[English / Japanese] Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

In our laboratory, experimental studies of nuclear and hadronic physics and related subjects are carried out.
We develop new techniques and various detectors and utilize accelerators and/or reactors with wide energy range from UCN (~100neV) to RHIC (500GeV) in order to study various aspects of atoms, nuclei, hadrons and quarks.

Ms. Natsuki Tomida, our lab's D1 student, won the Detector Technology Master Thesis Award. (2012/05/14)

Ms. Natsuki Tomida, our lab's M2 student, won the HUA Master Thesis Award. (2012/03/24)

Dr. Koji Miwa, our lab's OB, whose present address is Tohoku Univ., won the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan ( Experimental Nuclear Physics) (2012/03/26)
Theme : "Search for the pentaquark Θ⁺ using hadron beams"
Thesis :

1. K. Miwa et al., "Search for Θ⁺ via π^- p → K^- X reaction near production threshold", Phys. Lett. B 635 (2006) 72.
2. K. Miwa et al., "Search for the Θ⁺ via the K⁺ p → π⁺ X reaction with a 1.2 GeV/c K⁺ beam", Phys. Rev. C 77 (2008) 045203.

The first paper of the J-PARC E19 (Pentaquark search experiment) was submitted to the Phys. Rev. Lett. You can obtain the draft from arXiv:1203.3604. (2012/03/16)

NH Review 2011 was held. (2012/02/23)

Dr. Yohei Matsuda has arrived as a new GCOE researcher. (2011/10/03)

Wine and Cheese Seminar page was newly added. (2011/10/02)

The Lorentz Festival , open hause of the department of physics, will be held on Jun. 24th. Our labolatory will perform presentations below.

• Oral Presentation : @ Bldg.5, Rm. 205
  (1)11:00-11:45 , (3)13:30-14:15 , (5)15:10-15:45
• Poster Presentation : any time @ Bldg.5, Rm.319

Ms. Natsuki Tomida, our lab's M2 student, won the 1st Takegoshi Prize. (2011/6/22)

Colloquium page was newly added. (2011/6/12)

Members page was updated. Six new M1-students joined to our lab.
Publication list and presentation list in JFY2010 were added to Articles page. (2011/4/11)

Dr. Karatsu completed his Ph.D.(2011/3/23)

NH-Review2010 was held. Farewell party was also held at night.(2011/3/7)

Two students in our lab. earned master's degree in this fiscal year. (2011/02)

Dr. Zenihiro and Dr. Seki completed thier Ph.D.(2011/01)

J-PARC E19 which is the first hadron experiment at J-PARC has successfully finished data taking. E19 is a penta-quark search experiment. (2010/11)

Prof. Imai's retirement ceremony was held. (2010/05/22)

Dr. Niiyama has arrived as a new assistant professor. (2010/04/01)

Prof. Imai's final lecture has held. (2010/03/08)