The Quantum Beam Project at KEK’s Superconducting Test Facility is being prepared for start-up. On 27 February, scientists successfully produce and extract the beam from the RF-gun.
Baseline Technical Review for ILC superconducting RF systems
The final preparatory step in our process of defining the baseline for the Technical Design Report (TDR) is to carry out a set of four Baseline Technical Reviews (BTR) that concentrate on the large number of small technical decisions that remain to be defined for the TDR baseline. We previously made a set of top-level […]
BTR meeting groupies
Image: Nobu Toge KEK hosted the third ILC Baseline Technical Review meeting last month. Read more about the main linac and superconducting radiofrequency technology decisions in this issue’s Director’s Corner.
A visit to the two candidate Japanese ILC sites
A common question I am often asked is where the ILC will be sited. That is obviously a very important question, but we don’t have an answer yet. We will complete the Technical Design Report (TDR) within the next year and the Large Hadron Collider will, we believe, produce physics results that can both motivate […]
China awards Shin-ichi Kurokawa for his international scientific cooperation
Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus of KEK, and vice president of Cosylab, is one of three international scientists to have been awarded the 2011 award for International Scientific Cooperation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on 18 January. This award is given to honour eminent foreign experts who make outstanding contributions to facilitating cooperation with […]
Prime Minister gives address at the ILC symposium in Japan
On 15 December, the International Linear Collider clearly became a hot topic in Japanese newspapers: Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, gave a speech at the ILC symposium held in Tokyo. This symposium was jointly hosted by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA) and the Federation of Diet members to promote […]
ILC goes one step further
Today's special issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director
On Thursday, 15 December, a symposium was held in Tokyo. This is only one event of a frequently held symposium series, but this time it drew much attention from Japanese media because Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, gave a speech there. This symposium was hosted by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science […]
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 […]
Injector cryomodule for the Quantum Beam experiment
Welcome back, PCMAG!
PCMAG arrives for a fundamental overhaul at KEK
The superconducting magnet PCMAG came back to KEK on 10 August after four years of use in an experiment at the DESY test beam facility. PCMAG, which stands for persistent-current superconducting magnet, was originally developed as one of the prototype magnets for the BESS (the balloon-borne experiment with a superconducting spectrometer) experiment, a joint US-Japan […]