Henning Esbensen

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• FAX: 630/252-6008
• e-mail: esbensen@phy.anl.gov

Biographical sketch

• 1972 M.S., University of Aarhus, Denmark
• 1977 Ph.D., University of Aarhus, Denmark
• 1978-79 Fellowship, Danish Natural Science Research Council, Niels Bohr Institute
• 1979-81 NORDITA Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute
• 1982 Fellowship, Danish Natural Science Research Council, Niels Bohr Institute
• 1982 Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• 1982-84 Research Associate, Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory
• 1984-85 Research Associate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• 1985-present Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Member, American Physical Society

Honors, Organizations, Committees, etc.

• 2004 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2004-06 Editorial Board, Physical Review Letters

Recent papers

1. Reconciling Coulomb Dissociation and Radiative Capture Measurements
   H. Esbensen, G.F. Bertsch, and K.A. Snover
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 042502-1:4 (2005)
2. Hindrance of heavy-ion fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies in open-shell colliding systems
   C.L. Jiang, K.E. Rehm, H. Esbensen, R.V.F. Janssens, B.B. Back, C.N. Davids, J.P. Greene, D.J. Henderson, C.J. Lister, R.C. Pardo, T. Pennington, D. Peterson, D. Seweryniak, B. Shumard, S. Sinha, X.D. Tang, I. Tanihata, S. Zhu, P. Collon, S. Kurtz, and M. Paul
   Phys. Rev. C 71, 044613-1:9 (2005)
3. Sensitivity to multi-phonon excitations in heavy-ion fusion reactions
   H. Esbensen
   Phys. Rev. C 72, 054607-1:10 (2005)
4. Systematics of heavy-ion fusion hindrance at extreme sub-barrier energies
   C.L. Jiang, B.B. Back, H. Esbensen, R.V.F. Janssens, and K.E. Rehm
   Phys. Rev. C 73, 014613-1:5 (2006)
5. Radiative Capture versus Coulomb Dissociation
   H. Esbensen
   AIP Conf. Proc. 819, 518-522 (2006)
6. Hindrance of Heavy-Ion Fusion due to Nuclear Incompressibility
   S. Misicu and H. Esbensen
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112701-1:4 (2006)
7. Esbensen, Bertsch, and Snover Reply:
   H. Esbensen, G.F. Bertsch, and K.A. Snover
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 159202-1 (2006)
8. Sensitivity to Multiphonon Excitations and Incompressibility in Fusion Reactions
   H. Esbensen and S. Misicu
   AIP Conf. Proc. 853, 13-20 (2006)
9. First evidence of fusion hindrance for a small Q-value system
   C.L. Jiang, B.B. Back, H. Esbensena, R.V.F. Janssens, S. Misicu, K.E. Rehm, P. Collon, C.N. Davids, J. Greene, D.J. Henderson, L. Jisonna, S. Kurtz, C.J. Lister, M. Notani, M. Paul, R. Pardo, D. Peterson, D. Seweryniak, B. Shumard, X.D. Tang, I. Tanihata, X. Wang, and S. Zhu
   Phys. Lett. B 640, 18-22 (2006)
10. Signature of shallow potentials in deep sub-barrier fusion reactions
    S. Misicu and H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. C 75 034606-1:14 (2007)
11. Charge radius and dipole response of ¹¹Li
    H. Esbensen, K. Hagino, P. Mueller, and H. Sagawa
    Phys. Rev. C 76 024302-1:6 (2007)
12. Hindrance of ¹⁶O+²⁰⁸Pb fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies
    Henning Esbensen and Serban Misicu
    Phys. Rev. C 76 054609-1:8 (2007)
13. Coupled-channels calculations of ¹⁶O+¹⁶O fusion
    H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. C 77 054608-1:7 (2008)
14. Fusion hindrance for a positive Q-value system
    C.L. Jiang, B.B. Back, H. Esbensen, J.P. Greene, R.V.F. Janssens, D.J. Henderson, H.Y. Lee, C.J. Lister, M. Notani, R.C. Pardo, N. Patel, K.E. Rehm, D. Seweryniak, B. Shumard, X. Wang, S. Zhu, S. Misicu, P. Collon, and X. D. Tang
    Phys. Rev. C 78 017601-1:4 (2008)
15. Coulomb excitation at intermediate energies
    H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. C 78 024608-1:11 (2008)
16. Density-dependence of effective n-n forces and the hindrance in the extreme sub-barrier fusion
    H. Esbensen, S. Misicu, and F. Carstoiu
    AIP Conf. Proc. 1098, 26-31 (2008)
17. Indications of a shallow potential in ⁴⁸Ca+⁹⁶Zr fusion reactions
    H. Esbensen and C.L. Jiang
    Phys. Rev. C 79 064619-1:11 (2009)
18. Coulomb dissociation of ¹⁵C and radiative capture on ¹⁴C
    H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. C 80 024608-1:8 (2009)

Selected previous papers