Thomas Baumann

In August 1995, I started as a Ph.D.-student in the Fragment Separator Group at GSI in Germany. Here I worked mainly on the field of light exotic nuclei at the drip lines. Using the Fragment Separator as an energy-loss spectrometer, we measured longitudinal momentum distributions of ⁸B and ¹⁹C. This was also the topic of my Ph.D. thesis.

I received my Ph.D. in February 1999 from the University of Gießen, Germany. Since March 1999 I live and work in Michigan. I had a position as a visiting assistant professor at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory until April 2003, when I was offered a permanent position as physicist at the same lab.

My work at the NSCL comprises the preparation of rare isotope beams using the A1900 fragment separator and basic research in nuclear physics.

An important current research topic is the search and investgation of neutron-rich nuclei close to or at the drip line. Recently, we were able to discover new isotopes. Part of this work has been published in Nature.

I am also a member of the MoNA colaboration, which constructed and is now using a large area neutron detector named. MoNA stands for Modular Neutron Array and is used in connection with the Sweeper Magnet, a 4 Tesla dipole magnet.