DrMarkScott

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer in Neutrino Physics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7534m.scott09

Location

529BBlackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

I am a high energy physicist, specialising in neutrino physics. In particular I am interested in understanding the properties of these fundamental particles - neutrino oscillations, the origin of neutrino mass and whether neutrinos violate the CP symmetry of nature.

I currently work on the T2K and Hyper-K experiments. These are current (T2K) and future (Hyper-K) long-baseline neutrino experiments situated in Japan. Both experiments involve creating a beam of muon-flavour neutrinos at the east coast of Japan and shooting it to the west coast, where it is observed by multi-kilo-tonne water Cherenkov detectors.

T2K began taking data in 2009 and established that muon neutrinos do oscillate into electron neutrinos, and at an appreciable rate. This large rate means that it is possible to search for neutrino CP violation by comparing the rate of muon-to-electron flavour oscillation for neutrinos to that of antineutrinos. If there is a difference, this could explain why we exist in a matter-dominated universe.

Collaboration Roles

Hyper-Kamiokande Oscillation Analysis group convener
Hyper-Kamiokande Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee chair
IWCD Analysis and Calibration convener
Water Cherenkov Test Experiment CERN Liaison and calibration convener

TeACHING

I am currently the Head of Experiment for the Radioactivity experiment in the 2nd Year Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. The lab has been updated for 2019 with brand new equipment, new data acquisition software and new radioactive sources. The aim of the lab is to introduce students to a realistic experimental setup, where the data pass through many stages between the initial sensitive instrument and the final analysis. The lab encourages students to think about what is happening at each stage, to assess the likely impact of systematic uncertainties and to learn a bit about the interaction of particles with matter. For 2020 I transposed the laboratory to an online setting, with a GEANT4 simulation used to model the la equipment.

I am the Computational Physics course leader alongside Prof. Paul Dauncey. Computational Physics is a third-year option course which goes through the basic (and more complicated) algorithms that under-pin almost all scientific computing. It includes a substantial coursework component where students get hands-on experience of implementing and presenting the results from these algorithms.

Publications

Journals

Harada M, Abe K, Bronner C, et al.Harada M, Abe K, Bronner C, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Hosokawa K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kaneshima R, Kashiwagi Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakano Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Okamoto K, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shiba H, Shimizu K, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Yoshida S, Megias GD, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Ospina N, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Wester T, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Locke S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Hill J, Lee SH, Moon DH, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Beauchene A, Drapier O, Giampaolo A, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Choi K, Iovine N, Cao S, Anthony LHV, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, Langella A, Machado LN, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Pronost G, Fujisawa C, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Okazaki R, Akutsu R, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Bhuiyan N, Burton GT, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Goldsack A, Katori T, Migenda J, Xie Z, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Ozaki H, Suzuki AT, Takagi Y, Takeuchi Y, Feng J, Feng L, Hu JR, Hu Z, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tarrant A, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Ninomiya K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mandal M, Mijakowski P, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Jia M, Jiang J, Jung CK, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Hino Y, Ishino H, Kitagawa H, Koshio Y, Nakanishi F, Sakai S, Tada T, Tano T, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Holin A, Nova F, Yang BS, Yang JY, Yoo J, Fannon JEP, Kneale L, Malek M, McElwee JM, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Wilson ST, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Kwon E, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura KD, Tairafune S, Ni close, 2023, Search for Astrophysical Electron Antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01% Gadolinium-loaded Water, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol:951, ISSN:2041-8205

Abe K, Akhlaq N, Akutsu R, et al.Abe K, Akhlaq N, Akutsu R, Ali A, Alt C, Andreopoulos C, Antonova M, Aoki S, Arihara T, Asada Y, Ashida Y, Atkin ET, Ban S, Barbi M, Barker GJ, Barr G, Barrow D, Batkiewicz-Kwasniak M, Bench F, Berardi V, Berns L, Bhadra S, Blanchet A, Blondel A, Bolognesi S, Bonus T, Bordoni S, Boyd SB, Bravar A, Bronner C, Bron S, Bubak A, Avanzini MB, Calabria NF, Cao S, Carter AJ, Cartwright SL, Catanesi MG, Cervera A, Chakrani J, Cherdack D, Christodoulou G, Cicerchia M, Coleman J, Collazuol G, Cook L, Cudd A, Davydov Y, De Roeck A, De Rosa G, Dealtry T, Delogu CC, Densham C, Dergacheva A, Di Lodovico F, Dolan S, Douqa D, Doyle TA, Drapier O, Duffy KE, Dumarchez J, Dunne P, Dygnarowicz K, Eguchi A, Emery-Schrenk S, Ershova A, Fedotov S, Fernandez P, Finch AJ, Aguirre GAF, Fiorillo G, Friend M, Fujii Y, Fukuda Y, Fusshoeller K, Giganti C, Glagolev V, Gonin M, Goodman EAG, Gorin A, Grassi M, Guigue M, Hadley DR, Haigh JT, Hamacher-Baumann P, Harris DA, Hartz M, Hasegawa T, Hassani S, Hastings NC, Hatzikoutelis A, Hayato Y, Hiramoto A, Hogan M, Holeczek J, Holin A, Holvey TJ, Van NTH, Honjo T, Iacob F, Ichikawa AK, Ikeda M, Ishida T, Ishitsuka M, Israel HT, Ives SJ, Iwamoto K, Izmaylov A, Izumi N, Jakkapu M, Jamieson B, Jenkins SJ, Jesus-Valls C, Jiang JJ, Jonsson P, Jung CK, Jurj PB, Kabirnezhad M, Kaboth AC, Kajita T, Kakuno H, Kameda J, Kasetti SP, Kataoka Y, Katayama Y, Katori T, Kawaue M, Kearns E, Khabibullin M, Khotjantsev A, Kikawa T, Kikutani H, King S, Kisiel J, Knight A, Kobata T, Kobayashi T, Koch L, Kogan G, Konaka A, Kormos LL, Koshio Y, Kostin A, Kowalik K, Kudenko Y, Kuribayashi S, Kurjata R, Kutter T, Kuze M, La Commara M, Labarga L, Lachner K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, James ML, Lamont I, Lamoureux M, Last D, Latham N, Laveder M, Lawe M, Lee Y, Lin C, Lindner T, Lin S-K, Litchfield RP, Liu SL, Longhin A, Long KR, Ludovici L, Lu X, Lux T, Machado LN, Magaletti L, Mahn K, Malek M, Mandal M, Manly S, Marino AD, Marti-Magro L, Martin DGR, Martini M, Martin JF, Maruyama T close, 2022, Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors fro 2010 to 2021, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:17, ISSN:1748-0221, Pages:1-36

Matsumoto R, Abe K, Hayato Y, et al.Matsumoto R, Abe K, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kaneshima R, Kashiwagi Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakano Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Okamoto K, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shiba H, Shimizu K, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Xia J, Yoshida S, Megias GD, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Ospina N, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Wan L, Wester T, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Kropp WR, Locke S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Hill J, Kim JY, Lim IT, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Bernard L, Coffani A, Drapier O, El Hedri S, Giampaolo A, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Choi K, Cao S, Anthony LH, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, Machado LN, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Pronost G, Fujisawa C, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Boschi T, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Goldsack A, Katori T, Migenda J, Taani M, Xie Z, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Ozaki H, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Yamamoto S, Bronner C, Feng J, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tsui KM, Tarrant A, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Ninomiya K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mandal M, Mijakowski P, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Jia M, Jiang J, Jung CK, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Harada M, Ishino H, Ito S, Kitagawa H, Koshio Y, Ma W, Nakanishi F, Sakai S, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Holin A, Nova F, Yang JY, Malek M, McElwee JM, Stone O, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Kwon E, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura KD, Tairafune S, Nishijima K, Koshiba M, Iwamoto K, Nakagiri K, Nakajima Y, Shima close, 2022, Search for proton decay via p -> mu(+) K-0 in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande, Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol:106, ISSN:1550-2368, Pages:1-13

Machado LN, Abe K, Hayato Y, et al.Machado LN, Abe K, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kaneshima R, Kashiwagi Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakano Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Okamoto K, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shiba H, Shimizu K, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, de Perio P, Martens K, Vagins MR, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Kropp WR, Locke S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Xia J, Yoshida S, Megias GD, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Ospina N, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Akutsu R, Gousy-Leblanc V, Hartz M, Konaka A, Prouse NW, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Wan L, Wester T, Hill J, Kim JY, Lim IT, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Bernard L, Coffani A, Drapier O, El Hedri S, Giampaolo A, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Cao S, Choi K, Anthony LH, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Pronost G, Fujisawa C, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Sasaki R, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Jakkapu M, Kobayashi T, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Boschi T, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Goldsack A, Katori T, Migenda J, Taani M, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Ozaki H, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Yaamoto S, Bronner C, Feng J, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tsui KM, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Ninomiya K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mandal M, Mijakowski P, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Jia M, Jiang J, Jung CK, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Harada M, Ishino H, Ito S, Kitagawa H, Koshio Y, Ma W, Nakanishi F, Sakai S, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Nova F, Yang JY, Malek M, McElwee JM, Stone O, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura KD, Tairafune S, Nishijima K close, 2022, Pre-supernova alert system for super-kamiokande, The Astrophysical Journal: an International Review of Astronomy and Astronomical Physics, Vol:935, ISSN:0004-637X, Pages:1-14

Abe K, Bronner C, Hayato Y, et al.Abe K, Bronner C, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Ikeda M, Imaizumi S, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nagao Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Okada T, Okamoto K, Orii A, Pronost G, Sekiya H, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Xia J, Megias GD, Bravo-Berguno D, Labarga L, Marti L, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Blaszczyk FDM, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Stone JL, Wan L, Wester T, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Kropp WR, Locke S, Mine S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Hill J, Kim JY, Lim IT, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Bernard L, Coffani A, Drapier O, El Hedri S, Giampaolo A, Gonin M, Mueller TA, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Anthony LH, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Cao S, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, Machado LN, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ospina N, Ludovici L, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Boschi T, Gao J, Di Lodovico F, Migenda J, Taani M, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Nakano Y, Ozaki H, Shiozawa T, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Yamamoto S, Ali A, Ashida Y, Feng J, Hirota S, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Fernandez P, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tsui KM, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Niwa T, Sato K, Tsukada M, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mijakowski P, Zalipska J, Jiang J, Jung CK, Vilela C, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Hagiwara K, Harada M, Horai T, Ishino H, Ito S, Kitagawa F, Koshio Y, Ma W, Piplani N, Sakai S, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Goldsack A, Samani S, Wark D, Nova F, Yang JY, Jenkins SJ, Malek M, McElwee JM, Stone O, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura K, Nishijima K, Koshiba M, Iwamoto K, Nakajima Y, Ogawa N, Yokoyama M, Martens K, Vagins MR, Kuze M, Izumiyama S, Yoshida T, Inomoto M, Ishitsuk close, 2022, First gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, Vol:1027, ISSN:0168-9002, Pages:1-15

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