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| Voloshin, Mikhail B. | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mikhail B. Voloshin |
| Birth date | 1953 |
| Birth place | Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, Particle physics, Quantum field theory |
| Institutions | Moscow State University, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, CERN, University of Minnesota |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Aleksei A. Slavnov |
| Notable students | Konstantin A. Bugaev, Andrei V. Smilga |
| Known for | Heavy quarkonium, QCD sum rules, Nonperturbative QCD, Dispersion relations |
Voloshin, Mikhail B. Mikhail Borisovich Voloshin is a Russian theoretical physicist noted for seminal work in particle physics, particularly quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and heavy quark physics. His research spans nonperturbative techniques, quarkonium spectroscopy, and applications of dispersion relations, influencing investigations at facilities such as CERN and theoretical programs at Moscow State University and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics. Voloshin's contributions intersect with developments by researchers including Vladimir Gribov, Alexander Migdal, and Nathan Isgur.
Voloshin was born in Moscow and completed secondary studies before enrolling at Moscow State University, where he studied under faculty associated with the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute tradition and Soviet theoretical schools. During his graduate work he interacted with scholars from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, ITEP colleagues, and visiting scientists from CERN and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. He earned his kandidat and doktor nauk degrees under advisors influenced by the methods of Lev Landau and Igor Tamm, consolidating training in quantum field theory, dispersion techniques, and S-matrix methods.
Voloshin's early appointments included positions at Moscow State University and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, where he joined seminars frequented by members of the Soviet particle physics community such as Alexander Akhiezer and Yuri Simonov. Collaborations and visits expanded his international profile with stays at CERN, University of Minnesota, and joint work with groups at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. His career encompassed advisory roles to experimental programs at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and theoretical committees connected to Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Voloshin taught graduate courses on quantum field theory and phenomenology, supervising doctoral candidates who later held positions at institutions including IHEP (Protvino) and ITEP.
Voloshin made foundational advances in heavy quarkonium physics, developing theoretical frameworks used in analysis at facilities like Belle and BaBar. He contributed to the refinement of QCD sum rules alongside researchers such as Shifman, Vainshtein, and Zakharov, applying operator product expansion techniques to meson spectroscopy. Voloshin introduced and analyzed nonperturbative corrections in heavy quark systems, employing methods resonant with work by Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein, and elucidated threshold phenomena critical to interpretations of data from Large Hadron Collider experiments. He formulated theoretical descriptions of hadronic transitions and radiative decays in quarkonium, connecting with potential models advanced by Eichten and Quigg.
His work on dispersion relations and final-state interactions influenced treatments of CP-conserving and CP-violating processes relevant to analyses at KEK and Fermilab. Voloshin explored exotic resonance structures and near-threshold enhancements, contributing concepts later applied in studies of XYZ states at Belle II and LHCb. He also examined electromagnetic and weak processes in heavy-light mesons, interfacing with lattice QCD calculations from groups at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Cross-disciplinary influence touched on neutrino scattering phenomenology and radiative corrections relevant to experiments at SNO and Kamioka Observatory.
Voloshin authored and coauthored numerous articles in leading journals and conference proceedings, collaborating with physicists including Valery Rubakov, Maxim Polyakov, and Arkady Vainshtein. Selected representative works include papers on quarkonium annihilation rates, nonrelativistic QCD applications, and analyses of hadronic transitions; these works were cited in reviews by Particle Data Group and in monographs by Yakovlev and Novikov. He contributed chapters to volumes of proceedings for conferences such as the International Conference on High Energy Physics and lectures in summer schools organized by CERN and the ICTP. Voloshin's articles appear in journals associated with Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B, and Physics Letters B, and his reviews are used in graduate curricula at Moscow State University and University of Minnesota.
Voloshin received recognition from Russian and international bodies, including awards tied to achievements in theoretical physics and invitations to deliver plenary talks at conferences such as Rencontres de Moriond and the International Conference on High Energy Physics. He held visiting appointments at CERN and was elected to committees affiliated with the European Physical Society and national academies. His students and collaborators have been recipients of grants and fellowships from organizations including the Russian Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
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