T2K Experiment enters a new phase with significantly improved sensitivity for its world leading neutrino oscillation research
The T2K Collaboration has started data taking using the enhanced neutrino beam and new neutrino near-detectors from December 2023. The KEK/J-PARC center has upgraded the main ring accelerator and the neutrino beamline to increase the beam power. T2K has also upgraded its neutrino production instruments. The stable operation of neutrino beam has been successfully achieved…
Sara Bolognesi won the 2024 CNRS silver medal
Sara Bolognesi has been awarded the 2024 silver medal of the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) in the field of nuclear and particle physics. Each year, this prestigious prize distinguishes a researcher for the originality, quality, and importance of his or her work, recognized at international level. Dr. Bolognesi receives this award for…
A.K.Ichikawa, the former T2K spokesperson, won the 2023 Nishina prize
A.K.Ichikawa (left), the former T2K spokesperson, won the Nishina prize in 2023 for “Constraining CP violating phase δ in neutrino oscillations“. As stated in her citation, Ichikawa has led research in all aspects of the T2K experiment, including in the development of elements of the neutrino beamline, and her service as analysis co-coordinator and spokesperson.…
Kendall Mahn Elected as the new International co-spokesperson of T2K Collaboration, Replacing Federico Sanchez
The T2K collaboration has elected Kendall Mahn, a professor at Michigan State University, as its new International Co-Spokesperson, replacing Federico Sanchez from Geneva. She has previously served in multiple roles on T2K, notably as T2K analysis co-coordinator. Kendall is excited to serve the T2K collaboration, as the collaboration makes use of the upgraded beamline, new…
T2K physics coordinator Christophe Bronner received the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
He was recognized for his contributions to a recent T2K publications (Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with 3.13×1021 protons on target Phys. Rev. D 103, 112008(2021)). Christophe has made longstanding contributions to T2K, including serving as one of the coordinators for the first joint collaborative analysis of T2K beam and SK…
Ken Sakashita elected as Spokesperson of T2K Collaboration, Replacing A. Ichikawa
The T2K collaboration has elected Ken Sakashita, a researcher from KEK, as its new spokesperson, replacing A. Ichikawa from Tohoku University effective April 1st. With his extensive experience in particle physics research, Sakashita is expected to bring valuable insights and contributions to the T2K collaboration during the next three years.
T2K physics coordinator Sara Bolognesi received the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics 2022
During the European Physical Society (EPS) Forum, held in Paris on June 2-3, 2022. While the short motivation of the prize talks about Sara contributions to the CMS experiment: “for her development of data analysis techniques that conclusively improved the sensitivity of the CERN-CMS experiment, thus allowing the discovery of the Higgs boson and the first…
T2K Spring 2022 collaboration meeting
The T2K collaboration has recently held its first face-to-face meeting since the start of the pandemic. The meeting was held in a mixed way with two meeting centers: one at CERN (Switzerland) and another at JPARC (Japan). Even despite the split, the collaboration celebrated the possibility of resuming face-to-face discussions and meeting all the new…
T2K spokespersons’ statement about the Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine
As spokespersons of the international scientific collaboration T2K, we are shocked by the Russian Federation’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and horrified by the suffering inflicted on the Ukrainian civil population. We would like to stress that the T2K experiment is built on the basis of international collaboration: the scientific successes we have achieved would not…
Prof. Chang Kee Jung Wins American Physical Society’s 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
Chang Kee Jung distinguished professor, the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, and a former co-spokesperson of T2K has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2022 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize for his outstanding contributions and leadership in experimental neutrino physics, and for outstanding teaching and outreach, especially on…
