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ILANCE

International Laboratory for Astrophysics, Neutrino and Cosmology Experiments

 

Date of creation: 2021

CNRS Institute: CNRS Nuclei & Particles

French director: Michel GONIN

Japanese partner: The University of Tokyo

Japanese co-director: Takaaki KAJITA

Staff: 4 to 5 CNRS researchers and engineers; 10 PIs for 5 research topics; 30 Japanese professors and collaborators; postdoctoral fellows; PhD Students

Website: https://ilance.cnrs.fr/

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The University of Tokyo's Kashiwa Campus, where ILANCE will be located

The University of Tokyo’s Kashiwa Campus, where ILANCE will be located

OVERVIEW

A new international research laboratory is created on 1 April 2021 between CNRS and the University of Tokyo. The laboratory called “International Laboratory for Astrophysics, Neutrino and Cosmology Experiments”, or simply “ILANCE”, is located at the University of Tokyo’s Kashiwa Campus.

The creation of ILANCE between the University of Tokyo and CNRS Nuclei & Particles, a division of CNRS, will perfectly coincide with the start of new research programs in Japan and around the world, with a very great potential for first-class discoveries.

Over the past decades, the teams of this new laboratory have been actively involved in very successful international programs including France and Japan. Strengthening existing collaborations over a long period of time for fundamental research in physics at the smallest and largest scales of our universe, and developing new common research areas will be the objective of this program.

The scientific fields concerned by ILANCE are elementary particle physics, cosmology, astro-particles and astrophysics. This new laboratory will promote joint research projects between the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP), and the School of Science on one side, and ten laboratories operated by CNRS Nuclei & Particles on the other. More than fifty physicists from these different institutions or laboratories in France and Japan will participate in ILANCE’s activities.

In search of new discoveries, the field of elementary particles, cosmology and astrophysics explore what the universe is made of and what are its fundamental laws at the smallest and largest scales. The history of our universe has been dominated by the intimate relationship between these areas since its beginnings just under 15 billion years ago.

 

RESEARCH TOPICS

  • Neutrino, Particle and Cosmic Messenger
  • The Primordial Universe
  • The Dark Universe
  • Gravitational Waves
  • Particle Physics and Detectors

 

PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS AND LABORATORIES

 

IN FRANCE

  • CNRS Nuclei & Particles
  • Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet (UMR7638), Paris
  • APC (Astroparticule et Cosmologie, UMR7164), Paris
  • LPNHE (Laboratoire Physique Nucléaire et Hautes Energies, UMR7585), Paris
  • CPPM (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, UMR7346), Marseille
  • IP2I Lyon (Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon UMR5822), Lyon
  • LPC Clermont (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, UMR6533), Aubière
  • ICJLab (Laboratoire de Physique de 2 Infinis – Irène Joliot Curie UMR9012), Orsay
  • LPSC (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et Cosmologie UMR5821), Grenoble
  • LAPP (Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules, UMR5814), Annecy
  • IPHC (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR7178), Strasbourg

IN JAPAN

  • The University of Tokyo
  • ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research)
  • ICEPP (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics)
  • UTIAS (The University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies)
  • Kavli IPMU (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe)
  • School of Science
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Astronomy
  • RESCEU (Research Center for the Early Universe)
  • IoA (Institute of Astronomy)