Beate Naroska

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Beate Naroska (* 1943 ; † February 17, 2008 ) was a German experimental physicist in the field of particle physics .

Live and act

Beate Naroska studied physics in Göttingen and Hamburg , where she completed her diploma. She also did her doctoral thesis in Hamburg in Martin Teucher's group on the subject of photogeneration of protons and atomic nuclei , with experimental work on bubble chambers at DESY .

From 1971 to 1978 she worked in Carlo Rubbia's group at CERN . The focus of her work there was in the area of ​​proton-proton scattering and the development of wire chambers . In 1978 she returned to DESY and worked there on the experiment with the JADE particle detector at the PETRA storage ring . Her instrumental developments there enabled her to make precision measurements of the asymmetry of the muon pair formation, which enabled her to estimate the mass of the Z boson, which was not yet directly measured at the time . With the achievement of higher energies of up to 50 GeV at PETRA in the mid-1980s, the measurements were subsequently extended to the production of τ-leptons and b-quarks , allowed extensive confirmation of the electroweak theory and provided clear indications of the existence of the top quark .

After her habilitation on lepton physics at PETRA, Beate Naroska became a professor at the University of Hamburg in 1989. She continued to work at DESY and was one of the leading scientists in the H1 experiment at the HERA storage ring . In 2000 she spent a research stay at the HARP experiment at CERN , where she contributed to precision measurements of cross sections for particle formation in the context of neutrino rays.

Publications

The Web of Science literature and citation database shows Beate Naroska as the author or co-author of over 280 scientific articles with an h-index of 65. In the literature database INSPIRE-HEP 335 articles are listed by her.

Professional article (selection)

  1. ↑ W. Bartel et al .: Experimental studies on multijet production in e + e - annihilation at PETRA energies . In: Journal of Physics C: Particles and Fields . tape 33 , no. 1 , March 1986, p. 23-31 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01410449 .
  2. ^ B. Naroska: e + e - physics with the JADE detector at PETRA . In: Physics Reports . tape 148 , no. 2-3 , April 1987, pp. 67-215 , doi : 10.1016 / 0370-1573 (87) 90031-7 .
  3. ^ C. Adloff et al .: Inclusive measurement of diffractive deep-inelastic ep scattering . In: Journal of Physics C: Particles and Fields . tape 76 , no. 4 , December 1, 1997, p. 613-629 , doi : 10.1007 / s002880050584 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Beate Naroska 1943–2008 . In: CERN Courier . Vol. 48, No.  5 . CERN , June 2008, ISSN  0304-288X , p. 47 ( online [PDF]).
  2. ^ Web of Science. Thomson Reuters , accessed on January 15, 2016 (English, search criteria "AUTHOR: (naroska b *)").
  3. ↑ Literature by Beate Naroska in the high-energy physics database INSPIRE-HEP , accessed on January 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Naroska, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist in the field of particle physics
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2008