【PRESS RELEASE】SuperKEKB collider achieves the world’s highest luminosity

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Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) has been steadily improving the performance of its flagship electron-positron collider, SuperKEKB, since it produced its first electron-positron collisions in April 2018. At 20:34 on 15th June 2020, SuperKEKB achieved the world’s highest instantaneous luminosity for a colliding-beam accelerator, setting a record of 2.22×1034 cm-2 s-1. Previously, the KEKB collider, which was SuperKEKB’s predecessor and was operated by KEK from 1999 to 2010, had achieved the world’s highest luminosity, reaching 2.11×1034 cm-2 s-1. KEKB’s record was surpassed in 2018, when the LHC proton-proton collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) overtook the KEKB luminosity at 2.14×1034 cm-2 s-1. SuperKEKB’s recent achievement returns the title of world’s highest luminosity colliding-beam accelerator to KEK.

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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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