Otto Nachtmann
Otto Nachtmann (born September 14, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theoretical elementary particle physicist.
Nachtmann studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1967, then worked as a research assistant and completed his habilitation in 1974. From 1976 until his retirement in 2007 he was a full professor of theoretical physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . 1986/87 he was dean of the faculty for physics and astronomy.
He is particularly concerned with (also non-perturbation theory) statements of quantum chromodynamics on high energy scattering, with the physics of Higgs bosons and discrete symmetries, each with a close connection to the experiment.
At the end of the 1980s, together with Peter Landshoff , he developed the Landshoff-Nachtmann model to explain the increase in the total effective cross-sections in many particle scattering processes of the strong interaction. It provides a QCD model for the long-postulated exchange of a hypothetical particle, the pomeron .
In 1973 he introduced Nachtmann moments for structure functions in deep inelastic scattering processes (and Nachtmann variables ).
Fonts
- Phenomena and concepts of elementary particle physics , Braunschweig, Vieweg 1986, corrected reprint 1991
- Elementary Particle Physics: concepts and phenomena , Berlin, Springer 1990
- with Sandy Donnachie, Günter Dosch, Peter Landshoff Pomeron physics and QCD , Cambridge University Press 2002, 2005
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to the Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933-1986 , Springer 2009
- ^ Landshoff-Nachtmann model from Landshoff, Scholarpedia
- ^ Landshoff, Nachtmann Zeitschrift für Physik C, 35, 1987, 405
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| SURNAME | Nachtmann, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theoretical elementary particle physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |