Biography:Mikhail Shifman

From HandWiki
Short description: American physicist
Mikhail Shifman
M. Shifman, 2012.jpg
Born (1949-04-04) April 4, 1949 (age 75)
Alma materMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known forPenguin mechanism
Quantum Chromodynamics
KSVZ axion
Nonperturbative supersymmetry
Supersymmetric gauge theories
AwardsHumboldt Research Award (1993)
Sakurai Prize (1999)

Lilienfeld Prize (2006)
Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2013)
ICTP Dirac Medal (2016)
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2018)

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar (2022)
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, Arkady Vainshtein, Valentine I. Zakharov

Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Russian: Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, (As of 2007) 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;[11] he is the 2007 laureate of the Blaise Pascal Chair,[12] 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize and he was awarded the 2016 Dirac Medal and Prize of the ICTP.[13] In May 2018, M. Shifman was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.[14] 2022: Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[13]

Political positions

In February-March 2022, he signed two open letters by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[15][16]

Selected books

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

  1. Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V.; Shifman, M. (1975). "A possible mechanism for the Δ T=1/2 rule in nonleptonic decays of strange particles". JETP Letters 22: 55. Bibcode1975JETPL..22...55V. http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/ps/1521/article_23274.pdf. 
    Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (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. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(77)90046-3. Bibcode1977NuPhB.120..316S. 
    Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (1977). "Nonleptonic decays of K mesons and hyperons". Soviet Physics JETP 45: 670. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (1979). "QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations". Nuclear Physics B 147 (5): 385. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90022-1. Bibcode1979NuPhB.147..385S. 
  3. Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (1980). "Can confinement ensure natural CP invariance of strong interactions?". Nuclear Physics B 166 (3): 493. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(80)90209-6. Bibcode1980NuPhB.166..493S. 
  4. Novikov, V.; Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (1983). "Exact Gell-Mann-Low function of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from instanton calculus". Nuclear Physics B 229 (2): 381. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90338-3. Bibcode1983NuPhB.229..381N. 
    Novikov, V.; Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A.; Zakharov, V. (1986). "The beta function in supersymmetric gauge theories. Instantons versus traditional approach". Physics Letters B 166 (3): 329. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90810-5. Bibcode1986PhLB..166..329N. 
    Shifman, M.; Vainshtein, A. (1988). "On gluino condensation in supersymmetric gauge theories with SU(N) and O(N) groups". Nuclear Physics B 296 (2): 445. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(88)90680-3. Bibcode1988NuPhB.296..445S. 
  5. Shifman, M.; Voloshin, M. (1987). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics 45: 292. 
    Shifman, M.; Voloshin, M. (1988). Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics 47: 511. 
    Bigi, I.; Shifman, M.; Uraltsev, N.; Vainshtein, A. (1993). "QCD predictions for lepton spectra in inclusive heavy flavor decays". Physical Review Letters 71 (4): 496–499. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.496. PMID 10055291. Bibcode1993PhRvL..71..496B. 
  6. Dvali, G.; Shifman, M. (1997). "Full Length Article". Physics Letters B 396: 64. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00131-7. Bibcode1997PhLB..396...64D. 
  7. Armoni, A.; Shifman, M.; Veneziano, G. (2003). "Exact results in non-supersymmetric large N orientifold field theories". Nuclear Physics B 667 (1–2): 170–182. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00538-8. Bibcode2003NuPhB.667..170A. 
  8. Shifman, M.; Yung, A. (2004). "Non-Abelian string junctions as confined monopoles". Physical Review D 70 (4): 045004. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.045004. Bibcode2004PhRvD..70d5004S. 
  9. UMN BIO Physics Shifman Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  10. "UMN CSE Endowed Chairs and Professorship". https://cse.umn.edu/r/honorary-professorships/#Endowed. 
  11. "2006 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Mikhail&last_nm=Shifman&year=2006. Retrieved April 28, 2019. 
  12. "Shifman named Blaise Pascal Chair". University of Minnesota. https://www.physics.umn.edu/about/news/news/242/Shifman_named_Blaise_Pascal_Chair.html. Retrieved April 28, 2019. 
  13. 13.0 13.1 Gaal, Rachel (August 16, 2016). "APS Fellows Receive 2016 Dirac Medal and Prize". https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/dirac-medal.cfm. Retrieved April 28, 2019. 
  14. "CSE professor Mikhail Shifman elected to the National Academy of Sciences". University of Minnesota. May 3, 2018. https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/cse-professor-mikhail-shifman-elected-national-academy-sciences. Retrieved April 28, 2019. 
  15. "Открытое письмо российских учёных и научных журналистов против войны с Украиной" (in ru). 24 February 2022. https://t-invariant.org/2022/02/we-are-against-war/. 
  16. An open letter to the Physics Community from physicists of Russian descent

External links