Prof. Dr. Werner Vogelsang

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietKernphysik,Elementarteilchenphysik
KeywordsPerturbative QCD, Polarized proton-antiproton scattering at GSI-FAIR, QCD at the LHC, Resummations, Spin phenomena in QCD

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandDeutschland
OrtTübingen
Universität/InstitutionEberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institut/AbteilungInstitut für Theoretische Physik
Websitehttp://www.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~vogelsang/Welcome.html

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Klaus GoekeInstitut für Experimentalphysik I: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Prof. Dr. Andreas SchäferInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.07.2007

Programm(e)

2007Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), i.e. the theory which describes the interaction between quarks and gluons, is one of the most demanding theories. The technical difficulties of many calculations actually limit the gain in understanding obtained from large particle accelerators. Dr. Vogelsang is one of the leading experts for higher-order perturbative QCD calculation, including resummation techniques. He has greatly advanced these techniques, applying them primarily to processes investigated at the RHIC accelerator of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), to which he belongs. The main emphasis is on proton spin physics, focussing on the question how spin and orbital angular momentum is distributed among the quarks and gluons forming the proton. During his stay in Germany he plans to adopt these techniques to describe experiments at DESY, CERN and GSI-FAIR.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2010Matthias Aicher, Andreas Schaefer, Werner Vogelsang: Soft-gluon resummation and the valence parton distribution function of the pion. In: Physical Review Letters, 2010, 252003-1-252003-4