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Mikhail Shifman
Born (1949-04-04) April 4, 1949 (age 75)
Riga, Latvia
Alma materMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known forPenguin mechanism
Quantum Chromodynamics
Invisible axion
Nonperturbative supersymmetry
Supersymmetric gauge theories
AwardsHumboldt Research Award (1993)
Sakurai Prize (1999)

Lilienfeld Prize (2006)
Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2013)

Dirac Medal (2016)
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical High Energy Physics
InstitutionsWilliam I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
Academic advisorsBoris L. Ioffe

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.

Scientific contributions

Shifman 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 till present).[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 and Prize.[11] In May 2018, M. Shifman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Selected books

  • M. Shifman, ed. (1992). Vacuum Structure and QCD Sum Rules. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 9780444897459.
  • M. Shifman (1999). ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory (2 volumes). Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-2639-8.
  • Mikhail A. Shifman (2001). "Foreward and Notes from the Editor". In Mikhail A. Shifman (ed.). At The Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD (On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Ioffe, in 3 volumes). Singapore: World Scientific. doi:10.1142/9789812810458_fmatter. ISBN 981-02-4445-2.
  • 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; A. Yung (2009). Supersymmetric Solitons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  • M. Shifman (2012). Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521190848.
  • M. Shifman, ed. (2015). Physics in a Mad World. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4619-28-8.
  • M. Shifman (2017). Standing together in Troubled Times. Singapore: World Scientific.
  • A. Gottvald, M. Shifman (2018). George Placzek - A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-3236-91-2.

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
    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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
    M. Shifman; A. Vainshtein; V. Zakharov (1977). Soviet Physics JETP. 45: 670. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
    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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
    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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ M. Shifman; M. Voloshin (1987). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics. 45: 292. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
    M. Shifman; M. Voloshin (1988). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics. 47: 511. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
    I. Bigi; M. Shifman; N. Uraltsev; 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.
  6. ^ 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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  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. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ UMN BIO Physics Shifman
  10. ^ UMN CSE Endowed Chairs and Professorship
  11. ^ http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-dirac-medal/the-medallists/dirac-medallists-2016.aspx
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