What's New
- 2026-04-09
- An review article "Structure of Vacuum Probed by Pion" by Prof. K. Itahashi has been published in Butsuri.
- 2026-04-07
- Ph.D. work (Excitation Spectra of the 12C(p,d) Reaction near the η'-Meson EmissionThreshold Measured in Coincidence with High-Momentum Protons) by Dr. R. Sekiya, Postdoc of our group has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.. This work was featured in Physics Magazine.
- 2026-04-07
- The 7 undergraduate students and 8 M1 students have joined our group.
Our Research Interests
Considering all the matter in the universe as an assembly of elements, the most fundamental unit of the matter is atom. The nature of the atom is characterized by its nucleus, and all the elements in the universe were synthesized by nuclear reactions. The nuclear physics is, as it were, the field to explore the origin of the matter in the universe. We aim to elucidate the origin of the matter by experimental research into extremely rare phenomena inside nuclei and structures of exotic nuclei such as hyper nuclei or unstable nuclei far from stability.
Nuclear Structure Group
- Cluster strutures in nuclei.
- Nucleosynthesis in the universe.
- Exotic structure in nuclei with high isospin and/or high spin.
Hadron Spectroscopy Group
Research using mesons to investigate:
- Chiral symmetry,
- Origin of mass of matter,
- Structure of the QCD vacuum.
Van de Graaff Group
- Measurement of nuclear reaction cross sections and momemnts.
- Material science by means of nuclear physics.
Nuclear Spectroscopy Group
- Neutrino-less double beta decay for investigation of the matter dominated universe.
- Study of nuclei with strangeness degree of freedom for investigation of generalized hadron-nucleus interaction.
