Bio

Ryotaro Watanabe

PhDfrom Osaka University, Japan

Born in Japan in 1985

Education

2013．03 Osaka University, Department of Physics, Ph.D.

2010．03 Osaka University, Department of Physics, Master of Science

2008．03 Tokyo University of Science, Department of Physics, Bachelor of Science

Position hold

Currently, Associate Professor at Central China Normal University

2020.11-2022.11 Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) sezione di Pisa, Italy, Postdoc

2018.9-2020.10 Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) sezione di Roma Tre, Italy, INFN fellow

2016.9-2018.8 Universite de Montreal, Canada, Postdoc

2014.4-2016.8 Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea, IBS research fellow

2013.4-2014.3 KEK, Japan, JSPS research fellow for young scientist

Researches

Phenomenology of high-energy physics. In particular, I have an exceptional ability to proceed to independent and collaborative researches on B physics and its connection with other phenomena, such as dark matter and collider physics, in order (i) to probe New Physics (NP) effects from experimental observables, (ii) to distinguish type of NP structure, and (iii) to reveal UV scenario of NP behind elementary particle phenomena.

I have 38 citable papers, 26 of which have been published, with a total citation count of 3,991 up to now (November 20, 2024). My h-index is 22. My personal INSPIRE link is here.(https://inspirehep.net/authors/1069162?ui-citation-summary=true).

Recently Published Articles (in the Past 4 Years)

Global fit to b -> c tau nu anomalies as of Spring 2024,

S. Iguro, T. Kitahara and R. Watanabe,

Physical Review D110, 075005 (2024) [arXiv:2405.06062 [hep-ph]]

Impact of Lambda_b -> Lambda_c tau nu measurement on new physics in b -> c tau nu transitions,

M. Fedele, M. Blanke, A. Crivellin, S.~Iguro, T. Kitahara, U. Nierste and R. Watanabe,

Physical Review D107, 055005 (2023) [arXiv:2211.14172 [hep-ph]]

Dark Matter abundance via thermal decays and leptoquark mediators,

B. Belfatto, D. Buttazzo, C. Gross, P. Panci, A. Strumia, N. Vignaroli, L. Vittorio, and R. Watanabe,

Journal of High Energy Physics 06, 084 (2022) [arXiv:2111.14808 [hep-ph]]

Non-resonant new physics search at the LHC for the b -> c tau nu anomalies,

M. Endo, S. Iguro, T. Kitahara, M. Takeuchi and R. Watanabe,

Journal of High Energy Physics 02, 106 (2022) [arXiv:2111.04748 [hep-ph]]

Testing Leptoquark/EFT in B -> D(*) l nu at the LHC,

S. Iguro, M. Takeuchi and R. Watanabe,

European Physical Journal C81, 406 (2021) [arXiv:2011.02486 [hep-ph]]

Bayesian fit analysis to full distribution data of B -> D(*) ell nu: |Vcb| determination and New Physics constraints,

S. Iguro and R. Watanabe,

Journal of High Energy Physics 08, 006 (2020) [arXiv:2004.10208 [hep-ph]]

HEPfit: a Code for the Combination of Indirect and Direct Constraints on High Energy Physics Models,

European Physical Journal C80, 456 (2020) [arXiv : 1910.14012 [hep-ph]]

D* polarization vs. RD(*) anomalies in the leptoquark models,

S. Iguro, T. Kitahara, Y. Omura, R. Watanabe and K. Yamamoto,

Journal of High Energy Physics 02, 194 (2019) [arXiv:1811.08899 [hep-ph]]

Combined Explanations of the b -> s mu+ mu- and b -> c tau nu Anomalies: a General Model Analysis,

J. Kumar, D. London and R. Watanabe,

Physical Review D99, 015007 (2019) [arXiv:1806.07403 [hep-ph]]