Message from the Director

Entering the new fiscal year, the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS) started with new organizational chart in earnest.

From this year, we have newly established the “Instrumental Technology Development Center”. Deputy Director of IPNS, Prof. Hanagaki also serves as the first director of the center. At this new center, the test beamline will be operated and the detector development will be carried out using the development platform inherited from the Detector Development Office, also in collaboration with the WPI, International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe and Particles (QUP) newly established at KEK last year. We will continue to develop a new generation of detectors together with the community.

In managing the institute, we have created the Energy Frontier Group and Hadron Group to strengthen cooperation and collaboration among the groups within the institute and with the entire community. Each of them has a mission to cultivate physics in the unprecedented high-energy region, and to promote unique fixed target experiments with ingenuity for new discoveries in particle and nuclear physics, respectively. We will also increase cross-appointments with universities and promote research cooperation through deeper connections with relevant institutions.

We will continue to explore three pillars of research activities of the IPNS (link to last year’s greetings), which we have been promoting since last year.