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Takaaki Kajita

Takaaki Kajita

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Physics

D-Index
112
Citations
74333
World Ranking
1076
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
  • 2015 - Nobel Prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
  • 2002 - Panofsky Prize, American Physical Society

Overview

Takaaki Kajita is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and is active in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Kajita's research topics notably focus on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Neutrino Physics Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

Kajita has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • The Caltech Institute Archives (California Institute of Technology)
  • Nature Reviews Physics

Some recent papers illustrating the scope of Kajita's research are:

  • "Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history", 2020, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • "Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s", 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Status and perspectives of neutrino physics", 2022, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • "Overview of KAGRA: KAGRA science", 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "The Current Status and Future Prospects of KAGRA, the Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope Built in the Kamioka Underground", 2022, Galaxies

Kajita has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Masaki Ando
  • S. Haino
  • Nobuyuki Kanda
  • T. Akutsu
  • A. Araya

Their contributions to the scientific community have been recognized through several awards. Kajita received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016. They were also awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which revealed that neutrinos have mass. Earlier, they received the Panofsky Prize from the American Physical Society in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A.

    K. Hirata;T. Kajita;M. Koshiba;M. Nakahata

  • Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam

    K. Abe;N. Abgrall;Y. Ajima;H. Aihara

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Solar 8B and hep Neutrino Measurements from 1258 Days of Super-Kamiokande Data

    Y. Fukuda;M. Ishitsuka;Y. Itow;T. Kajita

  • Indications of neutrino oscillation in a 250 km long-baseline experiment.

    M. H. Ahn;S. Aoki;H. Bhang;S. Boyd

  • Atmospheric vμ ve ratio in the multi-GeV energy range

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;K. Inoue;T. Ishida

  • Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters by Super-Kamiokande I

    Y. Ashie;J. Hosaka;K. Ishihara;Y. Itow

  • Measurement of neutrino oscillation by the K2K experiment

    M. H. Ahn;E. Aliu;S. Andringa;S. Aoki

  • The Super-Kamiokande detector

    S. Fukuda;Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara

  • Solar Neutrino Data Covering Solar Cycle 22.

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;K. Inoue;K. Ishihara

  • Constraints on neutrino oscillations using 1258 days of Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino data.

    S. Fukuda;Y. Fukuda;M. Ishitsuka;Y. Itow

  • Determination of solar neutrino oscillation parameters using 1496 days of Super-Kamiokande-I data

    S. Fukuda;Y. Fukuda;M. Ishitsuka;Y. Itow

  • Measurement of the Flux and Zenith-Angle Distribution of Upward Throughgoing Muons by Super-Kamiokande

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Measurements of the solar neutrino flux from Super-Kamiokande's first 300 days

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

  • Observation of a small atmospheric vμ/ve ratio in Kamiokande

    K.S. Hirata;K. Inoue;T. Ishida;T. Kajita

  • The T2K Experiment

    K. Abe;N. Abgrall;H. Aihara;Y. Ajima

  • Tau neutrinos favored over sterile neutrinos in atmospheric muon neutrino oscillations.

    S. Fukuda;Y. Fukuda;M. Ishitsuka;Y. Itow

  • Evidence for an Oscillatory Signature in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations

    Y. Ashie;J. Hosaka;K. Ishihara;Y. Itow

  • Measurement of a small atmospheric νμ/νe ratio

    Y. Fukuda;T. Hayakawa;E. Ichihara;K. Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Kate Scholberg
Kate Scholberg Duke University
Y. Hayato
Y. Hayato University of Tokyo
C. W. Walter
C. W. Walter Duke University
E. Kearns
E. Kearns Boston University
C. K. Jung
C. K. Jung Stony Brook University
S. Mine
S. Mine University of California, Irvine
Y. Totsuka
Y. Totsuka University of Tokyo
S. Moriyama
S. Moriyama University of Tokyo
Ko Okumura
Ko Okumura Juntendo University
Yoshitaka Itow
Yoshitaka Itow Nagoya University

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