Manfred Lindner (physicist)
Manfred Lindner (born February 22, 1957 in Ellenfeld near Bärnau ) is a German physicist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and conducts research in the fields of neutrino physics, dark matter and new physics beyond the standard model of elementary particle physics.
Live and act
Manfred Lindner studied physics from 1978 to 1984 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1987 from the Ludwig Maximilians University on the subject of the non-linear renormalization group flow of the standard model of the electroweak interaction and some extensions . After postdoctoral years at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Chicago from 1987 to 1989 and as a fellow at CERN in Geneva from 1989 to 1991, he was a Heisenberg fellow at Heidelberg University from 1991 to 1993 .
Lindner completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1992. In 1993 he accepted a professorship for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he researched and taught from 1993 to 2006. In 2006 he accepted a call from the Max Planck Society and moved to the Max Planck Society as director. Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. Since 2007, Lindner has also been a personal full professor at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Heidelberg University, where he continues to be involved in teaching. From 2009 to 2011 he was Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. He is spokesman for the International Max Planck Research School for Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and is involved in various other research associations. Manfred Lindner participates in various national and international committees and is involved as a reviewer for various research funding organizations. He works as a reviewer and member of the editorial board for specialist journals. He is also a member of numerous advisory committees for international specialist conferences and chair of the most important international specialist conference on neutrino physics, which took place in Heidelberg in 2018.
Research priorities
Manfred Lindner conducts research in the field of particle and astroparticle physics . The spectrum of topics ranges from formal theoretical questions to experimental detection methods. Theoretical research deals with fundamental properties of matter in the so-called standard model and in possible extensions. On the experimental side, Manfred Lindner and his department are leading international projects in the field of neutrino physics and the search for dark matter . The main experimental projects are currently GERDA for the detection of neutrino-free double beta decay, the XENON project for the search for dark matter and Double Chooz for the detection of subdominant antineutrino oscillations. Lindner is co-spokesman for the XENON collaboration, which is currently operating the XENON1T detector for the direct search for dark matter and is preparing the successor detector XENONnT, which is to go into operation in 2019. Further projects are STEREO (search for sterile neutrinos at the ILL research reactor) and CONUS (coherent neutrino scattering).
honors and awards
Manfred Lindner was awarded a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 1990 , with which he researched and taught at Heidelberg University from 1991 . In 2016 Manfred Lindner was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Technical University ( Kungliga Tekniska Högsksolan , KTH) in Stockholm, which honors him for important contributions to the research area of neutrino physics. The award ceremony took place on November 18, 2016 as part of a ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall, followed by a banquet in the Stockholm City Hall. KTH is Sweden's largest technical university, which awards an honorary doctorate to personalities who have achieved outstanding achievements and at the same time have promoted their reputation through cooperation with the university.
Publications (selection)
- P. Huber et al .: First hint for CP violation in neutrino oscillations from upcoming superbeam and reactor experiments . In: JHEP 0911 (2009) 044.
- A. Bandyopadhyay et al .: Physics at a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility . In: Rept.Prog.Phys . 72, 106201, (2009).
- F. Bezrukov, H. Hettmansperger, M. Lindner: keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter in gauge extensions of the Standard Model . In: Physical Review D81, 085032 (2010).
- E. Aprile et al .: Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data . In: Physical Review Letters . 107, 131302 (2011).
- Y. Abe et al .: Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment . In: Phys.Rev.Lett . 108, 131801 (2012).
- M. Holthausen et al .: Planck scale Boundary Conditions and the Higgs Mass . In: JHEP . 1202 (2012) 037.
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Lindner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Manfred Lindner on the website of the MPI for Nuclear Physics
- Literature by Manfred Lindner in the INSPIRE-HEP database
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMPRS-PTFS
- ↑ NEUTRINO 2018. Accessed April 2, 2018 .
- ↑ XENON. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lindner, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ellenfeld near Bärnau |