Division of Nuclear Physics


Head: Dr. Andreas Wagner

Staff

News

Maik Butterling received one of three Best Poster Awards of HZDR's PhD seminar 2012. Congratulations!

Georg Schramm has graduated as one of the six best students of the Technical University of Dresden's faculty for mathematics and natural sciences in 2011. He receives the Ehrenfried-Walther-von-Tschirnhaus certificate. Congratulations!

Dr. Ayano Makinaga received the Best Poster Presentation Award of the 2011 Symposium on Nuclear Data of the Atomic Energy Society Japan for her contribution "Gamma-ray strength function measurement on Ta-181 at ELBE". Congratulations, Ayano!

Maik Butterling's presentation has been recognized as the best talk at the 2010 FZD PhD seminar. Congratulations!

The Nuclear Physics Division of Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf studies nuclei and nuclear reactions. Our experiments aim to understand how the chemical elements were created in the cosmos and to find a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste. Furthermore we develop novel radiation detectors for future experiments.

Experiments at the ELBE accelerator, Dresden (online documentation)

Experiments at other facilities

  • LUNA Gran Sasso/Italy, study of proton- and alpha-induced reactions (DFG project D. Bemmerer, PhD thesis M. Anders, Diploma thesis M. Menzel)
    Publications on LUNA
  • Dresden ion beam center and Felsenkeller shallow-underground facility, experiments for astrophysics (DFG project and NAVI virtual institute D. Bemmerer, PhD thesis K. Schmidt, Diploma theses L. Wagner and S. Reinicke)
  • High-intensity gamma-ray source (HIgS), Duke University und Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), Durham, NC, USA (Part of the dissertation of R. Massarczyk)
  • Konan University Japan, laser inverse Compton scattering (part of PhD thesis C. Nair)
  • TUNL, Duke, North-Carolina, laser inverse Compton scattering at HIgS
  • GSI Darmstadt, structure of exotic nuclei (BMBF+GSI projects T. Cowan and K. Zuber, PhD thesis T. Reinhardt, M. Röder, D. Yakorev)

Theory

  • Photoabsorption in the low-energy tail of the giant dipole resonance, Nilsson plus RPA model

Publications

Third party funded projects

  • EU-FP6 "EFNUDAT", A. Junghans (2007-2010)
  • EU-FP7 "ERINDA",  A. Junghans (2010-2013)
  • BMBF "Energie 2020+", A. Junghans (2009-2012)
  • BMBF "Hadronen- und Kernphysik", T. Cowan / A. Wagner (2009-2012)
  • GSI F+E, A. Wagner (2007-2010)
  • Helmholtz association, partner in virtual institute NAVI, D. Bemmerer (2011-2016)
  • DFG "alpha capture for astrophysics", D. Bemmerer (2009-2014)
  • DFG "Photodissoziation des Deuterons", A. Junghans (2008-2011)
  • DFG "Influence of nuclear deformation on the electromagnetic response", R. Schwengner (2010-2013)

Outreach

Internships

  • We routinely offer laboratory internships for high-school students and university students. Please, contact Dr. Andreas Wagner for further informations.

National and international collaborations