Why are we confident the ILC can be built in a seismic country?
In August 2013, the International Linear Collider site evaluation committee of Japan announced that they evaluated a site in Kitakami as the best candidate location in Japan for the ILC. The exciting news came after meticulous preparation and study to ensure that the site was suitable for the 31-kilometre linear collider. Among the most important […]
KEK staff perform a facility disaster prevention and training at the accelerator test facility (ATF), recreating laboratory conditions in an emergency situation. One resourceful staff member flips open his cell phone for a light source.
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 […]
Three months after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in early March in northeast area, or Tohoku, of Japan, more than 90 thousand people are yet suffering at the shelters and almost 7,500 people are still missing. But people have kept up the strength to recover, and are slowly but surely working to overcome the disaster. The devastated […]
This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the World Wide Study and regional detector contact for Asia.
On 11 March, the three-day symposium on detector R&D for the International Linear Collider at KEK, Japan, came to a close. It was the final annual meeting of the five-year programme sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which had been supporting a large part of Japanese ILC detector activities in recent […]
KEK’s accelerator test facility, ATF, has many components installed on its beamline, many of which come from other laboratories around the world. From 21 May to 6 June, two scientists from the US laboratory SLAC, Janice Nelson and Glen White, came to ATF to check and recover systems that they are responsible for: the cavity […]
On the evening of 26 May 2011, KEK scientists and engineers confirmed that a test beam successfully steered through the linac during the commissioning test of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). “It went relatively smoothly, reached the end of linac in a half-hour or so,” said Nobuhiro Terunuma of KEK, Japan, the new spokesperson for […]
Reports on the main damage and the recovery plan at KEK after Japan's major earthquake of 11 March and its consequences ever since
— by Atsuto Suzuki
KEK employees survey the damage to their laboratory after enduring the biggest earthquake in Japan's history
As many people in the world already know, Japan is currently dealing with its worst disaster: Japan’s biggest earthquake on record and the fourth largest in history. Thousands of lives have been lost. Tens of thousands people are forced to evacuate and live without basic necessities. Hundreds of thousands are still missing. KEK laboratory in […]