Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov

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Alexei Jurjewitsch Smirnow ( Russian Алексей Юрьевич Смирнов , quoted in English as Alexei Smirnov, born October 16, 1951 ) is a Russian theoretical physicist who deals with neutrino physics.

Life

Smirnov studied at Lomonosov University in Moscow , where he graduated in 1974. From 1977 he worked at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (INR), where he in 1979 doctorate was (candidate work, his Russian doctorate he received in 1989). From 1982 to 1990 he also taught physics at Lomonossow University. In 1992 he was also at the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste , where he was a permanent member and Principal Research Scientist from 1997. Since 2015 he has been a permanent scientist and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg .

Smirnow is known for his explanation of the riddle of solar neutrinos in 1984/5 with Michejew , based on earlier ideas by Lincoln Wolfenstein (1978), the MSW effect named after them . He explains the riddle of the neutrinos from the sun, which are missing in the observations, with neutrino oscillations that are amplified by interaction with matter (electrons).

In 2006 he received the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize with Michejew and Wolfenstein and was a Humboldt Research Fellow in 2004 . In 2008 he received the Sakurai Prize with Michejew . In 2007 he was Schrödinger Professor in Vienna and in 2002 Biedenharn Professor at the University of Texas at Austin . In 2008 he received the Markow Prize . For 2016 he was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal .

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References

  1. ↑ Mikheev and Smirnov: Resonance Amplification of Oscillations in Matter and Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos . In: Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics Volume 42, 1985, pp. 913-917; Neutrino Oscillations in a Variable Density Medium and Neutrino Bursts Due to the Gravitational Collapse of Stars . In: Sov. Phys. JETP . Volume 64, pp. 4-7, arxiv : 0706.0454 ; Resonant amplification of neutrino oscillations in matter and solar neutrino spectroscopy . In: Nuovo Cimento C . Volume 9, 1986, pp. 17-26.
  2. ↑ This means that the (electron) neutrinos transform into neutrinos of a different type (muon neutrinos), which are not detected in the experiments
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SURNAME Smirnov, Alexei Yuryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smirnov, Alexei Yu; Smirnow, Alexei Yu .; Smirnov, Alexei; Smirnov, A. Yu; Смирнов, Алексей Юрьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1951