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 […]
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 […]
This story first appeared on 15 January in the ILC Tsushin, the Japanese ILC newsletter, published every month by KEK
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 […]
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… “OK, I understand that something great will happen in the academic world. But I […]
Research Director’s Report 18 November 2010 Hitoshi Yamamoto ILC and Super KEKBThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the World Wide Study and regional detector contact for Asia.In 2008, KEK formulated the so-called KEK roadmap that defined priorities for the Japanese high-energy physics programme for the following five years. This […]
Director’s Corner 30 September 2010 Marc Ross The ILC in a mountainous region – A report on Japanese efforts to develop possible sites Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Roughly six years ago the International Committee for Future Accelerators accepted the recommendation to adopt ‘cold’, […]
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 […]
Vietnam and Japan have been nurturing cooperative relationship in many fields for many years. For the field of science and technology, both governments signed the Japan-Vietnam Science and Technology Co-operation Agreement to promote and deepen the co-operation in science and technology in 2006. Following year, Shinzo Abe, then Prime minister of Japan, proposed at the […]
Every day, KEK welcomes scientists and students from around the world. Some of them come here as collaborators who work on the international projects and programmes using cutting-edge facilities at KEK. Some visit as users who wish to use the beamlines at the Photon Factory to look into the smallest worlds. Many graduate students will […]