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Research interests:
Nuclear Physics
Heavy ion reactions; gamma-ray spectroscopy;
half-life measurements with recoil-distance, Dopplershift attenuation,
specific activity methods; shell model; high-spin states; rare cluster
decays; solar neutrino detection, nuclear astrophysics, search for exotic
particles.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
Current research interests focus on the
exploration of our world by means of the "isotope language"
utilizing both long-lived radioisotopes and stable isotopes. AMS experiments
with the long-lived, cosmogenic radionuclides such as 10Be, 14C,
26Al, 36Cl, 39Ar, 41Ca, 44Ti,
59Ni, 60Fe, 81Kr, 126Sn, 129I,
182Hf, 205Pb, 210Pb, 236U, 244Pu
are being pursued to study physical and chemical phenomena in the seven great
domains of our environment at large: atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere,
cryosphere, lithosphere, cosmosphere, technosphere. Since 1996 most of the
AMS work is performed at the new 3-MV Pelletron tandem facility VERA (Vienna
Environmental Research Accelerator) at the University of Vienna. Noble
gas AMS of 39Ar and 81Kr is pursued at large
positive-ion accelerators at Argonne National Laboratory and at the Michigan
State University in the USA.
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Curriculum Vitae:
Born 19 September 1939 in Vienna; Austria;
married to Dr. Gundl Kutschera, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist;
children: Joerg (1962), Peter (1964), Stefanie (1971);
(1965) Ph.D. in Experimental Physics at the University of Graz; Austria;
(1966-1968) Visiting Scientist at the Tandem Accelerator Lab of the
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg;Germany; (1969)
Assistant Professor at the Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg,
Germany; (1970 –1978) Assistant Professor at the Physics Department,
Technical University of Munich, Tandem Accelerator Laboratory, Garching,
Germany; (1973/74) Research Fellow of the Japan Association for the Promotion
of Science at the Physics Department, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;
(1977) Habilitation in Experimental Physics, Technical University of Munich,
Germany; (1978-1980) Visiting Scientist at the Physics Division, Argonne
National Laboratory in Chicago, Argonne, Illinois, USA; (1980-1985) Staff
Scientist at the Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago,
Argonne, Illinois, USA; (1985/1986) Visiting Professor, Physics Department,
Technical University of Munich, Tandem Laboratory, Garching, Germany;
(1986-1993) Senior Scientist at the Physics Division, Argonne National
Laboratory in Chicago, Argonne, Illinois, USA; (Jan/Mar 1990) Berman Visiting
Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(Apr/Jun 1990) Visiting Professor, Institute for Radium Research and Nuclear
Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; (1993 - ) Professor of
Physics at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; (1994 - ) Head of the
Institute of Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics at the University of Vienna
and of the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA); (2004-2006) Dean
of the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna.
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Selected Publications
(2000-2006):
P. Collon, W. Kutschera, H.H. Loosli, B.E.
Lehmann, R. Purtschert, A. Love, L. Sampson, D. Anthony, D. Cole,
B. Davids, D.J. Morrissey, B.M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, R.C. Pardo, M. Paul
81Kr in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia: a new method for
dating very old groundwater
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 182 (2000) 103–113
W. Kutschera
Das Sortieren von Atomen "One by One"
Physik in unserer Zeit, 31. Jahrg. Nr. 5 (2000) 203–208
M. Lerperger, A.P.
McNichol, J. Peden, A.R. Gagnon, K.L. Elder, W. Kutschera, W. Rom, P. Steier
Oceanic uptake of CO2 re-estimated through δ13C in
WOCE samples
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B
172 (2000) 501–512
W. Rom, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, M. Bräunlich,
R. Golser, M. Mandl, A. Kaiser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, T.
Röckmann, P. Steier
A detailed 2-year record of atmospheric 14CO in the temperate
northern hemisphere
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 161-163 (2000) 780–785
E.M. Wild, K.A. Arlamovsky, R. Golser, W.
Kutschera, A. Priller, S. Puchegger, W. Rom, P. Steier, W. Vycudilik
14C dating with the bomb peak: An application to forensic
medicine
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 172 (2000) 944–950
V. Gros, M. Bräunlich, T. Röckmann, P.
Jöckel, P. Bergamaschi, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, W. Rom, W. Kutschera, A.
Kaiser, H.E. Scheel, M. Mandl, J. van der Plicht, G. Possnert
Detailed analysis of the isotopic composition of CO and characterization
of the air masses arriving at Mount Sonnblick (Austrian Alps)
J. Geophys. Res. 106/D3 (2001) 3179-3193
E.M. Wild, P. Stadler, M. Bondár, S. Draxler,
H. Friesinger, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, W. Rom, E. Ruttkay, P. Steier
New chronological frame for the young neolithic Baden culture in Central
Europe (4th Millennium BC)
Radiocarbon 43/2B (2001) 1057-1063
P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A.
Priller, A. Valenta, C. Vockenhuber
Heavy Ion AMS with a "small" accelerator
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 188 (2002) 283-287
W. Kutschera, W.
Müller
Isotope language of the alpine Iceman investigated with AMS and MS,
Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 204 (2003) 705-719
C. Vockenhuber, I. Ahmad, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, V. Liechtenstein, A.
Priller, P. Steier, S. Winkler,
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of heavy long-lived radionuclides
Int. J. Mass Spectrometry 223-224 (2003) 713-732
P. Collon, W. Kutschera, Z.-T. Lu,
Tracing noble gas radionuclides in the environment,
Annual Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 54 (2004) 39-67
F. Dellinger, W. Kutschera, K. Nicolussi, P.
Schießling, P. Steier, E.M. Wild
A 14C calibration with AMS from 3500 BC to 3000 BC, derived
from a new high-elevation stone-pine tree-ring chronology
Radiocarbon 46/1 (2004) 337-385
P. Steier, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, C. Vockenhuber, S. Winkler
VERA, an AMS facility for "all" isotopes
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 223-224 (2004) 67-71
C. Vockenhuber, F. Oberli, M. Bichler, I. Ahmad, G.Quitté, M. Meier, A.N.
Halliday, D.-C. Lee, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, R.J. Gehrke, R.G.
Helmer
New Half-Life Measurement of 182Hf: Improved Chronometer
for the Early Solar System
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 172501
W. Kutschera
Progress in isotope analysis at ultra-trace level by AMS
Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 242 (2005) 145-160
E.M. Wild, M. Teschler-Nicola, W. Kutschera, P. Steier, E. Trinkhaus, W.
Wanek
Direct dating of Early Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Mladec
Nature 435 (2005) 332-335
K. Liu, B. Han, Z. Guo, X. Wu, S. Yuan, W. Kutschera, H. Ma, A. Priller, P.
Steier, E.M. Wild, C. Zhao
AMS radiocarbon dating of bone samples from the Xinzhai site in China
Radiocarbon 47/1 (2005) 21-25
R. Golser, H.Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner, M.
Cizek, J. Horacek, W. Domcke
Experimental and Theoretical evidence for Long-Lived Molecular Hydrogen
Anions H2¯ and D2¯
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 223003
P. Steier, R. Drosg, M. Fedi, W. Kutschera, M. Schock, D. Wagenbach, E.M.
Wild
Radiocarbon determination of particulate organic carbon in non-temperated,
alpine glacier ice
Radiocarbon 48/1 (2006) 69-82
S.W. Manning, C. Bronk Ramsay, W. Kutschera, T. Higham, B. Kromer, P. Steier,
E.M. Wild
Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C.
Science 312 (2006) 565-569
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