Simma, H., Sommer, R., Takeda, S., Witzel, O., and Wolff, U. . “Scaling test of two-flavor O(a)-improved lattice QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2008 (0807): 037. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/037.
- Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., and Sommer, R. . “Non-perturbative quark mass dependence in the heavy-light sector of two-flavour QCD.” in LATTICE 2008, Vol. LATTICE2008 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Heitger, J., von Hippel, G., Schaefer, S., Sommer, R., and Tantalo, N. . “D_s physics from fine lattices.” in LATTICE 2008, Vol. LATTICE2008 of Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science.
- Heitger, J. . “Heavy quark masses from lattice QCD.” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on e+e- Collisions from Phi to Psi, Vol. 181+182 of Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, edited by C. Bini and G. Venanzoni. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2008.09.031.
- Della, Morte M., Dürr, S., Guazzini, D., Heitger, J., Jüttner, A., and Sommer, R. . “Heavy-strange meson decay constants in the continuum limit of quenched QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2008 (0802): 078. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/078.
- Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Leder, B., Takeda, S., Witzel, O., Wolff, U., Meyer, H., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “Preparing for N_f=2 simulations at small lattice spacings.” in LATTICE 2007, Vol. LAT2007 of Proceedings of Science, edited by Bali et al.. Proceedings of Science.
- Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., Heitger, J., Meyer, H., Simma, H., and Sommer, R. . “Towards a non-perturbative matching of HQET and QCD with dynamical light quarks.” in LATTICE 2007, Vol. LAT2007 of Proceedings of Science, edited by Bali et al.. Proceedings of Science.
- Dimopoulos, P., Heitger, J., Palombi, F., Pena, C., Sint, S., and Vladikas, A. . “Flavour symmetry restoration and kaon weak matrix elements in quenched twisted mass QCD.” Nuclear Physics B 2007 (B 776): 258. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.03.051.
- Della, Morte M., Fritzsch, P., and Heitger, J. . “Non-perturbative renormalization of the static axial current in two-flavour QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2007 (0702): 079. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/079.
- Dimopoulos, P., Heitger, J., Palombi, F., Pena, C., Sint, S., and Vladikas, A. . “A precise determination of B_K in quenched QCD.” Nuclear Physics B 2006 (B 749): 69. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.04.033.
- Guagnelli, M., Heitger, J., Pena, C., Sint, S., and Vladikas, A. . “Non-perturbative renormalization of left-left four-fermion operators in quenched lattice QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2006 (0603): 088. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/088.
- Della, Morte M., Frezzotti, R., Heitger, J., Rolf, J., Sommer, R., and Wolff, U. . “Computation of the strong coupling in QCD with two dynamical flavours.” Nuclear Physics B 2005 (713): 378. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.02.013.
- Heitger, J., Jüttner, A., Sommer, R., and Wennekers, J. . “Non-perturbative tests of HQET in small-volume quenched QCD.” in LATTICE 2004, Vol. 140 of Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, edited by Bodwin et al.. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.313.
- Dimopoulos, P., Heitger, J., Pena, C., Sint, S., and Vladikas, A. . “Precision computation of B_K in quenched lattice QCD.” in LATTICE 2004, Vol. 140 of Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, edited by Bodwin et al.. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.368.
- Heitger, J, and Münster, G. . “Universal amplitude ratios in Ising systems from massive field theory.” in Proceedings of the International Symposium "Lattice 94", edited by Karsch F et al. Amsterdam: North Holland.
- Münster, G, and Heitger, J. . “Field-theoretic calculation of the universal amplitude ratio of correlation lengths in 3D-Ising systems.” Nucl. Phys. B 424: 582.
Prof. Dr. Jochen Heitger
