Professor Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Richter Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 D-64289 Darmstadt Germany Tel: +49-(0)6151/16-2116 E-Mail:  richter@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de Office:  Ursula von Dungen Tel.:  +49-(0)6151/16-4079 Fax.:  +49-(0)6151/16-4321 E-Mail:  ursula@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de

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Curriculum Vitae

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Awards and Honors

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Main Research Fields

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Latest Publications

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Selected Talks

Curriculum Vitae

1940	September 21, born in Dresden
1959	Begin of the study of Physics at the University of Heidelberg
1963	Admission to the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
1965	Final exam ("Diplom") in Physics
1966	Scientific Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg and work on the experimental doctoral thesis
1967	Doctorate degree ("Dr. rer. nat.") in Physics
1967 - 1968	Research Associate at the Department of Physics at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.
1968 - 1970	Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A.
1971	Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg Habilitation in Physics at the University of Heidelberg and University Lecturer ("Privatdozent")
1971 - 1973	Associate Professor (H3) at the Ruhr University of Bochum
Since 1974	Professor (H4/C4) of Physics at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology (now: Darmstadt University of Technology) and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics
1978 - 1979 1983 - 1984	Sabbatical leave at the Département de Physique Nucléaire à Haute Energie, Saclay, France
1988 - 1989	Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva, as Scientific Associate
1998 - 1999	Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin ("Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin")
2003 - 2004	Sabbatical leave at the Institute de Physique Nucléaire and the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory at Argonne, U.S.A., and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A.
2005	Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden
2006	Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council
2007	Order of Merit of the State of Hesse
2007-2008	Sabbatical leave at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A., at the Institute of Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., at the Laboratory of Nuclear Structure of MIT Boston, U.S.A., at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2008	October 01, Professor Emeritus at TUD November 01, Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy

Awards and Honors

1964	University Award of Physics for the Diploma Thesis
1988	German-French Alexander von Humboldt Award
1990	Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa
1992	Max Planck Research Price
1995	Honorary Doctorate of the Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg, Sweden
1996	Honorary Doctorate of the University of Gent, Belgium
1996	Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
2000	Honorary Doctorate of the University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg, South Africa
2000	Honorary Doctorate of the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
2001	Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society
2002	Fellow of the American Physical Society
2005	Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden
2006	Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council
2007	Order of Merit of the State of Hesse

Main Research Fields

• Nuclear Reactions with light and Heavy Ions
• Symmetries and Invariance Principles
• Atomic Physics
• Nuclear Structure and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei
• Accelerator Physics
• Nuclear Astrophysics
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Latest Publications

• Friedel oscillations in microwave billiards
  A. Bäcker, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and S. Tomsovic
  Phys. Rev. E 80, 066210 (2009)


• Avoided-level-crossing statistics in open chaotic billiards
  C. Poli, B. Dietz, O. Legrand, F. Mortessagne, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. E 80, 035204 (2009)


• Experimental test of a two-dimensional approximation for dielectric microcavities
  S. Bittner, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, P. Oria Iriarte, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
  Phys. Rev. A 80, 023825 (2009)


• Nonperiodic echoes from quantum mushroom-billiard hats
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and T. H. Seligmann
  Phys. Rev. E 80, 036212 (2009)


• Properties of the ⁷He ground state from ⁸He neutron knockout
  Yu. Aksyutina, H.T. Johansson, T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, M. J. G. Borge, A. Chatillon, L. V. Chulkov, D. Cortina-Gil, U. Datta Pramanik, H. Emling, C. Forssén, H. O. U. Fynbo, H. Geissel, G. Ickert, B. Jonson, R. Kulessa, C. Langer, M. Lantz, T. LeBleis, A. O. Lindahl, K. Mahata, M. Meister, G. Munzenberg, T. Nilsson, G. Nyman, R. Palit, S. Paschalis, W. Prokopowicz, R. Reifarth, A. Richter, K. Riisager, G. Schrieder, H. Simon, K. Summerer, O. Tengblad, H. Weick, and M.V. Zhukov
  Phys. Lett. B 679, 191 (2009)


• Induced Violation of Time-Reversal Invariance in the Regime of Weakly Overlapping Resonances
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, J. Verbaarschot, and H. A. Weidenmüller
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064101 (2009)


• Comment on “¹³⁸La-¹³⁸Ce-¹³⁶Ce nuclear cosmochronometer of the supernova neutrino process”
  P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter, and A. Byelikov
  Phys. Rev. C 79, 059801 (2009)


• Global investigation of the fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance
  A. Shevchenko, O. Burda, J. Carter, G. R. J. Cooper, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, Y. Kalmykov, D. Lacroix, J. J. Lawrie, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Neveling, V. Y. Ponomarev, A. Richter, E. Sideras-Haddad, F. D. Smit, and J. Wambach
  Phys. Rev. C 79, 044305 (2009)


• Chaotic Scattering in the Regime of Weakly Overlapping Resonances
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenmüller
  Phys. Rev. E 78, 055204(R) (2008)


• Properties of nodal domains in a pseudointegrable barrier billiard
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
  Phys. Rev. E 78, 045201 (2008)


• Lithium isotopes beyond the drip line
  Y. Aksyutina, H. Johansson, P. Adrich, F. Aksouh, T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, M. Borge, A. Chatillon, L. Chulkov, D. Cortina-Gil, U. D. Pramanik, H. Emling, C. Forssén, H. Fynbo, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, G. Ickert, K. Jones, B. Jonson, A. Kliemkiewicz, J. Kratz, R. Kulessa, M. Lantz, T. LeBleis, A. Lindahl, K. Mahata, M. Matos, M. Meister, G. Münzenberg, T. Nilsson, G. Nyman, R. Palit, M. Pantea, S. Paschalis, W. Prokopowicz, R. Reifarth, A. Richter, K. Riisager, G. Schrieder, H. Simon, K. Sümmerer, O. Tengblad, W. Walus, H. Weick, and M. Zhukov
  Phys. Lett. B 666, 430 (2008)


• Neutrino nucleosynthesis of the exotic, odd-odd nuclei ¹³⁸La and ¹⁸⁰Ta
  P. von Neumann-Cosel, T. Adachi, A. Byelikov, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, Y. Fujita, Y. Hatanaka, A. Heger, Y. Kalmykov, K. Kawase, K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo, K. Nakanishi, R. Neveling, A. Richter, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, A. Shevchenko, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, F.D. Smit, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, S.E. Woosley, and M. Yosoi
  Nucl. Phys. A 805, 562c (2008)


• Bouncing ball orbits and symmetry breaking effects in a three-dimensional chaotic billiard
  B. Dietz, B. Mößner, T. Papenbrock, U. Reif, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. E 77, 046221 (2008)
  
  
• Spectral fluctuations of billiards with mixed dynamics: From time series to superstatistics
  A. Y. Abul-Magd, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. E 77, 046202 (2008)
  
  
• Analysis of fine structure in nuclear continuum
  A. Shevchenko, J. Carter, G. R.  J. Cooper, R. W. Fearick, Y. Kalmykov, P. von Neumann-Cosel, V. Yu.  Ponomarev, A. Richter, I. Usman, and J. Wambach
  Phys. Rev. C 77, 024302 (2008)
  
  
• Prevalence of marginally unstable periodic orbits in chaotic billiards
  E. G. Altmann, T. Friedrich, A. E. Motter, H. Kantz, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. E 77, 016205 (2008)
  
  
• Superscars in Billiards: A Model for Doorway States in Quantum Spectra
  S. Åberg, T. Guhr, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 204101 (2008)
  
  
• Measurement of the Reaction 2He(e,e') at 180° Close to the Deuteron Breakup Threshold
  N. Ryezayeva, H. Arenhövel, O. Burda, A. Byelikov, M. Chernykh, J. Enders. H. W. Grießhammer, Y. Kalmykov, P. von Neumann-Cosel, B. Özel, I. Poltoratska, I. Pysmenetska, C. Rangacharyulu, S. Rathi, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, A. Shevchenko, and O. Yevetska
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172501 (2008)
  
  
• Spin- and Parity-Resolved Level Densities from the Fine Structure of Giant Resonances
  Y. Kalmykov, C. Özem, K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202502 (2007)
  


• High-Enery-Resolution Inelastic Electron and Proton Scattering and the Multiphonon Nature of Mixed-Symmetry 2⁺ States in ⁹⁴Mo
  O. Burda, J. Carter, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, C. Fransen, H. Fujita, J. D. Holt, M. Kuhar, A. Lenhardt, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Neveling, N. Pietralla, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, O. Scholten, E. Sideras-Haddad, F. D. Smit, and J. Wambach
  Phys. Rev. Rev. Lett. 99, 092503 (2007)
  


• Proton scattering at intermediate energies on ⁵⁸Ni: How well is it understood?
  F. Hofmann, C. Bäumer, A. M. van den Berg, D Frekers, V. M. Hannen, M. N. Harakeh, M. de Huu, Y. Kalmykov, P. von Neumann-Cosel, V. Yu Ponomarev, S. Rakers, B. Reitz, A. Richter, K. Schweda, A. Shevchenko, J. Wambach, and H. J. Wörtche
  Phys. Rev. 76, 014314 (2007)
  


• Magnetic dipole probes of the sd and pf shell crossing in the ^36,38Ar isotopes
  A. F. Lisetskiy, E. Caurier, K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, P. von Neumann-Cosel, F. Nowacki, A. Richter
  Nuclear Physics A 789, 114 (2007)
  
  
• Rabi oscillations at exceptional points in microwave billards
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, J. Metz, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and C. A. Stafford
  Phys. Rev. E 75, 037301 (2007)
  


• Spectral properties of Bunimovich mushroom billiards
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
  Phys. Rev. E 75, 035203(R) (2007)
  


• Low-lying GT⁺ strength in ⁶⁴Co studied via the ⁶⁴Ni(d,²He) ⁶⁴Co reaction
  L. Popescu, C. Bäumer, A. M. van den Berg, D. Frekers, D. De. Frenne, Y. Fujita, E. W. Grewe, P. Haefner, M. N. Harakeh, M. Hunyadi, M. A. de Huu, E. Jacobs, H. Johansson, A. Korff, A. Negret, P. von Neumann-Cosel, S. Rakers, A. Richter, N. Ryezayeva, A. Shevchenko, H. Simon, and H. J. Wörtche
  Phys. Rev. C 75, 054312 (2007)
  


• X-ray spectroscopy-a new method to investigate field emission in superconducting accelerating cavities
  W. Bayer, R. Eichhorn, M. Gopych, H.-D. Gräf, J. Hasper, A. Richter, A. Zilges
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 575, 321 (2007)
  


• Gamow-Teller Strength in the Exotic Odd-Odd Nuclei ¹³⁸La and ¹⁸⁰Ta and Its Relevance for Neutrino Nucleosynthesis.
  A. Byelikov, T. Adachi, H. Fujita, K. Fujita Y. Fujita, K. Hatanake, A. Heger, Y. Kalmykov, K. Kawase, K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, K. Nakanishi, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Neveling, A. Richter, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, A. Shevchenko, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, F. D. Smit, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, S. .E. Woosely, and M. Yosoi
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 082501 (2007)
  


• Induced Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking Oberved in Microwave Billiards
  B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenmüller
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074103 (2007)
  


• Spectroscopic factor of the ⁷He ground state
  F. Beck, D. Frekers, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter, N. Ryezayeva, I. J. Thompson
  Phys. Lett. B 645, 128 (2007)
  

Selected Talks

• Japan 2008 Lecture1

• Japan 2008 Lecture2

• Japan 2008 Lecture3

• Japan 2008 Lecture4

• Paris 2008 

• Glasgow 2008

• Dresden 2008

• Lund 2005

• Warschau 2005

• Paris 2005

• Tokyo 2005

• Göteborg 2004

• Mons 2004