Stephan Narison is a Malagasy theoretical high-energy physicist specialized in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gauge theory of strong interactions. He is the founder of the Series of International Conferences in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD-Montpellier) and of the Series of International Conferences in High-Energy Physics (HEPMAD-Madagascar).

Stephan Narison
Born
Stephan Narison

17 September 1951
Antsakabary, Madagascar
NationalityFrench and Malagasy
Alma materAntananarivo University, Madagascar; Aix-Marseille University, France
Known forQuantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
Scientific career
FieldsHigh-Energy Physics
InstitutionsLUPM, CNRS-IN2P3 and Montpellier 2 University
Doctoral advisorProf. Eduardo de Rafael

He works on QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) or SVZ sum rules which have been introduced by M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein and V.I. Zakahrov[1][2] for studying the non-perturbative dynamics of hadrons.

Scientific contributions edit

Among his various publications (237 papers as of January 2014), his most famous work is the first determination of the QCD coupling αs from hadronic heavy lepton τ-decays[3][4] where the running of αs from the τ-mass until the Z-boson mass demonstrates its 1/log Q^2 behavior predicted by asymptotic freedom.

He has contributed to the definition of the running and invariant quark masses in QCD[5][6][7] and on the tests of the gluonium/glueball nature of the scalar meson σ/f0(500) using QSSR,[8][9][10] ππ and γγ scatterings data.[11][12][13][14] His important estimates of the light[15][16] and heavy[17][18][19][20] quark masses and leptonic heavy-light mesons decay constants[21][22][23][24][25] are compiled in the Particle Data Group (PDG).[26]

He has also contributed to the QCD U(1) anomaly effect in the spin of the proton[27][28][29] and on the parametrization of the non-calculated higher order terms of the perturbative series in terms of the square of the tachyonic gluon mass not included in the standard Wilson Operator Product Expansion (OPE).[30][31][32]

He has contributed to the estimation of the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment aμ=(gμ-2)/2.[33][34][35]

Selected bibliography edit

  • Techniques of Dimensional Renormalization and Applications to the Two Point Functions of QCD and QED, Phys. Rep. 84 (1982) 263.
  • QCD Spectral Sum Rules, World Scientific Publishing Company, 1990.
  • QCD as a Theory of Hadrons: from partons to confinement, Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Vol 17 (2004).
  • HEP-MAD '01: Proceedings of the First Madagascar International Conference on High-Energy Physics, Antananarivo, Madagascar 27 September – 5 October 2001.
  • QCD-Montpellier Conference Series, Nuclear Physics, Proceedings Supplements.
  • Particles and the Universe: From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond (World Scientific, 2016).[36]

Awards edit

  • 1981-82: Fellow at the CERN Theory division.
  • 1987-91 : Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG) fellowship for a qualified Researcher at the University of Heidelberg.
  • 1992 : Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Research Senior Fellow at the University of Heidelberg.
  • 2000 : Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JPS) Associate Professor at KEK-Tsukuba.
  • 2010-2013: ICTP-Trieste consultant for developing science in Madagascar.

Honors and appearances edit

Stephan Narison belongs to different scientific societies:

  • 2000: Outstanding Man of the 20th century by the American Biographical Institute (ABI).
  • 1998: Outstanding People of the 20th century by the International Biographical Centre (Cambridge.
  • 1998: Included in the Marquise Who's Who in science and engineering.
  • 1996: Included in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership by ABI.
  • 1995: Invited member of the New-York Academy of Science.
  • 1993: Invited member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • 1983: Member of the French and European Physical Societies.

For a recognition of his actions for developing science in Madagascar, he has been nominated as:

  • 2012: Associate Member of the Malagasy Academy of Sciences.
  • 2011: Grand Officier de l'Ordre National Malgache.
  • 2006: Commandeur de l'Ordre National Malgache.

Associations edit

For developing science in Madagascar, he founded two associations where he is the honorary President:

  • 2010: Association Gasy Miara-Mandroso (AGMM) in Madagascar.
  • 1993: Association Culturelle Malgache de Montpellier (ACMM)in France.

References edit

  1. ^ Shifman, M.A.; Vainshtein, A.I.; Zakharov, V.I. (1979). "QCD and resonance physics. theoretical foundations". Nuclear Physics B. 147 (5). Elsevier BV: 385–447. Bibcode:1979NuPhB.147..385S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90022-1. ISSN 0550-3213.
  2. ^ Shifman, M.A.; Vainshtein, A.I.; Zakharov, V.I. (1979). "QCD and resonance physics. applications". Nuclear Physics B. 147 (5). Elsevier BV: 448–518. Bibcode:1979NuPhB.147..448S. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90023-3. ISSN 0550-3213.
  3. ^ Braaten, E.; Narison, S.; Pich, A. (1992). "QCD analysis of the tau hadronic width". Nuclear Physics B. 373 (3). Elsevier BV: 581–612. Bibcode:1992NuPhB.373..581B. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(92)90267-f. hdl:10261/33357. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 121989749.
  4. ^ Narison, S.; Pich, A. (1988). "QCD formulation of the tau decay and determination of ΛMS¯". Physics Letters B. 211 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 183–188. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(88)90830-1. hdl:10261/33407. ISSN 0370-2693.
  5. ^ Floratos, Emmanuel G.; Narison, Stephan; de Rafael, Eduardo (1979). "Spectral function sum rules in quantum chromodynamics". Nuclear Physics B. 155 (1). Elsevier BV: 115–149. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(79)90359-6. ISSN 0550-3213.
  6. ^ Becchi, C.; Narison, S.; Rafael, E.; Yndurain, F. J. (1981). "Light quark masses in quantum chromodynamics and chiral symmetry breaking". Zeitschrift für Physik C. 8 (4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 335–348. Bibcode:1981ZPhyC...8..335B. doi:10.1007/bf01546328. ISSN 0170-9739. S2CID 121920818.
  7. ^ Narison, Stephan; de Rafael, Eduardo (1981). "On QCD sum rules of the Laplace transform type and light quark masses". Physics Letters B. 103 (1). Elsevier BV: 57–62. Bibcode:1981PhLB..103...57N. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(81)90193-3. ISSN 0370-2693.
  8. ^ Narison, S.; Veneziano, G. (10 July 1989). "QCD Tests Of: G(1.6)=Glueball". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 04 (11). World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt: 2751–2763. Bibcode:1989IJMPA...4.2751N. doi:10.1142/s0217751x89001060. ISSN 0217-751X.
  9. ^ Narison, S. (1998). "Masses, decays and mixings of gluonia in QCD". Nuclear Physics B. 509 (1–2): 312–356. arXiv:hep-ph/9612457. Bibcode:1998NuPhB.509..312N. doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(97)00562-2. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 6567856.
  10. ^ Narison, Stephan (22 June 2006). "QCD tests of the puzzling scalar mesons". Physical Review D. 73 (11): 114024. arXiv:hep-ph/0512256. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..73k4024N. doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.114024. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 16995176.
  11. ^ Mennessier, G.; Narison, S.; Wang, X.-G. (2011). "σ and f0(980) substructures from γγ→ππ, J/ψ,ϕ radiative and Ds semi-leptonic decays". Physics Letters B. 696 (1–2): 40–50. arXiv:1009.2773. Bibcode:2011PhLB..696...40M. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.12.001. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 119216338.
  12. ^ Mennessier, G.; Narison, S.; Wang, X.-G. (2010). "The σ and f0(980) from Ke4⊕ππ scatterings data". Physics Letters B. 688 (1): 59–66. arXiv:1002.1402. Bibcode:2010PhLB..688...59M. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.031. ISSN 0370-2693.
  13. ^ Kamiński, R.; Mennessier, G.; Narison, S. (2009). "Gluonium nature of the σ/f0(600) from its coupling to KK¯". Physics Letters B. 680 (2): 148–153. arXiv:0904.2555. Bibcode:2009PhLB..680..148K. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.08.039. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 11041494.
  14. ^ Mennessier, G.; Narison, S.; Ochs, W. (2008). "Glueball nature of the σ/f0(600) from ππ and γγ scatterings". Physics Letters B. 665 (4): 205–211. arXiv:0804.4452. Bibcode:2008PhLB..665..205M. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.06.018. ISSN 0370-2693.
  15. ^ Narison, Stephan (17 August 2006). "Strange quark mass from e+e revisited and present status of light quark masses". Physical Review D. 74 (3): 034013. arXiv:hep-ph/0510108. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..74c4013N. doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.034013. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 5146465.
  16. ^ Narison, Stephan (2014). "Improved light quark masses from pseudoscalar sum rules". Physics Letters B. 738. Elsevier BV: 346–360. arXiv:1401.3689. Bibcode:2014PhLB..738..346N. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.056. ISSN 0370-2693. and references therein.
  17. ^ Narison, Stephan (2010). "Gluon condensates and c, b quark masses from quarkonia ratios of moments". Physics Letters B. 693 (5): 559–566. arXiv:1004.5333. Bibcode:2010PhLB..693..559N. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.007. ISSN 0370-2693.
  18. ^ Narison, Stephan (2011). "Erratum to "Gluon condensates and c, b quark masses from quarkonia ratios of moments" [Phys. Lett. B 693 (2010) 559]". Physics Letters B. 705 (5). Elsevier BV: 544. Bibcode:2011PhLB..705..544N. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.09.116. ISSN 0370-2693.
  19. ^ Narison, Stephan (2012). "Gluon condensates and precise m¯c,b from QCD-moments and their ratios to order αs3 and 〈G4〉". Physics Letters B. 706 (4–5). Elsevier BV: 412–422. arXiv:1105.2922. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.058. ISSN 0370-2693.
  20. ^ Narison, Stephan (2012). "Gluon condensates and m¯b(m¯b) from QCD-exponential sum rules at higher orders". Physics Letters B. 707 (2). Elsevier BV: 259–263. arXiv:1105.5070. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.047. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 119277156. and references therein.
  21. ^ Narison, S. (1987). "Decay constants of the B and D mesons from QCD-duality sum rules". Physics Letters B. 198 (1). Elsevier BV: 104–112. Bibcode:1987PhLB..198..104N. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90168-7. ISSN 0370-2693.
  22. ^ Narison, Stephan (2005). "Open charm and beauty chiral multiplets in QCD". Physics Letters B. 605 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 319–325. arXiv:hep-ph/0307248. Bibcode:2005PhLB..605..319N. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.11.002. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 12129106.
  23. ^ Narison, Stephan (2013). "A fresh look into m¯c,b(m¯c,b) and precise fD(s),B(s) from heavy–light QCD spectral sum rules". Physics Letters B. 718 (4–5). Elsevier BV: 1321–1333. arXiv:1209.2023. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.057. ISSN 0370-2693.
  24. ^ Narison, Stephan (2013). "Revisiting fB and m¯b(m¯b) from HQET spectral sum rules". Physics Letters B. 721 (4–5). Elsevier BV: 269–276. arXiv:1212.5544. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.03.026. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 119214642.
  25. ^ Narison, Stephan (2014). "Improved fD*s, fB*(s) and fBc from QCD Laplace sum rules". arXiv:1404.6642 [hep-ph].
  26. ^ Olive, K.A.; et al. (Particle Data Group) (2014). "Review of Particle Physics". Chinese Physics C. 38 (9). IOP Publishing: 1–708. arXiv:1412.1408. Bibcode:2014ChPhC..38i0001O. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/38/9/090001. ISSN 1674-1137. PMID 10020536. S2CID 118395784.
  27. ^ Narison, S.; Shore, G.M.; Veneziano, G. (1999). "Topological charge screening and the 'proton spin' beyond the chiral limit". Nuclear Physics B. 546 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 235–278. arXiv:hep-ph/9812333. Bibcode:1999NuPhB.546..235N. doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00061-9. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 16507258.
  28. ^ Narison, S.; Shore, G.M.; Veneziano, G. (1993). "A sum rule for the polarised photon structure function g1γ". Nuclear Physics B. 391 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 69–99. Bibcode:1993NuPhB.391...69N. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90142-c. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 119750345.
  29. ^ Narison, S.; Shore, G.M.; Veneziano, G. (1995). "Target independence of the EMC-SMC effect". Nuclear Physics B. 433 (1). Elsevier BV: 209–233. arXiv:hep-ph/9404277. Bibcode:1995NuPhB.433..209N. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)00329-d. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 119090714.
  30. ^ Chetyrkin, K.G.; Narison, Stephan; Zakharov, V.I. (1999). "Short-distance tachyonic gluon mass and 1/Q2 corrections". Nuclear Physics B. 550 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 353–374. arXiv:hep-ph/9811275. Bibcode:1999NuPhB.550..353C. doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00167-4. ISSN 0550-3213. S2CID 320852.
  31. ^ Narison, S; Zakharov, V.I (2001). "Hints on the power corrections from current correlators in x-space". Physics Letters B. 522 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 266–272. arXiv:hep-ph/0110141. Bibcode:2001PhLB..522..266N. doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)01274-6. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 17886262.
  32. ^ Narison, S.; Zakharov, V.I. (2009). "Duality between QCD perturbative series and power corrections". Physics Letters B. 679 (4): 355–361. arXiv:0906.4312. Bibcode:2009PhLB..679..355N. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.060. ISSN 0370-2693.
  33. ^ Calmet, J.; Narison, S.; Perrottet, M.; de Rafael, E. (1 January 1977). "The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon: A review of the theoretical contributions". Reviews of Modern Physics. 49 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 21–29. Bibcode:1977RvMP...49...21C. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.49.21. ISSN 0034-6861.
  34. ^ Narison, Stephan (2001). "Muon and tau anomalies updated". Physics Letters B. 513 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 53–70. arXiv:hep-ph/0103199. Bibcode:2001PhLB..513...53N. doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00743-2. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 14152511.
  35. ^ Narison, S. (2002). "Erratum to: "Muon and tau anomalies updated"". Physics Letters B. 526 (3–4). Elsevier BV: 414–415. doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)01468-x. ISSN 0370-2693.
  36. ^ Particle and the Universe: From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond