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Yukihisa Nogami  Professor Emeritus Department of Physics and Astronomy  McMaster University  Hamilton, ON  L8S 4M1  Office:  ABB-274  Phone:  (905) 525-9140 x23187  FAX:    (905) 546-1252  E-mail: nogami@mcmaster.ca  Research Area: Theory

 

Research Interests

Yuki Nogami received his B. Sc. and D. Sc. from Kyoto University where he studied under Hideki Yukawa. Following postdoctoral research at the National Research Council, Ottawa, and Battersea College, England, he came to McMaster in 1964. He has held visiting research positions in Brazil, France, Germany and Japan.

Dr. Nogami’s research covers a wide range of topics with emphasis on the interplay between nuclear and particle physics. He has worked on hypernuclei, nuclear three-body forces, charge symmetry breaking nuclear interactions, relativistic effects in nuclear physics, hadron structures, etc. One of the problems in which he has been interested in recent years is concerned with atomic ionization caused by nuclear alpha or beta decay process. This an old problem is still beset with a certain paradox. There is a similar paradox related to bremsstrahlung due to the alpha particle emitted by a nucleus. Dr. Nogami is also interested in the vacuum structure in the presence of strong external interactions. He speculates on some topological aspects of this problem.
 

Selected Publications

• “Model study of bremsstrahlung in alpha decay”, W. van Dijk and Y. Nogami, Few-Body Systems, Supplement 14, 229 (2003),
• "Analytical approach to the wave function of a decaying quantum system”, W. van Dijk and Y. Nogami, Phys. Rev. C 65, 024608 (2002),
• “Dirac’s hole theory versus quantum field theory”, F.A.B. Coutinho, D. Kiang, Y. Nogami and L. Tomio, Can. J. Phys. 80, 837 (2002),
• “Model study of bremsstrahlung in alpha decay”, Y. Nogami and W. van Dijk, Few-Body Systems, Supplement 14, 229 (2001),
• “Curious aspect of the atomic ionization process caused by nuclear decay”, Y. Nogami and W. van Dijk, Few-Body Systems, Supplement 13, 196 (2001),
• “Bohmian description of a decaying quantum system”, Y. Nogami, F.M. Toyama and W. van Dijk, Phys. Lett. A 270, 279 (2000),
• “Simulation of atomic ionization following the alpha decay of the nucleus”, F. Kataoka, Y. Nogami and W. van Dijk, J. Phys. A 33, 5547 (2000).

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