Peter Braun-Munzinger

Peter Braun-Munzinger (born August 26, 1946 in Heidelberg ) is a German nuclear physicist who deals with ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma that is generated .

Braun-Munzinger studied at the University of Heidelberg with a diploma in 1970 and a doctorate summa cum laude in 1972, where he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation as a doctoral candidate. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and from 1976 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY), where he became Assistant Professor in 1978 and Associate Professor in 1980 1982 became a professor. From 1996 to 2011 he was a senior scientist at GSI and professor at TU Darmstadt . From 2011 to 2014 he was Helmholtz Professor at the GSI Center for Heavy Ion Research and then Honorary Professor in Heidelberg.

Braun-Munzinger was a visiting scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in 1977 and at the GSI in Darmstadt in 1981 and 1984/85. From 1985 to 1994 he was the spokesman for the heavy ion experiment AGS E814 and from 1991 to 2003 of its successor AGS E877 at the BNL. From 1998 to 2010 he was project manager of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of ALICE at CERN and from 2011 chairman of the ALICE Collaboration Board. Since 2008 he has been scientific director of the Extreme Matter Institute (EMMI) of the Helmholtz Society.

In 2001 he and Johanna Stachel (as well as independently M. Thews, R. Schroedter, Johann Rafelski ) suggested that in addition to the previously expected effect of increasing suppression of charmonium production ( J / ψ meson ) in the quark-gluon Plasma gives a competing process of increased charmonium production, since with increasing collision energy far more charm quarks are formed than light quarks, from which charmonium is formed during hadronization.

In 2014 he received the Lise Meitner Prize , and in 2019 he was awarded the Stern Gerlach Medal . In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2011 he became a member of the Academia Europaea .

From 1984 to 1987 and 2000 to 2002 he was co-editor of Physical Review Letters.

Fonts (selection)

with Jochen Wambach: The Phase Diagram of Strongly-Interacting Matter, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 81, 2009, pp. 1031-1050, Arxiv
with J. Wambach: Extreme Materie, Physik Journal, Volume 5, October 2006, p. 41, online
J. Alme et al. a., ALICE TPC Collaboration :, The ALICE TPC, a large 3-dimensional tracking device with fast read-out for ultra-high multiplicity events, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Research A 622, 2010, p. 316
with A. Andronic, J. Stachel: Thermal hadron production in relativistic nuclear collisions: the hadron mass spectrum, the horn, and the QCD phase transition, Phys. Lett. B 673, 2009, p. 142, Arxiv
BB Abelev et al. a., ALICE Collaboration: Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV, Phys. Lett. B 743, 2014, pp. 314–327 ${\ displaystyle J / \ psi}$ ${\ displaystyle {\ sqrt {S}} _ {NN} = 2 {,} 76}$
BB Abelev et al. a., ALICE Collaboration: production at low transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 2012, p. 072301, ${\ displaystyle J / \ psi}$ ${\ displaystyle {\ sqrt {S}} _ {NN} = 2.76}$
K. Aamodt et al., ALICE Collaboration: Suppression of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in central Pb-Pb collisions at TeV, Phys. Lett. B 696, 2011, pp. 30-39 ${\ displaystyle {\ sqrt {S}} _ {NN} = 2 {,} 76}$
with Johanna Stachel: The quest for the quark gluon plasma, Nature, Volume 448, 2007, pp. 302–309
with A. Andronic, J. Stachel: Hadron production in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at chemical freeze-out, Nuclear Physics A, 772, 2006, pp. 167-199, Arxiv
with J. Stachel, C. Wetterich: Chemical freeze-out and the QCD phase transition temperature, Phys. Lett. B 596, 2004, p. 61, Arxiv
with D. Magestro, K. Redlich, J. Stachel: Hadron Production in Au-Au Collisions at RHIC, Phys. Lett. B 518, 2001, p. 41
with J. Stachel: (Non) -Thermal Aspects of Charmonium Production and a New Look at Suppression, Phys. Lett. B 490, 2000, p. 196, Arxiv ${\ displaystyle J / \ psi}$
with I. Heppe, J. Stachel: Chemical Equilibration in Pb + Pb Collisions at the SPS, Phys. Lett. B 465, 1999, p. 15

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Individual evidence

↑ AGS E814 / E877
^ For example, H. Satz, The quark gluon plasma, 2011, Arxiv , p. 9

personal data
SURNAME	Braun-Munzinger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg

[1] AGS E814 / E877

[2] For example, H. Satz, The quark gluon plasma, 2011, Arxiv , p. 9