Ulf-G. Meissner

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Ulf-Gerrit Meißner (born October 20, 1957 in Celle ) is a German theoretical nuclear physicist.

Meißner studied physics from 1976 at the Ruhr University Bochum with a diploma in nuclear physics in 1982 and then went to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY), where he received his doctorate in 1984 under Gerald E. Brown (Application of the Skyrme model in the description of nuclear phenomena). He also spent a year at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (1983/84). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Bern , in the theory department of CERN (1985) and from 1985 at the University of Regensburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1988 with Wolfram Weise ( Low energy hadron physics from effective chiral lagrangians with vector mesons ). From 1987 to 1989 he was at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Bern and 1993/94 in Strasbourg and Mainz. In 1994 he was a deputy chair in Bonn, where he became a professor in 1996. He was also head of department at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at Forschungszentrum Jülich, where he was one of the directors from 2003 (from 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Simulations). From 2003 he held the chair for theoretical nuclear physics at the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn, where he also headed the theory department.

He deals with effective chiral field theories in nuclear physics and physics of hadrons, for example Skyrme model (see Skyrmion ), Bag models, Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model (after Yoichiro Nambu , Giovanni Jona-Lasinio ). In nuclear physics in particular, a description using the underlying quantum chromodynamics is not possible due to its non-linearity, and in the 1980s, microscopic interactions (via pion and rho mesons) were described using chiral field theories, with Meissner playing a leading role. Meißner also investigated such theories on the grid with supercomputers. Through the chiral effective field theories, a common description of the properties of both nuclei and individual hadrons succeeded, and he also examined exotic hadrons such as tetraquarks or dibaryons and hadronic molecules, parity violation in nuclei and the Hoyle state of carbon 12, which is important in astrophysics. He has produced over 500 scientific publications (2016). In Jülich he conducted research on the COZY cooler synchrotron .

In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) . In 2016 he received the Lise Meitner Prize . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .

Fonts

As a selection mainly of review articles:

  • with I. Zahed: Skyrmions in nuclear physics, Adv. in Nucl. Phys., Vol. 17, 1986, p. 143
  • Low Energy Hadron Physics from Effective Chiral Lagrangians with Vector Mesons, Phys. Reports, Vol. 161, 1988, p. 213
  • with Véronique Bernard: The Nambu – Jona-Lasinio Model: Applications and Limitations of Strong Coupling Theory, Comments on Nucl. Part. Phys., Volume 19, 1989, p. 67
  • Chiral Dynamics - where are the scalars?, Comm. Nucl. Part. Phys., Vol. 20, 1991, p. 119
  • Applications of effective field theory methods in nuclear and particle physics, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., Vol. 44, 2000, p. 223
  • Unification of the physics of nucleons and nuclei, IUPAP Conf. Few Body Probl., Durham 2003, Arxiv
  • Modern theory of nuclear forces, INPC Göteborg 2004, Arxiv
  • with V. Bernard: Chiral perturbation theory, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., Vol. 57, 2007, pp. 33-60, Arxiv
  • with E. Epelbaum, H.-W. Hammer: Modern theory of nuclear forces, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 81, 2009, pp. 1773-1825
  • with E. Epelbaum: Chiral dynamics of few- and many-nucleon systems, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Phys., Volume 62, 2012, pp. 159-185, Arxiv
  • The long and winding road from chiral effective Lagrangians to nuclear structure, Physica Scripta, Preprint 2015, Arxiv
  • Nuclear lattice simulations: Status and perspectives, INPC 2013 Florence, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Epelbaum, Krebs, Lee, Meißner, Ab initio calculation of the Hoyle state, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 106, 2011, 192501, Arxiv
  2. ↑ Together with Josef Speth , K. Kilian, he published a review article about it in Physikalische Blätter, Volume 54, 1998, p. 911, Physik am Kühlersynchrotron COZY
  3. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Communication from the European Physical Society
  5. ↑ Directory of members: Ulf G. Meißner. Academia Europaea, accessed July 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ A monograph on Chiral Effective Theories by Meißner is due to appear soon (2016) at Cambridge University Press
personal data
SURNAME Meissner, Ulf-G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meißner, Ulf-Gerrit (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle