Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Arends

Short CV

1974-1978
Doctoral thesis, University of Bonn (awarded Heinrich-Hörlein prize)

1979-1983
Scientific Assistant, Physics Institute, University of Bonn 

1983-1985
Postdoctoral Fellowships at CEN Saclay, France,
Catholic University, Washington, DC, USA,
LAMPF, Los Alamos, NM, USA,
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, USA  

1987
Habilitation in Physics, University of Bonn

1989-1992
Assistant Professor, University of Bonn

1992
Professor of Physics (C3), University of Mainz

2000
Sabbatical leave at Thomas Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA

2006-2008
Managing Director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz

Research interests

• nucleon structure
• meson photo production
• real Compton scattering processes
• spin structure of the nucleon
• polarization observables

Key publications

• Measurement of the E2/M1 ratio in the N → Delta transition using the reaction p(gamma(pol.),p)pi0
  R. Beck et al.
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 606
• Determination of the E2 / M1 ratio in the gamma N → Delta (1232) transition from a simultaneous measurement of p(polarized gamma, p) pi0 and p(polarized gamma, pi+)n
  R. Beck et al.
  Phys. Rev. C 61 (2000) 035204
• Experimental investigation of the deuteron photodisintegration in the Delta resonance region
  J. Arends et al.
  Nucl. Phys. A 412 (1984) 509
• First measurement of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn integral for Hydrogen from 200 to 800 MeV
  J. Ahrens et al.
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 022003
• Low-energy Compton scattering and the polarizabilities of the proton
  V. Olmos de Leon et al.
  Eur. Phys. J. A 10 (2001) 207