Kohta Murase
Main Content
- Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
University Park, PA 16802
Education
- Kyoto University (Ph.D, Physics), 2010
- Kyoto University (M.S., Physics), 2007
- The University of Tokyo (B.S., Physics), 2005
Websites
Specialties:
- Particle Astrophysics
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- Theoretical
- Gravitational Physics & Cosmology
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- Theoretical
- Particles & Fields
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- Theoretical
Honors and Awards
- 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2017-2021
- 2015 Incentive Award of Cosmic Ray Physics from CRC Japan, 2016
- 2015 Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016
- 2014 Young Scientist Award of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2015
- 2012 Hubble Fellowship, 2012-2014 (Member of Institute for Advanced Study, 2012-2015)
- CCAPP Senior Fellow, 2012
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, 2010-2012
- JSPS Doctoral Fellow, 2007-2010
Selected Publications
Full list of publications on INSPIRE-HEP; List of theory publications on ADS; Collaboration papers
- K. Murase, "New prospects for detecting high-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae", Phys. Rev. D Rapid Communications, 97, 081301 (2018).
- K. Fang and K. Murase, "Linking high-energy cosmic particles by black-hole jets embedded in large-scale structures", Nature Physics 14, 396 (2018).
See our press release and News & Views in Nature Physics - T. Cohen, K. Murase, N. L. Rodd, B. R. Safdi, and Y. Soreq, "Gamma-Ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube", Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 021102 (2017).
- K. Murase and E. Waxman, "Constraining high-energy cosmic neutrino sources: Implications and prospects", Phys. Rev. D, 94, 103006 (2016).
- K. Murase, D. Guetta, and M. Ahlers, "Hidden Cosmic-Ray Accelerators as an Origin of TeV-PeV Cosmic Neutrinos", Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 071101 (2016).
See our press release - K. Murase, R. Laha, S. Ando, and M. Ahlers, "Testing the Dark Matter Scenario for PeV Neutrinos Observed in IceCube", Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 071301 (2015).
Selected as an Editorial Suggestion - M. Bustamante, P. Baerwald, K. Murase, and W. Walter, "Neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from
multiple internal shocks in gamma-ray bursts", Nature Communications, 6, 6783 (2015).
See our press release - K. Murase, Y. Inoue, and C. D. Dermer, "Diffuse neutrino intensity from the inner jets of active galactic nuclei: Impacts of external photon fields and the blazar sequence", Phys. Rev. D, 90, 023007 (2014).
- K. Murase, M. Ahlers, and B. C. Lacki, "Testing the hadronuclear origin of PeV neutrinos observed with IceCube", Phys. Rev. D Rapid Communications, 88, 121301 (2013).
- K. Kashiyama, K. Murase, and P. Meszaros, "Neutron-Proton-Converter Acceleration Mechanism at Subphotospheres of Relativistic Outflows", Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 131103 (2013).
- K. Murase, K. Kashiyama, and P. Meszaros, "Subphotospheric Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Role of Neutrons", Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 131102 (2013).
- K. Murase and K. Ioka, "TeV-PeV Neutrinos from Low-Power Gamma-Ray Burst Jets inside Stars", Phys. Rev. Lett., 111, 121102 (2013).
Research Interests
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (neutrinos, gamma rays, cosmic rays, gravitational waves, and dark matter)
High-Energy Astrophysics (multi-messenger study of extreme astrophysical objects)
Research Group Members
Current Postdocs: Shigeo Kimura
Current Graduate Students: Yu Jiang, Chengchao Yuan, Zhaowei Zhang
Current Undergraduate Students: Michael Toomey
Past Postdocs: Ian Shoemaker (South Dakota), Foteini Oikonomou (TU Munchen)
Past Graduate Students: Nicholas Senno (w. Prof. Meszaros)