Jahresbericht 2008 Annual Report

  1. Preface
  2. Accelerator Facility
  3. Personnel
  4. Contributions
      1. TANDEM
        1. Tandem Operation
      2. EXPERIMENTS
        1. Nuclear Spectroscopy
          1. Shape Coexistence in the “Island of inversion”: Search for the 0+2 State in 32Mg applying a Two-neutron Transfer Reaction
          2. One Neutron Knockout on 50Ca
          3. 62Ni(p>, α)59Ca Reaction at 23 MeV
          4. Spectroscopic Factors from the Single Neutron Pickup Reaction 64Zn(d>,t)
          5. 100Sn and Nuclei in its Neighbourhood
          6. High Resolution Measurement of the 118Sn(p,t)116Sn Reaction
          7. Microscopic DWBA Calculations of the 120Sn(p,t)118Sn Reaction
          8. 124Sn(p,t)122Sn Reaction: Analysis of the Angular Distributions
          9. Study of the 142Nd(p>, α)139Pr Reaction
          10. Candidates for the Kπ =1+ 5/2+[402]π - 3/2+[402]π band in 186Os
          11. Towards Optical Control over the Lowest Nuclear Excited State in 229Th
          12. Hyperdeformed Sub-barrier Fission Resonances Observed in 232U
          13. Optimization of the Recoil-shadow Projection Method for the Investigation of Short-lived Fission Isomers
          14. Investigation of Hyperdeformed Fission Resonances in 233Th
          15. Commissioning of Experimental Setup for Conversion Electron Spectroscopy of the Fission Isomer in 239Pu
        2. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
          1. A Multi-Radionuclide Approach for In-situ Produced Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides 10Be 26Al, 36Cl and 41Ca
          2. New Age Estimation of the Monturaqui Impact Crater
          3. Primordial 244Pu on Earth?
          4. Search for Neutron-deficient Th Isotopes
          5. Production of 53Mn in a Fusion Environment
          6. Remeasurement of the Stellar 58Ni(n,γ)59Ni Cross Section
          7. Production of a New 79Se Standard for AMS
          8. A Modified Negative Ion Sputter Source for AMS and its Efficiency for Plutonium
          9. Performance of the n-type HPGe Detector used for the Determination of the 60Fe Half-Life
        3. Elementary Particle and Hadron Physics
          1. Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Channel with the Matrix Element Method at the DØ Experiment
          2. First Multi-dimensional Top Quark Mass Measurement on D0 Data
          3. Search for WH Production with the DØ Experiment
          4. Measurement of σ(pp → Z) · Br (Z → τ+ τ–) with the DØ Experiment
          5. Ratio of Semileptonic and Dileptonic tt Decays in ATLAS at the LHC
          6. Early Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at the ATLAS Experiment
          7. The Search for the Higgs Boson at the ATLAS Experiment using Multivariate Techniques
          8. Scanning the mSUGRA Parameter Space for Different SUSY Signatures and Study of Lepton Isolation for an Inclusive Search for Supersymmetry in Trilepton Events
          9. QCD Background Studies for Inclusive SUSY Searches in the 1-Lepton Channel
          10. Search for Pair Production of Second Generation Scalar Leptoquarks
          11. Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks with ATLAS at the LHC
          12. Study of (pp → Z/γ* → μ+ μ–) at High Dimuon Masses with the ATLAS Detector
          13. Electron Charge Misidentification in the ATLAS Detector
          14. αs Determination via the Differential 2-Jet-Rate at LHC
          15. Associated WH-Production in the Leptonic Decay Channel at ATLAS
          16. Diffractive Pion Dissociation at COMPASS
          17. Strangeness Results from HADES
        4. Fundamental Symmetries
          1. Signatures of the Unruh Effect via High-Power, Short-Pulse Lasers
          2. Preparations for a New Decay Rate Measurement of the Negative Positronium Ion
          3. An Experiment to Measure the Bound- β-decay of the Free Neutron
        5. Particle Astrophysics
          1. Results from the Commissioning Run of CRESST-II
        6. Atomic Physics
          1. Temperature Dependence of N2(C 3Πu v'=0,1) Quenching by N2(X) and O2(X)
          2. Conversion Efficiencies of Electron Beam Energy to 337 nm Light Originating from N2 C 3Πu excited with Continuous Electron Beams
          3. Power Density Limits in Dense Gases for Low Energy Electron Beam Excitation
          4. A Miniature Electron Beam Pumped Laser
          5. Transmission of ~ 10 keV Electron Beams through Thin Ceramic Foils
          6. Drift Time Measurements on Lanthanide Elements
        7. Applications of Nuclear Techniques and Interdisciplinary Nuclear Physics
          1. Investigations on the Failure Mechanism of Power Electronic Devices due to Cosmic Radiation at SNAKE
          2. Hydrogen Distribution in Tungsten
          3. Cell Cycle Control and Apoptosis in HeLa Cells after Irradiation with SNAKE
          4. Expression of GFP Tagged Proteins in Mammalian Cells
          5. Evaluation of Protein Kinetics after Live Cell Irradiation and Imaging
          6. RBE of 20 MeV Protons for Induction of Micronuclei and γ-H2AX Foci in HeLa Cells at Continuous and Pulsed Irradiation Modes at SNAKE
          7. Colocalisation Analysis of Irradiation-induced Foci of DNA Repair Proteins after Ion-microirradiation
          8. Investigations on the Activation- and Saturation Process of NEG Getters
          9. Piezoelectric ZnO Films Deposited by RF Magnetron Sputtering for Microfluidic Applications
          10. Radiation Modified Oxide Growth in the System Ni-Ti-O
          11. Microstructure of Ti Thin Films Formed by Energetic PVD Processes
          12. Irradiation Experiments with X-ray Detectors for Space Telescopes
          13. Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation of Si/SiOx Multilayered Sculptured Thin Films
          14. Heavy Ion Irradiation of UMo/Al Dispersion Fuel
          15. UMo processing by DC-magnetron sputtering
          16. Fission Product Simulation in Monolithic U8wt.-%Mo by Heavy Ions
      3. INSTRUMENTATION
        1. Instrumental Developments
          1. Performance of the New Readout Frontend for the HADES RICH
          2. Commissioning of the New Λ Trigger for the FOPI Spectrometer
          3. Design of the Electrode System for the Cryogenic Buffer Gas Stopping Cell at SHIPTRAP
          4. Commissioning of the MLLTRAP System
          5. Implementing a 4-way-90° Quadrupole Beam-Deflector into the MLLTRAP System
          6. PENeLOPE - On the Way Towards a New Precise Neutron Lifetime Measurement
          7. The PixelGEM Tracking System for the COMPASS Experiment
          8. Cold Silicon Detectors for COMPASS
          9. Sandwich Electromagnetic Calorimeter as Veto Counter for COMPASS
          10. Resolution Studies of Drift Gases at ATLAS MDT BOS Chambers
        2. Technological Laboratories
          1. The Ultra Cold Neutron Laboratory at the FRMII
        3. Data Acquisition, Computing and Analysis
          1. Munich WLCG Tier2 Status
          2. Data Management Software Development for ATLAS
          3. Parallel Computing of ATLAS Data with PROOF at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum Munich
          4. Distributed Analysis in the ATLAS Experiment using Ganga
      4. THEORY
        1. Hadron Structure
          1. QCD Phases and Thermodynamics of a Nonlocal PNJL Model Including Strange Quarks
          2. QCD Critical Point: Role of Strange Quark Mass and Axial U(1) Anomaly
          3. Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD
          4. Role of Axial-Vector Mesons near the Chiral Phase Transition
        2. High Energy Physics
          1. Vision of QCD Vacuum Structure Response to Strong EM Fields
          2. B → K* μ+μ– Decays in the Standard Model and Beyond
          3. Quark Flavour Physics
          4. Freeze-out Condition of Relativistic e–,e+, γ-plasma
          5. Trace Anomaly of Nonlinear Electrodynamics
          6. Vacuum Decay Time in Strong Electromagnetic Fields
          7. Phenomenology of CP Violation in a Flavor Blind MSSM
          8. Effective Field Theories for Heavy Quarkonium at Finite Temperature
          9. Monte-Carlo Simulations of QCD Thermodynamics in the PNJL Model
          10. Scaling Analysis of Two-Flavor Lattice QCD Results
          11. Heavy Quark-Antiquark Potential from QCD and Quarkonium Spectra
          12. The Interplay of Flavour and Colour in PNJL Models
        3. Nuclear Matter
          1. Chiral Thermodynamics of Nuclear Matter
        4. Nuclear Structure and Dynamics
          1. 14C Dating Beta Decay and Chiral Effective Field Theory
      5. PUBLICATIONS
        1. Publications and Reports
        2. Conference Contributions
        3. PhD Theses
        4. Diploma Theses
      6. LIST OF AUTHORS