A new Franco-Japanese laboratory dedicated to particle physics

Strong links have existed for more than 15 years between the CNRS and the KEK laboratory, a national research organisation whose mission is to support particle physics research in Japan. The presence of cutting-edge particle physics experiments and equipment in the Land of the Rising Sun makes the CNRS a key partner.

By pooling their know-how and expertise in a new international research laboratory, CNRS and KEK scientists hope to initiate new collaborations and unprecedented research. They will be focusing on the search for processes beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, which is the current framework describing the infinitely small.

The laboratory will cover four areas of research:

    the intensity frontier, with the Belle II and Comet experiments, as well as the neutrino experiments;
    the energy frontier, with the Atlas experiments at CERN and the planned Higgs boson factory;
    the origins of the Universe, with the LiteBIRD experiment, a Japanese space project aimed at studying the polarisation of fossil radiation;
    and developments in accelerator theory, instrumentation and physics.

TYL will enable new collaborations to be developed by assigning researchers to Japan for long periods.