Prof. Dr. Dmitri Melikhov

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsElementary Particle Physics,Nuclear Physics
Keywordsnew physics, Standard model, weak decays, QCD, hadron physics

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
InstitutionMoscow M.V. Lomonosov State University
InstituteInstitute of Nuclear Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Berthold StechInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Otto NachtmannInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/1999

Programme(s)

1998Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025Alexander Berezhnoy, Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov: Analysis of qrec2-distribution for B→KMX and B→K*MX decays in a scalar-mediator dark-matter scenario. In: Physical Review D, 111, 2025, 075035
2024A. Berezhnoy and D. Melikhov: B→K*Mx vs B→K Mx as a probe of a scalar-mediator dark matter scenario. In: EPL, 145, 2024, 14001
2024Mikhail A. Ivanov, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula: Constraining λBs by Bs→γ* and Bs→ϕ form factors. In: Physical Review D, 110, 2024, 094048
2024I. Belov, A. Berezhnoy, and D. Melikhov,: Nonfactorizable charming-loop contribution to FCNC Bs→γll decay,. In: Physical Review D, 11, 2024, 114012
2023I. Belov, A. Berezhnoy, and D.Melikhov: Charming-loop contribution to Bs→γγ decay. In: Physical Review D, 108, 2023, 094022
2023Dmitri Melikhov: Three-particle distribution in the B meson and charm-quark loops in FCNC B decays. In: Physical Review D, 108, 2023, 034007
2022Dmitri Melikhov: Nonfactorizable charming loops in FCNC B decays versus B-decay semileptonic form factors. In: Physical Review D, 106, 2022, 054002
2022M. Ivanov and D. Melikhov: Theoretical analysis of the leptonic decay B→ℓℓℓν. In: Physical Review D, 105, 2022, 014028
2022M. Ivanov and D. Melikhov: Theoretical analysis of the leptonic decays B→ℓℓℓν: Identical leptons in the final state. In: Physical Review D, 105, 2022, 094038
2021 D.Melikhov, S.Simula Non-integrable threshold singularities of two-point functions in perturbation theory. In: European Physical Journal Plus 136, 2021, 106
2021 W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian OPE and quark-hadron duality for two-point functions of tetraquark currents in 1/Nc expansion. In: Physical Review D, 103, 2021, 014012
2021 W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Tetraquarks in large-Nc QCD. In: Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 120, 2021, 103867
2020D.Melikhov Analytic properties of triangle Feynman diagrams in quantum field theory. In: Particles, 3, 2020, 99
2020A.Kozachuk, D.Melikhov Constraints on the anomalous Wtb couplings from B-physics experiments. In: Symmetry, 12, 2020, 1506
2020M. Ivanov, D.Melikhov, S. Simula Form factors for B→ j1 j2 decays into two currents in QCD. In: Physical Review D, 101, 2020, 094002
2019W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Cluster reducibility of multiquark operators. In: Physical Review D, 100, 2019, 094017
2019W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian: Tetraquark-adequate QCD sum rules for quark-exchange processes. In: Physical Review D, 100, 2019, 074029
2019W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Tetraquark-adequate formulation of QCD sum rules . In: Physical Review D, 100, 2019, 014010
2018W.Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Are there narrow flavor-exotic tetraquarks in large-Nc QCD? . In: Physical Review D, 98, 2018, 094100
2018W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Local-duality QCD sum rules for strong isospin breaking in the decay constants of heavy-light mesons . In: European Physical Journal C, 78, 2018, 168
2018A. Kozachuk, D. Melikhov, N. Nikitin: Rare FCNC radiative leptonic B(s,d)→ γl+l- decays in the standard model. In: Physical Review D, 97, 2018, 053007
2018Dmitri Melikhov, Anastasia Kozachuk: Revisiting nonfactorizable charm-loop effects in exclusive FCNC B-decays. In: Physics Letters B, 786, 2018, 378-381
2017W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Isospin breaking in the decay constants of heavy mesons from QCD sum rules. In: Physics Letters B, 765, 2017, 365-370
2017W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Narrow exotic tetraquark mesons in large-Nc QCD. In: Physical Review D, 96, 2017, 014002
2017W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, H.Sazdjian Tetraquarks and two-meson states at large-Nc. In: European Physical Journal C, 77, 2017, 866
2016D. Melikhov, A. Kozachuk, N. Nikitin: Annihilation type rare radiative B(s)→Vγ decays. In: Physical Review D, 93, 2016, 014015
2016D. Guadagnoli, D. Melikhov, M.Reboud: More Lepton Flavor Violating Observables for LHCb's Run 2. In: Physics Letters B , 2016, 442-447
2016W. Lucha, D. Melikhov, H. Sazdjian, S. Simula: Strong three-meson couplings of J/ψ and ηc​. In: Physical Review D, 93, 2016, 016004
2015D. Melikhov, W. Lucha, S.Simula Accurate decay-constant ratios fB*/fB and fBs*/fBs from Borel QCD sum rules. In: Physical Review D, 91, 2015, 116009
2014Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha, Silvano Simula: Decay constants of charmed vector mesons D* and Ds* from QCD sum rules . In: Physics Letters B, 2014, 12-18
2013Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha, Silvano Simula: Accurate bottom-quark mass from Borel QCD sum rules for fB and fBs. In: Physical Review D, 88, 2013, 065011
2013Dmitri Melikhov, Irina Balakireva, Wolfgang Lucha: Elastic and transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons from QCD sum rules. In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 76, 2013, 326-340
2012Dmitri Melikhov, Irina Balakireva, Wolfgang Lucha: Accuracy of the pion elastic form factor extracted from a local-duality sum rule. In: Journal of Physics G, 39, 2012, 055007
2012I.Balakireva, W.Lucha, D.Melikhov: Pion elastic and (π0,η,η′)→γγ* transition form factors in a broad range of momentum transfers. In: Physical Review D, 85, 2012, 036006
2012Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha: The puzzle of the π → γ γ* transition form factor. In: Journal of Physics G, 39, 2012, 045003
2012W.Lucha, D.Melikhov The γ*γ*→ ηc transition form factor. In: Physical Review D, 86, 2012, 016001
2012Dmitri Melikhov and Berthold Stech: Universal behavior of the γ*γ → (π ,η,η′) transition form factors. In: Physics Letters B, 718, 2012, 488-491
2012Dmitri Melikhov, Berthold Stech: γ*γ → π (η,η′) transition form factors. In: Physical Review D, 85, 2012, 051901
2011Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha, Silvano Simula: Decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar mesons from QCD sum rules. In: Journal of Physics G, 38, 2011, 105002
2011Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula, Wolfgang Lucha: OPE, charm-quark mass, and decay constants of D and Ds mesons from QCD sum rules . In: Physics Letters B, 2011, 82-88
2010W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula: Bound-state parameters from dispersive sum rules for vacuum-to-vacuum correlators . In: Journal of Physics G, 37, 2010, 035003
2010Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula: Extraction of bound-state parameters from dispersive sum rules. In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 73, 2010, 1770-1780
2010 W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula: Extraction of ground-state decay constant from dispersive sum rules: QCD vs potential models. In: Physics Letters B , 2010, 48-52
2010Irina Balakireva, Dmitri Melikhov, Nikolai Nikitin, Danila Tlisov: Forward-backward and CP-violating asymmetries in rare B(d,s)→(V,γ)l+l- decays. In: Physical Review D, 81, 2010, 054024
2009W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula: Accuracy of bound-state form factors extracted from dispersive sum rules. In: Physics Letters B, 671, 2009, 445-449
2009Dmitri Melikhov, W.Lucha, H. Sazdjian, S.Simula, Effective continuum threshold for vacuum-to-bound-state correlators. In: Physical Review D, 80, 2009, 114028
2009Dmitri Melikhov: Hadron form factors from sum rules for vacuum-to-hadron correlators. In: Physics Letters B, 671, 2009, 450-455
2009Dmitri Melikhov, W.Lucha, S.Simula, The effective continuum threshold in dispersive sum rules. In: Physical Review D, 79, 2009, 096001
2008G. Buchalla et al, B, D, and K decays. In: European Physical Journal C, 57, 2008, 309-492
2008W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Heavy-to-light correlators beyond the light cone . In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 71, 2008, 545–558
2008V.Braguta, W.Lucha, D.Melikhov Pion form factor at spacelike momentum transfers from local-duality QCD sum rule . In: Physics Letters B, 661, 2008, 354-359
2008W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Study of systematic errors of bound-state parameters in SVZ sum rules . In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 71, 2008, 1461–1469
2007W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Can one control systematic errors of QCD sum rule predictions for bound states? . In: Physics Letters B, 657, 2007, 148-153
2007W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Dispersion representations and anomalous singularities of the triangle diagram. In: Physical Review D, 75, 2007, 016001
2007W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula Heavy-to-light form factors: Sum rules on the light cone and beyond . In: Physical Review D, 75, 2007, 096002
2007Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha: OPE and sum rules for correlators of pseudoscalar and axial currents. In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 70, 2007, 891-900
2007W.Lucha, D.Melikhov, S.Simula: Systematic uncertainties of hadron parameters obtained with QCD sum rules. In: Physical Review D, 76, 2007, 036002
2006Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha, Silvano Simula: Constituent quarks, chiral symmetry, and chiral point of the constituent quark model. In: Physical Review D, 74, 2006, 054004
2006Dmitri Melikhov and Berthold Stech: Fall-apart decays of polyquark hadrons. In: Physical Review D, 74, 2006, 034022
2006Dmitri Melikhov, Wolfgang Lucha: Quark-hadron duality and hadron properties from correlators of pseudoscalar and axial currents. In: Physical Review D, 73, 2006, 054009
2005Dmitri Melikhov, Berthold Stech: Pentaquarks in the chiral symmetry limit. In: Physics Letters B, 608, 2005, 59-63
2005Dmitri Melikhov, Nikolai Nikitin, Konstantin Toms: Rare radiative leptonic decays B → γl+l-. In: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 68, 2005, 1904-1912
2004Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula: Correspondence between QCD sum rules and constituent quark models . In: European Physical Journal C, 37, 2004, 437-444
2004D. Melikhov, O. Nachtmann, V. Nikonov, T. Paulus: Masses and couplings of vector mesons from the pion electromagnetic, weak, and πγ transition form-factors. In: European Physical Journal C, 34, 2004, 345-360
2004Dmitri Melikhov, Nikolai Nikitin: Rare radiative leptonic decays B(d,s)→ γl+l-. In: Physical Review D, 70, 2004, 114028
2004Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula, Berthold Stech: Width of the J**P = 1/2+ pentaquark in the quark-diquark model. In: Physics Letters B, 594, 2004, 265-272
2003Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula End point singularities of Feynman graphs on the light cone. In: Physics Letters B, 556, 2003, 135-140
2003Frank Krüger, Dmitri Melikhov: Gauge invariance and form factors for the decay B→γ l+l-. In: Physical Review D, 67, 2003, 034002
2002Dmitri Melikhov: Dispersion approach to quark binding effects in weak decays of heavy mesons . In: European Physical Journal C - direct 2, 2002, 1-154
2002Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula: Electromagnetic form-factors in the light front formalism and the Feynman triangle diagram: spin 0 and spin 1 two fermion systems. In: Physical Review D, 65, 2002, 094043
2002Dmitri Melikhov, Berthold Stech: Nonlocal anomaly of the axial vector current for bound states . In: Physical Review Letters, 88, 2002, 151601
2001Dmitri Melikhov, A. Le Yaouanc, V. Morenas, L. Oliver, O. Pene, J.C. Raynal: Duality in semileptonic inclusive B-decays in potential models: regular versus singular potential. In: Physics Letters B, 517, 2001, 135-141
2001Dmitri Melikhov: Vanishing of the factorizable c anti-c contribution in the radiative B→K*γ decay . In: Physics Letters B, 516, 2001, 61-64
2001Dmitri Melikhov, M. Beyer, N. Nikitin, B. Stech: Weak annihilation in the rare radiative B→ργ decay. In: Physical Review D, 64, 2001, 094006
2000Dmitri Melikhov, A. Le Yaouanc, V. Morenas, L. Oliver, O. Pene, J.C. Raynal: Duality in the nonrelativistic harmonic oscillator quark model in the Shifman-Voloshin limit: a pedagogical example. In: Physics Letters B, 488, 2000, 153-161
2000Dmitri Melikhov, N. Nikitin: Non-factorizable effects in the B - B mixing. In: Physics Letters B, 494, 2000, 229-236
2000A.Le Yaouanc, D.Melikhov, V.Morenas, L.Oliver, O.Pene, J.-C.Raynal One interesting new sum rule extending Bjorken's to order 1/mQ. In: Physics Letters B, 480, 2000, 119-128
2000Dmitri Melikhov and Silvano Simula: Quark binding effects in inclusive decays of heavy mesons. In: Physical Review D, 62, 2000, 074012
2000A.Le Yaouanc, D.Melikhov, V.Morenas, L.Oliver, O.Pene, J.-C.Raynal Semileptonic inclusive heavy meson decay: duality in a nonrelativistic potential model. In: Physical Review D, 62, 2000, 074007
2000Dmitri Melikhov and Berthold Stech: Weak form-factors for heavy meson decays: an update. In: Physical Review D, 62, 2000, 014006