Mikhail Shifman
| Mikhail Shifman | |
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| Born |
April 4, 1949 Riga, Latvia |
| 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) |
Humboldt Research Award (1993)
Sakurai Prize (1999)
Lilienfeld Prize (2006)
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[update] Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.
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); (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); (iii) introduction of the invisible axion (1980) (iv) first exact results in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (NSVZ beta function, gluino condensate,1983–1988); (v) heavy quark theory based on the operator product expansion (1985–1995); (vi) critical domain walls (D-brane analogs) in super-Yang-Mills (1996); (vii) non-perturbative (exact) planar equivalence between super-Yang-Mills and orientifold non-supersymmetric theories (2003); (viii) non-Abelian flux tubes and confined monopoles (2004). His paper with A. Vainshtein and Zakharov on the SVZ sum rules is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics.
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