Prof.Dr.H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Teilchenphysik ohne Beschleuniger (Non Accelerator Particle Physics)

Experimental and theoretical research in the areas of
Double Beta Decay, Dark Matter Searches and Physics beyond the Standard Model

Curriculum Vitae

  • 25.1.1942
    • born at Reinbek, Germany married, one child
  • 1948-53
    • elementary school (jumped over 2. class)
  • 1960
    • Abitur at humanistic gymnasium
    (Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums) in Hamburg,
    begin of studies of physics at University of Hamburg
  • 1966
    • Diploma in experimental nuclear physics
    (adviser Prof. H. Neuert) at University of Hamburg
  • 1967
    • Intensive course of French language of the Deutscher Akademischer
    Austauschdienst (DAAD) at Caen/France
  • 1968/69
    • Russian intensive language course of the DAAD
    (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in Bonn
  • 1967-1983
    • work about gamma spectroscopy and heavy ion reactions
    at the accelerators of the MPI Heidelberg and
    of Hamburg University
  • 1969
    • PhD in experimental nuclear physics at University of Hamburg
  • since 1.9.1969
    • Member of scientific staff at Max-Planck-Institut
    fuer Kernphysik in Heidelberg
  • 1970
    • 6 months at Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Leningrad
    (via Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-German Science Foundation)
  • 1971/1973
    • Habilitation at University of Hamburg and Heidelberg
  • since 1972
    • Lectures and Seminars at University of Hamburg and Heidelberg
  • since 1972
    • Scientific cooperations and visits mainly to USA
    (Brookhaven, Los Alamos, Maryland, Boston, CEBAF, Irvine, Missouri),
    Italy, England, USSR, Japan, Finland, Netherland, France, Korea, China
  • since 1976
    • Theoretical work on beta decay far from stability and
    applications to astrophysics (element synthesis, age of uni- verse)
  • 1980
    • Professor at University of Heidelberg
  • March 1982
    • Physics Award of German Physical Society for work
    on nuclear beta decay and application to nuclear,
    astrophysical and reactor-technical problems
  • since 1983
    • work on weak interaction in nuclei (experimental and theoretical)
    and consequences for astrophysics, cosmology and
    particle physics (neutrino mass),
    charge exchange reactions at Indiana Cyclotron
  • since 1984
    • Member in International Advisory Committees of numerous conferences
  • 1985
    • Patents on reactor technology (via Max-Planck-Society) in USA, Canada
  • July 1986
    • Organization of an International Symposium
    on "Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions"
    in Heidelberg on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the University
    of Heidelberg (the first of a meanwhile 3-years se- ries,
    next conferences were held in Montreal, Canada 1989, Dubna, Russia 1992,
    Osaka, Japan 1995, Santa Fe, USA 1998)
  • 1987
    • Proposal of HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW Experiment for search
    for neutrinoless double beta decay
  • since 1988
    • Spokesman of the Heidelberg-Moscow Double Beta Experiment.
    The experiment with enriched Germanium 76 ran in
    the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory from August 1990
    until end of November 2003.
    The analysis was published end of 2006
    for double beta decay
  • 1988-2003
    • Cooperation project
    "Investigation of the Double Beta decay of Germanium-76"
    with Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
  • since 1993
    • HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment
    most sensitive experiment worldwide
  • October 1987
    • Organization of an International Workshop on
    "Neutrino-Physics" in Heidelberg
  • 1988
    • 3 months in Japan as guest of the Japan Society
    for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  • 1990
    • Member of NuPECC
    (Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee) EPS
  • since 1991
    • Member of International Advisory editorial Board of
    Ukrainian Journal of Physics.
  • 1990/92
    • Participation in test-phase of NAE/INTEGRAL
    (Nuclear Astrophysics Explorer) satellite mission of NASA/ESA:
    balloon experiments (GRIS) for gamma spectroscopy
    at the center of the galaxy, in Australia.
  • since 1990
    • Cooperation for production of enriched
    and non-enriched Ge detectors by ORTEC company,
    Oak Ridge, USA
  • 1991
    • As Visiting Research Scholar for 3 months
    at Yukawa Institute for Fundamental Physics,
    Kyoto, Japan
  • since 1993/94
    • Work on Dark Matter (experimental and theoretical)
  • End of 1994
    • Active member of New York Academy of Sciences
  • since 1994
    • Scientific cooperation with theoretical division of Los Alamos in USA
  • 1995
    • Organization of an International Workshop
    "Double Beta Decay and Related Topics", in European
    Center of Theoretical Physics (ECT) in Trento, Italy
  • 1995-1997
    • Cooperation project in frame of DFG-JSPS
    (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) on
    "Single and Double Beta Nuclear Decays and Applications in Nuclear,
    Particle and Astrophysics" with Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • since Sept. 1996
    • Organization of an International Conference
    "Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics", Heidelberg, 1996,
    meanwhile 2-years series,
    next conferences were held in Heidelberg 1998, 2000,
    and in Cape Town, South Africa 2002, Texas, USA 2004,
    Sydney, Australia 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand 2009
  • 1996-1998
    • Cooperation project " Supersymmetry in
    High-Energy-Physics, in rare decays and in the Dark Matter"
    with Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany, and JINR, Dubna, Russia.
  • since June 1997
    • Organization of an International Conference on
    Physics Beyond the Standard Model:
    Beyond the Desert 1997, Tegernsee, Germany,
    meanwhile 2-years series, next conferences were held in
    Tegernsee, Germany - BEYOND99 in 1999, and
    in Oulu, Finland, 2002 - BEYOND02,
    Tegernsee BEYOND03 in 2003, Cape Town, South Africa 2010.
  • 1997
    • Visitor as Guest professor in Japan (Osaka)
    by Center of Excellence of Japan Ministry of Technology
  • 1997
    • Proposal of GENIUS Experiment
    for search of signal for neutrinoless double beta decay,
    Dark Matter and solar neutrinos at very low energy
  • since 1997
    • Spokesman of the GENIUS collaboration: http://klapdor-k.de
  • 1998
    • Physics award of JINR, Dubna for work on
    "Physics Beyond Standard Model in Low Energy Processes
    and in Cosmology"
  • April 1998
    • Organizer of First International Symposium on Lepton
    and Baryon Number Violation (LEPTON-BARYON 98)
    in European Center of Theoretical Physics (ECT), Trento, Italy
  • 1999
    • Patent DE19721323A
    on pulse shape analysis for Ge detectors (via Max-Planck-Society)
  • since 1999
    • Experiment HDMS (Heidelberg Dark Matter Search)
    operated in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, Italy
  • since 2001
    • Cooperation project
    "Experimental Dark Matter Search and its Theoretical Support"
    with JINR Dubna and NIRFI, Nishnij Novgorod, Russia
  • 2001-2005
    • Cooperation project
    "Search of Dark Matter with Ge-Detectors"
    with Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, NIRFI, Nishnij-Novgorod, Russia.
  • since 2003
    • Experiment GENIUS-TF (Small prototype of the GENIUS project)
    with six naked Ge detectors in liquid nitrogen
    in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, Italy
  • since 2005
    • HDMS is: the first in sensitivity
    in the world for WIMP-neutron coupling -
    together with the DAMA - 129Xe experiment
  • 2001
    • Discovery of the first signal of
    neutrinoless double beta decay
    from the data of the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW Experiment
    and claim, that neutrino is Majorana Particle and
    Total Lepton Number is not conserved
  • since 2004
    • Evidence on the level of more than 6 sigma.
  • 2006
    • Physics award of JINR, Dubna for the year 2005,
    for work on "Search for SUSY Dark Matter"
  • since 2007
    • A New Experimental Limit for the Stability of the Electron.
    The result is the by far sharpest limit obtained
    with Ge detectors.


    Publications

  • Publication of more than 362 scientific papers
    (254 eligible papers, HEP SLAC)
    • status 21.08.2009
  • Total Number of citations
    • 5935
  • Number
  • Renowned papers(500+ cites):
    • 0
  • Famous papers (250-499 cites) :
    • 3
  • Very well-known papers (100-249) :
    • 8
  • Well-known papers (50-99) :
    • 16
  • Known papers (10-49) :
    • 87
  • Less known papers (1-9) :
    • 104
  • Unknown papers (0) :
    • 36
  • Publication of 30 books in several languages
    and proceedings of International conferences
    (see home-page: http://www.klapdor-k.de)
    • till 2009


    B O O K S and P R O C E E D I N G S:

    Nr.
    Title
    Autors
    Publisher
    Year
    Pages
    1.
    "Weak and
    Electromagnetic Interactions
    in Nuclei"
    H.V. Klapdor
    (Editor)
    Springer Verlag, Heidelberg,
    New York
    1986
    XXXI+1100
    2.
    "Neutrino Physics"
    H.V. Klapdor,
    B. Povh
    (Editors)
    Springer Verlag, Berlin,
    Heidelberg, New York
    1988
    333
    3.
    "Neutrinos" Graduate Texts in
    Contemporary Physics
    H.V. Klapdor
    (Editor)
    Springer Verlag, Berlin,
    Heidelberg, New York
    1988
    333
    4.
    "Die schwache Wechselwirkung
    in Kern-,
    Teilchen- und Astrophysik"
    K. Grotz,
    H.V. Klapdor
    German edition:
    Teubner Studienbuch,
    Teubner Verlag,
    Stuttgart
    1989
    458
    5.
    "The Weak Interaction in Nuclear,
    Particle and Astrophysics"
    K. Grotz,
    H.V. Klapdor
    English edition:
    Adam Hilger,
    IOP Publishing,
    Bristol,
    New York
    1990
    488
    6.
    "Slaboe Wsaimodeistvie w fisike jadra,
    tschastiz i astrofisike"
    K. Grotz,
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
    Russian edition:
    Mir, Moskau
    1992
    446
    7.
    "The Weak Interaction in Nuclear,
    Particle and Astrophysics"
    K. Grotz,
    H.V. Klapdor
    Chinese edition:
    Shandong Science and
    Technology Press,
    Jinan
    1998
    577
    8.
    "Teilchenphysik ohne Beschleuniger"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, A. Staudt
    German edition:
    Teubner Studienbuch,
    Teubner Verlag,
    Stuttgart
    1995
    575
    9.
    "Non-Accelerator Particle Physics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, A. Staudt
    English edition:
    Institute of Physics
    Publishing, Bristol
    and Philadelphia
    1995
    534
    10.
    "Neuskoritelnaja fisika
    elementarnich chastiz"
    H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, A. Staudt
    Russian edition:
    Nauka, Fismatlit,
    Moscow
    1997
    527
    11.
    "Double Beta Decay and Related Topics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, S. Stoica (Editors)
    World Scientific Publish. Co, Singapore,
    1996
    509
    12.
    "Teilchen-Astrophysik"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, K. Zuber
    German edition: Teubner Studienbuch, Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart,
    1997
    497
    13.
    "Particle Astrophysics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, K. Zuber
    English edition: Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia
    1997
    507
    14.
    "Elementarnue chastizi v astrofisike"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, K. Zuber
    Russian edition: Nauka, Fismatlit, Moscow,
    2000
    533
    15.
    "DARK96" - Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Y. Ramachers (Editors)
    World Scientific Publish. Co, Singapore
    1997
    735
    16.
    "Beyond the Desert 1997" -
    Accelerator and Non-Accelerator Approaches" First International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. Paes (Editors)
    Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia
    1998
    992
    17.
    "Non-Accelerator Particle Physics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, A. Staudt
    Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia
    1998, 2. ed.
    534
    18.
    "Particle Astrophysics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, K. Zuber
    Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia
    1999, 2. ed.
    507
    19.
    "Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology", Proceedings of Int. Conf. Lepton-Baryon'98, Trento, ICT, Italy
    H.V. Klapdor{Kleingrothaus, I. Krivosheina (Editors)
    IOP, Bristol
    1999
    760
    20.
    "DARK98" - Second International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, L. Baudis (Editors)
    IOP Publishing, Bristol & Philadelphia
    1999
    900
    21.
    "WEIN98" - "Physics Beyond the Standard Model" - Proceedings of the Fifth International WEIN Symposium, Santa Fe, USA 1998
    P. Herczeg, C.M. Hoffman, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Editors)
    World Scientific, Singapore
    1999
    784
    22.
    "Beyond the Desert 1999" - Accelerator, Non{accelerator and Space Approaches" Second International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, I. Krivosheina (Editors)
    Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia
    2000
    1200
    23.
    "SIXTY YEARS OF DOUBLE BETA DECAY", "From Nuclear Physics to Beyond Standard Model Particle Physics"
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
    World Scientific, Singapore
    2001
    1316
    24.
    "DARK2000" - Third International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Editor)
    Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
    2001
    900
    25.
    "DARK2002" - Second Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Cape Town, South Africa, February 4-9, 2002
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Viollier (Editors)
    Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag
    2002
    663
    26.
    "BEYOND the DESERT 2002" - Third Tegernsee International Conference Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Oulu, Finland, 2-7 Jun 2002
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Editor)
    IOP, Bristol
    2003
    734
    27.
    "BEYOND the DESERT 2003" - Fourth Tegernsee In- ternational Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Stan- dard Model, Accelerator, Non-Accelerator and Space Ap- poroaches in the New Millenium, Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, 9-14 June, 2003
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Editor)
    Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag
    2004
    1117
    28.
    "DARK2004" - Fifth Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Texas, USA, 3 - 9 October, 2004
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and D. Arnowitt (Editors)
    Springer Verlag
    2005
    655
    29.
    "DARK2007" - Sixth Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Sydney, Australia, 23 - 28 September, 2007
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and G.F. Lewis (Editors)
    World Scientific, Singapore
    2008
    631
    30.
    "DARK2009" - Seventh Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Christchurch, New Zealand, 18 - 24 January, 2009
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and I.V. Krivosheina (Editors)
    World Scientific, Singapore
    2009
    576
    31.
    "BEYOND 2010" - Physics Beyond The Standard Models of Particles, Cosmology And Astrophysics -- Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 1 - 6 February, 2010
    H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, I.V. Krivosheina and R. Viollier (Editors)
    World Scientific, Singapore
    2011
    745


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