Kimiko YamashitaAssistant Professor

■Researcher basic information

Organization

  • College of Science Department of Sciences Physics
  • Graduate School of Science and Engineering(Master's Program) Major in Quantum Bean Science
  • Faculty of Basic Natural Science Domain of Physics

Research Areas

  • Natural sciences, Theoretical studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics

Degree

  • 2018年03月 博士(理学)(お茶の水女子大学)
  • 2015年03月 修士(理学)(お茶の水女子大学)

Educational Background

  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018, Ochanomizu University, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Physics
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015, Ochanomizu University, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Physics
  • Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2006, Yamagata University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics

Career

  • Apr. 2023 - Present, Ibaraki University, Assistant Professor
  • Mar. 2023 - Mar. 2023, Chung-Ang University, Visiting Scientist
  • Oct. 2021 - Feb. 2023, Chung-Ang University, Brain Pool program postdoctoral fellow
  • Sep. 2019 - Sep. 2021, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Research Assistant
  • Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2019, National Tsing Hua University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Apr. 2018 - Jul. 2018, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, The thematic group 2: “Dark Physics of the Universe”, Postdoc Researcher
  • Nov. 2016 - May 2017, LPSC Grenoble, Visitor
  • Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2015, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Visitor

Member History

  • Apr. 2024 - Present, SSH high school and university connection committee member, Ibaraki prefectural Mito second high school

■Research activity information

Paper

  • Higgs-Portal Stueckelberg Dark Matter
    Antonio De Felice; Takehiro Ogura; Shinji Tsujikawa; Kimiko Yamashita, We study dark photon dark matter $X$ associated with a dark $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry. To evade laboratory and cosmological constraints on kinetic mixing with the Standard Model $U(1)_Y$, we assign a $Z_2$-odd dark parity to $X$ that forbids such mixing. The leading interactions then arise from gauge-invariant dimension-6 Higgs-portal operators, including both parity-even and parity-odd terms. We assume that the dark matter mass is generated via the Stueckelberg mechanism, which also induces a dimension-4 Higgs-portal operator $(H^\dagger H) X_μX^μ$ and additional dimension-6 operators. We investigate freeze-in production of $X$ from Higgs-pair annihilations after reheating, incorporating both gauge-invariant and Stueckelberg-induced operators. First, we consider the case in which the Wilson coefficients of the gauge-invariant dimension-6 operators, $C$ and $\tilde{C}$, are of order unity. We find that, in this case, the Stueckelberg contributions remain subdominant in dark matter production. This result follows from the requirement that the effective scale implied by perturbative unitarity must exceed the cutoff scale of the effective field theory. Next, we explore a more general situation in which $C$ and $\tilde{C}$ are smaller than unity. In this second case, Stueckelberg-induced operators can become comparable and lead to distinctive features in the dark-matter parameter space, including interference effects. For both cases, we show that there exists a wide parameter space consistent with the observed dark matter relic density.
    preprint, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter
    Kimiko Yamashita, Corresponding, We consider gravitational positivity bounds on the Higgs-portal scalar dark matter model. Applying gravitational positivity bounds with dark matter forward scattering process $ϕϕ\to ϕϕ$ to this DM model, we find that the new physics, besides the Higgs-portal dark matter physics, arises at an energy scale lower than $10^{10}$ GeV without the dark matter self-coupling. With the existence of the dark matter self-coupling, the hierarchical order of magnitude between the self-coupling $λ_ϕ$ and the Higgs-portal coupling $λ_{hϕ}$ changes the game. With $λ_ϕ/λ_{hϕ} = 10^{12}$, the GUT scale cutoff can realize. In this case, the dark freezeout scenario is possible for realizing the relic density of dark matter in the Universe. We find that $λ_ϕ \sim O(1)$, $λ_{hϕ} \sim 10^{-12}$, and sub-GeV dark matter is implicated for the GUT scale cutoff possibility with the Higgs-portal dark matter model., arXiv
    preprint, Apr. 2025
  • Standard Model anomalies and vacuum stability for lepton portals with extra U(1) symmetry
    Carlo Branchina; Hyun Min Lee; Kimiko Yamashita, Recently, the experimental values of the muon $(g-2)_\mu$ and of the $W$
    boson mass $m_{_W}$ have both indicated significant deviations from the SM
    predictions, motivating the exploration of extensions with extra particles and
    symmetries. We revisit a lepton portal model with $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry where
    an extra Higgs doublet, a scalar singlet and one $SU(2)_L$ singlet vector-like
    fermion are introduced. In this model, $(g-2)_\mu$ can be explained by extra
    one-loop contributions from the vector-like lepton and the $Z'$ boson, whereas
    $m_{_W}$ can be increased by a tree-level mixing between the $Z$ and $Z'$.
    Setting the $Z'$ and lepton couplings at low energies to account for the SM
    anomalies, we perform a Renormalization Group analysis to investigate on the
    high-energy behaviour of the model, in particular on the issue of vacuum
    stability. We find that in the alignment limit for the two Higgs doublets, the
    Landau pole and the scale where perturbativity is lost are of order
    $10-100\,{\rm TeV}$, not far from the scales experimentally reached so far, and
    sensibly lower than the stability scale. We show how the Landau pole can be
    increased up to $\sim10^9\,{\rm GeV}$ in a misaligned scenario where the
    experimental anomalies are still accommodated and a positive shift of the Higgs
    quartic coupling to improve stability can be achieved.
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 18 Mar. 2025, [Reviewed]
  • Higgs-portal spin-1 dark matter with parity-violating interaction
    Kimiko Yamashita, Corresponding
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 29 Oct. 2024, [Reviewed]
  • Positivity bounds on Higgs-portal freeze-in dark matter
    Seong-Sik Kim; Hyun Min Lee; Kimiko Yamashita, Abstract

    We consider the relic density and positivity bounds for freeze-in scalar dark matter with general Higgs-portal interactions up to dimension-8 operators. When dimension-4 and dimension-6 Higgs-portal interactions are proportional to mass squares for Higgs or scalar dark matter in certain microscopic models such as massive graviton, radion or general metric couplings with conformal and disformal modes, we can take the dimension-8 derivative Higgs-portal interactions to be dominant for determining the relic density via the 2-to-2 thermal scattering of the Higgs fields after reheating. We discuss the implications of positivity bounds for microscopic models. First, massive graviton or radion mediates attractive forces between Higgs and scalar dark matter and the resultant dimension-8 operators respect the positivity bounds. Second, the disformal couplings in the general metric allow for the subluminal propagation of graviton but violate the positivity bounds. We show that there is a wide parameter space for explaining the correct relic density from the freeze-in mechanism and the positivity bounds can curb out the dimension-8 derivative Higgs-portal interactions nontrivially in the presence of the similar dimension-8 self-interactions for Higgs and dark matter., Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 20 Nov. 2023, [Reviewed]
  • The SU(2)$_{D}$ lepton portals for muon g - 2, W boson mass and dark matter
    Seong-Sik Kim; Hyun Min Lee; Adriana Guerrero Menkara; Kimiko Yamashita, Stichting SciPost
    SciPost Physics Proceedings, 04 Jul. 2023, [Reviewed]
  • Positivity bounds on Higgs-Portal dark matter
    Seong Sik Kim; Hyun Min Lee; Kimiko Yamashita
    Journal of High Energy Physics, Jun. 2023, [Reviewed]
  • Moments for positivity: using Drell-Yan data to test positivity bounds and reverse-engineer new physics
    Xu Li; Ken Mimasu; Kimiko Yamashita; Chengjie Yang; Cen Zhang; Shuang-Yong Zhou
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 17 Oct. 2022, [Reviewed]
  • SU (2)D lepton portals for the muon g-2, W -boson mass, and dark matter
    Seong Sik Kim; Hyun Min Lee; Adriana G. Menkara; Kimiko Yamashita
    Physical Review D, 01 Jul. 2022, [Reviewed]
  • A model of vector-like leptons for the muon g- 2 and the W boson mass
    Lee, H.M.; Yamashita, K.
    European Physical Journal C, 2022, [Reviewed]
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R 2 inflation model
    Aoki; S.; Lee; H.M.; Menkara; A.G.; Yamashita; K.
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, [Reviewed]
  • Searching for monopoles via monopolium multiphoton decays
    Neil D. Barrie; Akio Sugamoto; Matthew Talia; Kimiko Yamashita
    Nuclear Physics B, Nov. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT: a case study in transversal electroweak gauge-boson scatterings
    Kimiko Yamashita; Cen Zhang; Shuang-Yong Zhou
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 18 Jan. 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Seesaw lepton masses and muon g- 2 from heavy vector-like leptons
    Lee; H.M.; Song; J.; Yamashita; K., Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
    Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 2021, [Reviewed]
  • Search for vector-mediated dark matter at the LHC with forward proton tagging
    Gi-Chol Cho; Kimiko Yamashita; Miki Yonemura
    Physical Review D, 18 Feb. 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Higgs inflation, vacuum stability, and leptogenesis
    Barrie; N.D.; Sugamoto; A.; Takeuchi; T.; Yamashita; K.
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, [Reviewed]
  • The effects of coating culture dishes with collagen on fibroblast cell shape and swirling pattern formation
    Hashimoto; K.; Yamashita; K.; Enoyoshi; K.; Dahan; X.; Takeuchi; T.; Kori; H.; Gotoh; M.
    Journal of Biological Physics, 2020, [Reviewed]
  • Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter
    Choi; S.-M.; Kang; Y.-J.; Lee; H.M.; Yamashita; K.
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019, [Reviewed]
  • Vacuum magnetic birefringence experiment as a probe of the dark sector
    Fan; X.; Kamioka; S.; Yamashita; K.; Asai; S.; Sugamoto; A.
    Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2018, [Reviewed]
  • LHC searches for top-philic Kaluza-Klein graviton
    Geng; C.-Q.; Huang; D.; Yamashita; K.
    Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Pendulum Leptogenesis
    Bamba; K.; Barrie; N.D.; Sugamoto; A.; Takeuchi; T.; Yamashita; K.
    Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Ratchet baryogenesis and an analogy with the forced pendulum
    Bamba; K.; Barrie; N.D.; Sugamoto; A.; Takeuchi; T.; Yamashita; K., World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
    Modern Physics Letters A, 2018, [Reviewed]
  • Simplified dark matter models with a spin-2 mediator at the LHC
    Kraml; S.; Laa; U.; Mawatari; K.; Yamashita; K.
    European Physical Journal C, 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Generalized Heisenberg-Euler formula in Abelian gauge theory with parity violation
    Yamashita; K.; Fan; X.; Kamioka; S.; Asai; S.; Sugamoto; A.
    Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2017, [Reviewed]
  • Construction of a model of monopolium and its search via multiphoton channels at LHC
    Barrie; Neil D.; Sugamoto; Akio; Yamashita; Kimiko
    PTEP, 01 Nov. 2016, [Reviewed]
  • Quantification of Interaction between Human Skin Fibroblasts and Collagen by Image Texture Analysis               
    Md. K. Bashar; K. Hashimoto; K. Enoyoshi; K. Yamashita; M. Gotoh; H. Kori
    J. of Bioinformatics and Neuroscience (JBINS), Dec. 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Pattern Quantification from Human Skin Fibroblast Images Image quantification for fibroblast chracterization
    Md. Khayrul Bashar; Kei Hashimoto; Kanako Enoyoshi; Kimiko Yamashita; Mari Gotoh; Hiroshi Kori
    2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT INFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (ICIIBMS), 2015, [Reviewed]
  • Search for Kaluza-Klein gravitons in extra dimension models via forward detectors at the LHC
    Cho; G.-C.; Kono; T.; Mawatari; K.; Yamashita; K.
    Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2015, [Reviewed]

MISC

  • The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update
    Aliberti, R.; Aoyama, T.; Balzani, E.; Bashir, A.; Benton, G.; Bijnens, J.; Biloshytskyi, V.; Blum, T.; Boito, D.; Bruno, M.; Budassi, E.; Burri, S.; Cappiello, L.; Carloni Calame, C.M.; Cè, M.; Cirigliano, V.; Clarke, D.A.; Colangelo, G.; Cotrozzi, L.; Cottini, M.; Danilkin, I.; Davier, M.; Della Morte, M.; Denig, A.; DeTar, C.; Druzhinin, V.; Eichmann, G.; El-Khadra SC, A.X.; Estrada, E.; Feng, X.; Fischer, C.S.; Frezzotti, R.; Gagliardi, G.; Gérardin, A.; Ghilardi, M.; Giusti, D.; Golterman, M.; Gonzàlez-Solís, S.; Gottlieb, S.; Gruber, R.; Guevara, A.; Gülpers, V.; Gurgone, A.; Hagelstein, F.; Hayakawa, M.; Hermansson-Truedsson, N.; Hoecker, A.; Hoferichter SC, M.; Hoid, B.-L.; Holz, S.; Hudspith, R.J.; Ignatov, F.; Jin, L.; Kalntis, N.; Kanwar, G.; Keshavarzi, A.; Komijani, J.; Koponen, J.; Kuberski, S.; Kubis, B.; Kupich, A.; Kupść, A.; Lahert, S.; Laporta, S.; Lehner SC, C.; Lellmann, M.; Lellouch, L.; Leplumey, T.; Leutgeb, J.; Lin, T.; Liu, Q.; Logashenko, I.; London, C.Y.; Castro, G. López; Lüdtke, J.; Lusiani, A.; Lutz, A.; Mager, J.; Malaescu, B.; Maltman, K.; Marinković, M.K.; Márquez, J.; Masjuan, P.; Meyer, H.B.; Mibe SC, T.; Miller, N.; Miramontes, A.; Miranda, A.; Montagna, G.; Müller, S.E.; Neil, E.T.; Nesterenko, A.V.; Nicrosini, O.; Nio, M.; Nomura, D.; Paltrinieri, J.; Parato, L.; Parrino, J.; Pascalutsa, V.; Passera, M.; Peris, S.; Petit Rosàs, P.; Piccinini, F.; Pilato, R.N.; Polat, L.; Portelli, A.; Portillo-Sánchez, D.; Procura, M.; Punzi, L.; Raya, K.; Rebhan, A.; Redmer, C.F.; Roberts SC, B.L.; Rodríguez-Sánchez, A.; Roig, P.; de Elvira, J. Ruiz; Sánchez-Puertas, P.; Signer, A.; Sitison, J.W.; Stamen, D.; Stöckinger, D.; Stöckinger-Kim, H.; Stoffer, P.; Sue, Y.; Tavella, P.; Teubner SC, T.; Toelstede, J.-N.; Toledo, G.; Torres Bobadilla, W.J.; Tsang, J.T.; Ucci, F.P.; Ulrich, Y.; Van de Water, R.S.; Venanzoni, G.; Volkov, S.; von Hippel, G.; Wang, G.; Wenger, U.; Wittig SC, H.; Wright, A.; Zaid, E.; Zanke, M.; Zhang, Z.; Zillinger, M.; Alexandrou, C.; Altherr, A.; Anderson, M.; Aubin, C.; Bacchio, S.; Beltrame, P.; Beltran, A.; Boyle, P.; Campos Plasencia, I.; Caprini, I.; Chakraborty, B.; Chanturia, G.; Crivellin, A.; Czarnecki, A.; Dai, L.-Y.; Dave, T.; Del Debbio, L.; Demory, K.; Djukanovic, D.; Draper, T.; Driutti, A.; Endo, M.; Erben, F.; Ferraby, K.; Finkenrath, J.; Flower, L.; Francis, A.; Gámiz, E.; Gogniat, J.; Grebe, A.V.; Gündogdu, S.; Hansen, M.T.; Hashimoto, S.; Hayashii, H.; Hertzog, D.W.; Heuser, L.A.; Hostetler, L.; Hou, X.T.; Huang, G.S.; Iijima, T.; Inami, K.; Jüttner, A.; Kitano, R.; Knecht, M.; Kollatzsch, S.; Kronfeld, A.S.; Lenz, T.; Levati, G.; Li, Q.M.; Liao, Y.P.; Libby, J.; Liu, K.F.; Lubicz, V.; Lynch, M.T.; Lytle, A.T.; Ma, J.L.; Miura, K.; Möhling, K.; Muskalla, J.; Noël, F.; Ottnad, K.; Paradisi, P.; Peterson, C.T.; Pich, A.; Pitelis, S.; Plura, S.; Price, A.; Radic, D.; Radzhabov, A.; Risch, A.; Romiti, S.; Sahoo, S.; Sannino, F.; Schäfer, H.; Schelhaas, Y.; Serednyakov, S.I.; Shekhovtsova, O.; Simone, J.N.; Simula, S.; Solodov, E.P.; Stokes, F.M.; Vanderhaeghen, M.; Vaquero, A.; Vestergaard, N.; Wang, W.P.; Wąs, Z.; Yamashita, K.; Yang, Y.B.; Yoshioka, T.; Yuan, C.Z.; Zhevlakov, A.S.
    Phys.Rept., Nov. 2025, [Reviewed]
  • A Window into the Laboratory: My Research Journey (in Japanese)               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Sūri kagaku = Mathematical sciences, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Reinterpretation and preservation of data and analyses in HEP
    Jon Butterworth; Sabine Kraml; Harrison Prosper; Andy Buckley; Louie Corpe; Cristinel Diaconu; Mark Goodsell; Philippe Gras; Martin Habedank; Clemens Lange; Kati Lassila-Perini; André Lessa; Rakhi Mahbubani; Judita Mamužić; Zach Marshall; Thomas McCauley; Humberto Reyes-Gonzalez; Krzysztof Rolbiecki; Sezen Sekmen; Giordon Stark; Graeme Watt; Jonas Würzinger; Shehu AbdusSalam; Aytul Adiguzel; Amine Ahriche; Ben Allanach; Mohammad M. Altakach; Jack Y. Araz; Alexandre Arbey; Saiyad Ashanujjaman; Volker Austrup; Emanuele Bagnaschi; Sumit Banik; Csaba Balazs; Daniele Barducci; Philip Bechtle; Samuel Bein; Nicolas Berger; Tisa Biswas; Fawzi Boudjema; Jamie Boyd; Carsten Burgard; Jackson Burzynski; Jordan Byers; Giacomo Cacciapaglia; Cécile Caillol; Orhan Cakir; Christopher Chang; Gang Chen; Andrea Coccaro; Yara do Amaral Coutinho; Andreas Crivellin; Leo Constantin; Giovanna Cottin; Hridoy Debnath; Mehmet Demirci; Juhi Dutta; Joe Egan; Carlos Erice Cid; Farida Fassi; Matthew Feickert; Arnaud Ferrari; Pavel Fileviez Perez; Dillon S. Fitzgerald; Roberto Franceschini; Benjamin Fuks; Lorenz Gärtner; Kirtiman Ghosh; Andrea Giammanco; Alejandro Gomez Espinosa; Letícia M. Guedes; Giovanni Guerrieri; Christian Gütschow; Abdelhamid Haddad; Mahsana Haleem; Hassane Hamdaoui; Sven Heinemeyer; Lukas Heinrich; Ben Hodkinson; Gabriela Hoff; Cyril Hugonie; Sihyun Jeon; Adil Jueid; Deepak Kar; Anna Kaczmarska; Venus Keus; Michael Klasen; Kyoungchul Kong; Joachim Kopp; Michael Krämer; Manuel Kunkel; Bertrand Laforge; Theodota Lagouri; Eric Lancon; Peilian Li; Gabriela Lima Lichtenstein; Yang Liu; Steven Lowette; Jayita Lahiri; Siddharth Prasad Maharathy; Farvah Mahmoudi; Vasiliki A. Mitsou; Sanjoy Mandal; Michelangelo Mangano; Kentarou Mawatari; Peter Meinzinger; Manimala Mitra; Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi; Sahana Narasimha; Siavash Neshatpour; Jacinto P. Neto; Mark Neubauer; Mohammad Nourbakhsh; Giacomo Ortona; Rojalin Padhan; Orlando Panella; Timothée Pascal; Brian Petersen; Werner Porod; Farinaldo S. Queiroz; Shakeel Ur Rahaman; Are Raklev; Hossein Rashidi; Patricia Rebello Teles; Federico Leo Redi; Jürgen Reuter; Tania Robens; Abhishek Roy; Subham Saha; Ahmetcan Sansar; Kadir Saygin; Nikita Schmal; Jeffrey Shahinian; Sukanya Sinha; Ricardo C. Silva; Tim Smith; Tibor Šimko; Andrzej Siodmok; Ana M. Teixeira; Tamara Vázquez Schröder; Carlos Vázquez Sierra; Yoxara Villamizar; Wolfgang Waltenberger; Peng Wang; Martin White; Kimiko Yamashita; Ekin Yoruk; Xuai Zhuang
    31 Mar. 2025

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Particle Dark Matter and Its Connection to the Early Universe
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Invited Lecturer for Waseda Univ. Tsujikawa–Yamada Group Spring Camp, Feb. 2026, [Invited]
    20260222, 20260223
  • Parity Violation in Spin-1 Dark Matter with EFT Descriptions
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 2026 Chung-Ang University Beyond the Standard Model Focus Workshop (CAU BSM Focus), 09 Feb. 2026, [Invited]
    20260209, 20260212
  • Higgs-Portal Spin-1 Dark Matter with Parity-Violating Interaction
    Kimiko Yamashita
    New Physics from Gravitational Waves 2025, 19 Sep. 2025
    20250919, 20250920
  • Higgs-portal spin-1 dark matter with parity-violating interaction
    Kimiko Yamashita
    80th Annual Meeting(2025), The Physical Society of Japan, 19 Sep. 2025
    20250916, 20250919
  • Higgs-Portal Spin-1 Dark Matter with Parity-Violating Interaction
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Conferences on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY) 2025, 19 Aug. 2025
    20250818, 20250823
  • Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Kavli IPMU, 11 Jun. 2025, [Invited]
  • Vector-like lepton model for the muon g-2 and dark matter
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 29th muon g-2/EDM collaboration meeting, 11 Dec. 2024
    20241211, 20241213
  • Higgs-Portal Spin-1 Dark Matter with Parity-Violating Interaction
    Kimiko Yamashita
    COSMO'24, 22 Oct. 2024
    20241021, 20241025
  • High Energy Physics and Dark Matter (in Japanese)
    山下 公子
    Seminar at Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ., 28 Jun. 2024, [Invited]
  • Real Scalar Dark Matter and UV Completion
    Kimiko Yamashita
    CosmoGravitas, 14 Jun. 2024, [Invited]
    20240610, 20240614
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Future is Flavourful, 05 Jun. 2024
    20240604, 20240606
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Seong-Sik Kim
    6th Mini-Workshop on "CHIRALITY IN THE UNIVERSE BEYOND THE ELECTROWEAK SCALE", 27 Apr. 2024
    20240426, 20240429
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 37th Regular Meeting of the New Higgs Working Group, 20 Jan. 2024
    20240120, 20240120
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Osaka Univ., 14 Nov. 2023, [Invited]
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2023), 07 Nov. 2023
    20231107, 20231110
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    山下 公子
    Online seminar at Shinshu Univ., 31 Oct. 2023, [Invited]
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    26th International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology (COSMO'23), 14 Sep. 2023, Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM-CSIC)
    20230911, 20230915
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Progress in Particles Physics 2023, 28 Aug. 2023, [Invited]
    20230828, 20230901
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Kickoff Workshop (Searching for New Particles using Gravitational Waves), 12 Jun. 2023
    20230612, 20230612
  • Positivity Bounds on Higgs-Portal Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    HPNP2023 - The 6th International Workshop on "Higgs as a Probe of New Physics 2023", 08 Jun. 2023
    20230605, 20230609
  • Positivity bounds on Higgs-portal dark matter
    Kimiko Yamashita
    2023 Chung-Ang University Beyond the Standard Model Workshop, 21 Feb. 2023, Shuntaro Aoki (CAU), Carlo Branchina (CAU), Sookyung Choi (CAU), Chang Hyon Ha (CAU), Yu Seon Jeong (CAU), Gungwon Kang (CAU), Siyeon Kim (CAU), Hyun Min Lee (CAU), Seong Chan Park (Yonsei), Kimiko Yamashita (CAU)
    20230220, 20230224
  • Moments for positivity: using Drell-Yan data to test positivity bounds and reverse-engineer new physics               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2023 Spring Meeting, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Boson Dark Matter Models               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    2022 CAU High Energy Physics Center Workshop, 22 Dec. 2022
    20221222, 20221223
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R^2 inflation model               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    64th OMEG-SSANP Workshop, 12 Dec. 2022
    20221212, 20221212
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R^2 inflation model               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    9th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, 15 Nov. 2022
    20221114, 20221118
  • Positivity Bounds for Scalar Dark Matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Workshop on Physics of Dark Cosmos: dark matter, dark energy, and all, 22 Oct. 2022
    20221021, 20221023
  • Model for Muon g-2 and the W Boson Mass               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    KPS 70th Anniversary and 2022 Fall Meeting, 19 Oct. 2022
    20221018, 20221021
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R^2 inflation model               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Waseda Univ. (online), 07 Oct. 2022, [Invited]
  • Seesaw vector-like leptons for muon g-2, W boson mass, and dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Progress in Particle Physics 2022 (PPP2022), 29 Aug. 2022
    20220829, 20220902
  • A model of vector-like leptons for the muon g−2 and the W boson mass               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Asia Pacific Physics Conference 15 (APPC15, ONLINE), 23 Aug. 2022
    20220821, 20220826
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R^2 inflation model               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Hiroshima Univ., 12 Aug. 2022, [Invited]
  • Seesaw vector-like leptons for muon g − 2, W boson mass, and dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 27th International Symposium on Particle Physics, String Theory, and Cosmology (PASCOS2022), 25 Jul. 2022
    20220725, 20220729
  • Reheating and dark matter freeze-in in the Higgs-R2 inflation model               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    2nd NCTS TG2.1 Hsinchu Hub Workshop: The Future is illuminating (Virtual), 28 Jun. 2022
    20220628, 20220630
  • Seesaw lepton masses and muon g-2 from heavy vector-like leptons               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    2022 Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting (ONLINE), 20 Apr. 2022
    20220420, 20220422
  • Seesaw lepton masses and muon g-2 from heavy vector-like leptons               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    2021 CAU High Energy Physics Center Workshop, Dec. 2021
    20211222, 20211223
  • Seesaw lepton masses and muon g-2 from heavy vector-like leptons               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Workshop on particle physics and cosmology 2021, 27 Nov. 2022
    20211126, 20211128
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT: a case study in transversal electroweak gauge-boson scatterings               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Recent development of beyond the standard model, 19 Oct. 2022
    20211018, 20211019
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Summer camp on ILC accelerator, physics and detectors 2021 (ONLINE), 24 Sep. 2021
    20210921, 20210924
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Kyushu Univ. (online), 09 Jul. 2021, [Invited]
  • 1st EFT study meeting               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    1st EFT study meeting, 01 Jul. 2021
    20210630, 20210702
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT: a case study in transversal electroweak gauge-boson scatterings               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 26th International Symposium on Particle Physics, String Theory, and Cosmology (PASCOS2021, ONLINE), 18 Jun. 2021
    20210614, 20210618
  • Elastic positivity vs extremal positivity bounds in SMEFT               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Kyoto Univ., 26 May 2021, [Invited]
  • Higgs Inflation, Vacuum Stability, and Leptogenesis               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 5th International Workshop on “Higgs as a Probe of New Physics” Special Edition 2021 (HPNP2021, ONLINE), 25 Mar. 2021
    20210325, 20210327
  • Higgs Inflation, Vacuum Stability, and Leptogenesis               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan Annual (76th) Meeting (ONLINE), 13 Mar. 2021
    20210312, 20210315
  • Higgs Inflation, Vacuum Stability, and Leptogenesis,               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Professor Chao-Qiang Geng online workshop (Recent development of beyond the standard model), 08 Dec. 2022
    20201207, 20201208
  • Higgs Inflation, Vacuum Stability, and Leptogenesis               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Chung-Ang Univ. (online), 12 Nov. 2020
  • SMEFT Meets UV Completion with Analyticity and Unitarity               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2020 Autumn Meeting (ONLINE), 15 Sep. 2020
    20200914, 20200917
  • Baryogenesis mechanism from the dynamics of a rotating forced pendulum               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Iwate Univ., 29 Jun. 2020
  • SMEFT meets UV completion with Analyticity and Unitarity               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Tokyo Univ., 28 Feb. 2020
  • SMEFT Meets UV Completion with Analyticity and Unitarity               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2020), 18 Feb. 2020
    20200218, 20200221
  • Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    International joint workshop on the Standard Model and beyond, 17 Oct. 2019
    20191014, 20191017
  • LHC Searches for Top-philic Kaluza-Klein Graviton               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The thirteenth particle physics phenomenology workshop, 05 Jun. 2019
    20190603, 20190606
  • Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Chung Yuan Christian Univ., 04 Jun. 2019, [Invited]
  • Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at National Chiao Tung Univ., 28 May 2019, [Invited]
  • Unitary inflaton as decaying dark matter               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), 24 May 2019
  • Pendulum Leptogenesis               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Chung-Ang Univ., 22 May 2019, [Invited]
  • LHC Searches for Kaluza-Klein Graviton Decaying into SM/DM particles               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at National Central Univ., 24 Apr. 2019, [Invited]
  • LHC Searches for Kaluza-Klein Graviton Decaying into SM/DM particles               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at National Taiwan Univ., 14 Jan. 2019, [Invited]
  • LHC Searches for Kaluza-Klein Graviton Decaying into SM/DM particles               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2018 winter) and 3rd KIAS-NCTS-KEK workshop on Particle Physics Phenomenology, 04 Dec. 2018, [Invited]
    20181204, 20181208
  • LHC Searches for Kaluza-Klein Graviton Decaying into SM/DM particles               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Chung-Ang Univ., 15 Nov. 2018, [Invited]
  • LHC Searches for Kaluza-Klein Graviton               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at National Chiao Tung Univ., 16 Oct. 2018, [Invited]
  • Pendulum Leptogenesis               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2018 Autumn Meeting, 14 Sep. 2018
    20180914, 20180917
  • Collective Flows of Asymmetric Dumbbells               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2018 Autumn Meeting, 11 Sep. 2018
    20180909, 20180912
  • Search for Dark Neutrino via Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Kavli IPMU, 04 Apr. 2018
  • Clemmow-Mullaly-Allis (CMA) Diagram for Electromagnetic Waves in the Vacuum               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan Annual (73rd) Meeting, 25 Mar. 2018
    20180322, 20180325
  • Search for Dark Neutrino via Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2018),, 16 Feb. 2018
    20180213, 20180216
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Joint NTHU/NCTS theory seminar, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at National Taiwan Univ., 18 Dec. 2017
  • Searching for fermions with parity-violating interactions via the hidden U(1) gauge field to photon by the vacuum birefringence experiment, and the EFT Lagrangian of 4-photon fields               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Maskawa Institute for Science and Culture in Kyoto Sangyo Univ., 20 Nov. 2017, [Invited]
  • Simplified dark matter models with a spin-2 mediator at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Osaka-Workshop 2017, 13 Nov. 2017
    20171111, 20171113
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at IBS-CTPU, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), 25 Sep. 2017
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at APCTP, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Simplified dark matter models with a spin-2 mediator at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2017 Autumn Meeting, 14 Sep. 2017
    20170912, 20170915
  • Generalized Heisenberg-Euler Formula in Abelian Gauge Theory with Parity Violation               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2017 Autumn Meeting, 13 Sep. 2017
    20170912, 20170915
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefrigence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Progress in Particle Physics 2017 (PPP2017), 03 Aug. 2017
    20170731, 20170804
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefrigence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Progress in Particle Physics 2017 (PPP2017), 03 Aug. 2017
    20170731, 20170804
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 13th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe, 11 Jul. 2017
    20170710, 20170714
  • Implications for the Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence Experiment from the Parity Violating Interactions between Fermionic Dark Matter and Extra U(1) Mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Saitama Univ., 07 Jul. 2017, [Invited]
  • Simplified dark matter models with a spin-2 mediator at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    LHCTheory ERC meeting, 24 Mar. 2017
    20170322, 20170324
  • Ratchet baryogenesis during reheating               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics (AEPSHEP 2016), 16 Oct. 2016
    20161012, 20161025
  • Dark matter constraints on simplified models with s-channel spin-2 mediators               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Third Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics(AEPSHEP 2016), 16 Oct. 2016
    20161012, 20161025
  • Comprehensive study on simplified DM models with a spin-2 mediator               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2016 Autumn Meeting, 21 Sep. 2016
    20160921, 20160924
  • Construction of a Model of Monopolium and its Search via Multi-Photon Channels at LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Progress in Particle Physics 2016 (PPP2016), 08 Sep. 2016
    20160905, 20160909
  • Ratchet Baryogenesis during Reheating               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan Annual (71st) Meeting, 21 Mar. 2016
    20160319, 20160322
  • Search for Kaluza-Klein gravitons in extra dimension models via forward detectors at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at LPSC Grenoble, 11 Mar. 2016
  • Ratchet baryogenesis during reheating               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 21 Oct. 2015
  • Ratchet baryogenesis during reheating
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 23rd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2015), 26 Aug. 2015
    20150823, 20150829
  • Search for Kaluza-Klein gravitons in extra dimension models via forward detectors at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    Seminar at Toyama Univ., 29 May 2015
  • Search for extra dimensions via forward detectors at the LHC               
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The Physical Society of Japan 2014 Autumn Meeting, 19 Sep. 2014
    20140918, 20140921
  • Search for extra dimensions via forward detectors at the LHC
    Kimiko Yamashita
    The 22nd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2015), 21 Jul. 2014
    20140721, 20140726

Courses

  • Research of Quantum Beam Science IV               
    Sep. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Elementary Particle Physics I               
    Jun. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Exercises in Physics I               
    Jun. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Research of Quantum Beam Science III               
    Apr. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Graduation Research               
    Apr. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Seminar on Foreign Textbook I               
    Apr. 2024 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Research of Quantum Beam Science II               
    Oct. 2023 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Exercises in Physics II               
    Oct. 2023 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Seminar on Foreign Textbook II               
    Sep. 2023 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Computational Exercises in Mathematical Physics/Quantum Beam Spectroscopy I               
    Sep. 2023 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Research of Quantum Beam Science I               
    Apr. 2023 - Present
    Ibaraki University
  • Physics Seminar               
    Oct. 2025 - Oct. 2025
    Ibaraki University
  • Introduction to Integrated Sciences               
    Apr. 2024 - Apr. 2024
    Ibaraki University
  • Exercises in Physics I               
    Apr. 2023 - Aug. 2023
    Ibaraki University

Affiliated academic society

  • Jun. 2014 - Present, The Physical Society of Japan
  • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2024, American Physical Society
  • Feb. 2022 - May 2023, The Korean Physical Society

Research Themes

Social Contribution Activities

  • High Energy Physics and Dark Matter (in Japanese)              
    lecturer
    Ibaraki Prefectural Hokota First High School, 08 Sep. 2025 - 08 Sep. 2025
  • Science Career Discovery Bus Tour for Junior and Senior High School Students: Physics Lab Visit              
    presenter
    Mito City Gender Equality Division, 29 Jul. 2025 - 29 Jul. 2025
  • Visiting Lab. (Physics): Science Tour at Science Department, Ibaraki University              
    presenter
    Ibaraki prefectural Mito second high school, Ibaraki Univ., 18 Apr. 2025 - 18 Apr. 2025
  • High Energy Physics and Dark Matter (in Japanese)              
    lecturer
    Ibaraki prefectural Mitsukaido high school, 28 Oct. 2024 - 28 Oct. 2024
  • High Energy Physics and Dark Matter (in Japanese)              
    lecturer
    Ibaraki prefectural Hokota first high school, 09 Sep. 2024 - 09 Sep. 2024
  • Visiting Lab. (Physics): Science Tour at Science Department, Ibaraki University              
    presenter
    SSH high school and university connection committee, Ibaraki prefectural Mito second high school, 19 Apr. 2024 - 19 Apr. 2024
  • 「Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory (TYL) スクール 理系女子キャンプ 2016」のパネラー              
    panelist
    日仏共同事業:大学共同利用機関法人高エネルギー加速器研究機構・Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory, Apr. 2016

Academic Contribution Activities

  • 10th International Symposium of Quantum Beam Science at Ibaraki University (ISQBS2025)               
    Planning etc
    Institute of Quantum Beam Science, Ibaraki University, 09 Oct. 2025 - 11 Oct. 2025
  • Theoretical Particle Physics Dark matter session chair
    Panel chair etc
    The Physical Society of Japan, 19 Sep. 2025 - 19 Sep. 2025
  • DM Session Chair: The Conferences on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY) 2025               
    Panel chair etc
    19 Aug. 2025 - 19 Aug. 2025
  • The 2nd NTHU and Ibaraki Univ. co-seminar (Physics)               
    Planning etc
    28 Nov. 2024 - 28 Nov. 2024
  • 27th New Physics Forum               
    Planning etc
    21 Nov. 2024 - 21 Nov. 2024
  • The first NTHU and Ibaraki Univ. co-seminar (Physics)               
    Planning etc
    30 Oct. 2024 - 30 Oct. 2024
  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP)               
    Peer review
    Jul. 2024 - Aug. 2024
  • Joint Workshop of Meeting on Physics at B factories & New Physics Forum               
    Planning etc
    New Physics Forum and Meeting on Physics at B Factories, 19 Jun. 2024 - 19 Jun. 2024
  • 2024 Chung-Ang University Beyond the Standard Model Workshop
    Panel chair etc
    Chung-Ang Univ., Seoul, Korea, 19 Feb. 2024 - 23 Feb. 2024
  • The European Physical Journal C               
    Peer review
    Jun. 2023 - Feb. 2024
  • 2023 Chung-Ang University Beyond the Standard Model Workshop
    Planning etc
    Shuntaro Aoki (CAU), Carlo Branchina (CAU), Sookyung Choi (CAU), Chang Hyon Ha (CAU), Yu Seon Jeong (CAU), Gungwon Kang (CAU), Siyeon Kim (CAU), Hyun Min Lee (CAU), Seong Chan Park (Yonsei), Kimiko Yamashita (CAU), Chung-Ang Univ., Seoul, Korea, 20 Feb. 2023 - 24 Feb. 2023
  • 2022 Chung-Ang University Beyond the Standard Model Workshop (ONLINE)
    Planning etc
    Chang Hyon Ha (CAU), Gungwon Kang (CAU), Hyun Min Lee (CAU), Shuntaro Aoki (CAU), Kimiko Yamashita (CAU), Chung-Ang Univ., Seoul, Korea, 07 Feb. 2022 - 10 Feb. 2022
  • Results in Physics               
    Peer review
    Apr. 2021 - Jun. 2021
  • KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2020)               
    Panel chair etc
    KEK, Japan, 18 Feb. 2020 - 21 Feb. 2020
  • The 5th International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Matter-antimatter Asymmetry               
    Panel chair etc
    Taiwan, 28 Dec. 2018 - 31 Dec. 2018