University of Tokyo, Center for Nuclear Study

To understand how substance in nature was born and how it evolved, the Center for Nuclear Study at the University of Tokyo is promoting research on nuclear physics and the hierarchy of sub-atomic worlds. Stable nuclei in nature are frozen states where the number of protons and neutrons is balanced, but if we look back to the beginning of the universe, nuclei did not always exist in a frozen state. At the Center for Nuclear Study (CNS), researchers focus on finding the degree of freedom that characterizes nuclei, and the hierarchy and symmetry behind it. Using cutting edge accelerator technology, researchers create characteristic quantum states, simulate the beginning of the universe and the process of element creation by heavy ion reaction, as well as developing the various methods required to analyse them.