The 1st “Belle II Physics Week” was held at KEK

The Belle II Physics Week (Belle II Theory Interface Platform, B2TiP, Workshop) was held October 22-26, 2018 on the Tsukuba campus of KEK in the 3-go-kan seminar hall. The Physics Week continued the series of meetings previously held as part of the Belle II Theory Interface Platform series, which led to the publication of the Belle II Physics Book. This workshop was held just after the Belle II General Meeting (B2GM) which is a tri-annual plenary meeting in which a large number of Belle II members from many countries participate.

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A Report on the Ground at KEK: Electrons and Positrons Collide for the first time in the SuperKEKB Accelerator

At 0:38am (GMT+09:00), April 26, 2018, several hours after KEK accelerator team found the collision point of electrons and positrons accelerated and stored by the SuperKEKB accelerator, one hadronic event produced by electron-positron annihilation (matter-antimatter annihilation), was reconstructed and displayed on a screen by the Belle II detector at the Tsukuba campus of KEK in Japan.

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The 7th TYL Science Camp for Japanese Female Students Held at KEK Tsukuba Campus

Japanese 30 female students from high schools or national colleges of technology participated in the TYL Science Camp, which was held on April 3rd - 4th at KEK Tsukuba campus. The TYL Science Camp has been organized every year since 2012 by the KEK Gender Equality Office, the TYL-FJPPL (Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory‐France-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory), Ochanomizu University and Nara Women’s University.

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COMET Experimental Group Successfully Extracts a Clean 8GeV Pulsed Proton Beam from J-PARC’s 30GeV Main Ring to Hadron Experimental Facility

At the J-PARC research facility in Tokai village, Ibaraki prefecture, extraction tests of a clean 8GeV pulsed proton beam to the Hadron Experimental Facility have been successfully completed by a team drawn from the Accelerator Laboratory Group, Hadron Beam Line Group and the COherent Muon to Electron Transition (COMET) Experimental Group.

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Israeli Ambassador to Japan Visits KEK Tsukuba Campus for Flag Raising Ceremony Commemorating Israel’s Participation as 25th Member Nation of Belle II Experiment

On February 22, the Ambassador of Israel to Japan, Her Excellency Yaffa Ben-Ari, and her party visited KEK Tsukuba Campus to attend a ceremony of raising the Israeli national flag at Tsukuba Experimental Hall, where the Belle II detector is installed and is being prepared for the first beam collision this spring. The Israeli flag joined the flag of 24 other nations on B2 floor of Tsukuba Experimental Hall as Israel became the 25th member nation of the Belle II experiment.

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