Division of Nuclear Physics

Name Faculty Position
NAKATSUKASA Takashi Professor/Cheif
YABANA Kazuhiro Professor
SHIMIZU Noritaka Associate Professor
HINOHARA Nobuo Assistant Professor
Wen Kai Researcher
WASHIYAMA Kouhei Researcher
TSUNODA Yusuke Researcher
氏名 中務 孝
Name NAKATSUKASA Takashi
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Section
Position Professor/Cheif
Theme Computational nuclear physics, Collective dynamics in quantum many-body systems
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氏名 矢花 一浩
Name YABANA Kazuhiro
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Section
Position Professor
Theme Nuclear physics, computational sciences on atomic, molecular,and optical sciences
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氏名 清水 則孝
Name SHIMIZU Noritaka
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Section
Position Associate Professor
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氏名 日野原 伸生
Name HINOHARA Nobuo
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Section
Position Assistant Professor
Theme Double beta decay, Nuclear structure theory, density functional theory, Large-amplitude collective motion in nuclei
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氏名
Name Wen Kai
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Section
Position Researcher
Theme Large amplitude collective motion theory
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氏名 鷲山 広平
Name WASHIYAMA Kouhei
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Section
Position Researcher
Theme Nuclear density functional theory, collective motion, Fusion/Fission reaction
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氏名 角田 佑介
Name TSUNODA Yusuke
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Position Researcher
Theme nuclear structure theory, large-scale shell-model calculation
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  • Research Interests
  • Academic & Professional Experience
    Apr 2022
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    Present
    University of Tsukuba Center for Computational Sciences
    Apr 2015
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    Mar 2022
    The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science Center for Nuclear Study
    Apr 2013
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    Mar 2015
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Published Papers
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    α-Clustering in atomic nuclei from first principles with statistical learning and the Hoyle state character
    T. Otsuka, T. Abe, T. Yoshida, Y. Tsunoda, N. Shimizu, N. Itagaki, Y. Utsuno, J. Vary, P. Maris, H. Ueno
    Nature Communications Dec 2022
    Moments and radii of exotic Na and Mg isotopes
    Takaharu Otsuka, Noritaka Shimizu, Yusuke Tsunoda
    Physical Review C Jan 2022
    Generator-coordinate methods with symmetry-restored Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov wave functions for large-scale shell-model calculations
    Noritaka Shimizu, Takahiro Mizusaki, Kazunari Kaneko, Yusuke Tsunoda
    Physical Review C Jun 2021
    Triaxial rigidity of Er166 and its Bohr-model realization
    Yusuke Tsunoda, Takaharu Otsuka
    Physical Review C 103 (2) Feb 2021
    Generator-coordinate methods with symmetry-restored Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov wave functions for large-scale shell-model calculations
    Shimizu, N., Mizusaki, T., Kaneko, K., Tsunoda, Y.
    Physical Review C 103 (6) 2021
    Triaxial rigidity of Er 166 and its Bohr-model realization
    Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T.
    Physical Review C 103 (2) 2021
    Lifetime measurements of excited states in Cr 55
    Kleis, H., Seidlitz, M., Blazhev, A., Kaya, L., Reiter, P., Arnswald, K., Dewald, A., Droste, M., Fransen, C., Möller, O., Shimizu, N., Tsunoda, Y., Utsuno, Y., Von Brentano, P., Zell, K.O.
    Physical Review C 104 (3) 2021
    High-precision spectroscopy of 65Ni via neutron capture
    Porzio, C., Michelagnoli, C., Cieplicka-Oryńczak, N., Sferrazza, M., Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Bottoni, S., Costache, C., Crespi, F.C.L., Iskra, L.W., Jentschel, M., Kandzia, F., Kim, Y.-H., Köster, U., Mǎrginean, N., Mihai, C., Mutti, P., Turturicǎ, A.
    Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C 44 (2-3) 2021
    Variational approach with the superposition of the symmetry-restored quasiparticle vacua for nuclear shell-model calculations
    Shimizu, N., Tsunoda, Y., Utsuno, Y., Otsuka, T.
    Physical Review C 103 (1) 2021
    Detailed low-spin spectroscopy of Ni 65 via neutron capture reaction
    Porzio, C., Michelagnoli, C., Cieplicka-Oryńczak, N., Sferrazza, M., Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Bottoni, S., Costache, C., Crespi, F.C.L., Iskra, W., Jentschel, M., Kandzia, F., Kim, Y.-H., Köster, U., Mǎrginean, N., Mihai, C., Mutti, P., Turturicǎ, A.
    Physical Review C 102 (6) 2020
    β decay of Ni 75 and the systematics of the low-lying level structure of neutron-rich odd-A Cu isotopes
    Bello Garrote, F.L., Sahin, E., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Görgen, A., Niikura, M., Nishimura, S., De Angelis, G., Benzoni, G., Morales, A.I., Modamio, V., Xu, Z.Y., Baba, H., Browne, F., Bruce, A.M., Ceruti, S., Crespi, F.C.L., Daido, R., Delattre, M.-C., Doornenbal, P., Dombradi, Z., Fang, Y., Franchoo, S., Gey, G., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klèk, K., Isobe, T., John, P.R., Jung, H.S., Kojouharov, I., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kuti, I., Li, Z., Lorusso, G., Matea, I., Matsui, K., Mengoni, D., Miyazaki, T., Momiyama, S., Morfouace, P., Napoli, D.R., Naqvi, F., Nishibata, H., Odahara, A., Orlandi, R., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sakurai, H., Schaffner, H., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P.-A., Sohler, D., Stefan, I.G., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Taniuchi, R., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Z., Valiente-Dobón, J.J., Watanabe, H., Werner, V., Wu, J., Yagi, A., Yalcinkaya, M., Yokoyama, R., Yoshinaga, K.
    Physical Review C 102 (3) 2020
    Electromagnetic character of the competitive γ γ/γ-decay from 137mBa
    Söderström, P.-A., Capponi, L., Açıksöz, E., Otsuka, T., Tsoneva, N., Tsunoda, Y., Balabanski, D.L., Pietralla, N., Guardo, G.L., Lattuada, D., Lenske, H., Matei, C., Nichita, D., Pappalardo, A., Petruse, T.
    Nature Communications 11 (1) 2020
    Isomer studies in the vicinity of the doubly-magic nucleus 100Sn: Observation of a new low-lying isomeric state in 97Ag
    Hornung, C., Amanbayev, D., Dedes, I., Kripko-Koncz, G., Miskun, I., Shimizu, N., Ayet San Andrés, S., Bergmann, J., Dickel, T., Dudek, J., Ebert, J., Geissel, H., Górska, M., Grawe, H., Greiner, F., Haettner, E., Otsuka, T., Plaß, W.R., Purushothaman, S., Rink, A.-K., Scheidenberger, C., Weick, H., Bagchi, S., Blazhev, A., Charviakova, O., Curien, D., Finlay, A., Kaur, S., Lippert, W., Otto, J.-H., Patyk, Z., Pietri, S., Tanaka, Y.K., Tsunoda, Y., Winfield, J.S.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 802 2020
    Shape-coexistence studies in the Ni isotopic chain by using the selectivity of different reaction mechanisms
    Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Marginean, N., Michelagnoli, C., Wilson, J., Sferrazza, M., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T.
    Acta Physica Polonica B 51 (3) 2020
    Shape Coexistence at Zero Spin in Ni 64 Driven by the Monopole Tensor Interaction
    Mǎrginean, N., Little, D., Tsunoda, Y., Leoni, S., Janssens, R.V.F., Fornal, B., Otsuka, T., Michelagnoli, C., Stan, L., Crespi, F.C.L., Costache, C., Lica, R., Sferrazza, M., Turturica, A., Ayangeakaa, A.D., Auranen, K., Barani, M., Bender, P.C., Bottoni, S., Boromiza, M., Bracco, A., Cǎlinescu, S., Campbell, C.M., Carpenter, M.P., Chowdhury, P., Ciemała, M., Cieplicka-Oryczak, N., Cline, D., Clisu, C., Crawford, H.L., Dinescu, I.E., Dudouet, J., Filipescu, D., Florea, N., Forney, A.M., Fracassetti, S., Gade, A., Gheorghe, I., Hayes, A.B., Harca, I., Henderson, J., Ionescu, A., Iskra, W., Jentschel, M., Kandzia, F., Kim, Y.H., Kondev, F.G., Korschinek, G., Köster, U., Krishichayan, Krzysiek, M., Lauritsen, T., Li, J., Mǎrginean, R., Maugeri, E.A., Mihai, C., Mihai, R.E., Mitu, A., Mutti, P., Negret, A., Niţǎ, C.R., Olǎcel, A., Oprea, A., Pascu, S., Petrone, C., Porzio, C., Rhodes, D., Seweryniak, D., Schumann, D., Sotty, C., Stolze, S.M., Şuvǎilǎ, R., Toma, S., Ujeniuc, S., Walters, W.B., Wu, C.Y., Wu, J., Zhu, S., Ziliani, S.
    Physical Review Letters 125 (10) 2020
    Shape staggering of midshell mercury isotopes from in-source laser spectroscopy compared with density-functional-theory and Monte Carlo shell-model calculations
    Sels, S., Day Goodacre, T., Marsh, B.A., Pastore, A., Ryssens, W., Tsunoda, Y., Althubiti, N., Andel, B., Andreyev, A.N., Atanasov, D., Barzakh, A.E., Bender, M., Billowes, J., Blaum, K., Cocolios, T.E., Cubiss, J.G., Dobaczewski, J., Farooq-Smith, G.J., Fedorov, D.V., Fedosseev, V.N., Flanagan, K.T., Gaffney, L.P., Ghys, L., Heenen, P.-H., Huyse, M., Kreim, S., Lunney, D., Lynch, K.M., Manea, V., Martinez Palenzuela, Y., Medonca, T.M., Molkanov, P.L., Otsuka, T., Ramos, J.P., Rossel, R.E., Rothe, S., Schweikhard, L., Seliverstov, M.D., Spagnoletti, P., Van Beveren, C., Van Duppen, P., Veinhard, M., Verstraelen, E., Welker, A., Wendt, K., Wienholtz, F., Wolf, R.N., Zadvornaya, A.
    Physical Review C 99 (4) 2019
    Shape coexistence and shape isomerism in the Ni isotopic chain
    Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Marginean, N., Sferrazza, M., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T.
    Acta Physica Polonica B 50 (3) 2019
    Underlying Structure of Collective Bands and Self-Organization in Quantum Systems
    Otsuka, T., Tsunoda, Y., Abe, T., Shimizu, N., Van Duppen, P.
    Physical Review Letters 123 (22) 2019
    Thick-restart block Lanczos method for large-scale shell-model calculations
    Shimizu, N., Mizusaki, T., Utsuno, Y., Tsunoda, Y.
    Computer Physics Communications 244 2019
    Nuclear charge radii of 62−80Zn and their dependence on cross-shell proton excitations
    Xie, L., Yang, X.F., Wraith, C., Babcock, C., Bieroń, J., Billowes, J., Bissell, M.L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Filippin, L., Flanagan, K.T., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Gins, W., Gaigalas, G., Godefroid, M., Gorges, C., Grob, L.K., Heylen, H., Jönsson, P., Kaufmann, S., Kowalska, M., Krämer, J., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Otsuka, T., Papuga, J., Sánchez, R., Tsunoda, Y., Yordanov, D.T.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 797 2019
    Revised B(E3) transition rate and structure of the 3− level in 96Zr
    Iskra, Ł.W., Broda, R., Janssens, R.V.F., Carpenter, M.P., Fornal, B., Lauritsen, T., Otsuka, T., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Walters, W.B., Zhu, S.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 788 2019
    Interplay between nuclear shell evolution and shape deformation revealed by the magnetic moment of 75Cu
    Ichikawa, Y., Nishibata, H., Tsunoda, Y., Takamine, A., Imamura, K., Fujita, T., Sato, T., Momiyama, S., Shimizu, Y., Ahn, D.S., Asahi, K., Baba, H., Balabanski, D.L., Boulay, F., Daugas, J.M., Egami, T., Fukuda, N., Funayama, C., Furukawa, T., Georgiev, G., Gladkov, A., Inabe, N., Ishibashi, Y., Kawaguchi, T., Kawamura, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kojima, S., Kusoglu, A., Mukul, I., Niikura, M., Nishizaka, T., Odahara, A., Ohtomo, Y., Otsuka, T., Ralet, D., Simpson, G.S., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tao, L.C., Togano, Y., Tominaga, D., Ueno, H., Yamazaki, H., Yang, X.F.
    Nature Physics 15 (4) 2019
    78 Ni revealed as a doubly magic stronghold against nuclear deformation
    Taniuchi, R., Santamaria, C., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Yoneda, K., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Calvet, D., Château, F., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J.-M., Gillibert, A., Holt, J.D., Isobe, T., Lapoux, V., Matsushita, M., Menéndez, J., Momiyama, S., Motobayashi, T., Niikura, M., Nowacki, F., Ogata, K., Otsu, H., Otsuka, T., Péron, C., Péru, S., Peyaud, A., Pollacco, E.C., Poves, A., Roussé, J.-Y., Sakurai, H., Schwenk, A., Shiga, Y., Simonis, J., Stroberg, S.R., Takeuchi, S., Tsunoda, Y., Uesaka, T., Wang, H., Browne, F., Chung, L.X., Dombradi, Z., Franchoo, S., Giacoppo, F., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klęk, K., Korkulu, Z., Koyama, S., Kubota, Y., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Louchart, C., Lozeva, R., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Nishimura, S., Olivier, L., Ota, S., Patel, Z., Şahin, E., Shand, C., Söderström, P.-A., Stefan, I., Steppenbeck, D., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Vajta, Z., Werner, V., Wu, J., Xu, Z.Y.
    Nature 569 (7754) 2019
    Microscopic structure of coexisting 0+ states in Ni 68 probed via two-neutron transfer
    Flavigny, F., Elseviers, J., Andreyev, A.N., Bauer, C., Bildstein, V., Blazhev, A., Brown, B.A., De Witte, H., Diriken, J., Fedosseev, V.N., Franchoo, S., Gernhäuser, R., Huyse, M., Ilieva, S., Klupp, S., Kröll, T., Lutter, R., Marsh, B.A., Mücher, D., Nowak, K., Otsuka, T., Pakarinen, J., Patronis, N., Raabe, R., Recchia, F., Reiter, P., Roger, T., Sambi, S., Seidlitz, M., Seliverstov, M.D., Siebeck, B., Tsunoda, Y., Van Duppen, P., Vermeulen, M., Von Schmid, M., Voulot, D., Warr, N., Wenander, F., Wimmer, K.
    Physical Review C 99 (5) 2019
    β- decay study of the Mn 66 - Fe 66 - Co 66 - Ni 66 decay chain
    Stryjczyk, M., Tsunoda, Y., Darby, I.G., De Witte, H., Diriken, J., Fedorov, D.V., Fedosseev, V.N., Fraile, L.M., Huyse, M., Köster, U., Marsh, B.A., Otsuka, T., Pauwels, D., Popescu, L., Radulov, D., Seliverstov, M.D., Sjödin, A.M., Van Den Bergh, P., Van Duppen, P., Venhart, M., Walters, W.B., Wimmer, K.
    Physical Review C 98 (6) 2018
    Novel Shape Evolution in Sn Isotopes from Magic Numbers 50 to 82
    Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Shimizu, N., Honma, M.
    Physical Review Letters 121 (6) 2018
    Evidence for Coexisting Shapes through Lifetime Measurements in Zr 98
    Singh, P., Korten, W., Hagen, T.W., Görgen, A., Grente, L., Salsac, M.-D., Farget, F., Clément, E., De France, G., Braunroth, T., Bruyneel, B., Celikovic, I., Delaune, O., Dewald, A., Dijon, A., Delaroche, J.-P., Girod, M., Hackstein, M., Jacquot, B., Libert, J., Litzinger, J., Ljungvall, J., Louchart, C., Gottardo, A., Michelagnoli, C., Müller-Gatermann, C., Napoli, D.R., Otsuka, T., Pillet, N., Recchia, F., Rother, W., Sahin, E., Siem, S., Sulignano, B., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Theisen, C., Valiente-Dobon, J.J.
    Physical Review Letters 121 (19) 2018
    Characterization of the shape-staggering effect in mercury nuclei
    Marsh, B.A., Day Goodacre, T., Sels, S., Tsunoda, Y., Andel, B., Andreyev, A.N., Althubiti, N.A., Atanasov, D., Barzakh, A.E., Billowes, J., Blaum, K., Cocolios, T.E., Cubiss, J.G., Dobaczewski, J., Farooq-Smith, G.J., Fedorov, D.V., Fedosseev, V.N., Flanagan, K.T., Gaffney, L.P., Ghys, L., Huyse, M., Kreim, S., Lunney, D., Lynch, K.M., Manea, V., Martinez Palenzuela, Y., Molkanov, P.L., Otsuka, T., Pastore, A., Rosenbusch, M., Rossel, R.E., Rothe, S., Schweikhard, L., Seliverstov, M.D., Spagnoletti, P., Van Beveren, C., Van Duppen, P., Veinhard, M., Verstraelen, E., Welker, A., Wendt, K., Wienholtz, F., Wolf, R.N., Zadvornaya, A., Zuber, K.
    Nature Physics 14 (12) 2018
    Enhanced Quadrupole and Octupole Strength in Doubly Magic Sn 132
    Rosiak, D., Seidlitz, M., Reiter, P., Naïdja, H., Tsunoda, Y., Togashi, T., Nowacki, F., Otsuka, T., Colò, G., Arnswald, K., Berry, T., Blazhev, A., Borge, M.J.G., Cederkäll, J., Cox, D.M., De Witte, H., Gaffney, L.P., Henrich, C., Hirsch, R., Huyse, M., Illana, A., Johnston, K., Kaya, L., Kröll, T., Benito, M.L.L., Ojala, J., Pakarinen, J., Queiser, M., Rainovski, G., Rodriguez, J.A., Siebeck, B., Siesling, E., Snäll, J., Van Duppen, P., Vogt, A., Von Schmid, M., Warr, N., Wenander, F., Zell, K.O.
    Physical Review Letters 121 (25) 2018
    Erratum: Persistence of the Z=28 shell gap around Ni 78: First spectroscopy of Cu 79 (Physical Review Letters (2017) 119 (192501) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.192501)
    Olivier, L., Franchoo, S., Niikura, M., Vajta, Z., Sohler, D., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Calvet, D., Château, F., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J.-M., Gillibert, A., Isobe, T., Lapoux, V., Matsushita, M., Momiyama, S., Motobayashi, T., Otsu, H., Péron, C., Peyaud, A., Pollacco, E.C., Roussé, J.-Y., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Sasano, M., Shiga, Y., Takeuchi, S., Taniuchi, R., Uesaka, T., Wang, H., Yoneda, K., Browne, F., Chung, L.X., Dombradi, Z., Flavigny, F., Giacoppo, F., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klȩk, K., Korkulu, Z., Koyama, S., Kubota, Y., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Louchart, C., Lozeva, R., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Nishimura, S., Ogata, K., Ota, S., Patel, Z., Sahin, E., Shand, C., Söderström, P.-A., Stefan, I., Steppenbeck, D., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Werner, V., Wu, J., Xu, Z.
    Physical Review Letters 121 (9) 2018
    Investigating the large deformation of the 5/2+ isomeric state in Zn 73: An indicator for triaxiality
    Yang, X.F., Tsunoda, Y., Babcock, C., Billowes, J., Bissell, M.L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Flanagan, K.T., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Gins, W., Gorges, C., Grob, L.K., Heylen, H., Kaufmann, S., Kowalska, M., Krämer, J., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Otsuka, T., Papuga, J., Sánchez, R., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Yordanov, D.T.
    Physical Review C 97 (4) 2018
    Is seniority a partial dynamic symmetry in the first νg9/2 shell?
    Morales, A.I., Benzoni, G., Watanabe, H., de Angelis, G., Nishimura, S., Coraggio, L., Gargano, A., Itaco, N., Otsuka, T., Tsunoda, Y., Van Isacker, P., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y., Lorusso, G., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P.-A., Sumikama, T., Valiente-Dobón, J.J., Wu, J., Xu, Z.Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Baba, H., Avigo, R., Bello Garrote, F.L., Blasi, N., Bracco, A., Bruce, A.M., Camera, F., Ceruti, S., Crespi, F.C.L., Delattre, M.-C., Dombradi, Z., Gottardo, A., Isobe, T., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Kuti, I., Lalkovski, S., Matsui, K., Melon, B., Mengoni, D., Miyazaki, T., Modamio-Hoybjor, V., Momiyama, S., Napoli, D.R., Niikura, M., Orlandi, R., Podolyák, Z., Regan, P.H., Sakurai, H., Sahin, E., Sohler, D., Schaffner, H., Taniuchi, R., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Z., Wieland, O., Yalcinkaya, M.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 781 2018
    Persistence of the Z=28 Shell Gap Around Ni 78: First Spectroscopy of Cu 79
    Olivier, L., Franchoo, S., Niikura, M., Vajta, Z., Sohler, D., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Calvet, D., Château, F., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J.-M., Gillibert, A., Isobe, T., Lapoux, V., Matsushita, M., Momiyama, S., Motobayashi, T., Otsu, H., Péron, C., Peyaud, A., Pollacco, E.C., Roussé, J.-Y., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Sasano, M., Shiga, Y., Takeuchi, S., Taniuchi, R., Uesaka, T., Wang, H., Yoneda, K., Browne, F., Chung, L.X., Dombradi, Z., Flavigny, F., Giacoppo, F., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klȩk, K., Korkulu, Z., Koyama, S., Kubota, Y., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Louchart, C., Lozeva, R., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Nishimura, S., Ogata, K., Ota, S., Patel, Z., Sahin, E., Shand, C., Söderström, P.-A., Stefan, I., Steppenbeck, D., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Werner, V., Wu, J., Xu, Z.
    Physical Review Letters 119 (19) 2017
    Type II shell evolution in A = 70 isobars from the N ≥ 40 island of inversion
    Morales, A.I., Benzoni, G., Watanabe, H., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Nishimura, S., Browne, F., Daido, R., Doornenbal, P., Fang, Y., Lorusso, G., Patel, Z., Rice, S., Sinclair, L., Söderström, P.-A., Sumikama, T., Wu, J., Xu, Z.Y., Yagi, A., Yokoyama, R., Baba, H., Avigo, R., Bello Garrote, F.L., Blasi, N., Bracco, A., Camera, F., Ceruti, S., Crespi, F.C.L., de Angelis, G., Delattre, M.-C., Dombradi, Z., Gottardo, A., Isobe, T., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Kuti, I., Matsui, K., Melon, B., Mengoni, D., Miyazaki, T., Modamio-Hoybjor, V., Momiyama, S., Napoli, D.R., Niikura, M., Orlandi, R., Sakurai, H., Sahin, E., Sohler, D., Schaffner, H., Taniuchi, R., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Z., Valiente-Dobón, J.J., Wieland, O., Yalcinkaya, M.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 765 2017
    Shell evolution beyond Z = 28 and N = 50: Spectroscopy of 81,82,83,84Zn
    Shand, C.M., Podolyák, Z., Górska, M., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Nowacki, F., Otsuka, T., Sieja, K., Tostevin, J.A., Tsunoda, Y., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Calvet, D., Château, A., Chen, S., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J.M., Giganon, A., Gillibert, A., Isobe, T., Lapoux, V., Matsushita, M., Momiyama, S., Motobayashi, T., Niikura, M., Otsu, H., Paul, N., Péron, C., Peyaud, A., Pollacco, E.C., Roussé, J.-Y., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Sasano, M., Shiga, Y., Steppenbeck, D., Takeuchi, S., Taniuchi, R., Uesaka, T., Wang, H., Yoneda, K., Ando, T., Arici, T., Blazhev, A., Browne, F., Bruce, A.M., Carroll, R.J., Chung, L.X., Cortés, M.L., Dewald, M., Ding, B., Dombrádi, Z., Flavigny, F., Franchoo, S., Giacoppo, F., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klęk, K., Jungclaus, A., Korkulu, Z., Koyama, S., Kubota, Y., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Linh, B.D., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Lizarazo, C., Louchart, C., Lozeva, R., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Moschner, K., Nagamine, M., Nakatsuka, N., Nishimura, S., Nita, C.R., Nobs, C.R., Olivier, L., Ota, S., Orlandi, R., Patel, Z., Regan, P.H., Rudigier, M., Şahin, E., Saito, T., Söderström, P.-A., Stefan, I., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Vajta, Z., Vaquero, V., Werner, V., Wimmer, K., Wu, J., Xu, Z.Y.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 773 2017
    Shell Evolution towards Ni 78: Low-Lying States in Cu 77
    Sahin, E., Bello Garrote, F.L., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., De Angelis, G., Görgen, A., Niikura, M., Nishimura, S., Xu, Z.Y., Baba, H., Browne, F., Delattre, M.-C., Doornenbal, P., Franchoo, S., Gey, G., Hadyńska-Klk, K., Isobe, T., John, P.R., Jung, H.S., Kojouharov, I., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Li, Z., Lorusso, G., Matea, I., Matsui, K., Mengoni, D., Morfouace, P., Napoli, D.R., Naqvi, F., Nishibata, H., Odahara, A., Sakurai, H., Schaffner, H., Söderström, P.-A., Sohler, D., Stefan, I.G., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Taniuchi, R., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Z., Watanabe, H., Werner, V., Wu, J., Yagi, A., Yalcinkaya, M., Yoshinaga, K.
    Physical Review Letters 118 (24) 2017
    Evolution of nuclear structure in neutron-rich odd-Zn isotopes and isomers
    Wraith, C., Yang, X.F., Xie, L., Babcock, C., Bieroń, J., Billowes, J., Bissell, M.L., Blaum, K., Cheal, B., Filippin, L., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Gins, W., Grob, L.K., Gaigalas, G., Godefroid, M., Gorges, C., Heylen, H., Honma, M., Jönsson, P., Kaufmann, S., Kowalska, M., Krämer, J., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Nowacki, F., Otsuka, T., Papuga, J., Sánchez, R., Tsunoda, Y., Yordanov, D.T.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 771 2017
    Experimental study of the lifetime and phase transition in neutron-rich Zr 98,100,102
    Ansari, S., Régis, J.-M., Jolie, J., Saed-Samii, N., Warr, N., Korten, W., Zielińska, M., Salsac, M.-D., Blanc, A., Jentschel, M., Köster, U., Mutti, P., Soldner, T., Simpson, G.S., Drouet, F., Vancraeyenest, A., De France, G., Clément, E., Stezowski, O., Ur, C.A., Urban, W., Regan, P.H., Podolyák, Z., Larijani, C., Townsley, C., Carroll, R., Wilson, E., Mach, H., Fraile, L.M., Paziy, V., Olaizola, B., Vedia, V., Bruce, A.M., Roberts, O.J., Smith, J.F., Scheck, M., Kröll, T., Hartig, A.-L., Ignatov, A., Ilieva, S., Lalkovski, S., Mǎrginean, N., Otsuka, T., Shimizu, N., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y.
    Physical Review C 96 (5) 2017
    Are There Signatures of Harmonic Oscillator Shells Far from Stability? First Spectroscopy of Zr 110
    Paul, N., Corsi, A., Obertelli, A., Doornenbal, P., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Bally, B., Bender, M., Calvet, D., Château, F., Chen, S., Delaroche, J.-P., Delbart, A., Gheller, J.-M., Giganon, A., Gillibert, A., Girod, M., Heenen, P.-H., Lapoux, V., Libert, J., Motobayashi, T., Niikura, M., Otsuka, T., Rodríguez, T.R., Roussé, J.-Y., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Shimizu, N., Steppenbeck, D., Taniuchi, R., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Uesaka, T., Ando, T., Arici, T., Blazhev, A., Browne, F., Bruce, A.M., Carroll, R., Chung, L.X., Cortés, M.L., Dewald, M., Ding, B., Flavigny, F., Franchoo, S., Górska, M., Gottardo, A., Jungclaus, A., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Linh, B.D., Liu, J., Liu, Z., Lizarazo, C., Momiyama, S., Moschner, K., Nagamine, S., Nakatsuka, N., Nita, C., Nobs, C.R., Olivier, L., Patel, Z., Podolyák, Z., Rudigier, M., Saito, T., Shand, C., Söderström, P.-A., Stefan, I., Orlandi, R., Vaquero, V., Werner, V., Wimmer, K., Xu, Z.
    Physical Review Letters 118 (3) 2017
    Dipole and quadrupole moments of Cu 73-78 as a test of the robustness of the Z=28 shell closure near Ni 78
    De Groote, R.P., Billowes, J., Binnersley, C.L., Bissell, M.L., Cocolios, T.E., Day Goodacre, T., Farooq-Smith, G.J., Fedorov, D.V., Flanagan, K.T., Franchoo, S., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Koszorús, Á., Lynch, K.M., Neyens, G., Nowacki, F., Otsuka, T., Rothe, S., Stroke, H.H., Tsunoda, Y., Vernon, A.R., Wendt, K.D.A., Wilkins, S.G., Xu, Z.Y., Yang, X.F.
    Physical Review C 96 (4) 2017
    Abrupt shape transition at neutron number N=60: B(E2) values in Sr 94,96,98 from fast γ-γ Timing
    Régis, J.-M., Jolie, J., Saed-Samii, N., Warr, N., Pfeiffer, M., Blanc, A., Jentschel, M., Köster, U., Mutti, P., Soldner, T., Simpson, G.S., Drouet, F., Vancraeyenest, A., De France, G., Clément, E., Stezowski, O., Ur, C.A., Urban, W., Regan, P.H., Podolyák, Zs., Larijani, C., Townsley, C., Carroll, R., Wilson, E., Fraile, L.M., Mach, H., Paziy, V., Olaizola, B., Vedia, V., Bruce, A.M., Roberts, O.J., Smith, J.F., Scheck, M., Kröll, T., Hartig, A.-L., Ignatov, A., Ilieva, S., Lalkovski, S., Korten, W., Mǎrginean, N., Otsuka, T., Shimizu, N., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y.
    Physical Review C 95 (5) 2017
    Multifaceted Quadruplet of Low-Lying Spin-Zero States in Ni 66: Emergence of Shape Isomerism in Light Nuclei
    Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Mǎrginean, N., Sferrazza, M., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Bocchi, G., Crespi, F.C.L., Bracco, A., Aydin, S., Boromiza, M., Bucurescu, D., Cieplicka-Orycczak, N., Costache, C., Cǎlinescu, S., Florea, N., Ghiţǎ, D.G., Glodariu, T., Ionescu, A., Iskra, Ł.W., Krzysiek, M., Mǎrginean, R., Mihai, C., Mihai, R.E., Mitu, A., Negreţ, A., Niţǎ, C.R., Olǎcel, A., Oprea, A., Pascu, S., Petkov, P., Petrone, C., Porzio, G., Şerban, A., Sotty, C., Stan, L., Ştiru, I., Stroe, L., Şuvǎilǎ, R., Toma, S., Turturicǎ, A., Ujeniuc, S., Ur, C.A.
    Physical Review Letters 118 (16) 2017
    Nucleon correlations and the structure of Zn413071
    Bottoni, S., Zhu, S., Janssens, R.V.F., Carpenter, M.P., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Macchiavelli, A.O., Cline, D., Wu, C.Y., Ayangeakaa, A.D., Bucher, B., Buckner, M.Q., Campbell, C.M., Chiara, C.J., Crawford, H.L., Cromaz, M., David, H.M., Fallon, P., Gade, A., Greene, J.P., Harker, J., Hayes, A.B., Hoffman, C.R., Kay, B.P., Korichi, A., Lauritsen, T., Sethi, J., Seweryniak, D., Walters, W.B., Weisshaar, D., Wiens, A.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 775 2017
    Monte Carlo shell model studies with massively parallel supercomputers
    Shimizu, N., Abe, T., Honma, M., Otsuka, T., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Utsuno, Y., Yoshida, T.
    Physica Scripta 92 (6) 2017
    Changes in nuclear structure along the Mn isotopic chain studied via charge radii
    Heylen, H., Babcock, C., Beerwerth, R., Billowes, J., Bissell, M.L., Blaum, K., Bonnard, J., Campbell, P., Cheal, B., Day Goodacre, T., Fedorov, D., Fritzsche, S., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Geithner, W., Geppert, C., Gins, W., Grob, L.K., Kowalska, M., Kreim, K., Lenzi, S.M., Moore, I.D., Maass, B., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Marsh, B., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Otsuka, T., Papuga, J., Rossel, R., Rothe, S., Sánchez, R., Tsunoda, Y., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Yang, X.F., Yordanov, D.T.
    Physical Review C 94 (5) 2016
    Investigating nuclear shell structure in the vicinity of Ni 78: Low-lying excited states in the neutron-rich isotopes Zn 80,82
    Shiga, Y., Yoneda, K., Steppenbeck, D., Aoi, N., Doornenbal, P., Lee, J., Liu, H., Matsushita, M., Takeuchi, S., Wang, H., Baba, H., Bednarczyk, P., Dombradi, Z., Fulop, Z., Go, S., Hashimoto, T., Honma, M., Ideguchi, E., Ieki, K., Kobayashi, K., Kondo, Y., Minakata, R., Motobayashi, T., Nishimura, D., Otsuka, T., Otsu, H., Sakurai, H., Shimizu, N., Sohler, D., Sun, Y., Tamii, A., Tanaka, R., Tian, Z., Tsunoda, Y., Vajta, Z., Yamamoto, T., Yang, X., Yang, Z., Ye, Y., Yokoyama, R., Zenihiro, J.
    Physical Review C 93 (2) 2016
    Quantum Phase Transition in the Shape of Zr isotopes
    Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Shimizu, N.
    Physical Review Letters 117 (17) 2016
    First Measurement of Collectivity of Coexisting Shapes Based on Type II Shell Evolution: The Case of Zr 96
    Kremer, C., Aslanidou, S., Bassauer, S., Hilcker, M., Krugmann, A., Von Neumann-Cosel, P., Otsuka, T., Pietralla, N., Ponomarev, V.Y., Shimizu, N., Singer, M., Steinhilber, G., Togashi, T., Tsunoda, Y., Werner, V., Zweidinger, M.
    Physical Review Letters 117 (17) 2016
    The role of shell evolution in shape coexistence
    Otsuka, T., Tsunoda, Y.
    Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 43 (2) 2016
    Quadrupole moments of odd-A 53−63Mn: Onset of collectivity towards N = 40
    Babcock, C., Heylen, H., Bissell, M.L., Blaum, K., Campbell, P., Cheal, B., Fedorov, D., Garcia Ruiz, R.F., Geithner, W., Gins, W., Day Goodacre, T., Grob, L.K., Kowalska, M., Lenzi, S.M., Maass, B., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Marsh, B., Neugart, R., Neyens, G., Nörtershäuser, W., Otsuka, T., Rossel, R., Rothe, S., Sánchez, R., Tsunoda, Y., Wraith, C., Xie, L., Yang, X.F.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 760 2016
    Characterization of the low-lying 0+ and 2+ states in Ni 68 via β decay of the low-spin Co 68 isomer
    Flavigny, F., Pauwels, D., Radulov, D., Darby, I.J., De Witte, H., Diriken, J., Fedorov, D.V., Fedosseev, V.N., Fraile, L.M., Huyse, M., Ivanov, V.S., Köster, U., Marsh, B.A., Otsuka, T., Popescu, L., Raabe, R., Seliverstov, M.D., Shimizu, N., Sjödin, A.M., Tsunoda, Y., Van Den Bergh, P., Van Duppen, P., Van De Walle, J., Venhart, M., Walters, W.B., Wimmer, K.
    Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 91 (3) 2015
    Identification of deformed intruder states in semi-magic Ni 70
    Chiara, C.J., Weisshaar, D., Janssens, R.V.F., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Harker, J.L., Walters, W.B., Recchia, F., Albers, M., Alcorta, M., Bader, V.M., Baugher, T., Bazin, D., Berryman, J.S., Bertone, P.F., Campbell, C.M., Carpenter, M.P., Chen, J., Crawford, H.L., David, H.M., Doherty, D.T., Gade, A., Hoffman, C.R., Honma, M., Kondev, F.G., Korichi, A., Langer, C., Larson, N., Lauritsen, T., Liddick, S.N., Lunderberg, E., Macchiavelli, A.O., Noji, S., Prokop, C., Rogers, A.M., Seweryniak, D., Shimizu, N., Stroberg, S.R., Suchyta, S., Utsuno, Y., Williams, S.J., Wimmer, K., Zhu, S.
    Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 91 (4) 2015
    Nature of isomerism in exotic sulfur isotopes
    Utsuno, Y., Shimizu, N., Otsuka, T., Yoshida, T., Tsunoda, Y.
    Physical Review Letters 114 (3) 2015
    Novel shape evolution in exotic Ni isotopes and configuration-dependent shell structure
    Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Shimizu, N., Honma, M., Utsuno, Y.
    Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 89 (3) 2014
    Shape coexistence in Ni 68
    Suchyta, S., Liddick, S.N., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T., Bennett, M.B., Chemey, A., Honma, M., Larson, N., Prokop, C.J., Quinn, S.J., Shimizu, N., Simon, A., Spyrou, A., Tripathi, V., Utsuno, Y., Vonmoss, J.M.
    Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 89 (2) 2014
    New-generation Monte Carlo shell model for the K computer era
    Shimizu, N., Abe, T., Tsunoda, Y., Utsuno, Y., Yoshida, T., Mizusaki, T., Honma, M., Otsuka, T.
    Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2012 (1) 2012
    Variational procedure for nuclear shell-model calculations and energy-variance extrapolation
    Shimizu, N., Utsuno, Y., Mizusaki, T., Honma, M., Tsunoda, Y., Otsuka, T.
    Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 85 (5) 2012
  • Awards & Honors
    Mar 2018
    the FAIR-GSI Exotic Nuclei Community the FAIR GENCO Award for young scientists
    Mar 2017
    the Physical Society of Japan Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
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