Basel Universität
Departement für Physik
Departement für Physik

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Baur


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

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Short Biography

1970: Dr. phil, Universität Basel, 'Particle-vibration coupling and the giant dipole resonance'
1970-1971 postdoc at the University of Basel
1971-1974 postdoc at the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
1974: Guest scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
1975-2009: Senior Scientist at the Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
1982: Habilitation, Universität Basel, 'Fragmentation processes in nuclear reactions'
since 1993: a. o. Prof. Universität Basel



Research Summary

Photon-hadron and photon-photon interactions in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions

Atomic physics with relativistic heavy ions

Indirect methods for nuclear astrophysics: Coulomb dissociation, Trojan Horse method


Publications

  1. G. Baur, K. Hencken, D. Trautmann, Electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rept. 453, 1 (2007).
  2. K. Hencken, G. Baur, and D. Trautmann, Transverse momentum distribution of vector mesons produced in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 12303 (2006).
  3. S. Typel, G. Baur, Effective range approach and scaling laws for electromagnetic strength in neutron-halo nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142502 (2004).
  4. G. Baur, K. Hencken, A. Aste, D. Trautmann, and S. R. Klein, Multiphoton exchange processes in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Nucl. Phys. A729, 787 (2003).
  5. G. Baur, K. Hencken, and D. Trautmann, Electromagnetic dissociation as a tool for nuclear structure and astrophysics, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 51, 487 (2003).
  6. S. Typel, G.Baur, Theory of the Trojan horse method, Annals of Physics 305, 228 (2003).
  7. G. Baur, K. Hencken, D. Trautmann, S. Sadovsky, and Y. Kharlov, Coherent gamma gamma and gamma-A interactions in very peripheral collisions at relativistic ion colliders, Phys. Rept. 364, 359 (2002).
  8. G. Baur, Multiple electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions: A strong field effect, Phys. Rev. A42, 5736 (1990).
  9. C. A. Bertulani, G.Baur, Electromagnetic processes in relativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rept. 163, 299 (1988).
  10. G. Baur, C. A. Bertulani, H. Rebel, Coulomb dissociation as a source of information on radiative capture processes of astrophysical interest, Nucl. Phys. A458, 188 (1986).