Canada & Japan sign new partnership agreement

Canada and Japan have signed a partnership agreement to enhance collaboration between TRIUMF and KEK, Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. The agreement will see the centres establish a branch office at each other's institution to boost research collaboration and joint projects ahead of next year's 30th anniversary of the Canada-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement. Both centres are world leaders in particle and nuclear physics and have an extensive history of collaboration in areas such as materials and molecular science, and particle physics. Current areas of collaboration include the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the T2K particle physics experiment and the proposed International Linear Collider....