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From CERN COURIER
Progress in applied superconductivity at KEK

25 Oct. 2011

The application of superconductivity in accelerators and particle detectors at KEK has progressed hand in hand with the research programme ever since the laboratory was founded 40 years ago.

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From ILC NewsLine
The home stretch in fulfilling the Global Design Effort mandate

29 Sep. 2011

This week, linear collider scientists converge on Granada, Spain for the second International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. The conference is going well, with over 350 ...

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From ILC NewsLine
ILC detector R&D in Japan stays strong

22 Sep. 2011

From 12 to 14 September, about 60 scientists gathered at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, to attend the kick-off meeting for a global R&D programme of a state-of-the-art detector system for the ILC.

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DG's Corner

A Message from the Director General

8 Jan 2013

KEK staff and users, colleagues and friends,
I wish you a happy new year. At the beginning of a new year, let me make an annual address. ...

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New Year's resolution

16 Jan 2012

Happy New Year to everyone. I would like to say a few words at the beginning of the year. We had the big disaster last year which caused us to work extremely hard to recover ...

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Damage caused by the recent earthquake and recovery prospects

09 May 2011

First of all, I would like to express my deepest appreciation for the messages of concern, sympathy and encouragement that we received from all over the world ...

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A year of KEK: a collection of feature articles about science and scientists at KEK. KEK's experiments are consistently pushing the frontiers of physics, and are the result of the bright minds and hard work of many talented researchers. Read here about how KEK scientists and engineers simultaneously serve their curiosity and serve the world by opening up new frontiers of science.

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Nobel Prize

On the partial loss of Belle data	30 Apr. 2013
Suppressing Pressure Waves with Micro-Bubbles – The technology that helped realize the world’s most intense source of pulsed neutrons	23 Apr. 2013
Revealing the mechanism of photoinduced phase transition in a molecular solid, (EDO-TTF)₂PF₆	26 Mar. 2013
New magnetic state obtained by photoexcitation	7 Mar. 2013
Lattice Location Determination of Trace Nitrogen Dopants in Semiconductor Silicon Carbide (SiC)	26 Feb. 2013
Development of a purely organic single-component conductor in a metallic state	10 Jan. 2013
Discovery of ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in imidazoles, building blocks in biological system such as vitamin B12	27 Dec. 2012
Achievement of the world’s strongest pulsed muon beam	27 Nov. 2012
A New Technology for Semiconductor Film Production on Highly Liquid-repellent Surfaces - High performance organic polymer transistors have been realized -	14 Nov. 2012
Discovery of the origin of high oxygen permeability in praseodymium nickel oxide-based materials New design concept of the interstitial ionic conductors by higher d¹⁰ dopant and Jahn-Teller effect	29 Oct. 2012
KEK and Astellas begin collaborative research to discover new drugs for neglected tropical diseases	20 Sep. 2012

Asian Forum for Accelerator and Detectors—AFAD 2013—was held	1 May 2013
IHEP-KEK director-level regular meeting was held	19 Apr 2013
Successful X-ray Generation using Inverse Compton Scattering with SCRF Technology Confirmed at STF	4 Apr 2013
Colliders colliding	28 Feb 2013
Linear Collider Collaboration Press Conference	14 Feb 2013
The sixteenth Program Advisory Committee meeting for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at J-PARC was held	21 Jan 2013
The First Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics held in Fukuoka	27 Nov 2012
Third India-Japan Science Symposium held	29 Oct 2012
Shin-ichi Kurokawa awarded China’s 2012 Friendship Award	12 Oct 2012
The 2^nd Particle Physics School in South-East Asia held in Indonesia	9 Oct 2012
Young scientists gather in Israel for the sixth Asian Science Camp	20 Sep 2012

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