KEK is Japan’s high-energy accelerator research organization. The original facility in Tsukuba is now home to the SuperKEKB collider, where world-leading research into flavour physics is performed alongside other research programmes in particle and accelerator physics. The newer J-PARC facility in Tokai was founded in 2006, and is home to a high-intensity proton accelerator that provides a neutrino beam for the T2K experiment and serves other particle- and nuclear-physics experiments, as well as investigations into materials and life sciences.
CERN Courier laboratory correspondent: Hajime Hikino
Read article 'Doubly strange baryon observed in Japan'
Experimental evidence was first reported in the 1970s, but there has been a lingering theoretical controversy about the interpretation of both states.
Read article 'Muons accelerated in Japan'
The work paves the way for a compact muon linac that would enable precision measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment.
Read article 'SuperKEKB steps out at the intensity frontier'
On 26 April the SuperKEKB accelerator at the KEK laboratory in Japan collided its first beams of electrons and positrons, marking the start of an ambitious data-taking campaign tha...
Read article 'Belle II super-B factory experiment takes shape at KEK'
Following in the footsteps of Belle at the KEKB facility, a new super-B factory will search for new weak interactions in the flavour sector.
Read article '‘First turns’ for SuperKEKB'
On 10 February, the SuperKEKB electron–positron collider in Tsukuba, Japan, succeeded in circulating and storing a positron beam moving close to the speed of light throu...
Read article 'SuperKEKB goes in hunt of flavour at the terascale'
A schematic view of SuperKEKB. Image credit: KEK. What is dark matter? Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe? These are some of the most fundamenta...