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From 10th to 15th of January, 2018, at KEK Tsukuba campus, where the SuperKEKB accelerator and the Belle II detector are being prepared for the first collisions of electrons (e-) and positrons (e+), the QCS superconducting magnets for final focusing of the beams were moved to the core of Belle II detector from both forward and backward sides and connected to the central beam pipe by the Remote Vacuum Connection (RVC) system, proposed and developed by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), one of the important collaborators of the Belle II Experiment.

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Installation of the BEAST detector carried out on November 18, 2017 at Tsukuba Experimental Hall on the Tsukuba campus of KEK. The BEAST detector successfully inserted into the core of Belle II at 2:45pm (GMT+9:00) and preparation for next-year’s commissioning of new Belle II at the upgraded SuperKEKB accelerator is in full swing.

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In preparation for the next-year commissioning of BelleⅡwith the first collision of electron-positron beams at the SuperKEKB, the last test of BEAST detectors started at Tsukuba Experimental Hall, KEK Tsukuba campus on October 31. It is planned to insert into the core of BelleⅡin late November.

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On October 11, the Ambassador of France to Japan, His Excellency Laurent Pic and his party visited KEK Tsukuba campus to attend a ceremony of raising the French national flag at the KEKB Tsukuba Laboratory, where the BelleⅡdetector is installed and is being prepared for the first beam collision operation next spring. The French flag joined the

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L’Ambassadeur de France au Japon, son Excellence Monsieur Laurent Pic, et son équipe sont venus sur le campus du KEK à Tsukuba le 11 octobre pour assister à la cérémonie de lever du drapeau national français dans la zone d’interacti

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