Soo-Bong Kim
Soo-Bong Kim (* 1960 in Busan ) is a South Korean elementary particle physicist.
Kim grew up in Busan and studied from 1979 at Seoul National University with a bachelor's degree in 1983 and a master's degree. In 1989 he received his doctorate from Alfred K. Mann at the University of Pennsylvania . His doctoral thesis contributed to the method of neutrino detection (directional resolution and in real time) in Kamiokande II. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Michigan and from 1996 at Boston University . In 1998 he became a professor at Seoul National University (SNU).
In 1994 he was involved in the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab ( CDF collaboration at Tevatron ) and the determination of its mass and investigation of its kinematics. He was one of the two leaders of the group on Top Quark Kinematics in the CDF collaboration. Among other things, he developed parallel software and installed processors for the trigger electronics of the detector.
As a member of the Kamiokande II collaboration (Kamioka Observatory), he was involved in both the direct detection of solar neutrinos (including the confirmation of the solar neutrino deficit discovered by other methods in the Homestake experiment by Raymond Davis Jr. from the 1960s) and of cosmic neutrinos in involved in the observation of neutrinos from SN 1987A and as part of Super-Kamiokande in the discovery of neutrino oscillations. As part of K2K ( KEK -to-Kamioka), where the source for the detector in the Kamioka observatory was the KEK accelerator this time, he measured one of the neutrino mixing angles in 2004.
Kim himself supervised the construction of the RENO experiment (RENO stands for: Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations) from 2006 to 2011 . The neutrino detector was near a nuclear reactor (the source) in South Korea. It is used to measure the last unknown neutrino mixing angle.
Kim is also involved in the CMS collaboration on the Large Hadron Collider .
In 2016 he received the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize . In 2008 he received the Academic Research Excellence Prize of the Seoul National University, in 2020 the Ho-Am Prize for Science.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ RENO: An Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation Parameter theta_13 Using Reactor Neutrinos at Yonggwang , Arxiv 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kim, soo bong |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Busan |