Habs, Dietrich, Prof. Dr.

Education

• 1978 Habilitation, nuclear physics - Heidelberg University, faculty for physics and astronomy
• 1973-1978 Postdoctoral fellow - Heidelberg University
• 1973 Ph.D., nuclear physics (summa cum laude) - Heidelberg University
• 1970-1973 Ph.D. study in nuclear physics - Heidelberg University, II. Physikal. Institut
• 1970 Diploma in physics (excellent)
• 1964-1970 Study of physics, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg

Academic Career

• Since 1995 Professor of Physics, Chair of Experimental Physics - Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
• 1979-1995 Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
• 1978-1979 Heisenberg fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA

Research Focus

Main fields Nuclear physics, classical accelerator physics, laser accelerator physic s Other fields Crystalline ion beams, laser cooling, mass measurements, fundamental physics

Current interests Electron acceleration in laser plasmas, FEL driven by a laser-generated electron beam, Munich Accelerator for Fission Fragments (MAFF), physics with radioactive ion beams

Honors

Physikpreis der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG), 1978

Selected Publications

M. Roth, A. Blazevic, E. Brambrink, M. Geissel, T. E. Cowan, J. Fuchs, A. Kemp, H. Ruhl, P. Audebert, J. Cobble, J. Fernandez, M. Hegelich, S. Letzring, K. Ledingham, P. McKenna, R. Clarke, D. Neely, S. Karsch, D. Habs, U. Schramm, M. Bussmann, J. Schreiber, Laser Acceleration and Laser Cooling for Ion Beams, Proc. EPAC04 , Luzern, (2004) .

J. Stein, E. Fill, D. Habs, G. Pretzler, K. Witte, Hot electron diagnostics using X-rays and Cerenkov radiation, Laser and Part. Beams 22 , 3 (2004) .

J. Schreiber, M. Kaluza, B. M. Hegelich, J. Cobble, U. Schramm, F. Grüner, M. Geissler, E. Brambrink, J. Fuchs, P. Audebert, D. Habs, K. Witte, Ion acceleration from thin foils irradiated by ultrashort high intensity laser pulses, Appl. Phys. B 79 , 1041 (2004) .

S. Karsch, S. Düsterer, E. Ewald, D. Habs, M. Hegelich, G. Pretzler, A. Pukhov, K. Witte, R. Sauerbrey, Ion acceleration with High-Intensity Lasers - Comparison of Front and Rear Surface Acceleration by TOF Neutron Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 , 015001 (2003) .

F. Brandl, G. Pretzler, D. Habs, E. Fill, Cerenkov radiation diagnostics of hot electrons generated by fs-laser interaction with solid targets, Europhys. Lett . 61 , 632 (2003) .

M. Hegelich, S. Karsch, G. Pretzler, D. Habs, K. Witte, W. Guenther, M. Allen, A. Blazevic, J. Fuchs, J. C. Gauthier, M. Geissel, P. Audebert, T. Cowan, M. Roth, MeV Ion Jets from Short-Pulse-Laser Interaction with Thin Foils, Phys. Rev. Lett . 89 , 085002 (2002) .

C. Gahn, G. Tsakiris, G. Pretzler, K. Witte, P. Thirolf, D. Habs, C. Delfin, C. Wahlström, Generation of MeV electrons and positrons with femtosecond pulses from table-top laser systems, Phys. Plasma 9 , 987 (2002) .

D. Habs, G. Pretzler, U. Schramm, T. Schätz, Interaction of intense laser pulses with particle beams, AIP Conf. Proc . 611 , 437 (2002) .

D. Habs, G. Pretzler, A. Pukhov, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, Laser Acceleration of Electrons and Ions and Intense Secondary Particle Generation, Prog. in Part. and Nucl. Phys . 46 , 375 (2001) .

C. Gahn, G. Tsakiris, G. Pretzler, K. Witte, C. Delfin, C. Wahlström, D. Habs, Generating Positrons with Femtosecond Laser Pulses, Appl. Phys. Lett . 77 , 2662 (2001) .

C. Gahn, G. D. Tsakiris, P. G. Thirolf, K. J. Witte, D. Habs, A novel 45-channel electron spectrometer for high-intensity laser-plasma interaction studies, Rev. Sci. Instrum . 71 , 1642 (2000) .

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS in related fields U. Schramm, D. Habs, Crystalline ion beams, Prog. In Part. and Nucl. Phys. 53 , 583 (2004) .

P. G. Thirolf and D. Habs, Spectroscopy in the Second and Third Minimum of Actinide Nuclei, Prog. in Part. and Nucl. Phys . 49 , 325 (2002) .

D. Habs, M. Groß, W. Assmann, F. Ames, H. Bongers, S. Emhofer, S. Heinz, O. Kester, J. Neumayr, F. Ospald, P. Reiter, T. Sieber, J. Szerypo, P. G. Thirolf, V. Varentsov, T. Wilfart, T. Faestermann, R. Krücken, P. Maier-Komor, The Munich Accelerator for Fission Fragment MAFF, Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 204 , 739 (2003) .

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