Bessel processes play an important role in financial mathematics because of their strong relation to financial models such as geometric Brownian motion or Cox-Ingersoll-Ross processes. We are interested in the first time Bessel processes and, more generally, radial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes hit a given barrier. We give explicit expressions of the Laplace transforms of first hitting times by (squared) radial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, that is, Cox-Ingersoll-Ross processes. As a natural extension we study squared Bessel processes and squared Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with negative dimensions or negative starting points and derive their properties.