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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
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Richter


Curriculum Vitae · Awards and Honors · Main Research Fields · Latest Publications · 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

  • Quantum chaotic scattering in microwave resonators
    B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenüller
    Phys. Rev. E 81, 036205 (2010)

  • Cross-section fluctuations in chaotic scattering
    B. Dietz, H. L. Harney, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenmüller
    Phys. Lett. B 685, 263 (2010)

  • 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. Münzenberg, T. Nilsson, G. Nyman, R. Palit, S. Paschalis, W. Prokopowicz, R. Reifarth, A. Richter, K. Riisager, G. Schrieder, H. Simon, K. Sümmerer, 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 ²H(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)

Selected Talks

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