U. Becker

26.9k citations
550 papers · 19.5k · 9 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 1%
    • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
    • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
    • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
    • High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
    • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
    • Neutrino Physics Research
    • Particle Detector Development and Performance
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics top 2%
    • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Papers in

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 478
    • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 419
    • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 321
    • High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 270
    • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena 122
    • Neutrino Physics Research 61
    • Particle Detector Development and Performance 37
    • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 32
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 56
    • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 33
Co-authors
Martin P. Rohde (26 shared papers)Samuel C.C. Ting (27 shared papers)M. Chen (18 shared papers)J.D. Burger (11 shared papers)Sau Lan Wu (10 shared papers)J. Leong (7 shared papers)G. Everhart (7 shared papers)Peter J. Biggs (7 shared papers)
Journals
Physics Letters B (339 papers)Physical Review Letters (61 papers)Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment (17 papers)The European Physical Journal C (11 papers)Journal of Crystal Growth (6 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesGermanySwitzerland

In The Last Decade

U. Becker

543 papers receiving 18.4k citations

U. Becker's Hit Papers

Antiproton Flux, Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio, and Properties of Elementary Particle Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station 2016 · 288 citations
2880+17+34Years since publication2505007501000
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2016 Physical Review Letters
  2. 2015 Physical Review Letters
  3. 2015 Physical Review Letters
  4. 2014 Physical Review Letters
  5. 2014 Physical Review Letters
  6. 2013 Physical Review Letters
  7. 2006 The European Physical Journal C
  8. 1990 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  9. 1974 Physical Review Letters

Peers

U. Becker
Comparison fields: 5 of 128
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 17.6k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 4.4k
  • Radiation 672
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.5k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 269
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Marco Incagli Italy
Samuel C.C. Ting United States
J.D. Burger United States
P.G. Rancoita Italy
P.H. Fisher United States
Bruna Bertucci Italy
F. Cervelli Italy
F. Barão France
Yasuo Takeuchi United States
G. Gerbier France
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside U. Becker, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J
Physical Review Letters ·J.J. Aubert, U. Becker, Peter J. Biggs, J.D. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong
Hit paper breakdown →		19741077
2
First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–350 GeV
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Giuseppe Alberti, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, Hans Anderhub, L. Arruda
Hit paper breakdown →		2013721
3
Precision Measurement of the Proton Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from Rigidity 1 GV to 1.8 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Damiano Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, L. Arruda, N. Attig
Hit paper breakdown →		2015686
4
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP
The European Physical Journal C ·Stefan Schael, R. Barate, R. Brunelière, Isabelle De Bonis, Daniel DECAMP, C. Goy, S. Jézéquel, J. P. Lees
Hit paper breakdown →		2006490
5
The construction of the L3 experiment
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Bernardo Adeva, M. Aguilar-Benítez, H. Akbari, Juan Alcaraz Maestre, Alberto Aloisio, J. Alvarez-Taviel, George Alverson, Mariagrazia Alviggi
Hit paper breakdown →		1990443
6
Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Damiano Aisa, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, L. Arruda, N. Attig, Philipp Azzarello
Hit paper breakdown →		2014368
7
Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Damiano Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, L. Arruda, N. Attig
Hit paper breakdown →		2015355
8
High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·Lucio Accardo, María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Damiano Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, L. Arruda
Hit paper breakdown →		2014353
9
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station: Part I – results from the test flight on the space shuttle
Physics Reports ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Juan Alcaraz Maestre, J. Allaby, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, Hans Anderhub, L. Ao, A. Arefiev
2002324
10
Antiproton Flux, Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio, and Properties of Elementary Particle Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, L. Arruda, N. Attig, Sandy Aupetit, Philipp Azzarello
Hit paper breakdown →		2016288
11
Performance of the ALEPH detector at LEP
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·Damir Buskulic, David Casper, Isabelle De Bonis, Daniel DECAMP, Ph. Ghez, Corinne goy, J.-P. Lees, M.-N. Minard
1995286
12
Discovery of Three-Jet Events and a Test of Quantum Chromodynamics at PETRA
Physical Review Letters ·Desmond P. Barber, U. Becker, H. Benda, Alexandria B B Boehm, James Branson, J. Bron, D. Buikman, J.D. Burger
1979235
13
Precision Measurement of the Boron to Carbon Flux Ratio in Cosmic Rays from 1.9 GV to 2.6 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, Giovanni Ambrosi, L. Arruda, N. Attig, Sandy Aupetit, Philipp Azzarello, Andreas Bachlechner
2016229
14
Cosmic protons
Physics Letters B ·Juan Alcaraz Maestre, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, Hans Anderhub, L. Ao, A. Arefiev, Philipp Azzarello, E. Babucci
2000219
15
Cosmic-ray positron fraction measurement from 1 to 30 GeV with AMS-01
Physics Letters B ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Juan Alcaraz Maestre, J. Allaby, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, Hans Anderhub, L. Ao, A. Arefiev
2007217
16
A measurement of the inclusive b→sγ branching ratio
Physics Letters B ·R. Barate, Damir Buskulic, Daniel DECAMP, Ph. Ghez, Corinne goy, J.-P. Lees, Arnaud Lucotte, Elsa Merle
1998205
17
Precision Measurement of the (e++e−) Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, Damiano Aisa, B. Alpat, A. Alvino, Giovanni Ambrosi, Karen Andeen, L. Arruda, N. Attig
2014201
18
Observation of the Identical Rigidity Dependence of He, C, and O Cosmic Rays at High Rigidities by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Physical Review Letters ·María Luisa Hernández Aguilar, L. Ali Cavasonza, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, L. Arruda, N. Attig, Sandy Aupetit, Philipp Azzarello
2017198
19
Leptons in near earth orbit
Physics Letters B ·Juan Alcaraz Maestre, B. Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, Hans Anderhub, L. Ao, A. Arefiev, Philipp Azzarello, E. Babucci
2000196
20
A determination of the properties of the neutral intermediate vector boson Z0
Physics Letters B ·Bernardo Adeva, Oscar Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benı́tez, H. Akbari, Juan Alcaraz Maestre, Alberto Aloisio, Mariagrazia Alviggi, Q. An
1989184

About U. Becker

U. Becker is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Radiation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 550 papers that have together received 19.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (419 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (321 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (270 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (122 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (61 papers), Particle Detector Development and Performance (37 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (33 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (32 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (17.6k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (4.4k citations), Radiation (672 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.5k citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (269 citations). U. Becker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Martin P. Rohde, Samuel C.C. Ting, M. Chen, J.D. Burger, Sau Lan Wu, J. Leong, G. Everhart, Peter J. Biggs, J.J. Aubert and T. G. Rhoades. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Letters B, Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, The European Physical Journal C and Journal of Crystal Growth.

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