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N. Higashi
Researcher at Kyoto University
Publications - 14
Citations - 489
N. Higashi is an academic researcher from Kyoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Compton scattering & Gamma ray. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 11 publications receiving 455 citations.
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The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts
S. P. Ahlen,Niayesh Afshordi,Niayesh Afshordi,James Battat,J. Billard,Nassim Bozorgnia,S. Burgos,T. Caldwell,T. Caldwell,J. M. Carmona,S. Cebrián,P. Colas,T. Dafni,E. J. Daw,D. Dujmic,A. Dushkin,William Fedus,Efrain J. Ferrer,D. Finkbeiner,Peter H. Fisher,J. Forbes,T. Fusayasu,J. Galán,T. Gamble,C. Ghag,Ioannis Giomataris,Michael Gold,Haley Louise Gomez,M. E. Gomez,Paolo Gondolo,Anne M. Green,C. Grignon,O. Guillaudin,C. Hagemann,Kaori Hattori,Shawn Wesley Henderson,N. Higashi,C. Ida,F.J. Iguaz,Andrew Inglis,I. G. Irastorza,Satoru Iwaki,A. C. Kaboth,Shigeto Kabuki,J. Kadyk,Nitya Kallivayalil,H. Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. Lamy,Richard C. Lanza,T. B. Lawson,A. Lee,E. R. Lee,T. Lin,D. Loomba,Jeremy Lopez,G. Luzón,T. Manobu,J. Martoff,F. Mayet,B. Mccluskey,E. H. Miller,Kentaro Miuchi,Jocelyn Monroe,B. Morgan,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,Tatsuhiro Naka,K. Nakamura,M. Nakamura,T. Nakano,G.G. Nicklin,H. Nishimura,K. Niwa,Sean Paling,Joseph D. Parker,A. Petkov,M. Pipe,K. Pushkin,Matthew R. Robinson,Arturo Rodriguez Rodriguez,Jose Rodríguez-Quintero,T. Sahin,Robyn E. Sanderson,N. Sanghi,D. Santos,O. Sato,Tatsuya Sawano,G. Sciolla,Hiroyuki Sekiya,Tracy R. Slatyer,D. P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,A. Sugiyama,A. Takada,M. Takahashi,A. Takeda,Toru Tanimori,Kojiro Taniue,A. Tomás,H. Tomita,K. Tsuchiya,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi,K. Ueno,S. E. Vahsen,R. Vanderspek,J D Vergados,J.A. Villar,H. Wellenstein,I. Wolfe,R. K. Yamamoto,H. Yegoryan +113 more
TL;DR: The case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity was presented at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field as mentioned in this paper.
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Prompt gamma detection for range verification in proton therapy
Shunsuke Kurosawa,Hidetoshi Kubo,Kazuki Ueno,Shigeto Kabuki,Satoru Iwaki,Michiaki Takahashi,Kojiro Taniue,N. Higashi,Kentaro Miuchi,Toru Tanimori,Do Gyun Kim,Jongwon Kim +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically demonstrated that the proton range and prompt gamma distribution are well correlated in the therapy energy range, and that measuring prompt gammas is a viable method for the clinical application.
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First underground results with NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector
Kentaro Miuchi,H. Nishimura,Kaori Hattori,N. Higashi,C. Ida,Satoshi Iwaki,Shigeto Kabuki,Hidetoshi Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,K. Nakamura,Joseph D. Parker,Tatsuya Sawano,Michiaki Takahashi,Toru Tanimori,Kojiro Taniue,Kazuki Ueno,Hiroyuki Sekiya,Atsushi Takeda,Ken'ichi Tsuchiya,Atsushi Takada +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, a direction-sensitive dark matter search experiment at Kamioka underground laboratory with the NEWAGE-0.3a detector was performed, which achieved a new record of 5400 pb for 150 GeV / c 2 WIMPs.
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Development of the balloon-borne sub-MeV gamma-ray Compton camera using an electron-tracking gaseous TPC and a scintillation camera
K. Ueno,Tetsuya Mizumoto,Kaori Hattori,N. Higashi,Satoru Iwaki,Shigeto Kabuki,Yuji Kishimoto,S. Komura,Hidetoshi Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,Y. Matsuoka,Kentaro Miuchi,K. Nakamura,Hironobu Nishimura,Joseph D. Parker,Y. Sato,Tatsuya Sawano,Atsushi Takada,Toru Tanimori +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) was used onboard a balloon to observe sub-MeV/MeV gamma rays from celestial objects.
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Development of an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera using CF4 gas at high pressure for improved detection efficiency
Michiaki Takahashi,Shigeto Kabuki,Kaori Hattori,N. Higashi,Satoru Iwaki,Hidetoshi Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,Kentaro Miuchi,K. Nakamura,Hironobu Nishimura,Joseph D. Parker,Tatsuya Sawano,Atsushi Takada,Toru Tanimori,Kojiro Taniue,K. Ueno +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) was developed for medical imaging and MeV gamma-ray astronomy, which consists of a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and pixel scintillator arrays.