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KEK is the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. It is one of the world’s leading accelerator science research laboratories, with which INFN has a strong collaboration mainly focusing on particle physics, with the Belle II experiment, and on neutrino physics with the experiment T2K (Tokai to Kamioka), the detector Super-Kamiokande and its future Hyper-Kamiokande. We got the chance to visit the KEK main laboratory in Tsukuba for the collaboration meeting of Interactions, the network of science communicators working for the main particle physics laboratories worldwide. During our days there, we met Masanori Yamauchi, director general of KEK, and we asked him some questions about the organization he leads, its core projects and about the collaboration between KEK and INFN...
Could you introduce us to KEK and to its history?
KEK was established in 1971, 52 years ago, as a research laboratory focused on particle accelerators. At the time, we constructed a small proton synchrotron with a circumference of 300 meters: that’s how we started our first particle and nuclear physics experiments.
The Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, founded and chaired by Professor Antonino Zichichi, former president of INFN, is celebrating sixty years of commitment to promoting science and peace.
Five colour photos of the cosmos with a resolution that is close to incredible. These are the first images that came from the Euclid space telescope, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the contribution of NASA and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and INFN, in addition to numerous Italian universities.
The Belle II experiment at the KEK laboratory in Japan, where a large international collaboration works (including INFN as one of the main members), has obtained the first evidence of a particularly elusive decay of the charged B meson, a particle composed of a quark beauty and an antiquark.
On 9 October 2022, at 3:21 p.m. Italian time, many satellites in orbit around Earth and in the interplanetary space recorded the strongest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. Among these, the INTEGRAL (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) also detected an extremely intense and long-lasting flow of gamma rays.
On 8 November, in Seoul, INFN signed an agreement with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) of the Republic of Korea for collaboration in basic research in the field of nuclear, subnuclear, and astroparticle physics and the physics of gravitational waves. Jointly signed by Antonio Zoccoli, president of INFN, and Noh Do Young, president of the IBS, the agreement was part of the state visit of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, to the Republic of Korea, in the presence of President Mattarella and the Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The leadership of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has approved the appointment of Pierluigi Campana as the next Chair of ICFA, starting from January 1, 2024.
During the meeting of 27 October, INFN Directors’ Board Council elected Sandra Malvezzi, current director of the Milano Bicocca INFN Division, as a member of INFN Executive Board. Malvezzi will succeed Chiara Meroni, starting from the conclusion of her mandate.
MIMA-SITES: COSMIC MUONS FOR MINING ARCHAEOLOGY Muons may be used to unveil aspects of mining sites that are still unknown and contribute to their protection. The results of the MIMA-SITES project, coordinated by INFN and co-funded by the Tuscany Region with the 2014-2020 ESF and Parchi Val di Cornia SpA, showed that important information for enhancing mines with a cultural-historical and tourist value and for performing useful assessments to make them safe and identify potentially interesting new areas can be obtained with muon radiography.
QUANTUM. THE REVOLUTION IN ONE LEAP The story of a theory that changed science and our lives. An idea that overturned the way we see reality and understand the universe. Counterintuitive, disruptive, fascinating. It is quantum mechanics. Its compelling story, between science and revolution, is told in the new exhibition "QUANTO. THE REVOLUTION IN ONE LEAP", curated by INFN and realised by INFN and MUSE - the Trento Science Museum. The exhibition will be open to the public from 7 December 2023 to 15 June 2024.
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Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies - © ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA
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