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Mikhail Arkadyevich (Misha) Shifman Born April 4, 1949
Riga, LatviaFields 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 Known for Penguin mechanism
Quantum Chromodynamics
Invisible axion
Nonperturbative supersymmetry
Supersymmetric gauge theoriesNotable awards Humboldt Research Award (1993)
Lilienfeld Prize (2006)
Sakurai Prize (1999)
Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007)Mikhail 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[update] Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.
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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 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 and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize in 2006; he is the 2007 laureate of the Blaise Pascal Chair. Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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 (1975). "A possible mechanism for the Δ T=1/2 rule in nonleptonic decays of strange particles". JETP Letters 22: 55. Bibcode 1975JETPL..22...55V. http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/ps/1521/article_23274.pdf.
M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and 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: 316. Bibcode 1977NuPhB.120..316S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90046-3.
M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov (1977). Soviet Physics JETP 45: 670. - ^ a b M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov (1979). "QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations". Nuclear Physics B 147: 385. Bibcode 1979NuPhB.147..385S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90022-1.
- ^ M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov (1980). "Can confinement ensure natural CP invariance of strong interactions?". Nuclear Physics B 166: 493. Bibcode 1980NuPhB.166..493S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90209-6.
- ^ V. Novikov, M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov (1983). "Exact Gell-Mann-Low function of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from instanton calculus". Nuclear Physics B 229: 381. Bibcode 1983NuPhB.229..381N. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90338-3.
V. Novikov, M. Shifman, A. Vainshtein, and V. Zakharov (1986). "The beta function in supersymmetric gauge theories. Instantons versus traditional approach". Physics Letters B 166: 329. Bibcode 1986PhLB..166..329N. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90810-5.
M. Shifman and A. Vainshtein (1988). "On gluino condensation in supersymmetric gauge theories with SU(N) and O(N) groups". Nuclear Physics B 296: 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.
M. Shifman, M. Voloshin (1988). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics 47: 511.
I. Bigi, M. Shifman, N. Uraltsev and A. Vainshtein (1993). "QCD predictions for lepton spectra in inclusive heavy flavor decays". Physical Review Letters 71: 496. arXiv:hep-ph/9304225. Bibcode 1993PhRvL..71..496B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.496. PMID 10055291. - ^ G. Dvali and M. Shifman (1997). "Full Length Article". Physics Letters B 396: 64. Bibcode 1997PhLB..396...64D. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00131-7.
- ^ A. Armoni, M. Shifman, and 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 and A. Yung (2004). "Non-Abelian string junctions as confined monopoles". Physical Review D 70: 045004. arXiv:hep-th/0403149. Bibcode 2004PhRvD..70d5004S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.045004.
Selected books
- M. Shifman (1999). ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory. Singapore: World Scientific. (2 volumes)
- M. Shifman and A. Yung (2009). Supersymmetric Solitons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- M. Shifman, ed (1992). Vacuum Structure and QCD Sum Rules. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
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Categories:- 1949 births
- Living people
- American theoretical physicists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Russian theoretical physicists
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
- University of Minnesota faculty
- People from Riga
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