宇宙から地上へ〜光が繋ぐ異分野融合研究の世界〜(仮)
宇宙の天体は、私たちが目で見る可視光だけでなく、さまざまな“光”で輝いています。超新星残骸やブラックホールなどの高エネルギー天体はX線やガンマ線で輝き、その観測は天体で起きている現象を理解する手がかりになります。そのためには、宇宙から届くごく弱い光を正確に測る高性能な検出器が欠かせません。最先端の宇宙観測を可能にするため、私たちは自分たちで検出器を開発しています。さらに、こうした検出技術は宇宙だけでなく、加速器実験や医療など多くの分野でも活躍しています。本講演では、宇宙観測から地上の実験まで、さまざまな異分野融合研究の紹介を通して研究の面白さと多様さをお伝えしたいと思います。
京都大学理学研究科助教。2019年に東京大学で博士(理学)を取得後、東京大学カブリIPMUにてポスドクを経て、2024年より現職。専門は、放射線計測、高エネルギー宇宙物理学。
自分が楽しい・面白いと思うことを大切にしてください。何かを決断するときは、自分の気持ちに正直でいてください。きっとそんな想いや覚悟が、つらいときに次の一歩を踏み出す大きな助けとなります。もし興味関心をもっと掘り下げたくなったら、ぜひ研究職の世界へ!
Chasing particles
What is the world made of? What are the building blocks of matter? What holds it together? Physics is curiosity, and particle physics is the part of physics that studies elementary particles and how they interact.
To do that, we use huge particle accelerators and work in very large international collaborations. In this lecture, we will see why we study elementary particles, why we need high energy accelerators to produce them, and how we detect them in our experiments. I will also talk about the last discovered elementary particle, called the Higgs boson and explain why it is so special.
I am a researcher in experimental particle physics at the "Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique" (CEA), located on the Paris-Saclay University campus.
I work on unveiling the properties of elementary particles and their interactions in large international collaborations.
I did my PhD thesis in Paris studying the behavior of antimatter in an experiment located in California. Since then, I have been working in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of the four experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. With my colleagues from all over the world, we made a major discovery in 2012: the Higgs Boson, a mysterious particle predicted by theory about 50 years earlier!
Science is very exciting! When I was young, many people tried to discourage me from doing science, telling me it was difficult, complicated and demanding.
Indeed, it is demanding and science requires work. But science is also very rewarding and stimulating. Looking back, I wouldn’t say my path was difficult but rather that I’m always happy to go to work in the morning.
Give yourself the chance to pursue what you find interesting and what makes you happy!