Dr. Mika Masuzawa

Associate Professor
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),
Oho 1-1, Tsukuba 305-0801 Japan
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I obtained my Ph.D at Northwestern University [1] working on an experiment on Charmonium resonant states at the Fermilab anti-proton accumulator ring [2]. I spent a couple of years working on the very early stage of the Super-Kamiokande experiment [3] before I came to join the KEK accelerator division.
I am currently working on the magnet system for a new project called SuperKEKB, which is an upgrade of the KEKB B-Factory machine. KEKB [4] is an electron-positron collider with asymmetric energies, and played an important role as a luminosity frontier machine along with PEP-II at SLAC [5]. KEKB ended its operation in June, 2010 after many successful achievements. The KEKB peak luminosity of 2.1 x 1035 cm-2 s-1 remains the world highest ever achieved by a collider.
The demand now from the physics community is for Super B Factories (SuperKEKB at KEK and SuperB in Italy) with orders of magnitude higher luminosities than those achieved by the present generation of machines.
The next-generation B factories [6], which aim to push back the luminosity frontier in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, are introduced in the lecture. Some fundamental accelerator technologies will also be covered.

Do you want to know more?

• [1].  http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/
• [2].  http://www.e835.to.infn.it/
• [3].  http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html
• [4].  http://www-acc.kek.jp/KEKB/
• [5].  http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ad/ADPEPII/ADPEPII.html
• [6].  http://ipac10.org/index.html
• “Next Generation B-factories” In the Proceedings of 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference: IPAC'10, Kyoto, Japan, 23-28 May 2010, pp FRXBMH01