Dr. Robert Lahmann

PD Dr. Robert Lahmann

Physics Insitute
Chair of Experimental Physics (Astro Particle Physics)

Room: Room 01.033
Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Str. 2
91058 Erlangen

Research Activities

I am currently a member of the ANTARES and KM3NeT collaborations (optical neutrino telescopes) and of the ARIANNA and RNO-G collaborations (radio neutrino detection). My prime research topic is the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE, E > 1017 eV) neutrinos. I was principal investigator of acoustic neutrino detection in ANTARES .  My focus has shifted in the meantime to radio detection of UHE neutrinos.

Priviously, I worked in high energy physics on the OPAL experiment at CERN and the H1 experiment at DESY.

Professional Record

08/2018 – 09/2019 Visiting Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of California, Irvine
since 03/2012 Assistant Professor (Privatdozent), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
since 10/2003 Staff Scientist (Akademischer Rat), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, tenured since 06/2008
05/2000 – 09/2003 Development Engineer for electronic restraint systems (airbags), Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
09/1996 – 04/2000 Fellow, DESY, Hamburg
01/1992 – 10/1996 Research Assistant, University of Maryland at College Park

Academic Record

Selected Publications

  • R. Lahmann, Investigations of ice and emitter properties from radio signals recorded with ARIANNA, in: Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), Madison, WI, USA, July 24 – Aug. 1, PoS ICRC2019 (2020), 939 (article on journal server)
  • C. Glaser et al., NuRadioReco: A reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) no.6, 464 (article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • S. W. Barwick et al., Observation of classically ‘forbidden’ electromagnetic wave propagation and implications for neutrino detection, JCAP 07 (2018) 055 (article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • R. Lahmann et al., Thermo-acoustic sound generation in the interaction of pulsed proton and laser beams with a water target, Astropart. Phys. 65 (2015) p. 69 ( article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • J.A. Aguilar et al. (ANTARES Collaboration), AMADEUS – The acoustic neutrino detection test system of the ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 626-627 (2011) p. 128 ( article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • C. Richardt et al., Reconstruction methods for acoustic particle detection in the deep sea using clusters of hydrophones, Astropart. Phys. 31 (2009), p. 19 (article on journal server)
  • G. Anton et al., Study of piezo based sensors for acoustic particle detection, Astropart. Phys. 26 (2006), p. 301 (article on journal server)

List of my publications with the RNO-G collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the ARIANNA collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the KM3NeT collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the ANTARES collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the H1 collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the OPAL collaboration on inSPIRE

Recent Conference and Seminar Talks

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36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), Madison, WI (USA), July 2019: "Investigations of ice and emitter properties from radio signals recorded with ARIANNA"


Icon png   2019-04-18_Scripps_seminar  (10.5 MB)

Seminar talk at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (USA) April 2019: "Acoustic detection of neutrinos"


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8th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2018), Catania (Italy): "History of acoustic neutrino detection" (invited talk)


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5th International Workshop on Very Large Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT 2011), Erlangen (Germany), Oct. 2011: "Neutrino Detection, Position Calibration and Marine Science with Acoustic Arrays in the Deep Sea" (invited talk)


Patents

Triggers and firing decisions do not only matter in experimental particle physics. I am principal inventor or co-inventor of several patents for the Robert Bosch GmbH concerning electronic restraint systems. Here you can find a selection.