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Official press releases issued by Accel Kitchen. Members of the press are also welcome to see our media-coverage record in newspapers, on television and beyond, together with our press & press-kit contact.
Yuzuka Sasaki photographs the light of radiation with an ordinary camera — an experiment that fits one class period
Yuzuka Sasaki — who began measuring cosmic rays with Accel Kitchen in junior high and went on to CERN and the International Nuclear Science Olympiad — directly photographed the light radiation makes inside a crystal with an ordinary digital camera, and showed that the way it spreads reveals the energy. Supported by the SEEDS program of The University of Osaka and Accel Kitchen.
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Six detectors, four countries, twenty-five days — building the stations where students measure the same sky
Between 23 July and 16 August 2026, founder Kazuo Tanaka visited Senegal, Brazil, Argentina and the Dominican Republic, running cosmic-ray workshops at host universities and leaving six detectors behind. At ICHEP2026 in Natal he presented the programme to the particle-physics community.
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Seventeen elementary particles, drawn as characters ─ a new illustrated field guide from Sogensha
Accel Kitchen founder Kazuo Tanaka and illustrator Yukimi Hashimoto publish a field guide that turns all seventeen known elementary particles — and undiscovered ones such as dark matter — into characters, with mass, lifetime and charge as species data. 128 pages, including 32 columns and a guide to visiting Japan’s accelerator facilities.
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Eleven junior- and senior-high students conduct muon-beam experiments at J-PARC, the world’s highest-intensity accelerator
On 20–21 June 2026, in the Muon D1 Area of J-PARC MLF, eleven junior- and senior-high students carried out muon-beam experiments on five themes they devised themselves — the second time after last year’s world-first.
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Junior- and senior-high students take on muon-beam experiments at J-PARC, the world’s highest-intensity accelerator (Media advisory)
On 20–21 June 2026, in the Muon D1 Area of J-PARC MLF, eleven junior- and senior-high students take on muon-beam experiments on five themes they devised themselves — the second time after last year’s world-first. Members of the press are warmly invited to cover it.
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Palm-sized cosmic-ray detector developed by high-school students: CERN performance-evaluation results published in the international journal NIM-A
Research on “SAKURA,” a two-dimensional cosmic-ray imaging detector developed by the high-school team Sakura Particles, has been published in the international journal NIM-A. Five high-school students handled everything from design to writing the paper.
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