Tag archive: Japan
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 16 June 2011
Hitoshi Yamamoto offers a personal account of his navigation through the chaos brought on by shutdowns of transportation systems, electrical grids and running water immediately following the March earthquake. Amid the confusion, he remained mindful of the work of the ILC, resulting in welcome news for detector research.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
earthquake, Japan, JSPS, KEK
12 May 2011
As of now, our highest priority is the restoration of both campuses so that they can resume scientific activities as the Japanese Inter-University Research Institute Corporation and one of the world’s leading accelerator-science research laboratories.
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Around the World | Tagged:
earthquake, Japan, KEK
Toshiaki Tauchi | 17 March 2011
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.
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Feature | Tagged:
ATF, ATF2, earthquake, Japan, KEK
Rika Takahashi | 17 March 2011
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.
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Feature | Tagged:
earthquake, Japan, KEK
Barry Barish | 17 March 2011
On behalf of the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider, I would like to convey our deepest care and sympathy to the citizens of Japan and to our physics colleagues and collaborators for the tragedy that your country has suffered as a result of the earthquake and tsunami last week.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
earthquake, Japan
Rika Takahashi | 27 January 2011
There is a question almost always asked when talking about science - “OK, this is interesting. But is it useful for something?” Not too many scientists working on basic science are good at answering this question. “Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba sometimes says that the neutrino, his main research subject, is not useful at all. Well, a Nobel laureate could say that, but not us. I try to talk more about useful accelerators these days,” said Atsuto Suzuki, the Director General of KEK, at a symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in November, which was organised by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA).
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Around the World | Tagged:
AAA, accelerator research, Japan
Rika Takahashi | 24 November 2010
What will happen when the ILC is built? One hopes discoveries will change the way we see the universe. It will answer the questions about what the universe is made of. And maybe it will help generate new Nobel Prize winners...
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Feature | Tagged:
ILC site, Japan
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 18 November 2010
Even though additional funds are needed to complete the Super KEKB upgrade, th[e MEXT funding appropriation] signaled an essential go-ahead for the project, clearing the way for the ILC.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
Japan, KEK, MEXT, roadmap, SuperKEKB
Marc Ross | 30 September 2010
There is an encouraging possibility that Japan will bid to host the ILC. Earlier this month, at the autumn meeting of the Physical Society of Japan held at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, representatives of the Japanese ILC community announced two potential ILC sites.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
CFS, conventional facilities and siting, ILC site, Japan, mountain-region ILC sites
Rika Takahashi | 30 September 2010
On 27 September, the Japan's local winners of the first Global Particle Photo Walk were announced. This Photowalk was held at five particle physics laboratories in the world on 7 August (see Feature Story this week). The winning photo taken by Yuki Hayashi features scientists working at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK. But they are not Japanese scientists. They are three of the nine French scientists and engineers who were visiting the ATF from the end of July to install and test their four-mirror optical cavity.
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Feature | Tagged:
ATF, Japan, photography, photowalk
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