Imperial College London

Professor Yoshi Uchida

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7821yoshi.uchida Website

 
 
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Location

 

524Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

 

I arrived at Imperial College in 2004 from Stanford University in California, where I spent some time as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the KamLAND Experiment, after receiving my PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a student of Peter Fisher working at the LEP collider at CERN. Having grown up in Surrey, it has been nice to come back to work near the places that I used to visit as a boy, such as the Museums and the Royal College of Music and other memorable places in the London area.

My research focuses on making new discoveries in particle physics, not by directly searching for previously-unseen fundamental particles, but rather by examining some of the basic particles that we have known about for a long time—namely neutrinos and muons. This often leads us not to work at high-energy particle colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider, but to create custom-designed experiments where we make these particles in huge quantities, and study their—often surprising—properties in detail.

Other Roles

  • Chair of the Collaboration Board and Executive Board member for the COMET Collaboration
  • Guest Professor of Physics at Osaka University for research in Charged Lepton Flavour Violation
  • Chair of the Organising Committee for the Flavour Conference in the Rencontres du Vietnam series of conferences at Quy Nhon, Vietnam, jointly with Nazila Mahmoudi

Selected Previous Roles:

Teaching

Of my current teaching roles, my most significant is probably that of Head of First Year Laboratory. This course is one of the first occasions at which first-year students experience their new university learning environment, where there is not necessarily a single correct answer to everything and where we encourage independent thinking and teach the skills that help students work in a professional manner, whether they stay in academia or move on to different types of work.

The year of lab work culminates in the First Year Projects, where students can work on open-ended experimental and computational projects on topics of their choosing. To me this is one of the early highlights of the undergraduate course in our department, and school students can come and see the final presentations by our students at our Open Days for GSCE and A-Level students (the links are for the 2014 events).


For more/other information, please go to  my personal page.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Abe K, Akutsu R, Ali A, et al., 2020, Search for electron antineutrino appearance in a long-baseline muon antineutrino beam, Physical Review Letters, Vol:124, ISSN:0031-9007, Pages:161802-1-161802-8

Abe K, Akutsu R, Ali A, et al., 2020, Constraint on the matter-antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations, Nature, Vol:580, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:339-344

Abramishvili R, Adamov G, Akhmetshin RR, et al., 2020, COMET phase-I technical design report, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol:2020, ISSN:2050-3911

Nakazawa Y, Fujii Y, Gillies E, et al., 2020, Radiation hardness study for the COMET Phase-I electronics, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol:955, ISSN:0168-9002, Pages:1-7

Abe K, Abe K, Ahn SH, et al., 2018, Physics potentials with the second Hyper-Kamiokande detector in Korea, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol:2018, ISSN:2050-3911

Abe K, Amey J, Andreopoulos C, et al., 2017, Combined analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at T2K, Physical Review Letters, Vol:118, ISSN:0031-9007

Stowell P, Wret C, Wilkinson C, et al., 2017, NUISANCE: a neutrino cross-section generator tuning and comparison framework, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:12, ISSN:1748-0221

Abe K, Aihara H, Andreopoulos C, et al., 2015, Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol:2015, ISSN:2050-3911

Collaboration T, Abe K, Adam J, et al., 2015, Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6E20 protons on target, Physical Review D, Vol:91, ISSN:1550-7998

Abe K, Adam J, Aihara H, et al., 2014, Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector, Physical Review Letters, Vol:113, ISSN:0031-9007

Abe K, Adam J, Aihara H, et al., 2014, Observation of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, Physical Review Letters, Vol:112, ISSN:0031-9007

Uchida Y, 2013, Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters from muon neutrino disappearance with an off-axis beam, Physical Review Letters, Vol:111, ISSN:0031-9007

Allan D, Andreopoulos C, Angelsen C, et al., 2013, The electromagnetic calorimeter for the T2K near detector ND280, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol:8, ISSN:1748-0221

Abe K, Abgrall N, Aihara H, et al., 2013, Evidence of electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, Physical Review D, Vol:88, ISSN:1550-7998

Uchida Y, Wascko MO, Wark D, et al., 2012, First muon-neutrino disappearance study with an off-axis beam, Physical Review D, Vol:85

Abe K, Abgrall N, Aihara H, et al., 2011, The T2K experiment, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol:659, ISSN:0168-9002, Pages:106-135

Abe K, Abgrall N, Ajima Y, et al., 2011, Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Muon Neutrino Beam, Physical Review Letters, Vol:107, ISSN:0031-9007

Araki T, Enomoto S, Furuno K, et al., 2005, Experimental investigation of geologically produced antineutrinos with KamLAND, Nature, Vol:436, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:499-503

Araki T, Eguchi K, Enomoto S, et al., 2005, Measurement of neutrino oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of spectral distortion, Physical Review Letters, Vol:94, ISSN:0031-9007

Eguchi K, Enomoto S, Furuno K, et al., 2004, High sensitivity search for (ν)over-bar<i><sub>e</sub></i>'s from the Sun and other sources at KamLAND -: art. no. 071301, Physical Review Letters, Vol:92, ISSN:0031-9007

Eguchi K, Enomoto S, Furuno K, et al., 2003, First results from KamLAND: Evidence for reactor antineutrino disappearance, Physical Review Letters, Vol:90, ISSN:0031-9007

Detwiler J, Gratta G, Tolich N, et al., 2002, Nuclear propelled vessels and neutrino oscillation experiments, Physical Review Letters, Vol:89, ISSN:0031-9007

Acciarri M, Achard P, Adriani O, et al., 2000, Measurement of the W-pair production cross section and W-decay branching fractions in e<SUP>+</SUP>e<SUP>-</SUP> interactions at √<i>s</i>=189 GeV, Physics Letters B, Vol:496, ISSN:0370-2693, Pages:19-33

Becker, U., Uchida, Y., 1999, Consistent measurements comparing the drift features of noble gas mixtures, Nucl.instrum.meth.a, Vol:421, Pages:54-59

Reports

Cui Y, Cui YG, Palmer R, et al., 2009, Conceptual Design Report for Experimental Search for Lepton Flavor Violating µ− − e− Conversion at Sensitivity of 10−16 with a Slow-Extracted Bunched Proton Beam (COMET)

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