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Toyoko Orimoto All Experts

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise
  • answering fundamental questions about the nature of our universe
  • CERN
  • experimental high-energy physics
Contact
t.orimoto@neu.edu
617.373.2953

Toyoko Orimoto for Northeastern

  • Inside CERN, a research organization that runs the biggest particle physics lab on earth, a massive particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider has been hurling particles at one another, letting them smash together, and measuring such things as their momentum and energy levels. Pictured here is the CMS detector, one of four places on the accelerator where the particles collide. iStock Photo

    The next step in particle physics? To expand ‘the Lego block set of our universe’


    For decades, accelerators have crashed together particles at near-light speed to flesh out our understanding of matter and how the universe came to be. But some things, like dark matter, are still unexplained, intriguing scientists like Northeastern physics professors Toyoko Orimoto and Emanuela Barberis.

    • by Aria Bracci   June 25, 2019
  • The evolution of NUScience


    This is a guest blog post by Gwen Schanker, AMD/S’18, a writer and editor for the student-run magazine NUScience. She is…

    • by News@Northeastern   November 7, 2014
  • What’s next for particle physicists, post-Higgs?


    Assistant professor of physics Toyoko Orimoto received an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy to study physics beyond the Standard Model.

    • by Angela Herring   July 16, 2013

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