
Prof. emer. Gerhard Baur
Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056 Basel, Switzerland
Short Biography
- 1970: Dr. phil, Universität Basel, 'Particle-vibration coupling and the giant dipole resonance'
- 1970-1971 PostDoc at the University of Basel
- 1971-1974 PostDoc at the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1974: Guest scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1975-2009: Senior Scientist at the Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
- 1982: Habilitation, Universität Basel, 'Fragmentation processes in nuclear reactions' since
- 1993: a. o. Prof. Universität Basel
Research Summary
- Photon-hadron and photon-photon interactions in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Atomic physics with relativistic heavy ions
- Indirect methods for nuclear astrophysics: Coulomb dissociation, Trojan Horse method
Selected Publications
- G. Baur, K. Hencken, D. Trautmann, Electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rept. 453, 1 (2007).
- K. Hencken, G. Baur, and D. Trautmann, Transverse momentum distribution of vector mesons produced in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 12303 (2006).
- S. Typel, G. Baur, Effective range approach and scaling laws for electromagnetic strength in neutron-halo nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142502 (2004).
- G. Baur, K. Hencken, A. Aste, D. Trautmann, and S. R. Klein, Multiphoton exchange processes in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, Nucl. Phys. A729, 787 (2003).
- G. Baur, K. Hencken, and D. Trautmann, Electromagnetic dissociation as a tool for nuclear structure and astrophysics, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 51, 487 (2003).
- S. Typel, G.Baur, Theory of the Trojan horse method, Annals of Physics 305, 228 (2003).
- G. Baur, K. Hencken, D. Trautmann, S. Sadovsky, and Y. Kharlov, Coherent gamma gamma and gamma-A interactions in very peripheral collisions at relativistic ion colliders, Phys. Rept. 364, 359 (2002).
- G. Baur, Multiple electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions: A strong field effect, Phys. Rev. A42, 5736 (1990).
- C. A. Bertulani, G.Baur, Electromagnetic processes in relativistic heavy ion collisions, Phys. Rept. 163, 299 (1988).
- G. Baur, C. A. Bertulani, H. Rebel, Coulomb dissociation as a source of information on radiative capture processes of astrophysical interest, Nucl. Phys. A458, 188 (1986).