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Selected Publications

Fission isomers:

Fission isomerism induced by helium ions,

V.Metag, R. Repnow, P. von Brentano, J.D. Fox, Z. Phys. 226 (1969) 83

Detection of fission isomers with halflives in the picosecond range by the recoil-distance 

technique, V. Metag et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. 114 (1974) 445

Systematics of fission isomer halflives,

V. Metag, Nukleonika 20 (1975) 789

Quadrupole moment of the 8-μs fission isomer in 239Pu,

D. Habs, V. Metag, H.J. Specht and G. Ulfert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38 (1977) 387

Spectroscopy in the second minimum of the potential energy surface of 239Pu,

H. Backe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 42 (1979) 490

Review: Spectroscopic properties of fission isomers,

 V. Metag, D. Habs, H.-J. Specht, Physics Reports 65 (1980) 1 

Lowest β-vibrational phonon in the second minima of 236,238U,

U. Goerlach et al., Phys . Rev. Lett. 48 (1982) 1160

Heavy ion reactions

Unexpected Entrance-Channel effects in the decay of the compound nucleus 156Er,

A.Ruckelshausen et al.,Phys. Rev. Lett. 56 (1986) 2356

γ-rays from peripheral and central Collisions in the reaction 40Ar+158Gd at 44 MeV/nucleon,

R. Hingmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 (1987) 759

Dominance of nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung in mass-asymmetric heavy-ion collisions at 15 MeV/ nucleon, G. Breitbach et al., Phys. Rev. C 40 (1989) 2893

Review: Production of energetic particles in heavy-ion reactions, 

W. Cassing, V. Metag, U, Mosel, K. Niita, Physics Reports 188 (1990) 363

First observation of the Coulomb-excited double giant dipole resonance in 208Pb via double-γ decay, J. Ritman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 533

Transverse momentum distributions of η mesons in near threshold relativistic 

heavy ion reactions, (TAPS collaboration) F.D. Berg et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 977

Contribution of π0 and η Dalitz decays to the dilepton invariant mass spectrum in 1 AGeV heavy-ion collisions, R. Holzmann et al., Phys. Rev. C 56 (1997) R2920

Muti-step production of η and hard π0 mesons in subthreshold Au+Au collisions,

A.R. Wolf et al., (TAPS collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 5281

Study of dielectron production in C + C collisions at 1 AGeV,

G. Agakichiev et al. (HADES collaboration) Phys. Lett. B 663 (2008) 43

Probing dense baryon-rich matter with virtual photons,

J. Adamczewski-Musch et al., (HADES collaboration), Nature Physics 15 (2019) 1040

Meson production in photonuclear reactions

Near threshold photoproduction of η mesons off the proton,

(TAPS collaboration) B. Krusche et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 3736

The reaction γp → p γ’ π0 and the magnetic dipole moment of the Δ+ (1232) resonance,

(TAPS collaboration) M. Kotulla et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 272001

Determination of the η transition formfactor in the γp → pη → p γ e+e- reaction,

(A2 collaboration) H. Berghäuser et al., Phys. Lett. B 701 (2011) 562

Observation of a structure in the Mpη invariant mass distribution near 1700 MeV/c2 in the 

γp → p π0 η reaction, 

(CBELSA/TAPS collaboration), V. Metag et al., Eur. Phys. Journal A 57 (2021) 325

Modification of meson properties in the nuclear medium

In-medium modifications of the ππ interaction in photon-induced reactions

J.G. Messchendorp et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 222302

Modification of the ω – meson lifetime in nuclear matter,

(CBELSA/TAPS collaboration) M. Kotulla et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2008) 192302; 

Erratum: Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 192302

Review: Hadrons in strongly interacting matter,

S. Leupold, V. Metag, and U. Mosel, International Journal of Modern Physics E 19 (2010) 147

Determination of the η’-nucleus optical potential,

(CBELSA/TAPS collaboration) M. Nanova et al., Phys. Lett. B 727 (2013) 417

Momentum dependence of the imaginary part of the ω- and η’- nucleus optical potential,

(CBELSA/TAPS collaboration) S. Friedrich et al., Eur. Phys. Journal A 52 (2016) 297

Measurement of the excitation spectra in the 12C(p,d) reaction near the η’ production threshold, (etaprime collaboration) Y. Tanaka et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (2017) 202501

Review: Meson-nucleus potentials and the search for meson-nucleus bound states,

V. Metag, M. Nanova, E. Paryev, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 97 (2017) 199

Handbook of Nuclear physics (I. Tanihata et al. (eds)) Springer Nature Singapore 2022: 

The η and η’ – nucleus interactions and the search for η, η’- mesic states,

 S. Bass, V. Metag, P Moskal,  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8818-1_39-1

Experiments with secondary beams     

Hadron physics with antiprotons: the HESR-project at GSI,

V. Metag, Nucl. Phys. A 692 (2001) 196c

Design and commissioning of the GSI pion beam,

J. Diaz et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 478 (2002) 511

A facility for pion-induced nuclear reaction studies with HADES,

J. Adamczewski-Musch et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 53 (2017) 188

Two-pion production in the second resonance region in π- p collisions with HADES,

J. Adamczewski-Musch et al., Phys. Rev. C 102 (2020) 024001