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The 3rd International Meeting for Large Neutrino Infrastructures took place at KEK on the 30th and 31st of May 2016. Nearly 80 physicists around the world participated.

They discussed and shared the progress that has been made since last meeting in terms of the development of the scientific and the organizational aspects of the worldwide collaboration in large neutrino infrastractures for next generation.

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On May 11th, all modules of the TOP Detector were installed.

The TOP Detector is part of the cylindrical barrel of the Belle II detector. It is a newly built detector for precision identification of pi and K mesons.

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On February 24th, members of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) visited KEK and stopped by at the state-of-the-art Belle II detector now being constructed inside Tsukuba Hall.

Prof. Tom Browder of the University of Hawaii and the spokesperson of the Belle II experiment, Prof. Yoshihide Sakai and Prof. Yutaka Ushiroda of IPNS/KEK, led a tour around the Belle II detector and gave an overview of the current status of the experiment while showing the detectors, including the particle identification system, the tracker, and the vertex detectors in the midst of their construction.

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This year, for the very first time, the number of visitors to Tsukuba Hall at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan and home of the Belle II detector designed, built and operated by an international collaboration of over 600 physicists from 23 countries, exceeded 10,000.

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On October 5th, 2015, the American Physical Society awarded the 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics to Drs. Fumihiko Takasaki, Stephen Olsen, Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin, for “leadership in the BaBar and Belle experiments, which established the violation of CP symmetry in B meson decay, and furthered our understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics”. This is the highest award of the APS for experimental particle physics

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