Basel Universität
Departement für Physik und Astronomie
Departement für Physik und Astronomie

PD Dr. T. Rauscher


Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
CH-4056 Basel

office: 4.15
tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3754
fax: +41 (0)61 267 1349
e-mail:
research page: http://nucastro.org/
personal page: http://thomasrauscher.ch/


administrative assistant
Francois Erkadoo
e-mail:
tel.: ++41 (0)61 267 3750
fax: ++41 (0)61 267 1349



Short Biography

  1. 1982-1991 Studies of Physics at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and
    Astronomy at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  2. 1989 Diplom-Ingenieur aus Technischer Physik (Masters in Physics)
    Masters Thesis: “One-nucleon transfer below the Coulomb barrier”, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
  3. 1991 Dr. techn. aus Technischer Physik (PhD in Physics)
    PhD thesis: “Reaction rates for primordial nucleosynthesis”, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
  4. 1998 Privat-Dozent, Habilitation in Theoretical Physics
    University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  5. 1999 Assistenzprofessor (assistant professor)
    University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland


Research Summary

  1. Nuclear Astrophysics
  2. Stellar, Explosive and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  3. Stellar Evolution
  4. Nuclear Reactions (Transfer and Fusion Reactions, Radiative Capture, in different reaction mechanisms (compound and direct
    reactions), Nuclear Structure
  5. Numerical Simulations

There is a separate web page detailing my scientific work and results!



Selected Publications


  1. Rauscher, T, Heger, A, Hoffman, RD, and Woosley, SE, Nucleosynthesis in massive stars with improved nuclear and stellar physics, The Astrophysical Journal 576, 323 (2002).
  2. Schatz, H, et al., End point of the rp process on accreting neutron stars, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3471 (2001).
  3. Rauscher, T, and Thielemann, FK, Astrophysical reaction rates from statistical model calculations, Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 75, 1 (2000).
  4. Freiburghaus, C, et al., The astrophysical r-process: A comparison of calculations following adiabatic expansion with classical calculations based on neutron densities and temperatures, The Astrophysical Journal 516, 381 (1999).
  5. Rauscher, T, Thielemann, FK, and Kratz, KL, Nuclear level density and the determination of thermonuclear rates for astrophysics, Phys. Rev. C 56, 1613 (1997).
  6. T. Rauscher, et al., Production of Heavy Elements in Inhomogeneous Cosmologies, The Astrophysical Journal 429, 499 (1994).

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