BENGALURU: Human understanding of the sparsely explored world of particle physics got a major push with the ambitious Belle II experiment achieving “First Turns” and attaining test operation stage. The Belle II experiment is conducted by Belle Collaboration, an international pool of more than 400 physicists and engineers to study the CP-violation effects at the SuperKEKB, Japan. The SuperKEKB is a particle accelerator, or more precisely an asymmetric electron-positron collider, located in Tsukuba, Japan.

Amongst premier academic institutions from across the globe collaborating for this ambitious experiment were eight Indian. As per information conveyed to Times of India by Jim Libby, associate professor, department of Physics at IIT Madras, these eight included four IITs (Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Madras), IISER Mohali, Panjab University, Punjab Agricultural University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

The Belle II experiment is an attempt to search for “New Physics” to unravel the mysteries surrounding the Dark Matter and early universe (just after the Big Bang), which The Standard Model fails to address. The Belle II detector, comprising of seven different types of detectors at the collision point of positron and electron within KEKB was the result of international collaboration of over 600 students, scientists and engineers from 23 nations. The detector was designed to measure rare decays of elementary particles such as beauty quarks, charm quarks and tau leptons.

On February 10, 2016, the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider succeeded in circulating and storing a positron beam moving close to the speed of light through over a thousand magnets in a narrow tube around the three kilometer circumference of its main ring, the release said. Following this, on February 26, the particle collider successfully circulated and stored oppositely charged electron beam around its ring of magnets in the opposite direction to previous beam; the electron beam was reportedly measured at seven GeV.

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