The invention relates to an ultrasound transducer (1) for measuring and automation technology, having at least one transducer element (20) for sending or receiving ultrasound signals; and comprising amatching element (10) which is acoustically coupled to the transducer element, which matching element is designed to ensure acoustic matching between the transducer element and a medium which acts onthe matching element, wherein the matching element, in a first subregion (T1) of the axial extent, partially fills each cross section of the matching element, wherein a filling component in the firstsubregion along the first longitudinal axis monotonically increases in the direction of the first side, wherein the matching element has a plurality of ring elements (11) in the first subregion, which ring elements are arranged concentrically around the first longitudinal axis, and wherein each ring element partially fills each cross section in the first subregion, wherein the first subregion comprises at least 80% of an axial extent of the matching element along the first longitudinal axis.