From the evening of Monday, 15 October, the autumn beam operation at KEK’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) has been back in business after two months of shutdown in summer. In this operation period, we will have two ATF2 dedicated runs: a two-week run in November, and a four-week run from the end of November to […]
Recovery from March 2011 earthquake at ATF, KEK
As of this month, nine months have passed since the Great Eastern Japan earthquake, also known as the 3.11 Earthquake. Restoration of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) is in its final stage at KEK, Japan, where the ATF2 project, the final focus test beam for ILC, is being conducted with an international collaboration. The geological […]
A scientist’s report on the earthquake and KEK’s accelerator test facility
The earthquake takes its toll on one of KEK's hallmark experiments
A huge 9.0-magnitude earthquake descended on us at about 14:46 on 11 March 2011 Japan standard time. The ATF (accelerator test facility) was operating for ATF2 beam-tuning and we were going to have a background study for the interaction point beam size monitor. Some of us, including me, were working in the electronics hut of […]
Progress in the nanometre world
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Toshiaki Tauchi, a member of the EC.
This is the second time I contribute an article for this column. Last April, I reported that we have entered the nanometre world by tuning the beam size just below one micrometre at ATF2, a test facility for the final focus system at KEK, Japan. Since then, there have been two experimental runs for one […]
ATF2 enters the nanometre world
Director’s Corner 29 April 2010 Toshiaki Tauchi ATF2 enters the nanometre world Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Toshiaki Tauchi, a member of the EC. The ATF2 collaboration has recently succeeded to obtain vertical beam size of less than one micrometre and consequently has now entered into the nanometre world in the final focus […]