2026.09.19–20 2 days / 1 night Nishi-Waseda, Tokyo
An intensive retreat for students and mentors
Accel Kitchen Camp 2026
Take the experience you've built up observing at home and deepen it all at once over two days and one night. From taking detectors apart and rebuilding them, to hands-on measurement with radioactive sources, to a particle-measurement / PHITS hackathon — two focused days of getting your hands dirty alongside the peers you usually explore with from afar.
Free to Attend Travel Stipend
Because Accel Kitchen centres mainly on inquiry at home, the things that are hard to do there — assembling detectors, or measuring with radioactive sources — inevitably tend to be limited. Conversely, we came to believe that it is precisely because you already have measurement experience at home that you can take on deeper, more concentrated hands-on practice.
So we planned a two-day, one-night retreat: an intensive chance to understand how detectors work at a deeper level and to actually take measurements using radioactive sources. We hope it deepens your understanding of radiation measurement and becomes a springboard for pursuing your own inquiry more scientifically.
To widen the network among students living in different regions, we'll also create space to measure and simulate together, helping one another along the way. We'd be delighted if it became the spark for many collaborative research projects.
Swap your own detector for the new model, fit the scintillator of your choice, and take it home with you.
Take on measurements that are hard to do at home, using sources such as Cs-137, Co-60 and Am-241.
Measuring and simulating — drive your inquiry forward on both wheels at once.
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