Technological prototype of scintillator-strip calorimeter in its first test beam
A team of two scientists and four students from Shinshu University of Japan and Kyungpook National University of Korea have just packed up their cables, laptops and scintillator strips and left a test beam at DESY with many interesting results in their luggage. They tested the scintillator-strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL), one of the potential layers […]
Drivers stuck in a traffic jam in Ichinoseki city are more likely to wonder about the mysteries of the Universe than about the latest Hollywood movie – at least if they take in the billboards at the side of the road. Japan’s Iwate prefecture in the Tohoku region in the north of the country boasts a […]
Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, vice president of Cosylab and former chair of the ILC Steering Committee, was awarded the Friendship Award of China, the highest honour that the Chinese government confers to foreign experts for their contribution and dedication to China’s economic construction and social development. On 28 September, the awards ceremony for […]
Particle physics community from Europe and beyond discusses future strategy
When scientists make plans or want to show the results of their work, they write a paper. Nearly 170 such papers recently landed on the desks of the members of the European Strategy Preparatory Group, a part of the European Strategy Group that is charged by the CERN Council to come up with recommendations for […]
A week after the CERN’s announcement of the discovery of the Higgs-like particle, Japan Policy Council (JPC) issued recommendations entitled Creation of Global Cities by hosting the International Linear Collider. Now the English version is available online. Composed of members who are Japan’s foremost leaders in various fields such as policy making, economics, labour or […]
On 2 September, KEK in Japan held a laboratory open house. About 4600 people visited KEK’s Tsukuba campus, one-and-a-half times as many as last year. Presumably one of the reasons for the pushed-up number of visitors was the discovery of Higgs-like particle at CERN. At the ILC exhibit, particle badges exclusively designed for the open […]
Research projects in high-energy physics tend to be on larger scales, since they require huge experimental facilities. The realisation of such large-scale projects requires an enormous amount of long-term preparation, and also a big budget. That’s why high-energy physicists have decided the priorities for the future experiments by community-wide discussions. On 8 August, the Japanese […]
With the completion of the Technical Design Report just around the corner, activities surrounding the International Linear Collider have intensified in Japan. On 30 July, the eighth meeting of a study group in Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, was held in Saga prefecture. The study group was established in 2007 to study the value […]
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director.
Recently, public interest in the International Linear Collider in Japan has rocketed sky high, almost as if it keeps in step with the activity of the Global Design Effort: we are in the final stage of completing the Technical Design Report. One might have noticed that the amount of ILC-related media coverage is increasing in […]
On 10 July, governors, industrial leaders, and local officials of Japan’s northeastern area got together to attend a general meeting of the Tohoku Advanced Science and Technology Study Group. In the northeastern part of Japan, or Tohoku, activities towards inviting the ILC to the area has been intensified ever since the ILC was positioned as […]