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Nationality
  
South Korea

Name
  
Kim Sun-kee

Fields
  
Department of Physics

Alma mater
  
Korea University


Doctoral advisor
  
Kang Joo-sang

Residence
  
South Korea

Academic advisor
  
Kang Joo-sang

Kim Sun-kee

Institutions
  
Director, Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science

Notable awards
  
1991 SSC Fellow, TNRLC

Kim Sun-kee is a South Korean physicist. He is professor in Seoul National University and Director of Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science. He is the director of Korea Invisible Mass Search.

Contents

Education

  • 1979−1983: BS, Korea University
  • 1983−1985: MS, Korea University
  • 1985−1988: Ph.D. Korea University

    • Work

    Positions held

  • 1988−1990: Research Associate, KEK, Japan
  • 1990−1992: Senior Research Associate, Rutgers University
  • 1992−1996: Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
  • 1996−2002: Associate Professor, Seoul National University
  • 2002−present: Professor, Seoul National University
  • 2011−present: Director, Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science
  • 1995−1995: Visiting Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • 1999−1999: Visiting Scientist, KEK

    • Major research activities

  • 1985−1996: AMY experiment, TRISTAN, KEK e+e- collider experiment
  • 1990−1992: E799, Rare Kaon decay experiment, Fermilab
  • 1994−1998: D0 experiment, TEVATRON, Fermilab
  • 1994−2011: BELLE experiment, KEKB, KEK
  • 1996−2000: ATIC, balloon borne experiment, NASA
  • 2000−2011: KIMS dark matter search experiment (spokesperson), South Korea

    • Professional service activities

  • 1992−1994: Korea SSC committee
  • 1994−2001: Executive board, Belle Collaboration
  • 1996−1998: Investigators Consultative Group between Korea-NASA
  • 1998−2001: Organizing committee, World Wide Study on Physics and Detector at LC
  • 2000−2006: Director of Dark Matter Research Center
  • 2001−2002: Advisory committee, Proton Therapy Center at National Cancer Center
  • 2005−2009: Chair, Association of Korean High Energy Physicists
  • 2006−2012: Committee for the Promotion of Korea-CERN Collaboration, MEST
  • 2008−present: International Detector Advisory Group of ILC
  • 2009−2010: Chair, Particle Physics Division, Korean Physical Society
  • 2011−2011: Steering Committee for Heavy Ion Accelerator, MEST
  • 2012−2014: National Committee for Fusion Research, MEST
  • 2012−2014: R&D Policy Advisory Committee, National Fusion Research Institute

    • Awards

  • 1991: SSC Fellow, TNRLC
  • 2006: Koshiba prize, Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science, Japan
  • 2008: Scientist of the month, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea
  • 2008: SNU Award for Excellent Research

    • See also Selected list of publications Physics papers

    1. M.J. Lee at al., Measurement of the branching fractions and invariant mass distribution of the τ−→h−h+h−ντ decays, Phys. Rev. D 81, 113007, 2010.
    2. S.E. Lee et al., Improved measurement of time-dependent CP violation in B0→J/ψ π0 decays, Phys. Rev. D 77, 071101(R), 2008.
    3. H.S. Lee et al., Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99(9):091301, 2007.
    4. H.S. Lee et al., First limit on wimp cross section with low background CsI(Tl)crystal detector. Phys. Lett. B 633:201,2006., Phys. Lett. B 633:201-208, 2006.
    5. H. Yang et al., Observation of B+→K1(1270)+γ. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94:111802, 2005.
    6. S.H. Lee et al., Evidence for B0→π0π0, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91:261801, 2003.
    7. K. Abe et al., The determination of |Vcb| using the semileptonic decay 0→D∗+e−. Phys. Lett. B 526:247-257, 2002.
    8. K. Abe et al., Observation of large cp violation in the neutral b meson system. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87:091802, 2001.
    9. K. Abe et al., Measurement of inclusive production of neutral pions from Υ(4s) decays. Phys. Rev. D 64:072001, 2001.
    10. B. Abbott et al., Spin correlation in t production from p collisions at √s=1.8 TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85:256-261, 2000.
    11. S. Abachi et al., Observation of the top quark, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74:2632-2637, 1995
    12. H.S. Ahn et al., An experimental study of the process e+e−→e+e−μ+μ−, Phys. Lett. B 440:179-188, 1998.
    13. P. Krolak et al., A Limit on the lepton family number violating process π0→μ±e∓. FNAL-799 experiment, Phys. Lett. B 320:407-410, 1994.
    14. S.K. Kim et al., Search for the substructure of leptons in high-energy QED processes at TRISTAN, Phys. Lett. B 223:476, 1989.

    Instrumentation papers

    1. H.S. Lee, et al., Development of low-background CsI(Tl) crystals for WIMP search, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 571, 644, 2007.
    2. M.J. Hwang, et al., Development of Tin-loaded liquid scintillator the double beta decay experiment, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 570, 454, 2007.
    3. S. Belogurov et al., CaMoO4 scintillation crystal for the search of 100Mo double beta decay, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 52:1131-1135, 2005.
    4. Y.D. Kim et al., Inhibition of 137Cs contamination in cesium iodide, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 552:456-462, 2005
    5. O. Ganel et al., Beam tests of the balloon-borne atic experiment, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 552:409-419, 2005.
    6. H.J. Kim et al., Measurement of the neutron flux in the CPL underground laboratory and simulation study of neutron shielding for WIMP searches, Astropart. Phys. 20:549-557, 2004
    7. T.Y. Kim et al., Study of the unternal background of CsI(Tl) crystal detectors for dark matter search, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 500:337-344, 2003
    8. H.J. Kim et al., Test of CsI(Tl) crystals for the dark matter search, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 457, pp. 471–475, 2001
    9. H.J. Kim et al., A fast programmable trigger for isolated cluster counting in the BELLE experiment, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 457:634–639, 2001
    10. Y. Ohshima et al., Beam test of the CsI(Tl) calorimeter for the BELLE detector at the KEK B factory, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 380:517-523, 1996
    11. R.J. Tesarek et al., Performance of a diamond-tungsten sampling calorimeter, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 349:96-105, 1994
    12. . S.K. Kim et al., Development of diamond radiation detectors for SSC and LHC, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 315:39-42, 1992

    References

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