About Kei Nagai

Kei Nagai joined the Department of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Memphis 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)

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