Hiroshi Suura (born August 19, 1925, Hiroshima, Japan – September 15, 1998) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, specializing in particle physics.
Education and career
Suura graduated in 1947 with a B.S. from the University of Tokyo [1] and in 1954 with a Ph.D. in physics from Hiroshima University. From September 1955 to June 1956 he did research at the Institute for Advanced Study. [2] From 1960 to 1965 he was a professor at Nihon University. From 1965 until his retirement as professor emeritus, he was a professor at the University of Minnesota. [1]
In the theory of infrared corrections, Suura made important contributions, essential for many precise measurements involving elementary particles, especially electrons. [3]
... another theme running through Hiroshi’s work and connecting it to the major issues of today’s particle physics is the idea of “particles in loops.” One of his most-quoted results concerns the effect of electron loops in the calculation of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment aμ ... This leads to a difference between aμ and the corresponding quantity ae for the electron, which was confirmed in beautiful experiments at CERN ... and is still the subject of intense scrutiny ... [3]
He was elected in 1967 a Fellow of the American Physical Society. [4] On June 1, 1994, the University of Minnesota held a colloquium in honor of Hiroshi Suura. After his death, the Physical Society of Japan published a collection of articles as a memorial to him. [3]
Selected publications
- Suura, Hiroshi (1954). "On a Treatment of Many-paritcle Systems in Quantum Field Theory". Progress of Theoretical Physics. 12 (1): 49–71. Bibcode: 1954PThPh..12...49S. doi: 10.1143/PTP.12.49.
- Suura, Hiroshi (1955). "Radiative Correction to High-Energy Electron Scattering". Physical Review. 99 (3): 1020–1028. Bibcode: 1955PhRv...99.1020S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.99.1020.
- Yennie, D. R.; Suura, H. (1957). "Higher Order Radiative Corrections to Electron Scattering". Physical Review. 105 (4): 1378–1382. Bibcode: 1957PhRv..105.1378Y. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.105.1378.
- Suura, Hiroshi; Wichmann, Eyvind H. (1957). "Magnetic Moment of the Mu Meson". Physical Review. 105 (6): 1930–1931. Bibcode: 1957PhRv..105.1930S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.105.1930.
- Yennie, D.R; Frautschi, S.C; Suura, H. (1961). "The infrared divergence phenomena and high-energy processes". Annals of Physics. 13 (3): 379–452. Bibcode: 1961AnPhy..13..379Y. doi: 10.1016/0003-4916(61)90151-8. (over 1900 citations)
- Suura, H.; Simmons, L. M. (1966). "Dispersion Relation for the Axial-Vector Vertex and a Sum Rule for the Axial-Vector Coupling-Constant Renormalization". Physical Review. 148 (4): 1579–1582. Bibcode: 1966PhRv..148.1579S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.148.1579.
- Meyer, James W.; Suura, H. (1967). "Equal-Time Commutation Relations of the Isovector Current Densities". Physical Review. 160 (5): 1366–1374. Bibcode: 1967PhRv..160.1366M. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.160.1366.
- Johnson, K.; Low, F. E.; Suura, H. (1967). "Radiative Corrections toβDecay and the Quantum Numbers of Fields Underlying Current Algebra". Physical Review Letters. 18 (26): 1224–1225. Bibcode: 1967PhRvL..18.1224J. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.1224.
- Rosner, Jonathan L.; Suura, Hiroshi (1969). "General Treatment of ππ → πA1 in the Veneziano Model". Physical Review. 187 (5): 1905–1912. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.187.1905.
- Suura, H. (1969). "Veneziano-Type Form Factors for the Pion". Physical Review Letters. 23 (10): 551–554. Bibcode: 1969PhRvL..23..551S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.551.
- Suura, H.; Walsh, T. F.; Young, B.-L. (1972).
"Testing Triplet Models (No. COO-1764-152; DESY-72/21). Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg (West Germany)".
doi:
10.2172/4605475.
{{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=( help) - Suura, H.; Young, Bing-Lin (1972). "Quark-loop dynamics and meson decays". Il Nuovo Cimento A. 11 (1): 101–120. Bibcode: 1972NCimA..11..101S. doi: 10.1007/BF02722781. OSTI 4549906. S2CID 117725112.
- Suura, H.; Young, Bing-Lin (1973). "Derivation of General Conservation Laws and Ward-Takahashi Identities in the Functional Integration Method". Physical Review D. 8 (12): 4353–4371. Bibcode: 1973PhRvD...8.4353S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.8.4353. S2CID 123050241.
- Coon, D. D.; Suura, H. (1974). "Regge trajectories and the quark-gluon coupling constant". Physical Review D. 10 (1): 348–350. Bibcode: 1974PhRvD..10..348C. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.10.348.
- Suura, H. (1977). "Relativistic Two-Body Wave Equation and Meson Spectrum". Physical Review Letters. 38 (12): 636–639. Bibcode: 1977PhRvL..38..636S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.636.
- Geffen, D. A.; Suura, H. (1977). "Solutions to a gauge-invariant, equal-time two-body wave equation. Light-mass quark-antiquark system". Physical Review D. 16 (11): 3305–3319. Bibcode: 1977PhRvD..16.3305G. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.16.3305.
- Suura, H. (1977). "Gauge-Independent Two-Body Amplitudes and Vector Dominance Model of Electromagnetic Form Factors". Physical Review Letters. 38 (17): 927–929. Bibcode: 1977PhRvL..38..927S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.927.
- Suura, H. (1978). "Derivation of a quark-confinement equation in the Hamiltonian formalism of gauge field theories". Physical Review D. 17 (2): 469–482. Bibcode: 1978PhRvD..17..469S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.17.469.
- Suura, H. (1979). "Equation of motion for string operators in quantum chromodynamics". Physical Review D. 20 (6): 1412–1419. Bibcode: 1979PhRvD..20.1412S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.20.1412.
- Suura, H.; Wilson, W. J.; Young, Bing-Lin (1980). "Relativistic wave equation and heavy quarkonium spectra". Physical Review D. 21 (11): 3204–3211. Bibcode: 1980PhRvD..21.3204S. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.21.3204.
- Higashijima, Kiyoshi; Višnjić, Vladimir; Suura, H. (1984). "Composite models with chiral symmetry" (PDF). Physical Review D. 30 (3): 655–659. Bibcode: 1984PhRvD..30..655H. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.30.655. hdl: 11094/3279.
- Miyazawa, Hironari; Obata, Yukio; Suura, Hiroshi (1993). "PASER and Meson-Catalyzed Fusion". Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 62 (10): 3361–3363. Bibcode: 1993JPSJ...62.3361M. doi: 10.1143/JPSJ.62.3361.
References
- ^ a b American Men and Women of Science (21st ed.). R. R. Bowker Company. 2008. p. 1081. ISBN 9780787665234.
- ^ "Hiroshi Suura". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019.
- ^ a b c Rosner, Jonathan L. (1999). "Particles in Loops—From Electrons to Top Quarks". arXiv: hep-ph/9903219.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=1967 and institution=University of Minnesota)