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Acknowledgment
First of all I would like to express my special thanks to my supervisor Prof. Taku Yamanaka
for his advice, guidance, and friendship. I can not imagine how dull my student life would
have been if I did not knock on the door of his room six years ago. He introduced me to a
very special and fascinating world.
I would also like to give thanks to Prof. Yorikiyo Nagashima for giving me a theoretical
foundation of high energy physics.
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to KTeV collaboration. My work is completely
based on their great, bold, delicate, and precise experiments ( I came to KTeV after the
data taking was finished.). Especially, I am deeply grateful to Rick Kessler. Without him,
this study would not have been done. Three hundred of my emails and three hundred of
his replies flew across the Pacific Ocean or just the door to door of the HEP building in the
Fermi Institute.
I owe thanks to Kentaro Tsuji and his advisor, Professor Toru Sato. This study could not
done without their calculations as well as many discussions with them.
I would like to express my appreciation to the staff and students of Yamanaka-Taku lab.
I have made extensive use of their lab's facilities, and their kindnesses have always helped
me studying in lab. The discussions with Takanori Hara, Mitsuhiro Yamaga, and many
admirable foregoers and many active junior fellows gave me meaningful hints for my study.
Koji Hara and Hideki Miyake provided enjoyable and frank discussion with this elder col-
league. Ken Sakashita's excellent work always encouraged me in my own work.
I would like to give special thanks to my family Noriko Nakazawa and Yuu Nakazawa for
helping me keep my work and family life in balance. My family has been an oasis for me
this long and challenging journey.
Thanks to my parents for their support and faith in me and for not saying "why didn't you
study harder when you were younger".
Finally, I would like to express special appreciation for the social system in these beautiful
islands especially that has developed from 60 years ago. This society has allowed me, not a
rich man or a genius, but a husband and a father, to pursue my own passion for studying
physics. Such a situation would absolutely never have been allowed in our society without
large and hurtful change in 1945, when the average duration of a man's life was only 24
years.
Katsushige Kotera
August 2006
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