SPARC PhD Award 2024 goes to Dr. Stefan Dickopf
01.10.2024 |
This year's SPARC collaboration PhD Prize was awarded to Dr. Stephan Dickopf from the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for his thesis entitled “High-precision Penning-trap measurements of the magnetic moments and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen-like beryllium-9”. The ceremony took place in the framework of the 21st SPARC Topical Workshop at the University of Münster, where the award was handed over by Professor Andrey Surzhykov of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the Technische Universität Braunschweig, head of the SPARC Award Committee.
The award recognizes excellent experimental work of Dr. Dickopf, focused on the high-precision determination of the nuclear moment of beryllium-9 and the zero-field-splitting of its hyperfine structure. The achieved accuracy exceeds the one from previous measurements by up to two orders of magnitude, which makes beryllium-9 an excellent reference sample for other nuclear moment measurements.
The SPARC PhD Award has been presented annually since 2018 and comes with a prize money of 300 euros. The award honors the best PhD thesis within the collaboration concerning atomic physics with heavy ions at the research facilities of GSI and FAIR. SPARC stands for Stored Particles Atomic Physics Research Collaboration. Currently, more than 400 members from 26 countries belong to the collaboration. They experiment with the existing atomic physics facilities at GSI and prepare new experiments and setups at the future FAIR accelerator. (CP)
