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 a_μ ... This leads to a difference between a_μ and the corresponding quantity a_e 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.

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