RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Nuclear Structure Research Group
Director: Hideki Ueno (D.Sc.)
Research Summary

Far-unstable RIs (radioactive isotopes), whose proton/neutron ratios differ significantly from those of naturally-occurring stable nuclei, have been shown to exhibit unique nuclear structures and properties, and their structural studies are one of the central subjects in nuclear physics. The research group has been conducting physics research based on various nuclear spectroscopic techniques, such as β-ray spectroscopy (β-NMR, μSR, etc.), γ-ray spectroscopy (γ-TDPAD, Mössbauer spectroscopy, etc), laser spectroscopy, and TOF mass spectroscopy. In particular, the group is working on the development of the device to control RI spins and the universal low-energy RI-beam device, SLOWRI, aiming at new experimental research using the unique RI beams produced.
Main Research Fields
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Related Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
- Quantum Beam Science
Keywords
- Nuclear Physics
- Radioactive-Isotope Beam
- Nuclear Spin Orientation
- Ion Trapping
- Muon Science
Selected Publications
- 1.
Go, S., Tsuzuki, Y., Yoneda, H., Ichikawa, Y., Ikeda, T., Imai, N., Imamura, K., Niikura, M., Nishimura, D., Mizuno, R., Takeda, S., Ueno, H., Watanabe, S., Y. Saito, T., Shimoura, S., Sugawara, S., Takamine, A., Takahashi, T.:
"Demonstration of nuclear gamma-ray polarimetry based on a multi-layer CdTe Compton camera"
Sci. Rep. 14, 2573 (2024). - 2.
Xian, W., Chen, S., Nikas, S., Rosenbusch, M., Wada, M., Ishiyama, H., Hou, D., Iimura, S., Nishimura, S., Schury, P., Takamine, A., Yan, S., Browne, F., Doornenbal, P., Flavigny, F., Hirayama, Y., Ito, Y., Kimura, S., M. Kojima, T., Lee, J., Liu, J., Michimasa, H., Y. Moon, J., Naimi, S., Niwase, T., Sonoda, T., Suzuki, D., Watanabe, X. Y., Werner, V., Wimmer, K., and Wollnik, H.:
"Mass measurements of neutron-rich A ≈ 90 nuclei constrain element abundances"
Phys. Rev. C 109, 035804 (2024). - 3.
Ishibashi, Y., Gladkov, A., Ichikawa, Y., Takamine, A., Nishibata, H., Sato, T., Yamazaki, H., Abe, T., M. Daugas, J., Egami, T., Fujita, T., Georgiev, G., Imamura, K., Kawaguchi, T., Kobayashi, W., Nakamura, Y., Ozawa, A., Sanjo, M., Shimizu, N., Tominaga, D., Tao, L. C., Asahi, K., Ueno, H.:
"Nuclear magnetic moment of the neutron-rich nucleus 21O"
Phys. Rev. C 107, 024306 (2023). - 4.
Iimura, S., Rosenbusch, M., Takamine, A., Tsunoda, Y., Wada, M., Chen, S., Hou, D., Xian, W., Ishiyama, H., Yan, S., Schury, P., Crawford, H., Doornenbal, P., Hirayama, Y., Ito, Y., Kimura, S., Koiwai, T., Kojima, T., Koura, H., Lee, J., Liu, J., Michimasa, S., Miyatake, H., Moon, J., Naimi, S., Nishimura, S., Niwase, T., Odahara, A., Otsuka, T., Paschalis, S., Petri, M., Shimizu, N., Sonoda, T., Suzuki, D., Watanabe, Y., Wimmer, K., Wollnik, H.:
"Study of the N = 32 and N = 34 shell gap for Ti and V by the first high-precision multireflection time-of-flight mass measurements at BigRIPS-SLOWRI"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 012501 (2023). - 5.
Otsuka, T., Abe, T., Yoshida, T., Tsunoda, Y., Shimizu, N., Itagaki, N., Utsuno, Y., Vary, J., Maris, P., Ueno, H.:
"α-Clustering in atomic nuclei from first principles with statistical learning and the Hoyle state character"
Nat. Commum. 13, 2234 (2022). - 6.
Ramadhan, M. R., Adiperdana, B., Ramli, I., Sari, D. P., Putri, A. E., Wydiaiswari, U., Rozak, H., Zaharim, W. N., Manaf, A., Kurniawan, B., Mohamed-Ibrahim, M. I., Sulaiman, S., Kawamata, T., Adachi, T., Koike, Y., Watanabe, I.:
"Estimation of the on-site Coulomb potential and covalent state in La2CuO4 by muon spin rotation and density functional theory calculations"
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033044 (2022). - 7.
Sari, D. P., Asih, R., Hiraki, K., Nakano, T., Nozue, Y., Ishii, Y., Hillier, A. D., Watanabe, I.:
"Distorted superconducting nodal line on a single Fermi surface in the anisotropic organic superconductor λ-(BETS)2GaCl4"
Phys. Rev. B 104, 224506 (2021). - 8.
Tsunoda, N., Otsuka, T., Takayanagi, K., Shimizu, N., Suzuki, T. Utsuno, Y. Yoshida, S., Ueno, H.:
"The impact of nuclear shape on the emergence of the neutron dripline"
Nature 587, 66 (2020). - 9.
Boulay, F., Simpson, G. S., Ichikawa, Y., Kisyov, S., Bucurescu, D., Takamine, A., Ahn, D. S., Asahi, K., Baba, H., Balabanski, D. L., Egami, T., Fujita, T., Fukuda, N., Funayama, C., Furukawa, T., Georgiev, G., Gladkov, A., Hass, M., Imamura, K., Inabe, N., Ishibashi, Y., Kawaguchi, T., Kawamura, T., Kim, W., Kobayashi, Y., Kojima, S., Kusoglu, A., Lozeva, R., Momiyama, S., Mukul, I., Niikura, M., Nishibata, H., Nishizaka, T., Odahara, A., Ohtomo, Y., Ralet, D., Sato, T., Shimizu, Y., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Tao, L. C., Togano, Y., Tominaga, D., Ueno, H., Yamazaki, H., Yang, X. F., Daugas, J. M.:
"g-Factor of the 99Zr (7/2+) isomer: monopole evolution in shape coexisting region"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 112501 (2020). - 10.
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, 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, Mukul, A. 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.:
"Interplay between nuclear shell evolution and shape deformation revealed by the magnetic moment of 75Cu"
Nat. Phys. 15, 321 (2019).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Hideki Ueno
- Director
Core members
- Isao Watanabe
- Senior Research Scientist
- Shintaro Go
- Research Scientist
- Marco Rosenbusch
- Research Scientist
- Yutaka Tsuzuki
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Yukari Matsuo
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Takaharu Otsuka
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Yota Komiyama
- Junior Research Associate
- Yusuke Fukuzawa
- RIKEN Student Researcher M
- Muhammad Abdan Syakuur
- International Program Associate
- Phanthip Jaikaew
- International Program Associate
- Ken Fui Chin
- International Program Associate
Contact Information
315 Nishina RIBF Bldg.,
2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: ueno@riken.jp
Organization
- SLOWRI Team
- Hironobu Ishiyama (D.Sc.)