Tsutomu Yanagida

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Tsutomu Yanagida at Nordita Advanced Winter School on Theoretical Cosmology 2020

Tsutomu Yanagida (* 1949 ) is a Japanese physicist and university professor.

Life

Tsutomu Yanagida received his PhD from Hiroshima University in Japan in 1977 . In 1979 he developed the model of the Seesaw mechanism , which explains the light mass of neutrinos by introducing right-handed heavy neutrinos. A few years later, together with M. Fukugita, he developed the model of leptogenesis (also Fukugita-Yanagida scenario), which traces the baryon asymmetry back to a lepton asymmetry . Right-handed neutrinos are also used for this. Until 2019 he was professor at the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo . His undergraduate and graduate students in Tokyo included Yasunori Nomura, Junji Hisano, and Takeo Moroi. In 2019, he was appointed professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University . His research ranges from theoretical particle physics , string theory to cosmology and astrophysics . Among other things, he deals with supersymmetry , inflation models and baryon asymmetry. Yanagida is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . In 2017 he visited the Higgs Center of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh as a visiting scientist.

Honors

  • 1992: Nishina Prize
  • 2011: Hertz Lecture at DESY Hamburg
  • 2014: Helmholtz International Fellow Award

Fonts (selection)

  • Tsutomu Yanagida: Horizontal Symmetry and Masses of Neutrinos In: Progress of Theoretical Physics , Volume 64, Issue 3, September 1980, pp. 1103-1105
  • Tsutomu Yanagida, Motohiko Yoshimura: Various Schemes of Neutrino Mixing In: Progress of Theoretical Physics , Volume 64, Issue 5, November 1980, pp. 1870-1873
  • Masataka Fukugita, Tsutomu Yanagida: Baryogenesis without grand unification , Phys. Lett. B174, 45-47 (1986)
  • Wilfried Buchmüller , Roberto Peccei , Tsutomu Yanagida: Leptogenesis as the origin of matter . In: Annual Review of Particle and Nuclear Physics , Volume 55, 2005, pp. 311-355

Books

  • Masataka Fukugita, Tsutomu Yanagida: Physics of Neutrinos and Application to Astrophysics , Springer, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ Yanagida students at academictree.org
  3. ↑ Report on Yanagida's appointment as professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  4. ^ Corresponding members of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Tsutomu Yanagida at the Higg Center for Theoretical Physics
  6. ↑ Hertz Lectures
  7. ↑ Announcement of the award
personal data
SURNAME Yanagida, Tsutomu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949