Rate My Professor Junichi Tanaka

Tanaka's contributions include key roles in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson and extensive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetric particles, extra dimensions, axion-like particles, dark photons, and dark matter. His laboratory conducts data analysis using machine learning, develops FPGA firmware for readout electronics in the liquid argon electromagnetic calorimeter, and upgrades trigger systems. In anticipation of the High-Luminosity LHC starting in 2030, Tanaka investigates quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing to manage massive data volumes. Notable publications encompass ATLAS results like "Direct constraint on the Higgs-charm coupling from a search for Higgs boson decays into charm quarks with the ATLAS detector" (2022, European Physical Journal C), "Search for long-lived charginos based on a disappearing-track signature using 136 fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector" (2022, European Physical Journal C), "A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e⁺μ^- and e^-μ⁺ pairs in proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at √s=13 TeV" (2022, Physics Letters B), and earlier B-factory work including "The Physics of the B Factories" (2014, European Physical Journal C). Tanaka belongs to the Physical Society of Japan and participates in outreach via science cafes and lectures on particle physics and quantum technologies.