Mikhail Shifman
Mikhail Shifman | |
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Born |
Riga, Latvia | April 4, 1949
Fields | Theoretical High Energy Physics |
Institutions |
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) |
Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Academic advisors | Boris L. Ioffe |
Known for |
Penguin mechanism Quantum Chromodynamics Invisible axion Nonperturbative supersymmetry Supersymmetric gauge theories |
Notable awards |
Humboldt Research Award (1993) Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007) Pomeranchuk Prize (2013) |
Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Russian: Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, currently Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.
Important discoveries
He is known for a number of basic contributions to Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, and to understanding of supersymmetric gauge dynamics. The most important results due to M. Shifman are diverse and include (i) the discovery of the penguin mechanism in the flavor-changing weak decays (1974);[1] (ii) introduction of the gluon condensate and development of the SVZ sum rules relating properties of the low-lying hadronic states to the vacuum condensates (1979);[2] (iii) introduction of the invisible axion (1980)[3] (iv) first exact results in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (NSVZ beta function, gluino condensate,1983–1988);[4] (v) heavy quark theory based on the operator product expansion (1985–1995);[5] (vi) critical domain walls (D-brane analogs) in super-Yang-Mills (1996);[6] (vii) non-perturbative (exact) planar equivalence between super-Yang-Mills and orientifold non-supersymmetric theories (2003);[7] (viii) non-Abelian flux tubes and confined monopoles (2004).[8] His paper with A. Vainshtein and Zakharov on the SVZ sum rules[2] is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics.
Honors and awards
Mikhail Shifman received the Alexander-von-Humboldt Award in 1993, the Sakurai Prize in 1999, the Ida Cohen Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics [9][10] and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize in 2006; he is the 2007 laureate of the Blaise Pascal Chair, 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize and he was awarded the 2016 Dirac Medal of the ICTP.[11] Shifman is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected books
- M. Shifman (2012). Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521190848.
- M. Shifman & A. Yung (2009). Supersymmetric Solitons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- M. Shifman (1999). ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory (2 volumes). Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-2639-8.
- M. Shifman, ed. (1992). Vacuum Structure and QCD Sum Rules. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 9780444897459.
- M. Shifman, ed. (2007). Felix Berezin, The Life and Death of the Mastermind of Supermathematics. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981270-532-7.
- M. Shifman, ed. (2015). Physics in a Mad World. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4619-28-8.
See also
- KSVZ axion (Kim–Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov axion model)
- SVZ sum rules (Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov sum rules)
- Penguin mechanism
- QCD vacuum
- NSVZ beta function
- Gluon condensation
- Gluino condensation
- Critical (BPS saturated) domain walls in super-Yang–Mills
- Non-Abelian flux tubes in super-Yang–Mills
- Planar equivalence in non-Abelian orientifold theories
References
- ↑ M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov; Zakharov; Shifman (1975). "A possible mechanism for the Δ T=1/2 rule in nonleptonic decays of strange particles" (PDF). JETP Letters. 22: 55. Bibcode:1975JETPL..22...55V.
M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1977). "Asymptotic freedom, light quarks and the origin of the ? rule in the non-leptonic decays of strange particles". Nuclear Physics B. 120 (2): 316. Bibcode:1977NuPhB.120..316S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90046-3.
M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1977). Soviet Physics JETP. 45: 670. Missing or empty|title=
(help) - 1 2 M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1979). "QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations". Nuclear Physics B. 147 (5): 385. Bibcode:1979NuPhB.147..385S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90022-1.
- ↑ M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1980). "Can confinement ensure natural CP invariance of strong interactions?". Nuclear Physics B. 166 (3): 493. Bibcode:1980NuPhB.166..493S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90209-6.
- ↑ V. Novikov; M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1983). "Exact Gell-Mann-Low function of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from instanton calculus". Nuclear Physics B. 229 (2): 381. Bibcode:1983NuPhB.229..381N. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90338-3.
V. Novikov; M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein & V. Zakharov (1986). "The beta function in supersymmetric gauge theories. Instantons versus traditional approach". Physics Letters B. 166 (3): 329. Bibcode:1986PhLB..166..329N. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90810-5.
M. Shifman & A. Vainshtein (1988). "On gluino condensation in supersymmetric gauge theories with SU(N) and O(N) groups". Nuclear Physics B. 296 (2): 445. Bibcode:1988NuPhB.296..445S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(88)90680-3. - ↑ M. Shifman; M. Voloshin (1987). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics. 45: 292. Missing or empty
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I. Bigi, M. Shifman, N. Uraltsev and A. Vainshtein (1993). "QCD predictions for lepton spectra in inclusive heavy flavor decays". Physical Review Letters. 71 (4): 496–499. arXiv:hep-ph/9304225. Bibcode:1993PhRvL..71..496B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.496. PMID 10055291. - ↑ G. Dvali & M. Shifman (1997). "Full Length Article". Physics Letters B. 396: 64. arXiv:hep-th/9612128. Bibcode:1997PhLB..396...64D. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00131-7.
- ↑ A. Armoni; M. Shifman & G. Veneziano (2003). "Exact results in non-supersymmetric large N orientifold field theories". Nuclear Physics B. 667: 170. arXiv:hep-th/0302163. Bibcode:2003NuPhB.667..170A. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00538-8.
- ↑ M. Shifman & A. Yung (2004). "Non-Abelian string junctions as confined monopoles". Physical Review D. 70 (4): 045004. arXiv:hep-th/0403149. Bibcode:2004PhRvD..70d5004S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.045004.
- ↑ UMN BIO Physics Shifman
- ↑ UMN CSE Endowed Chairs and Professorship
- ↑ http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-dirac-medal/the-medallists/dirac-medallists-2016.aspx
External links
- 1999 Sakurai Prize citation
- 2006 Lilienfeld Prize citation
- 2007 Chaires Blaise Pascal
- Shifman homepage at the University of Minnesota
- BIO at the University of Minnesota
- FTPI homepage at the University of Minnesota