Stanislav Mikheyev

Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheyev, Russian Станислав Павлович Михеев, English Stanislav Mikheyev (* 1940 † 23 April 2011) was a Russian physicist. The experimental physicist employed, among others, with neutrino physics.

Mikheyev studied at the Moscow State University in Moscow, where in 1965 he graduated. After that, he was a researcher at the Lebedev Institute and from 1970 at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he in 1983 received his doctorate in Russian. For a long time he worked on experiments at Baksan telescope in the Caucasus, an underground Szintilliationsdetektor facility with which he, inter alia, superheavy magnetic monopoles was looking for. In the 1990s he worked at the MACRO neutrino detector in the Gran Sasso d' Italia. In 2008 he worked at the Baksan telescope, the Baikal neutrino telescope in Lake Baikal and the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan ( in the correlations over a 295 km distance between Kamioka and Tokai are observed).

Mikheyev became known for his explanation of the riddle of the solar neutrinos in 1984/85 with Alexei Smirnov, building on earlier ideas of Lincoln Wolfenstein (1978), which bears their name MSW effect. He explains the mystery of the missing in the observations neutrinos from the Sun with neutrino oscillations, which are enhanced by interaction with matter ( electrons).

In 2006 he was awarded with Smirnov and Wolfenstein the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize and 2008 Smirnov Sakurai Prize. In 2008 he received the Markov price.