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Mikhail Voloshin

Professor/Director, Theoretical Physics Institute

424 Tate, 625-0798, email voloshin @ physics.umn.edu
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Director of the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute 2007-; APS Fellow, 1997, APS Outstanding Referee Award, 2008, USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEDAL & AWARD, 1983, J.J. SAKURAI PRIZE FOR THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS, APS, 2001.

Editor Int. Journ. Mod. Phys./Mod. Phys.Lett.A, 1996 – 2006; Editorial Board for the series "Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics" by Springer, 1994 – 2004; Scientific Board of the International Science Foundation 1993-1997; J.J.Sakurai Prize Committee, APS, 2003; Pomeranchuk Prize Committee, 1998-2006; Scientific Board of the Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vancouver, 2007-.

Research Areas
Properties of elementary particles. Gauge theories of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions. Non-perturbative dynamics of quantum fields.

Advisees and Collaborators

Sergiy Dubynskiy, Research Fellow
Michael Janas, Graduate Student
Xin Li, Graduate Student

Selected Publications

S. Dubynskiy and M.B. Voloshin., “Remarks on the Amplitude of the Decay Upsilon(3S)  Upsilon(1S) pi pi”, Phys.Rev.D (2007)

Dubynskiy and M.B. Voloshin, “Pionic Transitions from X(3872) to chi(cJ)”, Phys.Rev. (2008)

M.B. Voloshin, “Isospin Properties of the X State near the D anti-D* Threshold”, Phys.Rev.D (2007)

S. Dubynskiy, A. Le Yaouanc, L. Oliver, J.-C. Raynal and M.B. Voloshin., “Isospin Breaking in the Yield of Heavy Meson Pairs in e+e- Annihilation near Threshold”,, Phys.Rev.D (2007)

S. Dubynskiy and M.B. Voloshin,, “e+e-  gamma X(3872) near the D* anti-D* Threshold”,, Phys.Rev. (2006)

M. Voloshin, The Enhancement of the Decay Upsilon(1D) -> eta Upsilon(1S) by the Axial Anomaly in QCD, Phys.Lett.B562, 68, 2003;

M. Voloshin, The Onset of e+e- -> tau+tau- at Threshold Revisited, Phys.Lett.B556, 153, 2003.

M. Voloshin, Nonfactorizable Terms, Heavy Quark Masses, and Semileptonic Decays of D and B Mesons, Mod.Phys.Lett.A17, 245, 2002

Education

Moscow ITEP, 1977. Elementary Particle Theory