Worrying about blemishes on the skin is not just an issue for people who pursue personal physical beauty, but also for accelerator scientists. Scientists and engineers at KEK have found a way to deal with unwanted stains on the inner surface of superconducting cavities, which might be one of the causes of performance limitation. Since […]
Cavity fabrication facility opening ceremony
How to keep cavities blemish-free
Young scientists at KEK
Electron gun placed on KEK electron beam welding machine
The gift of research rises from the rubble
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 […]
SLAC scientists recover their systems at ATF
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 […]
Kaoru Yokoya retires from KEK
Checkout of ATF starts with test beam
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 […]