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Dr Teppei Katori
Dr Teppei Katori

Dr Teppei Katori

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Research interests

  • Physics

Biography

Teppei Katori is an experimental particle physicist. He obtained his BSc at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr Katori obtained his PhD at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. There he worked on the MiniBooNE and SciBooNE experiments under Prof. Rex Tayloe. Dr Katori did his postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, working on the MicroBooNE experiment within Prof. Janet Conrad's group. Dr Katori was appointed as a lecturer of Queen Mary University of London, UK. In 2019, he moved to King's College London, UK. Dr Katori is a recipient of the 2012 IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) C11 young scientist prize and the 2013 APS (American Physical Society) Henry Primakoff award.

 

Research Interests

Dr Katori has a wide interest in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, both theory and experiment. His main focus is the neutrino physics, including understanding the properties of neutrinos and using neutrinos as tools to search for new physics. Dr Katori studies the structure of neutrino masses through neutrino oscillations in T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments. 

Neutrino interaction physics is one of his main research topics. This is the key to understand neutrinos since neutrinos are invisible and neutrino kinematics are reconstructed from particles created by neutrino interactions with nuclei. Therefore, a precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions is extremely important to study neutrino properties. Dr Katori is one of the founding members of a collaboration, NuSTEC (Neutrino Scattering Theory-Experiment Collaboration). Through the NuSTEC, Dr Katori promotes efforts to understand neutrino-nucleus interactions and he runs various workshops and schools. Dr Katori is also the editor of the mailing list for neutrino interaction physicists, "NuSTEC-News", and he manages the NuSTEC-News facebook page

Dr Katori is an associate member of the IceCube collaboration. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a gigaton-scale neutrino telescope located in Antarctica. High-energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube are unique tools to understand various fundamental properties. Dr Katori’s main interest in the IceCube is to look for new physics including quantum gravity motivated phenomena such as violation of Lorentz invariance. These new spacetime effects might be hidden in the vacuum everywhere with a very small effect, and that can be detected only by extremely sensitive systems. Neutrino interferometry with high-energy neutrinos may be one of the best tools to look for new physics. Dr Katori is also a committee member of IoP APP (Institute of Physics Astroparticle Physics) and he manages the IoP APP facebook page.

Research

Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Group
Experimental Particle & Astroparticle Physics

The aim of the EPAP group is to address some of the major open questions in our understanding of matter through the study of the nature of fundamental particles

News

King's exhibits research at 2023 London Design Biennale

The King’s pavilion 'Seeking Connection' will showcase creative, cross-disciplinary research into digital technologies from across the university.

Seeking_Connection_website_image_780x440px

Exploring collaborations between physicists and artists

Science Gallery London exhibition highlights partnerships with King's artists in residence

Seeing the Unthinkable

Testing Ground opens at Science Gallery London

New exhibition changes the ways we think about our invisible connections – to the cosmos, to nanoparticles, and to each other.

Particle Shrine - Web Size

Searching for quantum gravity from under the ice

Dr Teppei Katori working with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube winning image

Subatomic – King's Artists project explores the connection between art and astrophysics

How can musical composition and astrophysics work together to inform research and increase understanding of the complex phenomenon of cosmic rays?

Christo and Teppei posing  in front of stage with screen displaying visualised cosmic ray data

Discovering the music of the cosmos

Collaboration between musical artist and King's experimental particle physicist

Shortening - image of visual sound waves

Eleven new King's Artists projects exploring the theme of 'Intelligence'

The 2021 King’s Artists cohort will be exploring the theme of ‘Intelligence’ in eleven new collaborative R&D projects across four King’s College London...

Grey logo sign resembling an eye over a blue map of the Strand

Super-K developments facilitate powerful advancement in particle physics

King’s physicists hope to be able to make a more detailed study of neutrinos after modifying the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector tank, and introducing the...

Dr Teppei Katori

King's physicists herald Big Bang breakthrough in particle physics

In the first breakthrough of its kind in over 50 years, a team of researchers from King’s Department of Physics have contributed to findings by an...

The inside of Super-Kamiokande

Features

London Design Biennale: Making the invisible shine

Interview with Dr Teppei Katori, academic partner of Particle Shrine, on exhibiting at the London Design Biennale

Seeking_Connection_Digital_Comms_website_image_1903x558px_pattern

Research

Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Group
Experimental Particle & Astroparticle Physics

The aim of the EPAP group is to address some of the major open questions in our understanding of matter through the study of the nature of fundamental particles

News

King's exhibits research at 2023 London Design Biennale

The King’s pavilion 'Seeking Connection' will showcase creative, cross-disciplinary research into digital technologies from across the university.

Seeking_Connection_website_image_780x440px

Exploring collaborations between physicists and artists

Science Gallery London exhibition highlights partnerships with King's artists in residence

Seeing the Unthinkable

Testing Ground opens at Science Gallery London

New exhibition changes the ways we think about our invisible connections – to the cosmos, to nanoparticles, and to each other.

Particle Shrine - Web Size

Searching for quantum gravity from under the ice

Dr Teppei Katori working with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube winning image

Subatomic – King's Artists project explores the connection between art and astrophysics

How can musical composition and astrophysics work together to inform research and increase understanding of the complex phenomenon of cosmic rays?

Christo and Teppei posing  in front of stage with screen displaying visualised cosmic ray data

Discovering the music of the cosmos

Collaboration between musical artist and King's experimental particle physicist

Shortening - image of visual sound waves

Eleven new King's Artists projects exploring the theme of 'Intelligence'

The 2021 King’s Artists cohort will be exploring the theme of ‘Intelligence’ in eleven new collaborative R&D projects across four King’s College London...

Grey logo sign resembling an eye over a blue map of the Strand

Super-K developments facilitate powerful advancement in particle physics

King’s physicists hope to be able to make a more detailed study of neutrinos after modifying the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector tank, and introducing the...

Dr Teppei Katori

King's physicists herald Big Bang breakthrough in particle physics

In the first breakthrough of its kind in over 50 years, a team of researchers from King’s Department of Physics have contributed to findings by an...

The inside of Super-Kamiokande

Features

London Design Biennale: Making the invisible shine

Interview with Dr Teppei Katori, academic partner of Particle Shrine, on exhibiting at the London Design Biennale

Seeking_Connection_Digital_Comms_website_image_1903x558px_pattern