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Media invited to groundbreaking ceremony for SuperKEKB project
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27.10.2011 |
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Today, KEK announced that a groundbreaking ceremony will be held on
Friday, November 18, to celebrate the official start of KEK's new particle
physics experiment, the "SuperKEKB project", marking a significant step
forward in the search for the origin of our universe.
Professor Masanori Yamauchi, deputy director of the Institute of Particle
and Nuclear Studies, KEK, said, "SuperKEKB is a major upgrade to our
already successful KEK B-factory. We will generate collisions of high
energy electrons and positrons at a rate that is roughly 40-fold higher
than the previous rate by replacing various components of the accelerator
and the detector."
The predecessor of the SuperKEKB project, KEK B-factory, which currently
has the world's highest luminosity (the rate of particle collisions in the
experiment), has helped to confirm Kobayashi Maskawa's theory* and has led
to the discovery of new types of hadrons with four quarks as well as
hinting at a new physics beyond the Standard Model. The Japanese
government decided to fund the first of the five-year upgrade projects for
the accelerator, and physicists from around the world are now teaming up
for the upgrading of the particle detector.
Atsuto Suzuki, the director general of KEK, said, "We invite all
interested overseas parties to join our collaboration, and are happy to
officially announce that KEK and our funding agency now welcome people
from all over the world to join us in celebrating the groundbreaking
ceremony for SuperKEKB."
The Belle detector, which recorded electron-positron interactions in the
previous B-factory experiment, will also undergo a major upgrade to create
a new collaboration Belle-II experiment, with the participation of a
number of foreign institutes.
"We are excited to embark upon this major challenge of exploring new
physics beyond the Standard Model", explained Professor Peter Krizan
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), who is also the spokesperson of the
experimental group. "Belle-II will be one of the international focal
points for particle physics in the next decade."
"Fifteen European institutes have formed a team to develop a novel silicon
pixel detector for Belle II," explained Professor Christian Kiesling (Max
Planck Institute for Physics), who represents the German institutes in the
team. He went on to say that the detector will measure the collision
products with unprecedented accuracy. "We are proud to take on this major
responsibility in the Belle II collaboration."
The media program at the KEK Tsukuba Campus will include a press tour to
the accelerator and the detector, a press briefing, and the groundbreaking
ceremony for the SuperKEKB project.
Journalists who wish to cover this ceremony must request media
accreditation no later than November 4, 2011, as follows:
News Media Representatives need to send a fax to:
Dr. Youhei Morita
Head, Public Relations Office,
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan
Tel: +81 29-879-6047, Fax: +81 29-879-6049
E-mail: press@kek.jp
The fax must be on the organization's letterhead with the media
representative's full name, title, organization, address, telephone and
fax numbers, passport number with issuance and expiration dates, date and
place of birth, citizenship and city where the passport was issued.
Other items of interest are described below:
The press briefing on the day of the ceremony, November 18, will be in
Japanese, and a simultaneous translation into English will be provided.
There will be a separate English briefing in the morning on Thursday,
November 17, the day prior to the ceremony. Journalists who wish to attend
the English briefing should indicate their intention to do so in the
accreditation request stated above.
Media planning to attend must arrive at the entrance of KEK Tsukuba Campus
by 9:30 a.m. for the facility tour of the accelerator and the detector, or
by 12:30 for the press briefing and the ceremony. Participants must be
dressed in full-length pants, flat shoes that entirely cover the feet, and
shirts with sleeves. Because times are subject to change, call KEK Public
Relations Office for updates at +81 29-879-6047.
*: In the Standard Model of particle physics, there is a slight
discrepancy in the behavior of matter and antimatter, called CP-violation.
Kobayashi and Maskawa indicated in 1973 that at least three generations of
quarks are required to explain CP-violation, which led to them receiving
the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2008.
Media Contact:
Youhei Morita
Public Relations Office
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan
Tel: 81 29-879-6047, Fax: 81 29-879-6049
E-mail: press@kek.jp
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External Information
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http://www-conf.kek.jp/superkekb/
http://belle2.kek.jp/
http://www.kek.jp/intra-e/cometokek/
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email contact person
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press@kek.jp
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