New Position

Thorsten Lux elected as member of the Executive Committee of T2K

November 3, 2021

Neutrinos Group

Thorsten Lux has been elected as one of the 4 international members of the Executive Committee of T2K.

The role of the EC is to make decisions on major collaboration issues, oversee progresses and developments in the projects and advise the Spokespersons with all collaboration matters.

From IFAE, a previous EC member was Federico Sanchez.

Latest Group News

Instrumentation

T2K ND280 Upgrade Milestone: Cosmic Tracks Recorded as New Detectors Installed

October 18, 2023

The T2K ND280 Upgrade project achieved a significant milestone as the first of the new Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) recorded cosmic tracks inside the ND280 pit.

Patents

Three new IFAE patents

October 9, 2023

IFAE filed a new medical imaging technology patent application: “Proton CT System with Improved Proton Energy Detector” and a patent application was granted named “Devices, Systems, and Methods for Mammography with a Detector Having Reduced Dimensions.” The third is a PET technology based new patent application filed in the European Patent Office.

Instrumentation

Time Projection Chambers (TPC) installation completed at J-PARC

September 13, 2023

The detector is already connected to the gas system and first cosmics in this configuration are expected to be recorded in about 4 weeks. First data taking with a neutrino beam is planned for the 2nd half of November and December.