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Welcome
to Masahiro Morii's home page! The picture on the right was taken in
February 2001, after a heavy snow in New England.
I am an Experimental Particle Physicist. That is, I do experiments
to study the nature of the elementary particles that make up everything
in the Universe. Our primary tools for such research are particle
accelerators that, well, accelerate the particles (usually electrons or
protons) and collide them with each other. Such collisions produce high
concentration of energy, resulting in exotic and unstable particles.
Using sophisticated particle detectors, we observe the particles that
emerge from the collisions, and try to reconstruct what happened in the
process.
The experiment I am working on now is called BABAR. It runs using an accelerator called PEP-II at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The experiment has been taking data since May 1999, and has observed the first evidence of a phenomenon called CP Violation in the decays of the neutral B mesons.
I am also a
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard
University. I teach undergraduate physics courses, and enjoy doing
it. So far I've taught
Physics 11b (Electricity, Magnetism, and Waves), Physics 15c
(Wave Phenomena) and Physics 151
(Mechanics).
I received my B.S. (1986) and M.S. (1988) from Kyoto University, Japan. After working for a rare kaon decay experiment at KEK as a graduate student, I became a research staff of ICEPP, University of Tokyo in 1992 and started working for the OPAL experiment at CERN. My contribution to OPAL includes the measurement of Rb published in 1994, and its update published in 1996. I was the convener of the OPAL b electroweak working group from January 1996 until I left the experiment.
In September 1996, I became a research associate of SLAC, where I belonged to the Experimental Group C and worked for the BABAR experiment. My work concentrated around the construction of the Drift Chamber and its read-out electronics. I was in charge of the operation of the Drift Chamber when the detector was completed and started taking data in 1999.
Since September 2000, I have been an assistant professor at Harvard University. In addition to teaching, I lead a group of physicists who participate in the BABAR experiment. The group is a part of the Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC), a Harvard facility funded by the Department of Energy.
For more details, please see my CV and list of publications.
| Snail Mail |
Harvard University Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center Mail Stop 41 P.O.Box 20450 Stanford CA 94309 |
| Office |
Lyman Laboratory, Room 239 |
Building 280, Room 279 |
| E-Mail |
morii@fas.harvard.edu |
masahiro@slac.stanford.edu |
| Phone |
(617) 495-3279 |
(650) 926-3257 |
| Fax |
(617) 495-0416 |
(650) 926-3767 |
Masahiro Morii <morii@fas.harvard.edu> 19 October 2005