Christian Spiering

Christian Spiering (* 1948 in Perleberg ) is a German elementary particle physicist who specializes in neutrino physics and astroparticle physics.

Spiering studied physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1974 on hadronic interactions in bubble chambers . From 1974 to 1978 he was at JINR Dubna and then at the Institute for High Energy Physics, since 1992 DESY Zeuthen , where he was deputy head of research from 1990 to 2000. From 1988 to 2005 and 2007 to 2009 he was the spokesman for the astro-particle physics group in Zeuthen.

At first he dealt with hadron-nucleus interaction (in Dubna and Zeuthen) and the construction of particle detectors. In the 1980s he developed a neutrino calorimeter at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protwino , and looked for axions and solar periodicities in tree rings.

From the end of the 1980s he turned from experimental particle physics to accelerators in neutrino astrophysics. He headed the Baikal group (with a neutrino telescope in Lake Baikal , from 1988) and since 1995 the AMANDA group in Zeuthen and was the European spokesman for the AMANDA collaboration from 1997 to 2005. Since 2000 he has been involved in the IceCube collaboration of a neutrino telescope in Antarctica, from 2005 to 2007 as its spokesman.

In 2006 he and Grigori Domogazki received the Markov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his contributions to the Baikal neutrino telescope.

In 2017 he was honored with the O'Ceallaigh Medal of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies for his contributions to the physics of cosmic rays, in particular to the emerging field of neutrino astronomy.

Fonts

• The Neutrino Telescope in Eternal Ice , Physics in Our Time, Issue 2, 2000, p. 56
• In search of the primal force , Teubner, Leipzig 1986, (Small natural science library. Volume 61), ISBN 3-322-00315-9 .
• Neutrino hunting in the deepest lake in the world , in Gisela Graichen (editor) Humboldts Erben , Lübbe Verlag 2000.
• Neutrinos - invisible heavenly messengers , in Müller-Krumbhaar, Wagner (editor) And he throws the dice , Wiley / VCH 2001.
• IceCube neutrino hunt at the South Pole , Spectrum of Science, August 2007.

Web links

• Spiering at DESY Zeuthen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DESY announcement on the Markov Prize
2. ↑ DESY announcement on the O'Ceallaigh Medal
3. ↑ DIAS, O'Ceallaigh Medal