Dr. Hans Georg Ritter

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-1 und Äquivalente
FachgebietKernphysik,Elementarteilchenphysik
KeywordsChiral Symmetry, Heavy Ion Reactions, High Density Matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtBerkeley
Universität/InstitutionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Institut/AbteilungNuclear Science Division

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Volker LindenstruthKirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Johanna StachelPhysikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Reinhard StockInstitut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.06.2005

Programm(e)

2004Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Hans-Georg Ritter receives the Humboldt Forschungspreis for his seminal contributions to the experimental exploration of nuclear collisions at relativistic energies. His discovery (with H. Gutbrod and A. Poskanzer) of hydrodynamic flow effects in such collisions continues to play an important role in present-day experiments. He pioneered the construction of large scale tracking devices for the simultaneous detection of thousends of charged particles produced in such collisions and, together with his group at LBNL, Berkeley, led the way towards the recently discovered "jet-quenching" phenomenon at the RHIC accelerator, Brookhaven. During his stay in Germany he will work on new ways, based on micro-electronics and large compute farms, to characterize within milliseconds the state of nuclear collisions both at the upcoming Large hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva and at the planned FAIR facility at GSI, Darmstadt.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2007STAR Collaboration, B.I. Abelev et al.: Partonic flow and phi-meson production in Au + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.. In: Physical Review Letters, 2007, 112301
2007Hans Georg Ritter: Prospect for an Energy Scan at RHIC. In: POS (CPOD2006), 2007, 015
2007Hans Georg Ritter: The Role of Collective Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions. In: International Journal of Modern Physics E, 2007, 677-685