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Prof. Morii

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Masahiro Morii


Professor of Physics
PhD 1994, University of Tokyo


Masahiro Morii is an experimental physicist working on studies of elementary particles and their interactions. He is currently involved in the LUX Dark Matter Experiment, which will be installed in the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake, SD. The experiment uses 300 kg of liquid xenon to detect the Dark Matter - an invisible form of matter which make up 4/5 of the mass of the Universe.

Prof. Morii is also involved in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The experiment is anticipated to uncover the origin of the electroweak symmetry breaking, and has a great potential for discovering new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Selected Publications:
  • "Measurement of the B -> pi l nu branching fraction and determination of |Vub| with tagged B mesons," BABAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 211801 (2006)
  • "Observation of CP violation in the B0 meson system," BABAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 091801 (2001)
  • "An improved measurement of R(b) using a double tagging method," OPAL Collaboration, Z. Phys. C 74:1-17 (1997)