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On February 1, at Tsukuda, Prof. Makoto Kobayashi, a 2008 Nobel Laureate in
Physics, gave a public lecture on his particle physics theory. This was the
first lecture since the prize award ceremony on December 10 in Stockholm.
In the lecture titled "Mistery of disappearance of antimatter", he talked on
the history of theoretical and experimental physics as the background of
Kobayashi-Maskawa model - which predicts the existence of at least three
families six quarks in nature, and make it possible to explain the broken
symmetry between matter and antimatter.
In the Lecture, Prof. Masanori Yamauchi, a head of Belle experiment group,
an international collaboration project to explore particle physics, also
gave a talk on the achievements of the experiment having confirmed
Kobayashi-Maskawa model, and prospects for future of the particle physics.
In the latter half of the program, Prof. Kobayashi had a talk session with
students from high schools and universities in Tsukuba. He talked on various
things such as his memories of school days and his current interest on
studies.
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