【PRESS RELEASE】Why Does Titanium Alloy Beam Window Become Brittle After Proton Beam Exposure? ~ Research and Development on the Accelerator Target and Beam Window Materials by RaDIATE International Collaboration ~

・A high-strength titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V is widely employed as the “beam window” at high-intensity proton accelerator facilities, such as FNAL and J-PARC. However, this alloy suffers from radiation-induced hardening and loss of ductility after proton beam exposure. It is urgent to clarify the source of this degradation in mechanical properties to achieve stable high-intensity beam operations at these facilities,

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UTokyo and KEK sign MoU to promote Hyper-Kamiokande project

The University of Tokyo
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) Center

The University of Tokyo and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which aimed to strengthen the existing MoU between Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), UTokyo and Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS), KEK by establishing official organizations to promote the Japan-led Hyper-Kamiokande international scientific research project, in May 2020.

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Strengthening global coordination on large neutrino infrastructures

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Funding-agency and laboratory representatives gathered at the 3rd International Meeting on Large Neutrino Infrastructures on May 30-31, 2016 at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan to gauge the progress in the global coordination of projects that had been launched during the first and second international meetings and to discuss the next steps in the global coordination. Please read KEK Press Release for details. Related Articles 2016-07-08 KEK Strengthening global coordination on large

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First look at antineutrino appearance from T2K

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The T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment in Japan has observed three electron antineutrino candidate events in a muon antineutrino beam. T2K creates and monitors a muon antineutrino beam at the J-PARC facility in Tokai village on the east coast of Japan, and sends it 295 km west to the Super-Kamiokande detector underneath Mt. Ikeno near Toyama, which was built, and is operated, by ICRR. This is the first antineutrino appearance search by

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