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KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, in Tsukuba, near Tokyo, will go live on May 24th.
ECONOMIST: What��s the matter?
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Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.
ECONOMIST: The 2008 Nobel science prizes
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"It's taken years of hard work and close collaboration among universities, national laboratories and private companies to get to this point, " said Pier Oddone, director of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
ENGADGET: NOvA neutrino detector captures cosmic rays in 3D, aims to unlock the mysteries of the universe