WPI-QUP

QUP is bringing “new eyes” to see this beautiful world by developing new sensors and systems to measure quantum fields — a WPI Research Center hosted by KEK.

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📣Press release

A research team led by WPI-#QUP PI: Takhistov has theoretically demonstrated that exploiting the three-level structure of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can significantly improve the search for ultralight DM.

https://t.co/BA5vAFH6fj

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On Apr 17, KEK staff toured WPI-#QUP’s new building; 60+ received explanations on seminar rooms, clean booths, dilution fridges, and anechoic chamber.

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Prof. T. Azuma (WPI-#QUP) and his international team have achieved the world’s first direct observation of X-rays emitted from resonant states of “muonic molecules,” consisting of two deuterium nuclei and a muon. Published in Science Advances.

QUP News⬇️
https://t.co/4e4f27mLz9

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A large rainbow appeared beside the #QUP building yesterday evening.
Please take a look at the video🌈

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The presentation file for the #QUP Colloquium on March 24 (Tue) has been uploaded.

Title: Axions and ALPs: Candidates for Dark Matter and Probes of Fundamental Physics
Speaker: Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg U.)

QUP Colloquium:
https://t.co/2DFPRKyYiQ

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📣QUP News

The forum, titled “Explore ideas and expand networks across WPI centers,” was held on March 2nd at Mokuzai Kaikan on Tokyo Bay. From #QUP, two postdoctoral fellows, Thomas Schwenberger and Xiaolin Ma, joined it.

More details⬇️
https://t.co/YmLV9oI1VH

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WPI-#QUP PI: Tatsumi Nitta’s work on dark matter searches using the QUP cryo-facility has been featured in Forbes.

https://t.co/TLc2f6I7w6

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📣QUP News

WPI-#QUP celebrated new director and opening of a new research building on March 14, 2026.

More details⬇️
https://t.co/mtqjJhZYAV

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A ground electrode buried 39 meters underground!
Used to determine the electric potential with high precision.

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Any guesses what this is?

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📣QUP News

We have renewed and released the content of #QUP official website.

https://t.co/y2SJhEbIDc

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＼Young Scientists Visit QUPs 🔍／

On Feb 13, 30 students from Ibaraki Prefectural Katsuta Secondary School visited #KEK!

They enjoyed a #QUP lab tour and a mini lecture led by QUP PI H. Akamatsu👦👧

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📣QUP News

WPI- #QUP website has posted a report on the science café held at Saza Coffee Tsukuba University Alliance Branch.

More details⬇️
https://t.co/IqqVJIRARh

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On February 16, Professor Mark Thomson, the new Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), visited KEK. Director Thomson took up his post in January. His visit symbolizes the close relationship between the two centers of accelerator science in Europe and Japan. This is the first time in 10 years that a CERN Director General has visited KEK.

Hosted by Shoji Asai, KEK Director General, Director Thomson toured the KEK Tsukuba campus, visiting the SuperKEKB accelerator and the International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems (QUP). After a lunch meeting with senior officials, Director Thomson gave a lecture in Kobayashi Hall on the current state and outlook for particle physics.

Cooperation between KEK and CERN began in earnest in the 1990s when Japan officially joined CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. Since then, the two organizations have been conducting joint research and development on projects such as the ATLAS experiment, LHC upgrades, and future accelerator projects.

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Our joint theory-experiment study, now in Physical Review D, develops a detailed framework showing how sensitive sub-eV TES detectors can extend light dark matter searches into the sub-GeV regime. Related underground experimental efforts are underway. https://t.co/0gDIbuED3Z

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📣QUP News

WPI-#QUP experimentalists and theorists propose dark matter searches with superconducting TES detectors. The paper was published in Physical Review D.

More details⬇️
https://t.co/AD4qukNvtp

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Records of the Laboratory's Construction🎥

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The Cold Giant's Entrance❗️

The infrastructure of the new #QUP laboratory is in progress. Two dilution refrigerators have been moved to the lab, and clean rooms have been built for developing detectors.

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The Cold Giant's Entrance❗️

The infrastructure of the new #QUP laboratory is in progress. Two dilution refrigerators have been moved to the lab, and clean rooms have been built for developing detectors.

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Four #QUP researchers received the KEK DG award👑 Here is a glorious snapshot of two of them, PIs. Akamatsu and Miyahara📸