Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Walter Greiner

Professor Emeritus of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics
Founding Director, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

Scientific Fields of Research

• Nuclear structure "Rotation-Vibration Model"
• Different proton and neutron deformations in nuclei
• Dynamic Collective Model of giant resonances; The spreading width of giant resonances
• Eigenchannel theory of nuclear reactions
• Generalized Collective Model (known as "Gneuß-Greiner"-Model or also the "Frankfurt" Collective Model)
• Prediction of superheavy nuclei
• The Two Center Shell Model
• Theory of nuclear molecules
• Prediction of new ("cluster") radioactivities
• Bimodal and superasymmetric nuclear fission
• Heavy ion physics
• Quantum Electrodynamics (particularly of strong, overcritical fields - "Decay of the Vacuum")
• Theory of electronic quasimolecules in heavy ion collisions
• Structure of superheavy and giant nuclei
• Shock waves in relativistic heavy ion collisions: The key mechanism for compressing and heating nuclear matter
• Nuclear equation of state
• Pion bremsstrahlung
• Phase transitions of nuclear matter
• Production of clusters of antimatter and strange matter from the highly correlated vacuum (meson field theory)
• Extension of the periodic system into new directions of stangeness and antimatter.
• Clusters of matter and antimatter - Superdense baryonic clusters

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