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 […]
“Set it and forget it!”
Fermilab and KEK scientists recently hooked up a new cavity tuning system to the various cavities in the so-called cavity-tuner zoo at KEK. This zoo, comprising eight superconducting radiofrequency cavities fabricated by four different vendors from three different regions, was the testing ground for a new development in what is called Lorentz force detuning (LFD) […]
Summer Challenge programme for young intelligence
Summer Challenge poster About 90 students from all parts of Japan gathered at the Summer Challenge programme held at KEK, Tsukuba from 21 to 29 August 2010. Starting in 2007, this programme intended for junior students who are interested in high-energy physics was the fourth in the series this year. “The aim of the Summer […]
From Fermilab Today: Fine-tuning the instruments of acceleration
Achieving resonance in a scientific collaboration is no small feat, but scientists at Fermilab, DESY and KEK have come together to do exactly that: They’ve improved the mechanism that keeps superconducting radio frequency cavities in tune. Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division and DESY staff, with financial assistance from KEK, recently built four new tuning machines […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab-designed beam position monitors go to KEK
Members of the beam position monitoring collaboration for KEK’s Accelerator Test Facility. First row from left: Brian Fellenz, Andrea Saewert, Manfred Wendt and Eliana Gianfelice. Second row from left: Duane Voy, Dehong Zhang, Charlie Briegel, John Van Bogaert, Alexey Semenov and Nathan Eddy. Not pictured: Peter Prieto. Last May, in only two weeks’ time, a […]
From KEK Highlights: Never lost in translation
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 […]
From KEK: The fifth POSIPOL workshop held at KEK
The POSIPOL 2010 workshop was held from 31 May to 2 June at KEK. It was the fifth in the POSIPOL series of workshops dealing with the physics aspects, the design issues, and the open questions concerning a polarized positron source in the framework of the next-generation electron-positron colliders such as the ILC or the […]
Seiya Yamaguchi: introducing the new head of the Linear Collider Office at KEK
April is the season of beginnings in Japan: beginning of spring, beginning of the school year, and beginning of the business fiscal year. Tokyo is not quite in the beginning of spring yet, as snow fell on Saturday, 17 April, matching a 41-year-old record for the season’s latest snowfall. Regardless of the late arrival of […]
Meeting Min Zhang
The ILC community welcomed a new ILC communicator from China at the Linear Collider Workshop 2010. “I feel so lucky to become an ILC communicator and to work with the other communicators,” said Min Zhang. Zhang, based at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science (IHEP), will be sharing the […]
Thank you Shuichi!
From the end of March to the beginning of April it is one of the most festive times of the year in Japan, when the cherry blossom trees all over Japan come in to bloom for about ten days and people hold outdoor parties to view and enjoy them. The cherry blossoms are also symbols […]