Klaus Rith

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Klaus Rith (born March 15, 1942 in Dortmund ) is a German physicist.

Live and act

Rith studied physics at the Universities of Münster , Tübingen and Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Bonn and was then from 1974 to 1985 research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1982. From 1986 to 1992 he was a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and from 1989 to 1992 an adjunct professor at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . In 1992 he followed a call to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where he was full professor and holder of the chair for physics until 2008. 1978 to 1980, 1985 to 1986 and 2002 he was a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva, the European Center for Particle Physics.

Rith was a member of numerous commissions and bodies at FAU as well as advisory bodies at other universities and research institutions. From 1997 to 1999 he was vice dean and from 1999 to 2001 dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences I at FAU and from 2003 to 2007 dean of physics studies. From 1993 to 1999 he was a member and from 2006 to 2009 chairman of the “Hadron and Nuclear Physics” committee of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

research

Rith works in the field of experimental particle physics . A focus of his scientific work is the investigation of the structure of nucleons from quarks and gluons as well as the generation of hadrons in the deep inelastic scattering of high-energy muons at CERN or electrons or positrons at DESY (German electron synchrotron) in Hamburg, as well as the development of Particle detectors for these experiments.

In 1982, as part of experiments by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC), he played a key role in the discovery of the EMC effect , which means that the quark-gluon structure of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei changes significantly due to the surrounding nuclear medium compared to free nucleons becomes. In 1985, Rith received the Röntgen Prize for his scientific work and initiatives that led to the discovery of this effect. Details of the EMC effect were then examined in particular by the NMC experiment at CERN. 1984 to 1986 he was the first speaker for this experiment.

Another focus of his research activities is the investigation of the inner spin structure of the nucleon through experiments with polarized beams and targets, in particular with the HERMES experiment at the HERA storage ring facility of DESY, which he headed from 1988 to 1994 and again from 2008 to 2011 as speaker.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Bogdan Povh , Christoph Scholz, Frank Zetsche and Werner Rodejohann: Particles and Cores , 9th edition, Springer Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-37821-8
  • Quark-Gluon Structure of the Nucleon , In: Lecture Notes in Physics. 496, Springer Verlag 1997, pp. 250-346
  • Spin Asymmetries in Deep-Inelastic Electron-Nucleon Scattering - Selected HERMES Results , In: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 49, 2002, pp. 245-324

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JJ Aubert u. a. The ratio of the nucleon structure function F2N for iron and deuterium , Physics Letters B, Volume 123, 1983, pp. 275-278, with Rith as one of the 67 authors
  2. ↑ with Douglas Higinbotham, Gerald Miller, Or Hen, The EMC effect still puzzles after 30 years , CERN Courier, April 26, 2013
  3. ↑ Present status of the EMC Effect , Proceedings of the 51st International School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice, 2013, Subnucl. Ser. 51 (2015) 431-449, World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-4678-10-0 , arxiv : 1402.5000
personal data
SURNAME Rith, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund

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