Michael Kobel

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Michael Kobel (born October 10, 1961 in Bayreuth ) is a German particle physicist . He has been teaching and researching since 2006 as a professor for particle physics at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Michael Kobel studied physics from 1980 to 1986 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his doctorate in 1991 with experimental measurements carried out at DESY in Hamburg on the subject of Measurement of the decay of the _U63 (1S) [Upsilon (1S)] and _U63 ( 2S) [Upsilon (2S)] resonances to muon pairs and determination of the strong coupling constant using the Crystal Ball Detector , also at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1997, he completed his habilitation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1998 Kobel was initially a deputy and from 1999 a full professor for experimental particle physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2006 he was appointed to the Technical University of Dresden, where he has held the professorship for particle physics ever since.

With his research group, Kobel has been evaluating experimental data from the ATLAS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva since 2006 . From 2008 to 2017 he was director of the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics (IKTP), from 2009 to 2016 Dean of Studies for the Department of Physics at TU Dresden and has been Dean of the Faculty of Physics at TU Dresden since 2018.

Kobel has been the German representative in the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) (formerly EPPOG) since 2000 and was one of its two chairmen from 2009 to 2012. He is a representative of the ATLAS experiment in the German LHC outreach group GELOG.

Act

Kobel has been researching fundamental questions in particle physics with the help of experiments at particle accelerators since 1984 . Central topics are precision tests of the standard model , in particular the variation of the strengths of the fundamental interactions , the precise measurement of electroweak scattering processes as well as the investigation of electroweak symmetry breaking and the origin of mass through the search for Higgs bosons and their contribution to the scattering of W bosons and Z bosons within and beyond the Standard Model.

Kobel is committed to communicating particle physics and cosmology in a generally understandable way . In 2002 he was awarded the High Energy Particle Physics Public Outreach Prize of the European Physical Society in 2002 “for his efforts to bring high-energy particle physics to schoolchildren ”.

In 2003 he became the founding chairman of the Science on Stage association , which emerged from the Physics on Stage initiative he had organized in Germany since 2000 . Kobel sits on the scientific advisory board of the weltmaschine.de website of the German CERN / LHC communication, which communicates scientific aspects around the LHC in a generally understandable way. He also designed several exhibits for her mobile exhibition Weltmaschine , including a clear "hands-on" Higgs model and an animation of how the universe would have developed if the elementary particles had slightly different masses.

In 2005 Kobel initiated the first European Student Research Days , the so-called European Particle Physics Masterclasses , which were organized by the European Particle Physics Outreach Group EPPOG. As part of the event, over 2500 schoolchildren from 18 European countries were able to evaluate real data from CERN or attend lectures on particle physics for around two weeks . Just two years later, over 4,000 students took part in the International Hands on Particle Physics Masterclasses , which are now international student research days, in which research institutes from the USA and South Africa also took part. In 2012, 130 institutes from 31 countries from all over the world took part in the master classes, which were attended by around 8,000 students.

In 2010, Kobel set up the nationwide Particle World network , which incorporated experience from international masterclasses. Network Particle World is a "national [s] network of research institutes, schools and learning locations, scientists, pupils, teachers and students". In particle physics masterclasses , project days at schools and student laboratories, among other things, young people can first evaluate original data from CERN experiments and then have the opportunity to get involved in astroparticle and particle physics on an individual basis or in their own research projects. The patron of the network, which is led by Kobel, is the German Physical Society . In 2011, the Particle World Network was honored as a Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas . At the end of 2013, Kobel received the Georg Kerschensteiner Prize 2014 from the German Physical Society, which is awarded for contributions to didactics and school physics, for his “many years of active involvement in popularizing physics and communicating particle physics to young people” .

Kobel is involved in the Welcome to Löbtau network for the integration of migrants and social cohesion and heads the training and work working group , which creates personal sponsorships with refugees. The working group received the Dresden Integration Prize at the end of 2016. Kobel has been a board member of the Saxon Refugee Council since 2019.

Fonts (selection)

Michael Kobel is the author of over 800 scientific publications, including a .:

  • 1989: A verified upgrade of the GHEISHA 6-7 simulation of particle interactions (with Zbigniew Jakubowski)
  • 1990: Measurement of the decay of the Upsilon (1S) and Upsilon (2S) resonances to muon pairs (with Crystal Ball Collaboration)
  • 1991: Measurement of the decay of the _U63 (1S) [Upsilon (1S)] and _U63 (2S) [Upsilon (2S)] resonances to muon pairs and determination of the strong coupling constant using the Crystal Ball Detector (doctoral thesis Uni Erlangen, DESY-F31-91-03)
  • 2000: Two fermion production in electron positron collisions
  • 2003: Decay mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP (with OPAL collaboration)
  • 2004: Particle Physics (Entry in: K. Bammel (Ed.): Faszination Physik . Spectrum Akad. Verlag, pp. 19–40.)
  • 2005: Measurement of the running of the QED coupling in small-angle Bhabha scattering at LEP (with OPAL collaboration)
  • 2006: Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (with LEP Electroweak Working Group, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3, OPAL collaborations)
  • 2007: European particle physics masterclasses make students scientists for a day (with E. Johansson, D. Hillebrandt, K. Engeln, M. Euler)
  • 2009: Students in Science (with Uta Bilow, in: Physics in Our Time )
  • 2010: Discovery Potential of supersymmetric Higgs Bosons A / H-> tau, tau in ATLAS (with ATLAS collaboration)
  • 2012: Network Particle World: Young people and teachers experience current research in particle physics (with Kerstin Gedigk, Anne Glück, Konrad Jende, Christian Rudolph, Gesche Pospiech )

Awards

  • 2002: High Energy Particle Physics Public Outreach Prize 2002 from the European Physical Society
  • 2005: nominated for the Descartes Prize for Excellence in Science Communication
  • 2011: Network Particle World - Selected Location in the Land of Ideas
  • 2013: Teaching award from the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. (GFF)
  • 2013: Georg Kerschensteiner Prize 2014 from the German Physical Society
  • 2016: Dresden Integration Prize
  • 2019: Award at the honorary reception in the Saxon state parliament

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ippog.org
  2. ↑ a b Physik Journal , 1st year (2002), No. 11, p. 37 ( pro-physik.de ).
  3. ↑ With science festivals against the PISA shock. Association "Science on Stage Germany" founded in Bonn . news aktuell, March 25, 2003.
  4. ↑ science-on-stage.de Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau . Volume 57, 2004, p. 347.
  5. ↑ CERN, ESA and ESO Launch “Physics On Stage” . CERN press office, March 1, 2000
  6. ↑ What if . tricklabor.com
  7. ↑ Michael Kobel: Quarks, Traces and Video . In: Contexis . (PDF) No. 16, 2005, p. 7.
  8. ↑ Pupils as researchers for one day . idw-online, March 13, 2007.
  9. ^ Schoolchildren on the hunt for particles . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 19, 2012, p. 5.
  10. ↑ a b Dr. Sven Sommer, Anne Glück: On the trail of the Big Bang (PDF; 533 kB) . In: Kontexis , No. 37, 2011, p. 4.
  11. ↑ Network Particle World - Particle Physics you can touch. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Georg Kerschensteiner Prize 2014 for Prof. Michael Kobel , tu-dresden.de, November 15, 2013.
  13. ↑ The 2014 Physics Prize Winners of the German Physical Society.
  14. ↑ Board of Directors. In: Saxon Refugee Council. April 13, 2016, accessed December 9, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ sciencedirect.com
  16. ↑ inspirehep.net
  17. ↑ library.desy.de (PDF)
  18. ↑ arxiv : hep-ph / 0007180
  19. ↑ arxiv : hep-ex / 0206022
  20. ↑ arxiv : hep-ex / 0505072
  21. ↑ arxiv : hep-ex / 0509008
  22. ↑ iopscience.iop.org
  23. ↑ inspirehep.net
  24. ↑ phydid.de
  25. ↑ Dresden Integration Prize for Löbtau working group "Training and Work". State capital Dresden, December 28, 2006, accessed on February 1, 2017 (press release).
  26. ↑ Welcome to Löbtau eV: The head of our training and work group #WiLArbeit and @sfr_ev board, @michael_kobel, was honored today for his commitment by State Minister B.Klepsch @sms_sachsen and State Parliament President M. Roessler. We are happy about the recognition and congratulate all those honored! In: @WiL_eV. Twitter, December 7, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kobel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth