Department
UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Beam Physics and Diagnostics Research
Biography
2007 B.S. Nagoya University
2009 M.S. Nagoya University
2012 Ph.D. Nagoya University
2011 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2012 Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2018 Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2020 Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
Associate Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Awards
2010 "Student Presentation Award, The 23th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research "
2010 "Young Researcher Best Presentation Award, The 53th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry "
2011 Nagoya University Outstanding Graduate Student Award
2012 "Oral Presentation Award, The 9th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan "
2012 "Young Researcher Best Poster Award, 12th International Symposium on Radiation Physics "
2013 Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
2015 Young Researcher Best Presentation Award, Beam Physics Workshop 2015
2021 The Outstanding Presentation Award of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry
Main research themes
Development and utilization of novel quantum beam sources using a high energy electron beam
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Electron beams, synchrotron radiation, gamma-rays, positrons |
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Selected Publications
- Y. Taira, M. Adachi, H. Zen, T. Tanikawa, N. Yamamoto, M. Hosaka, Y. Takashima, K. Soda, M. Katoh, “Generation of energy-tunable and ultra-short-pulse gamma ray via inverse Compton scattering in an electron storage ring”, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, 652 (2011) 696.
- Y. Taira, T. Hayakawa, M. Katoh, “Gamma-ray vortices from nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering of circularly polarized light”, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017) 5018.
- Y. Taira, M. Katoh, “Gamma-ray vortices emitted from nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering of a two-wavelength laser beam”, Phys. Rev. A, 98 (2018) 052130.
- Y. Taira, M. Katoh, “Generation of optical vortices by nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering at arbitrary angle interactions”, The Astrophysical Journal, 860 (2018) 45.
- Y. Taira, M. Fujimoto, S. Ri, M. Hosaka, M. Katoh, "Measurement of the phase structure of elliptically polarized undulator radiation", New Journal of Physics, 22 (2020) 093061.
- Y. Taira, R. Yamamoto, K. Sugita, Y. Okano, T. Hirade, S. Namizaki, T. Ogawa, Y. Adachi, "Development of gamma-ray-induced positron age-momentum correlation measurement", Rev. of Sci. Instr., 93 (2022) 113304.
- Y. Taira, S. Endo, S. Kawamura, T. Nambu, M. Okuizumi, T. Shizuma, M. Omer, H. Zen, Y. Okano, M. Kitaguchi, "Measurement of the spatial polarization distribution of circularly polarized gamma rays produced by inverse Compton scattering", Phys. Rev. A, 107 (2023) 063503.
- Y. Taira, "Spatial distribution of gamma rays produced by axially symmetric polarized and optical vortex lasers", Phys. Rev. A, 110 (2024) 043525.
