Akinori Higashi

Akinori Higashi
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science

Self-Introduction

I enjoy watching comedy. I spend my holidays watching You Tube videos such as Synchronicity and Anyo no hi.

 

Research Introduction

I study the origin of mass in hadrons, which were born in the earliy universe. Hadrons like protons and neutrons are known to consist of quarks and gluons, which are kinds of the elementary particles. However, the total mass of quarks and gluons accounts for a few parcentage of the hadron’s mass. The remaining mass is thought to be dynamically generated by quark dynamics and gluon dynamics. I focus on  meson, which is composed of  quark and its antiquark purely. The Interaction between  meson and neutron gives us insight of gluon dynamics. At Japan Proton Accelarator Research Complex(J-PARC) in Ibaraki, we plan to determine the low energy  scattering parameters. To do that, we will measure the cross section of  as a function of incident momentum using three dimensional track detector Hyp-TPC.

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