Basel Universität
Departement für Physik
Departement für Physik

PD Dr. Kai Hencken

Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
CH-4056 Basel



tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3753
fax: +41 (0)61 267 1349
e-mail:
personal page: http://quasar.unibas.ch/~hencken/



administrative assistant
Francois Erkadoo
tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3750
fax: +41 (0)61 267 1349
e-mail:


Short Biography

  1. Dr. phil., Universität Basel, June 1994.
    "Electromagnetic Production of Electron Positron Pairs in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions."
  2. Habilitation, Universität Basel, June 2000.
  3. Research Scholar, Universität Basel, 1998-2005.
  4. Scientist, ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Dättwil, since 2005.


Research Summary

  1. Electromagnetic Processes in Particle and Nuclear Physics
  2. Coulomb Excitation and Nuclear Reaction with Exotic Nuclei
  3. Atomic Physics in Heavy Ions

since 2005:

  1. Theoretical Physics for Industrial Applications
  2. Electromagnetic Simulations and Plasma Physics
  3. Mathematical and Statistical Modeling


Selected Publications

  1. Kai Hencken, Gerhard Baur, and Dirk Trautmann, Transverse momentum distribution of vector mesons produced in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 12303 (2006).
  2. Gerhard Baur, Kai Hencken, Andreas Aste, Dirk Trautmann, and Spencer R. Klein, Multiphoton exchange processes in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Nucl. Phys. A 729, 787 (2003).
  3. Gerhard Baur, Kai Hencken, and Dirk Trautmann, Electromagnetic dissociation as a tool for nuclear structure and astrophysics, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 51, 487 (2003).
  4. Gerhard Baur, Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, Serguei Sadovsky, and Yuri Kharlov, Coherent gamma gamma and gamma-A interactions in very peripheral collisions at relativistic ion colliders, Phys. Rept. 364, 359 (2002).
  5. Kai Hencken, George Bertsch, and Henning Esbensen, Breakup reactions of the halo nuclei Be11 and B8, Phys. Rev. C 54, 3043 (1996).

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