Inner component of Japan's upgraded particle accelerator nears completion

(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) Last Thursday, Kavli IPMU researchers celebrated the completion of the outermost shell of the Silicon Vertex Detector. It took six years of hard work, in collaboration with other institutions spread all over the world, to build the silicon sensors aggregates that will help the researchers of the Belle II collaboration to track the particles produced in the collisions created in the SuperKEKB accelerator, to find hints of physics b...