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Radiation Laboratory

 
 
Location  Room 254/256, in the Main Research Building at RIKEN, Wako
Address  Radiation Lab, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan
Telephone  +81-48-467-9347
Fax +81-48-462-4641

New snake magnet made by RIKEN improved by farthe polarization in AGS, RHIC injector.

Welcome to our home page.  The Radiation Laboratory is one of the eldest research group in RIKEN. Our major activity is to perform an experiment using polarized proton and heavy ions collision at BNL-RHIC, USA.

 

Gluon polarization is directry probed for the first time. 

The first wafer of ALICE- PHENIX pixel readout chips are rrived and tested at CERN, to be used for the PHENIX upgrade.

Discovery of Jet Quenching effect, strong candidate towards the QGP confirmation.

Most fruitful results by our members.


Our Activities
How the spin of proton is formed with 3 quarks and gluons? This is a very fundament question in QCD, Quantum Chromodynamic. The RHIC Spin Project has bean established to solve this problem by colliding two polarized protons for the first time in history, and extended the physics capability of RHIC, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL. At RHIC QGP, Quark Gluon Plasma, will be created by colliding two gold nuclei, through which we can study the state of early Universe just after the Big Bang. RIKEN Brookhaven Research Center, RBRC, was founded to carry out these research programs.
Spin Physics at BNL
Spin Physics at Wako
Other Domestic Activities
Theory
  Collisions of polarized protons and heavy ions are measured with PHENIX detector at RHIC. Research program is organized in PHENIX Spin Physics Working Group. Our activity at BNL can be find here.   Analysis of the PHENIX data is performed at CCJ with over 300 CPUs with 300 TB storage. This CPU farm is recently combined with new RIKEN super computer cluster, and  serves as the major simulation center for PHENIX and the analysis center for domestic collaborators. Our domestic activity is carried out using RIKEN Accelerator Research Facility (RARF), studying the properties of nuclear isotopes far from the stable li‚Že, and their relations to astrophysics, another missing ring in the early Universe. Planning for the new RIB factory (RIBF) is on going.  Theory group in Radiation Laboratory is to study theoretical aspects of physics at RHIC. The group is conducted by K. Yazaki, keeping close relation to the theoretical group in RBRC
  Collaboration with accelerator group, theorists,  and other RHIC experiments is the key for the success of the program. The RBRC experimental group is conducting RSC, Rhic Spin Collaboration.   To enhance physics capability of PHENIX even further, PHENIX Detector Upgrade R&D is on going through the collaboration with BNL instrumentation division, CERN-ALICE and CERN-NA60. While RHIC creates nuclear matter with high temperature, study of dense nuclear matter is being performed at KEK using 12GeV Proton Cyclotron, by measuring the decays of vector mesons in nucleus. To miximize the impact from the RHIC spin project, We are compiling and modeling the world-wide data of the nucleon structure functions; Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration.



Members (April 2004)
bold names are recent additions

Old member list(2003)
People Left from Radiation Lab.


Radiation Laboratory@
 
Experiment
Name Other 
Affiliations
Activity @
Chief Scientist Hideto Enyo RBRC PHENIX,CCJ,KEK W
Vice Chief Scientist Takashi Ichihara RBRC,Motobayashi-Lab PHENIX,CCJ,RIB W
Yasuyuki Akiba RBRC PHENIX B
Scientist Yasushi Watanabe RBRC PHENIX,CCJ,RIB W
Atsushi Taketani RBRC PHENIX B
Yoshie Ohtake Shimuzu Unit Neutron Optics W
Masanori Okamura RHIC,NIRS B
Yuji Goto RBRC PHENIX B
Collaborating Scientist Naohito Saito Kyoto-U, RBRC PHENIX
Kazuyoshi Kurita Rikkyo-U,RBRC PHENIX
Manobu Tanaka KEK ALICE
Takeo Kawasaki Niigata-U ALICE
Special Postdoctoral Fellow Junji Tojo PHENIX W
Ryotaro Muto KEK-E325 W
Hiroaki Ohnishi CERN visitor PHENIX,NA60 C
Tetsuya Ohnishi RIB W
Hisayuki Torii PHENIX W
Contract Researcher Akio Kiyomichi PHENIX W
Kazumi Hasuko PHENIX,BELLE W
Johann Heuser CERN Visitor PHENIX,NA60 C
Satoshi Yokkaichi RBRC PHENIX,CCJ W
Hiroyuki Kano CERN Visitor ALICE C
Hiroyuki Takeda RIB W
Senior Contract Researcher Vladimir Rykov PHENIX W
Senior entrustee Hidekazu Kumagai RIB W
Senior Visiting Scientist Shoji Nagamiya KEK PHENIX
Ken Imai Kyoto-U PHENIX
ToshiAki Shibata TITech PHENIX
Students Nobuyuki Kamihara TITech PHENIX B
Megumi Naruki Kyoto-U KEK-E325 W
Fuminori Sakuma Kyoto-U,JSPS KEK-E325 W
Manabu Togawa Kyoto-U, JRA2,RBRC PHENIX B
Hiromi Okada Kyoto-U,JRA2,RBRC PHENIX B
Yoshinori Fukao Kyoto-U,JRA,RBRC PHENIX B
Takuma Horaguchi TITech,JRA,RBRC PHENIX B
Takashi Hachiya Hiroshima-U,JRA2,RBRC PHENIX B
Kazuo Yamamoto T.I.Tech, JRA ‚m‚h‚q‚r W
Kazuya Aoki Kyoto-U PHENIX B
Junpei Takano T.I.Tech, JRA BNL-CAD B
Kohei Fujiwara Niigata-U, JRA, CERN ALICE C
Shinsuke Ohta Kyoto-U, JRA RIB W
Yuji Tuchimoto Hiroshima-U, JRA,RBRC PHENIX B
Fukutaro Kajiwara U-Tokyo-CNS,JRA,RBRC PHENIX B
Kohei Syoji Kyoto-U PHENIX B
Ken'ichi Nakano T.I.Tech, PHENIX
Hiroki Kanou T.I.Tech, PHENIX
Theory
Name Other Affiliation @
Senior Visiting Researcher Koichi Yazaki T.W.U W
Contract Researcher Kazutaka Sudo W
Munehisa Ohtani W
Visiting Researcher Masanori Hirai KEK
Students Hiroshi Yokoya Hiroshima-U. JRA, RBRC B
Koichi Hashimoto Kanazawa-U. JRA, RBRC B
Secretaries
Noriko Kiyama
Karen Sakuma
RIKEN-BNL Research Center
 
Directors
Name Other 
Affiliation
@
Center Director Nick Samios BNL B
Director Emeritus T.D. Lee Columbia U. B
Associate Director Hideto Enyo Radiation Lab W
Experiment
Name Other 
Affiliation
Group reader Hideto En'yo RIKEN
Deputy Group Reader Gerry Bunce BNL
RHIC Fellow Matthias G. Perdekamp U-Illiois
Douglas E. Fields New Mexico U.
Abhay L. Deshpande SUNY
Fellow Xie Wei
David Kawall
Research Associate Masashi Kaneta
Kensuke Okada
Osamu Jinnouchi
RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Fellow Tsuguchika Tabaru
Junkichi Asai
Visiting Scientist Kazu Kurita Rikkyo -U
Naohito Saito Kyoto-U
Hiroyoshi Hiejima U-Illiois
Collaborating Scientist Akio Ogawa BNL
Zheng Li BNL
Alexander Bazilevsky BNL
RBRC Young Researcher Dominik Gabbert Technische Universitaet Muenchen

 
Theory ( Japanese )
Other Non-Japanese members can be find here
Name Other 
Affiliation
Group Leader L. Mclerran BNL
Deputy Group Leader Anthony Baltz BNL
RHIC Physics Fellow Taku Izubuchi Kanazawa-U
Shin'ya Aoki Tsukuba-U
Fellow Kei Iida
Research Associate Jun-Ichi Noaki
Yukio Nemoto
Norikazu Yamada
Takeshi Yamazaki
RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Fellow Takanori Sugihara
Takashi Ikeda
Tetsufumi Hirano
Yoshitaka Hatta
Takumi Doi
Visiting Scientist Shigemi Ohta KEK

 
 
Administration, Secretary
Office at RBRC Jun Nakamura
Rae Greenberg
Pam Esposito
Taeko Itoh
Tammy A. Heinz
Office at Wako Chiharu Shimoyamada
Hiromi Noda
Yumi Ito