Biography:Dieter Haidt
Dieter Haidt (born 1940) is a German physicist, known for his contribution to the 1973 discovery of weak neutral currents.[1][2] The discovery was made in the Gargamelle experiment, which used a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN from 1970 to 1979.[3]
Education and career
In 1958 Haidt graduated from the Kepler-Gymnasium in Tübingen. He then studied physics at the University of Tübingen, where he graduated with a Diplom in experimental physics in 1965. He then moved to RWTH Aachen University, where he was a member of the X2 collaboration.[4][5] He was also a visiting scholar at University College London in 1966. In 1969 he received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University summa cum laude[4][6] and in 1970 he received the Borchers Medal. From 1970 he was a member of the Gargamelle collaboration at CERN (from RWTH Aachen University) and from 1971 to 1978 he was employed at CERN.[4] In 1973, the Gargamelle collaboration discovered weak neutral currents.[7] The collaboration searched for weak neutral currents in neutrino reactions without muon generation. The discovery's rapid recognition depended, to a considerable extent, on calculations by Haidt, who showed that the existence of weak neutral currents was a new type of effect (and not, e.g., interactions between neutrons).[2][4] Other prominent physicists involved in the Gargamelle experiment include Antonino Pullia (1935–2020), Helmut Faissner (1928–2007), and André Lagarrigue (1924–1975).[8]
Haidt was a spokesperson for the neutrino-propane experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber. He was involved in neutrino experiments at the BEBC detector. From 1979 to 2004 he was a senior scientist at DESY. From 1979 to 1986 he was a member of the JADE collaboration at DESY and from 1994 of the H1 collaboration. He was a member of the Physics Research Committee (PRC) at DESY and organized the DESY seminars. In 2007 he received emeritus status.[4]
For the academic year 1987–1988 he was a visiting scientist at Japanese particle physics laboratory known as KEK.[4]
In 2011 he shared the Enrico Fermi Prize with Antonino Pullia.[1][2] In 2009, the Gargamelle collaboration received the European Physical Society's High-Energy and Particle Physics Prize.[1]
From 1986 to 1997 he was an editor for the Zeitschrift für Physik C and from 1997 to 2006 he was the editor-in-chief of its successor, the European Physical Journal C.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Italian Physical Societs honours Gargamelle physicists with Fermi award". CERN Courier: 42. November 2011. https://cds.cern.ch/record/1734726/files/vol51-issue9-p042-e.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dieter Haidt wins Enrico Fermi Prize". 23 September 2011. https://www.desy.de/news/news_search/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=344&two_columns=0.
- ↑ Haidt, Dieter. "The neutrino's 50th birthday". https://www.desy.de/~haidt/nove06.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Dieter Haidt's Web Page". https://www.desy.de/~haidt/.
- ↑ Esveld, C.D. (1973). An experimental study of K+e4 decay (No. INIS-MF--1012). Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Netherlands). https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/05/099/5099942.pdf. (See pp. 1–3.)
- ↑ Haidt, D. (1970) (in de). Messung der Formfaktoren aus den Spektren des Zerfalls K+ → π°μ+γμ. https://books.google.com/books?id=9FLCzQEACAAJ; doctoral dissertation (Measurement of the form factors from the spectra of the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion pair.)
- ↑ Haidt, Dieter (3 October 2004). "The discovery of the weak neutral currents". CERN Courier 55 (8). https://cerncourier.com/a/the-discovery-of-the-weak-neutral-currents/. (reprinted: "The discovery of the weak neutral currents". AAPPS Bulletin 15 (1): 47–50. February 2005. https://fwe.ifj.edu.pl/uploads/Seminaria/neutral_current/3_bubble_chambers.pdf.)
- ↑ Hasert, F.J.; Faissner, H.; Krenz, W.; Von Krogh, J.; Lanske, D.; Morfin, J.; Schultze, K.; Weerts, H. et al. (1973). "Search for elastic muon-neutrino electron scattering". Physics Letters B (Elsevier BV) 46 (1): 121–124. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(73)90494-2. ISSN 0370-2693. Bibcode: 1973PhLB...46..121H.
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