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CHENNAI: Eight Indian academic institutions, including four IITs, have contributed to yet another international scientific collaboration - the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan.
According to an official release, SuperKEKB is the first new "atom-smasher" since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator - located at CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
The Belle II detector at SuperKEKB was designed and built by an international collaboration of over 600 students, scientists and engineers from 23 countries in Asia, Europe and North America.
Jim Libby, associate professor, department of Physics at IIT Madras, who was involved in the project, told TOI that four IITs (Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Madras), IISER Mohali, Panjab University, Punjab Agricultural University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai associated with the project.
"The latter institute, with support from Indian collaborators, is making a substantial contribution to the construction of part of the experiment," he said.
SuperKEKB was designed and built at KEK by a team of Japanese accelerator physicists.
SuperKEKB, along with the Belle II detector at the interaction point, is a facility designed to search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model by measuring rare decays of elementary particles such as beauty quarks, charm quarks and tau leptons, the release said.
On February 10, 2016, the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider succeeded in circulating and storing a positron beam moving close to the speed of light through over a thousand magnets in a narrow tube around the three kilometre circumference of its main ring, the release said.
On February 26, the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider succeeded in circulating and storing a seven billion electron-volt energy (7 GeV) electron beam around its ring of magnets in the opposite direction.
The achievement of "first turns", which means storing the beam in the ring through many revolutions, is a "major milestone for any new particle accelerator."
Belle II's SuperKEKB reaches test operation stage, eight Indian institutions involved in project - Times of India
The project received a major impetus after SuperKEKB, a particle collider located at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba in Japan, achieved 'First Turns' and reached test operation stage recently.
According to an official release, SuperKEKB is the first new "atom-smasher" since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator - located at CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
The Belle II detector at SuperKEKB was designed and built by an international collaboration of over 600 students, scientists and engineers from 23 countries in Asia, Europe and North America.
Jim Libby, associate professor, department of Physics at IIT Madras, who was involved in the project, told TOI that four IITs (Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Madras), IISER Mohali, Panjab University, Punjab Agricultural University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai associated with the project.
"The latter institute, with support from Indian collaborators, is making a substantial contribution to the construction of part of the experiment," he said.
SuperKEKB was designed and built at KEK by a team of Japanese accelerator physicists.
SuperKEKB, along with the Belle II detector at the interaction point, is a facility designed to search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model by measuring rare decays of elementary particles such as beauty quarks, charm quarks and tau leptons, the release said.
On February 10, 2016, the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider succeeded in circulating and storing a positron beam moving close to the speed of light through over a thousand magnets in a narrow tube around the three kilometre circumference of its main ring, the release said.
On February 26, the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider succeeded in circulating and storing a seven billion electron-volt energy (7 GeV) electron beam around its ring of magnets in the opposite direction.
The achievement of "first turns", which means storing the beam in the ring through many revolutions, is a "major milestone for any new particle accelerator."
Belle II's SuperKEKB reaches test operation stage, eight Indian institutions involved in project - Times of India
