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.
About 23% of the visitors are members of the general public while the remainder are from educational institutions. Of the latter, around 77% are from high schools, while 15% are from universities. The remaining 8% are from elementary and middle schools. There are also occasional visits to Tsukuba Hall from professional physicists, Japanese government officials and foreign ambassadors.
KEK’s Tsukuba campus is open to the general public and showcases Japan’s cutting edge international research such as the search for New Physics at Belle II.
The photo shows the students from a technical high school who broke the record in front of Tsukuba Hall at KEK, home of the Belle II detector.