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Curriculum Vitae & Selected Scientific Works

Prof. Dr. Markus Büscher

Name	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Büscher
Address	Hermann-Barnikol-Str. 10 52428 Jülich, Germany Tel.: 0 24 61 / 61 5603 (office) e-mail: m.buescher@fz-juelich.de
Day, place of birth	September 19, 1962, Bensberg, Germany
School education	1969 – 1973 Primary school, Overath 1973 – 1982 Albertus-Magnus Gymnasium (secondary school), Bensberg High school diploma (Abitur): average 2.0
Military service	July 1982 – June 1984 NATO Headquarters, Maastricht (NL)
Academic education	Physics (Diplom) WS 1984/85 – WS 1989/90 Universität zu Köln (Cologne) July 1986 Vordiplom, overall grade „sehr gut“ November 1989 Diplom in physics, overall grade „sehr gut“
Diploma thesis	September 1988 – September 1989 Research visit at Brookhaven Natl. Lab. (U.S.A.) as Fulbright und Richard-Winter fellow with Prof. R.F. Casten Topic: „Lebensdauermessungen im Picosekundenbereich in 97Sr, 97Y und 97Zr und Formkoexistenz in der A~100 Region“
Doctoral thesis	December 1989 – October 1992 Nuclear Physics Institute (IKP), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) Topic: „Planung eines Magnetspektometers zur Untersuchung der Mesonenerzeugung in Atomkernen am internen Targetplatz des Kühlersynchrotrons COSY-Jülich“ Graduation, Universität zu Köln, overall degree „sehr gut“
Habilitation	October 2004 Habilitation thesis Topic: „K+-Mesonenproduktion in Atomkernen“ July 2005 Venia legendi for experimental physics Universität zu Köln
Full professorship	September 2013 Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Teaching at	2005 – 2013 Universität zu Köln 2013 – today Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Current affiliation	Peter-Grünberg Institut (PGI-6) Forschungszentrum Jülich 52425 Jülich Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf 40204 Düsseldorf
Scientific activities (leading or significant contributions)	September 1992 – August 2013 Scientist at IKP / FZJ * Construction of the ANKE spectrometer at COSY NIM A 462, 364 (2001) * Theoretical studies on $K^+$ meson production in nuclei Z.Phys.A 347, 191 (1994); Z.Phys.A 350, 161 (1994) May 1995 Experiment on $K^+$ meson production at ITEP, Moscow: * Successful test of a K^+ telescope for ANKE, Measurement of $K^+$ production in pBe collisions Z.Phys.A 355, 93 (1996) May 1998 Commissioning of ANKE 1998 – 2013 Measurements on proton-induced $K+$ meson production in nuclei with ANKE: * Optimization of $K^+$ detection NIM A 481, 378 (2002) * Measurement of inclusive K^+ momentum spectra far below the nucleon-nucleon threshold PRL 87, 022301 (2001) * Development of an „ordering scheme“ of the world data set PRC 65, 014603 (2001) * Precise determination of the nuclear $K^+$ potential at normal nuclear density PLB 540, 207 (2002) * First direct observation of $K^+$ production in 2-step processes, Hints on K^+ production on 2-nucleon clusters EPJA 17, 235 (2003) * Overview article EPJA 22, 301 (2004) 2001 – 2013 COSY experimental program on the light scalar mesons a0/f0(980) * Theoretical studies on feasibility of the experiments PLB 521, 217 (2001); JPG 28, 2423 (2002) * Production of a0+(980) mesons in pp → d K+ K 0 reactions an ANKE PRL 91, 172304 (2003) * Theoretical interpretation of the data EPJA 21, 507 (2004) * Determination of the antikaon-deuteron scattering length PLB 601, 132 (2004) * K+K‒ production in proton-proton reactions EPJA 29, 245 (2006); PLB 668, 315 (2008) * Measurement of the extremely small dd → α $K^+K^‒$ production cross section Chin. Phys. C 20, 33 (2009); EPJA 42, 1 (2009) since 2000 Construction of a frozen-pellet target for experiments at storage rings (COSY, HESR) and high-power lasers * Properties of cryogenic fluids PRL 100, 174505 (2008); CERN Courier Sept. 2008 2006 – 2015 Experiments with the WASA spectrometer at COSY * Decays of the η mesons; search for new particles PLB 707, 243 (2012), PLB 726, 187 (2013) * Indications of a novel hadronic resonance PRL 112, 202301 (2014); CERN Courier June 2014 since 2008 Experiments on laser-induced particle acceleration at the Institute for Laser- and Plasma physics, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf * Development of a method to measure the polarization of laser-accelerated hadrons Phys. Plasmas 21, 023104 (2014) ); CERN Courier Mar. 2014 July 1999 – November 2007 Beam-time coordinator COSY November 1999 – Oktober 2005 Spokesperson of the ANKE collaboration since 2008 Member and coordinator of the WASA Publication Committee Member of the ANKE/COSY, PANDA/HESR und WASA-at-COSY collaborations
Teaching activities	WS 2000/01 (Universität zu Köln) Lecture „Aktuelle Probleme der Hadronenphysik“ WS 2001/02, WS 2002/03 Lecture „Elementarteilchenphysik“ SS 2003, SS 2004, SS 2005, SS 2006, SS 2007 Lecture „Physik der Elementarteilchen“ WS 2003/04, WS 2004/05, WS 2005/06, WS 2007/08 Lecture „Experimente zur starken Wechselwirkung“ SS 2008, SS 2009, SS 2010, SS 2011, SS 2012 Lecture „Particle Physics“ WS 2008/09 Lecture „Hadron Physics” WS 2010/11, WS 2011/12, WS 2012/13 Lecture „Tools for Particle Physics” WS 2005/06, SS2007, WS 2009/10, WS 2011/12 Lecture „Physik für Mediziner“ SS 2014, SS2015 (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf) Lecture „Kern- und Teilchenphysik“
Other activities	June 1993 – August 2013 Elected member of Institutsleitungsausschuss IKP since January 2010 Elected member of Scientific and Technical Council (WTR) FZJ since January 2012 Elected member of the Hauptkommission FZJ since January 2014 Vice-Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council (WTR) FZJ March 2005 – March 2009 Accountant of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft since July 2007 Laboratory correspondent of the FZJ for the CERN Courier
Hobbies	Volleyball, saxophone

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email: m.buescher@fz-juelich.de