Univ.-Prof. Dr. Achim Denig

Short CV

1994-1999
Doctoral thesis, University of Karlsruhe (summa cum laude)

2000-2002
Marie-Curie-Fellow (EU), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy

2002-2008
Head of Emmy Noether Young Investigator Group (DFG), University of Karlsruhe

since 2004
Research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA (BaBar collaboration)

since 2008
W3-Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz Research at Mainzer Mikrotron MAMI and GSI (PANDA experiment)

since 2009
Section Leader, Helmholtz Institute Mainz

since 2012
Co-Spokesperson of SFB/CRC 1044, The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model
Section Leader, PRISMA Cluster of Excellence
Research at IHEP, Beijing (BES-III collaboration)

2013-2016
Head of the Section "Hadron and Nuclear Physics" of the German Physical Society

2016-2019
Acting Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics

Research Interests

  • Hadron physics with electromagnetic probe
  • Precision measurements of hadronic cross sections
  • Hadron spectroscopy (light quark and charm sector)
  • Flavour physics (kaon, B, charm)
  • Hardware: tracking detectors

Key Publications

  • The tracking detector of the KLOE experiment
    M. Adinolfi et al. [KLOE collaboration] Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 488 (2002) 51
  • Measurement of σ(e+e-→π+π-γ) and extraction of σ(e+e-→π+π-) below 1 GeV with the KLOE detector
    A. Aloisio et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 606 (2005) 12
  • Measurements of the absolute branching ratios for the dominant KL decays, the KL lifetime, and Vus with the KLOE detector
    F. Ambrosino et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 43 83
  • Evidence for D0–anti-D0 mixing
    B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 211802
  • Measurement of the γγ*→π0 transition form factor
    B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 052002
  • Search for Light Gauge Bosons of the Dark Sector at the Mainz Microtron
    H. Merkel et al. [A1 collaboration] Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 251802
  • Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+e- to pi+pi-J/psi at \sqrt{s}=4.26 GeV
    M. Ablikim et al. [BES III collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 252001 arXiv: 1303.5949