Hans Gutbrod (physicist)

Hans Herbert Gutbrod (* 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist.

Gutbrod studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 ( four nucleon transfer on nuclei of the sd and p shell ). He then worked in the field of heavy ion physics at low energies in Heidelberg, Rochester (New York) , the Brookhaven National Laboratory and in Berkeley . In 1992 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

From the 1970s he was a pioneer of heavy ion physics with Reinhard Stock and Rudolf Bock at the GSI in Darmstadt , at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Bevalac, with Arthur Poskanzer ) and later at the SPS of CERN, especially for researching the equation of state of nuclear matter at high densities and temperatures (where their experiments showed the behavior of an almost ideal liquid, as predicted by Walter Greiner and his school). In 1988 he received the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize for this with his stick .

He then worked at CERN on the ALICE heavy ion detector experiment , of which he had been the spokesperson since the early 1990s and where he was the project manager of the Dimyon spectrometer until 2001. The main goal was to investigate the formation of quark-gluon plasma , which is to be achieved at the LHC accelerator at CERN.

In Nantes , he headed the Subatech Laboratory (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des technologies associee) of the Ecole des Mines, the CNRS and the University of Nantes from 1996 to 2001 , but then returned to GSI, where he worked on the FAIR project (Facility for Antiproton and Heavy Ion Research) of a future GSI accelerator is working.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GND entry
2. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .