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Toyoko Orimoto
Associate Professor of Physics
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answering fundamental questions about the nature of our universe, CERN, experimental high-energy physics

Toyoko Orimoto for Northeastern Global News

Interior view of the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, showing intricate machinery and scaffolding inside the underground facility.

Northeastern physicists honored with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for unveiling secrets of the universe

Northeastern researchers honored for their role in exploring the building blocks of the universe at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

During CERN shutdown, Northeastern University physics professors work with global scientists to understand dark matter and other phenomena beyond the Standard Model

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.

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 pursuing a double major in journalism and biology. Science writing plays an important role in the intellectual community—it allows everyone with an interest in science to keep up with current developments by reading about […]

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.

3Qs: Doomsday predictions debunked

Toyoko Orimoto, an assistant professor of physics, says that we should be more concerned with climate change than judgment day, which the Mayan calendar predicts will take place on Friday.