Albrecht Boehm

Albrecht Böhm (born June 11, 1939 in Fürth ) is a German experimental particle physicist .

Life

Böhm attended school in Regensburg and Fürth and studied physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after graduating from high school in 1959 . From 1964 to 1968 he was involved in neutrino experiments and kaon decay experiments at CERN with Carlo Rubbia . In 1969 he received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University and in 1974 he became scientific advisor and professor and in 1980 professor (Chair for Experimental Physics III A). From 1999 to 2001 he was Siegfried Bethke's successor and headed the 3rd Physics Institute A (his successor was Thomas Hebekker ). In 2004 he retired. Martin Erdmann was his successor .

In the 1970s he was involved in experiments to measure the elastic and total proton-proton cross-section at the ISR of CERN and from 1976 on the Mark J detector at DESY (storage ring Petra) (headed by Samuel C. C. Ting ), for which the Aachen group used a calorimeter built. In the 1979 experiment, the gluon was detected (as a three-jet event). In 1986 he organized the LEP 200 workshop of the European Committee for Future Accelerators and was involved in the LEP L3 detector (which went into operation in 1989, headed by Samuel CC Ting), with which a series of tests of the standard model were carried out, including decay of the Z boson and determined upper and lower bounds for the Higgs mass in the mid-1990s.

Web links

• Laudation (PDF)
• Festschrift for the 50th birthday of the 3rd Physics Institute. (PDF) RWTH Aachen University, 2013