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Overview

Masahiro Morii is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Their work spans across several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, along with Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics covered in Morii's research include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Particle Detector Development and Performance, Superconducting Materials and Applications, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing, Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, and Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies.

Morii's recent publications display a focus on astrophysical phenomena and observational techniques, with works published in notable scientific outlets. Recent papers include:

  • EXTRAORDINARY LUMINOUS SOFT X-RAY TRANSIENT MAXI J0158-744 AS AN IGNITION OF A NOVA ON A VERY MASSIVE O-Ne WHITE DWARF (2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
  • Hitomi HXT deconvolution imaging of the Crab Nebula dazzled by the Crab pulsar (2024, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan)

Other publications related to Morii's domain include research on meteors, detector reliability, and light curve analysis, as represented by papers in Planetary and Space Science, Journal of Instrumentation, and the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Frequent collaborators in Morii's scholarly work include A. Tishelman-Charny, A. A. Affolder, F. Capocasa, Emily Rose Duden, and V. Fadeyev.

The primary venues for Morii's research dissemination include:

  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • Planetary and Space Science

Masahiro Morii received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2002, reflecting recognition within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    G. Aad;E. Abat;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A.A. Abdelalim

  • Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

    M. Aaboud;G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010

    G. Aad;G. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;S. Abdel Khalek

  • Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at √ s =13 TeV

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Search for the bb ¯ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated (W/Z)H production with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott

  • Luminosity determination in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Multi-channel search for squarks and gluinos in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott

  • Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\TeV$

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Topological cell clustering in the ATLAS calorimeters and its performance in LHC Run 1

    Georges Aad;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

    D. S. Akerib;H. M. Araújo;X. Bai;A. J. Bailey

  • Electron reconstruction and identification efficiency measurements with the atlas detector using the 2011 lhc proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

Frequent Co-Authors

J. E. Brau
J. E. Brau University of Oregon
Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington

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