Henning Esbensen

• phone: 630/252-4098
• 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- Editorial Board, Physical Review Letters

Recent papers

1. Analysis of heavy-ion fusion reactions at extreme sub-barrier energies
   C.-L. Jiang, H. Esbensen, B.B. Back, R.V.F. Janssens, and K. E. Rehm
   Phys. Rev. C 69, 014604-1:6 (2004)
2. Decay rate of triaxially deformed proton emitters
   Cary N. Davids and Henning Esbensen
   Phys. Rev. C 69, 034314-1:9 (2004)
3. Influence of Nuclear Structure on Sub-Barrier Hindrance in Ni + Ni Fusion
   C. L. Jiang, K. E. Rehm, R. V. F. Janssens, H. Esbensen, I. Ahmad, B. B. Back, P. Collon, C. N. Davids, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, T. O. Pennington, D. Seweryniak, S. Sinha, and Z. Zhou
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 012701-1:4 (2004)
4. Constraints on the ⁷Be(p,γ)⁸B radiative capture rate from charge symmetry
   Henning Esbensen
   Phys. Rev. C 70, 047603-1:4 (2004)
5. Challenges in Coupled-Channels Calculations of Heavy-Ion Fusion Reactions
   Henning Esbensen
   Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 154, 11-20 (2004)
6. Reconciling Coulomb Dissociation and Radiative Capture Measurements
   H. Esbensen, G. F. Bertsch, and K. A. Snover
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 042502-1:4 (2005)
7. 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)
8. Sensitivity to multi-phonon excitations in heavy-ion fusion reactions
   H. Esbensen
   Phys. Rev. C 72, 054607-1:10 (2005)
9. 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)
10. Hindrance of Heavy-Ion Fusion due to Nuclear Incompressibility
    S. Misicu and H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112701-1:4 (2006)
11. Esbensen, Bertsch, and Snover Reply:
    H. Esbensen, G. F. Bertsch, and K. A. Snover
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 159202-1 (2006)
12. Signature of shallow potentials in deep sub-barrier fusion reactions
    S. Misicu and H. Esbensen
    Phys. Rev. C 75 034606-1:14 (2007)
13. Charge radius and dipole response of ¹¹Li
    H. Esbensen, K. Hagino, P. Mueller, and H. Sagawa
    Phys. Rev. C 76 024302-1:6 (2007)
14. Hindrance of ¹⁶O+²⁰⁸Pb fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies
    Henning Esbensen and Serban Misicu
    Phys. Rev. C 76 054609-1:8 (2007)

Selected previous papers