Toshiyuki NAKANO
Position

Associate Professor

Lab/Group

Fundamental Particle Physics Laboratory(F Lab)e-mail ※nakano{a}flab.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Education and Degrees

March, 1991, B.S., Nagoya University

March, 1993, M.S., Nagoya University
March, 1998, Ph.D., Nagoya University

Positions

April, 1998 - March, 2000, JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Nagoya University

April, 2000 - June, 2002, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics,
Nagoya University
July, 2002, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
April, 2011 - November, 2022, Lecturer, Graduate School of Science,Nagoya University
April, 2011 - present, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science,
Nagoya University

Honors2005, Academic award of the society of Photography and Imaging of Japan
2012, Masao Horiba Awards
2014, 21st Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan
2017, The Ichimura Prize in Science for Distinguished Achievement

ResearchParticle Physics, Astrophysics (Experiment) and Detectors.

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Selected Publications

1. Final Results of the OPERA Experiment on $¥nu_¥tau$ Appearance inthe CNGS Neutrino Beam. By OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova et al.).,Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 (2018) no.21, 211801, Erratum: Phys.Rev.Lett. 121(2018) no.13, 139901.

2. Hyper-track selector nuclear emulsion readout system aimed at scanning
an area of one thousand square meters. Masahiro Yoshimoto, Toshiyuki
Nakano, Ryosuke Komatani, Hiroaki Kawahara., PTEP 2017 (2017) no.10,103H01.
3. Discovery of τ Neutrino Appearance in the CNGS Neutrino Beam with theOPERA Experiment, OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova (Moscow, INR)
et al.)., Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) no.12, 121802
4. Observation of tau neutrino appearance in the CNGS beam with theOPERA experiment, OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova (Moscow, INR)
et al.)., PTEP 2014 (2014) no.10, 101C01
5. Evidence for νμ→ντappearance in the CNGS neutrino beam with theOPERA experiment, OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova (Moscow, INR)
et al.)., Phys.Rev. D89 (2014) no.5, 051102
6. Search for νμ→νe oscillations with the OPERA experiment in the
CNGS beam, OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova (Moscow, INR) et al.).,JHEP 1307 (2013) 004, Addendum: JHEP 1307 (2013) 085
7. Development of a new automatic nuclear emulsion scanning system, SUTS, with continuous 3D tomographic image read-out., K. Morishima, T.
Nakano (Nagoya U.)., JINST 5 (2010) P04011
8. Observation of a first ν τ candidate in the OPERA experiment in the CNGS
beam., OPERA Collaboration (N. Agafonova (Moscow, INR) et al.).,Phys.Lett. B691 (2010) 138-145
9. Final results on nu(mu) ---> nu(tau) oscillation from the CHORUS
experiment., CHORUS Collaboration (E. Eskut (Cukurova U.) et al.).,Nucl.Phys. B793 (2008) 326-343
10. Development of an emulsion imaging system for cosmic-ray muonradiography to explore the internal structure of a volcano, Mt. Asama,H.K.M. Tanaka, T. Nakano, S. Takahashi, J. Yoshida and K. Niwa, N
Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A575:489-497,June 2007.
11. DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF TAU NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS
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Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A493:45-66,2002
12. OBSERVATION OF TAU NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS., By DONUT
Collaboration (K. Kodama et al.)., Phys.Lett.B504:218-224,2001
13. NEW RESULTS FROM A SEARCH FOR NU/MU --> NU/TAU AND
NU/E --> NU/TAU OSCILLATION., CHORUS Collaboration (E. Eskutet al.)., Phys.Lett.B497:8-22,2001
14. THE CHORUS EXPERIMENT TO SEARCH FOR MUON-NEUTRINO--> TAU-NEUTRINO OSCILLATION., CHORUS Collaboration (E. Eskutet al.)., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A401:7-44,1997
15. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCINTILLATING FIBER
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