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Dr. Kei Nagai

Assistant Professor

901.678.4383Manning Hall 313knagai@memphis.edu

  

About Kei Nagai

Kei Nagai joined the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ in 2024. His research focuses on nuclear physics, particularly on the nucleon structure, aiming to shed light on the non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). He is actively involved in experiments at national accelerator laboratories, probing the internal structure of protons. Currently, his work focuses on exploring the three-dimensional structure functions of nucleons.

Education

B.S., Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2012;
M.S., Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2014;
Ph.D., Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2017

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, 2024-Present;
Research Scientist at Duke University, 2024;
Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2020-2023;
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan), 2017-2020

Research Interests

Nuclear physics, nucleon structure, particle physics

Publications

[1] C.H. Leung, K. Nagai, et al., "Measurement of J/ψ and ψ(2S) production in p + p and p + d interactions at 120 GeV." Phys. Lett. B 858, 139032 (2024).
[2] J. Dove, K. Nagai, et al. (SeaQuest), "Measurement of flavor asymmetry of the light-quark sea in the proton with Drell-Yan dimuon production in p + p and p + d collisions at 120 GeV", Phys. Rev. C 108, 035202 (2023).
[3] J. Dove, K. Nagai, et al. (SeaQuest), "The Asymmetry of Antimatter in the Proton," Nature 590, 561 (2021)