Heinrich Päs

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Heinrich Päs (born June 27, 1971 in Bremen ) is a German physicist and professor at the Technical University of Dortmund . He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Physical Review D .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1990 at the Alte Gymnasium Bremen , Päs studied physics and philosophy at the universities of Bremen and Heidelberg . He did his doctorate in 1999 with Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics with a thesis on neutrino-free double beta decay . He then worked as a postdoc at the Universities of Valencia , Vanderbilt ( Nashville ), Würzburg and Hawaii ( Honolulu ). He completed his habilitation in 2005 on the subject of neutrinos and particle physics beyond the standard model in Würzburg. From 2007 he was assistant professor at the University of Alabama and from the winter semester 2007/2008 professor at the (Technical) University of Dortmund . Päs was a German university champion and a junior national team member in sailing.

research

Päs conducts research in the field of particle and astroparticle physics , especially neutrinos and the structure of space and time. Together with Martin Hirsch and Werner Porod, he described in Scientific American in 2013 and in 2014 in Spektrum der Wissenschaft how results in neutrino experiments and at the LHC enable complementary information about particle physics beyond the Standard Model. In 2005 he discussed with Thomas Weiler and Sandip Pakvasa the possibility that sterile neutrinos could take abbreviations in extra dimensions. In 2009, the same authors together with James Dent showed that such space-time scenarios could in principle enable closed time-like curves ( time travel ). In 2014, together with Torsten Heinrich and Benjamin Knopp, he suggested that the psychological arrow of time could have an evolutionary cause. In 2015, together with Arjun Berera, Roman Buniy, Thomas Kephart and Joao Rosa, he developed a novel mechanism of cosmic inflation that could explain why the universe has exactly three (large) spatial dimensions .

Fonts (selection)

In 2011 his book The Perfect Wave - With Neutrinos to the Boundaries of Space and Time ( Piper Verlag , longlist for the 2012 knowledge book , report in Die Zeit ) was published, and in 2014 the English edition The Perfect Wave - With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time ( Harvard University Press , report in The Wall Street Journal ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Physical Review D - PRD staff
  2. ↑ "Time travel through foreign dimensions - neutrinos faster than light would be a discovery of the century" by Rüdiger Vaas , Perry Rhodan Journal 136, November 2011, in Perry Rhodan 2626
  3. ↑ "Ghostly beacons of new physics" , Martin Hirsch, Heinrich Paes, Werner Porod, Scientific American 308 (2013) 4, 23-29
  4. ^ "New Physics with Neutrinos" , Martin Hirsch, Heinrich Päs, Werner Porod, Spectrum of Science, May 2014
  5. ^ "Sterile-active neutrino oscillations and shortcuts in the extra dimension" , Heinrich Päs, Sandip Pakvasa, Thomas J. Weiler, Physical Review D72 (2005) 095017
  6. ^ "Neutrinos: The key to a theory of everything" , New Scientist 2615, August 4, 2007 by Marcus Chown
  7. ↑ “Closed timelike curves in asymmetrically warped brane universes” , Heinrich Päs, Sandip Pakvasa, James Dent, Thomas J. Weiler, Physical Review D80: 044008,2009
  8. ^ "At last a way to test time travel" , New Scientist 2552 p. 34, May 20, 2006 by Marcus Chown
  9. ^ "Entropy, biological evolution and the psychological arrow of time" , Torsten Heinrich, Benjamin Knopp, Heinrich Päs
  10. ^ "Why the future keeps slipping your mind" , New Scientist 3056 p. January 9, 2016 by Joshua Sokol
  11. ^ "Knotty inflation and the dimensionality of spacetime" , Arjun Berera, Roman V. Buniy, Thomas W. Kephart, Heinrich Päs, João G. Rosa
  12. ^ "Knotty network could have powered universe's early growth spurt" , New Scientist 3037 of September 5, 2015 by Jacob Aron
  13. ↑ Piper Online Catalog
  14. ↑ Longlist knowledge book of the year 2012
  15. ^ "The LSD of Particle Physics" , Die Zeit 40/2011, September 29, 2011 by Ulrich Schnabel
  16. ^ Harvard University Press Online Catalog
  17. ^ The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2014 by John Gribbin
personal data
SURNAME Päs, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paes, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen