Nicholas Brown

About

Nicholas Brown is an assistant extension professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State University. In this position, he provides extension services concerning taxes and other legal matters to farmers, agribusiness owners, and tax professionals. He also teaches undergraduate courses such as agribusiness tax and conducts research related to tax and other agricultural law matters, including pesticide drift and administrative agency law. Nicholas Brown holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law and a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Prior to his current role, he worked as an attorney handling trust and estate matters, corporate work, and other legal issues in Hartwell, Georgia. He also gained experience working for a real estate investing and management firm, performing tasks from negotiating property deals to navigating the Americans with Disabilities Act. He is currently barred in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and is exploring bar licensure in other states.

Research topics

• Physics
• Particle physics
• Nuclear physics
• Computer science
• Statistical physics

Selected publications

• Remote Plasma Enhanced-Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Zirconium Oxide/Silicon Oxide Alloy, (ZrO₂)₁-(SiO₂)_1−x (x:≤0.5), Thin Films for Advanced High-K Gate Dielectrics

  MRS Proceedings · 1999-01-01 · 11 citations

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• Symanzik flow on HISQ ensembles

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013-11-06 · 5 citations

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  We report on a scale determination with gradient-flow techniques on the $N_f = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ ensembles generated by the MILC collaboration. The lattice scale $w_0/a$, originally proposed by the BMW collaboration, is computed using Symanzik flow at four lattice spacings ranging from 0.15 to 0.06 fm. With a Taylor series ansatz, the results are simultaneously extrapolated to the continuum and interpolated to physical quark masses. We give a preliminary determination of the scale $w_0$ in physica…

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• Decay constants $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ and quark masses $m_b$ and $m_c$ from HISQ simulations

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016-11-22 · 2 citations

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  We present a progress report on our calculation of the decay constants $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ from lattice-QCD simulations with highly-improved staggered quarks. Simulations are carried out with several heavy valence-quark masses on $(2+1+1)$-flavor ensembles that include charm sea quarks. We include data at six lattice spacings and several light sea-quark masses, including an approximately physical-mass ensemble at all but the smallest lattice spacing, 0.03 fm. This range of parameters provides ex…

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• Lattice Scales from Gradient Flow and Chiral Analysis on the MILC Collaboration's HISQ Ensembles

  Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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  The interactions of quarks and gluons form most of the visible matter around us. Yet, extracting precise predictions from the field theory describing them, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), is notoriously difficult. By simulating the QCD interaction on a Euclidean space time lattice, the field theory can be regularized non-perturbatively and familiar statistical techniques from classical statistical mechanics can be applied. Then, by systematically improving each component of the process, high preci…

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• Gradient Flow Analysis on MILC HISQ Ensembles

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014-11-01 · 1 citations

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  We report on a preliminary scale determination with gradient-flow techniques on the $N_f = 2 + 1 + 1$ HISQ ensembles generated by the MILC collaboration. The ensembles include four lattice spacings, ranging from 0.15 to 0.06 fm, and both physical and unphysical values of the quark masses. The scales $\sqrt{t_0}/a$ and $w_0/a$ are computed using Symanzik flow and the cloverleaf definition of $\langle E \rangle$ on each ensemble. Then both scales and the meson masses $aM_π$ and $aM_K$ are adjusted…

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Frequent coauthors

• Andreas S. Kronfeld

  Technical University of Munich

  17 shared

• Javad Komijani

  16 shared

• Ethan T. Neil

  15 shared

• Carleton DeTar

  14 shared

• Urs M. Heller

  13 shared

• C. Bérnard

  12 shared

• D. Toussaint

  University of Arizona

  12 shared

• A. X. El-Khadra

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  10 shared

Labs

• Agricultural and Resource EconomicsPI

Awards & honors

• Journal of Legal Studies in Business (JLSB) Best Paper Award

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