January 2024: Dr. Riccio started as Research Professor in our group.
Results of the first ever T2K and SK combined analsysis have been presetend at the
Workshop NNN23 that was held in Procida (Italy) October 11-13, 2023.
Kuunal Mahtani sucessfully defended his Master's thesis on May 11, 2023. He will continue
as graduate student in the group.
April 2023: Wei Shi received a URA Visiting Scholars Program Award to work on "R&D
and prototyping of photon detector systems (PDS) for far detectors in DUNE" at Fermilab.
April-May 2023: second edition of the Chair's soccer cup tournament is ongoing. Every
reaserch area has a team and the NN group formed a team with ATLAS Group. Our performances
can be followed on the Instagram account of the tournament.
Nov. 2018: Gabriel Santucci defended his Ph.D. thesis.
Nov. 2018: Zoya Vallari defended her Ph.D. thesis: Measurement of single Pi0 production
in neutral current neutrino interactions on water at the near detector of the T2K
experiment.
July 2018: Xiaoyue Li defended her Ph.D. thesis.
Apr. 2018: Distinguished Prof. Jung receives the 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence
in Graduate Mentoring from the Dean of the Graduate School.
August 2016: Gabriel Santucci awarded the Distinguished poster award at ICHEP 2016
for the poster titled "Nucleon Decay and Atmospheric Neutrino Reconstruction in DUNE".
October 2015: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita
and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that
neutrinos have mass". Kajita was one of the leaders of the Super-Kamiokande experiment.
Members of NN Group have been part of SK since 1991.Read More on the The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
August 2015: Jay Hyun Jo defended his PhD thesis: Measurement of the Inclusive Charged
Current nue Interaction rate on Water with the T2K Pi0 Detector.Click to see Jay Hyun Jo's Thesis.
March 2013: Karin Gilje received the 2013 John Marburger III Fellowship in the amount
of $5,000.
October 2012: T2K 2011 Electron-neutrino appearance paper receives"Le Prix La Recherche 2012"given by the French popular science magazine La Recherche.
May 14, 2012: Dima Beznosko defended his Ph. D. thesis!"Data to NEUT and GENIE MC Generators Prediction CC1pi+/CCQE Ratio Comparison for
Neutrino Interactions with T2K Pi-zero Detector as Input to T2K Oscillation Analysis".For Dima Beznosko's thesis click here
February 17, 2012: Glenn Lopez defended his Ph. D. thesis! "Measurement of the Single Neutral Pion Production Cross Section in Neutral-Current
Neutrino Interactions in the T2K Pi-zero Detector".For Glenn Lopez's thesis click here
January 18, 2012: Physics World, the magazine of the Institute of Physics in the U.K.,
has included one of T2K’s results in its top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2011.
T2K was included for finding the first indications for oscillations from muon neutrinos
to electron neutrinos.
June 15, 2011: T2K Press Release, "Indications of a New Type of Neutrino Oscillation
at the T2K Experiment".
December 10, 2009: Phoc Trung Le defended his Ph. D. thesis!"Event reconstruction and energy calibration using cosmic muons for the T2K pizero
detector".For Phoc Trung Le's thesis click here
December 11, 2007: Ryan Terri defended his Ph. D. thesis!"Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance in the K2K Experiment with an Expanded
Fiducial Volume at Super-Kamiokande".For Ryan Terri's thesis click here
May 8, 2007: Lisa Whitehead defended her Ph. D. thesis!"Measurement of the Single Charged Pion Production Cross Section in Charged Current
Neutrino Carbon Interactions".For Lisa Whitehead's thesis click here
May 3, 2007: Tokufumi Kato defended his Ph. D. thesis!"Tau Appearance via Neutrino Oscillation in Atmospheric Neutrinos".For Tokufumi Kato's thesis click here
January 9, 2007: The Henderson DUSEL S3 Proposal/CDR was submitted.
October 18, 2006: More detailed version of the T2K USB280 proposal was submitted to
DOE.
April 2003: Tokufumi Kato received "Totsuka Scholarship".
January 2003: Prof. Yanagisawa was promoted to Research Associate Professor.
January 9, 2003: K2K has resumed.
December 6, 2002: Super-K reconstruction finished and started data taking as SK-II.
November 2002: Christopher Mauger received PhD! His thesis is on"A Study of nu_mu <-> nu_tau vs. nu_mu <-> nu_s Neutrino Osciltion In Atmospheric
Neutrinos Using a K2K Near Detector Measurement". See below for his thesis (pdf or ps file).
November 2002: Prof. Jung became an APS Fellow.
October 8, 2002:The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physicswas awarded toProf. Koshiba"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of
cosmic neutrinos."
May 2002: Eric Sharkey received PhD! His thesis is on"A Measurement of the Oscillation of Neutrinos in the mode nu_mu -> nu_x Using Accelerator
Produced Neutrinos". Seehere for Eric Sharkey's thesis (pdf or ps file).
