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E-mail: melnikov@pha.jhu.edu
Personal data
I am Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Johns Hopkins University. My research area is theoretical physics of elementary particles. I received Master of Science from Novosibirsk State University, Russia, in 1991 and Ph.D from Mainz University, Germany, in 1996. I was research associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles, Karlsruhe University, Germany, from 1996 to 1999 and at the Particle Theory Group of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1999 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008 I was assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Further information can be found in my cv.
Teaching
Currently, I am teaching Advanced Particle Physics course. Previously, I taught a course on Advanced Electromagnetic Theory.
Research
Here is the summary of my research interests.
Physics at hadron colliders: in particular calculations of higher-order perturbative corrections and their application to phenomenology. Recently, I studied the NLO QCD corrections to a number of processes at the LHC and the Tevatron that involve W boson(s) and large number of jets (W+3jet, W+W+ and 2jets). I also improved NLO QCD description of top quark pair production, including in association with one jet, by accounting for spin correlations and decays of top quarks. Before that, I was involved in first successful fully-differential NNLO QCD computations of the Higgs boson production in gluon fusion and W and Z hadroproduction (programs FEHiP and FEWZ).
Heavy quark physics: semileptonic and radiative decays of bottom quarks at NNLO QCD, top quark physics, including top quark mass measurements.
Low-energy tests of the Standard Model: precision physics of positronium and hydrogen and physics of the muon anomalous magnetic moment.
Methods for higher-order perturbative computations in quantum field theory: on-shell methods for multi-leg one-loop computations, sector decomposition, integration-by-parts.
A comprehensive picture of what I do can be obtained by browsing through my list of publications according to SLAC SPIRES database. Also, citations from SLAC SPIRES might be of interest.