Publication

Reviewed Papers

2024

• "The Simons Observatory: Cryogenic half wave plate rotation mechanism for the small aperture telescopes"
  Kyohei Yamada, Yuki Sakurai, et al.
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 95, 024504, pp. 1-19 (2024).

  • DOI: 10.1063/5.0178066
• "Anti-reflection coating with mullite and Duroid for large-diameter cryogenic sapphire and alumina optics"
  Kana Sakaguri, Yuki Sakurai, et al.
  Applied Optics Vol. 63, Issue 6, pp. 1618-1627 (2024).

  • DOI: 10.1364/AO.515508
• "The Simons Observatory: Development and Optical Evaluation of Achromatic Half-Wave Plates"
  Junna Sugiyama, Tomoki Terasaki, Yuki Sakurai et al.
  J Low Temp Phys 214, pp. 173_181 (2024).

  • DOI: 10.1007/s10909-023-03036-3

2023

• "Impact of beam far side-lobe knowledge in the presence of foregrounds for LiteBIRD"
  C. Leloup, Y. Sakurai, et. al.
  (2023).
• "LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: Improving Sensitivity to Inflationary Gravitational Waves with Multitracer Delensing"
  T. Namikawa, Y. Sakurai et. al.
  (2023).
• "LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: A full-sky measurement of gravitational lensing of the CMB"
  A. I. Lonappan, Y. Sakurai, et. al.
  (2023).
• "Modeling TES Nonlinearity Induced by a Rotating HWP in a CMB Polarimeter"
  T. Ghigna, T. Matsumura, Y. Sakurai, R. Takaku, K. Komatsu, S. Sugiyama, Y. Hoshino & N. Katayam
  J Low Temp Phys (2023).

2022

• "Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey"
  A. J. Banday, Y. Sakurai, et. al., LiteBIRD Collaboration
  Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ptac 150 (2022).
• "Broadband Multi-layer Anti-reflection Coatings with Mullite and Duroid for Half-wave Plates and Alumina Filters for CMB Polarimetry"
  Kana Sakaguri, Masaya Hasegawa, Yuki Sakurai, Charles Hill, Akito Kusaka
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics volume 209 (2022).
• "Evaluation of the effect of gravity on the rotational loss of superconducting magnetic bearings for space applications"
  Satsuki Okumura, Takemi Onoue, Doa Ahmad, Yutaka Terao, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Yuki Sakurai, Tomotake Matsumura and Nobuhiko Katayama
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2323 012039 (2022).
• "Vibration characteristics of a continuously rotating superconducting magnetic bearing and potential influence to TES and SQUID"
  Shinya Sugiyama, Tommaso Ghigna, Yurika Hoshino, Nobuhiko Katayama, Satoru Katsuda, Kunimoto Komatsu, Tomotake Matsumura, Yuki Sakurai, Kosuke Sato, Ryota Takaku, Makoto Tashiro, Yukikatsu Terada for the LiteBIRD collaboration
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022).
• "Performance of a 200 mm Diameter Achromatic HWP with Laser-Ablated Sub-Wavelength Structures"
  R. Takaku, T. Ghigna, S. Hanany, Y. Hoshino, H. Ishino, N. Katayama, K. Komatsu, K. Konishi, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, T. Matsumura, H. Sakurai, Y. Sakurai, Q. Wen, N. Y. Yamasaki & J. Yumoto for the LiteBIRD collaboration
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022).
• "Sensitivity Modeling for LiteBIRD"
  Takashi Tasebe, Yuki Sakurai, et. al. for the LiteBIRD collaboration
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2022).
• "Mechanical strength and millimeter-wave transmittance spectrum of stacked sapphire plates bonded by sodium silicate solution"
  Takayuki Toda, Yuki Sakurai, Hirokazu Ishino, Tomotake Matsumura, Kunimoto Komatsu, Nobuhiko Katayama
  Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 8, 1, 014008 (2022).

2021

• "Large diameter millimeter-wave low-pass filter made of alumina with laser ablated anti-reflection coating"
  Ryota Takaku*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Optics Express Vol. 29, Issue 25, pp. 41745-41765 (2021).
• "Design of a frequency-independent optic axis Pancharatnam-based achromatic half-wave plate"
  Kunimoto Komatsu*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 7, 3, 034005 (2021).

2020

• "Half-meter Scale Superconducting Magnetic Bearing for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiments"
  Yuki Sakurai* , et. al.
  J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 1590, 1, 012060 (2020).
• "Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD"
  Hajime Sugai*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics 199, 3, 1107-1117 (2020).
• "Small Aperture Telescopes for the Simons Observatory"
  Aamir M. Ali*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics 200, 461_471 (2020).
• "Broadband, millimeter-wave anti-reflective structures on sapphire ablated with femto-second laser"
  R. Takaku*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Applied Physics 128, 225302 (2020).
• "Design of a testbed for the study of system interference in space CMB polarimetry"
  T. Ghigna*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  J.Low.Temp.Phys. 1993-4, 622-630 (2020).

2019

• "Development of a contact-less cryogenic rotation mechanism employed for a polarization modulator unit in cosmic microwave background polarization experiments"
  Yuki Sakurai*, et. al.
  J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 1293, 1, 012083 (2019).
• "Demonstration of the broadband half-wave plate using the nine-layer sapphire for the CMB polarization experiment"
  K. Komatsu*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Astronomical Telescope,Instruments,and Systems 5, 4, 044008 pp.1-14 (2019).
• "LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection"
  M. Hazumi*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics Volume 194, Issue 5_6, pp. 443_452 (2019).
• "The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts"
  P. Ade, Yuki Sakura, Simons Observatory Collaboration
  JCAP 1902, 056 (2019).

2018

• "Design and thermal characteristics of a 400 mm diameter levitating rotor in a superconducting magnetic bearing operating below at 10K for a CMB polarization experiment"
  Yuki Sakurai* , et. al.
  IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 1-4 (2018).
• "A Large-Diameter Cryogenic Rotation Stage for Half-Wave Plate Polarization Modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 Experiment"
  C. A. Hill*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Low Temperature Physics Volume 193, pages851_859 (2018).

2017

• "Estimation of the heat dissipation and the rotor temperature of superconducting magnetic bearing below 10K"
  Yuki Sakurai*, et. al.
  IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity Volume 27, Issue 4 (2017).
• "Vibrational characteristics of a superconducting magnetic bearing employed for a prototype polarization modulator"
  Yuki Sakurai*, et. al.
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 871, 012091 (2017).
• "Numerical Analysis of Fundamental Characteristics of Superconducting Magnetic Bearings for a Polarization Modulator"
  Y. Terachi*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Journal of Physics Conference Series 871, 012094 (2017).
• "Thermal analysis of a prototype cryogenic polarization modulator for use in a space-borne CMB polarization experiment"
  T. Iida*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 278, No. 1, p.012011 (2017).

2016

• "Magnetically coupled gear based drive mechanism for contactless continuous rotation using superconducting magnetic bearing below 10 K"
  T. Matsumura*, Yuki Sakurai, et. al.
  Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications Volume 530, 138-141 (2016).

2015

• "Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector"
  G. Aad, Yuki Sakurai, ATLAS Collaboration*
  JHEP 04 117 (2015).
• "Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV"
  G. Aad, Yuki Sakurai, ATLAS Collaboration*
  Eur.Phys.J. C75 7, 303 (2015).

2013

• "Combination of searches for the Higgs boson using the full CDF data set"
  T. Aaltonen, Yuki Sakurai, CDF Collaboration*
  Phys. Rev. D　88 052013 (2013).

2012

• "Search for a low mass Standard Model Higgs boson in the τ+τ－ decay channel at CDF"
  T. Aaltonen, Yuki Sakurai, CDF Collaboration*
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 181804 (2012).