StFX voted new member of Belle II collaboration; providing opportunity to work on potentially Nobel Prize winning research
(World News Science)

StFX has received some very good news. The university, through its Physics Department, has been voted as a new institutional member of the Belle II collaboration, a major particle physics experiment that includes over 100 institutions and close to 1,000 members worldwide. The collaboration is based at the KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) in Japan. It carries out and continues research work that has previously resulted in a Nobel Prize. StFX physics professor Dr. Hossain Ahmed was in Japan in late June to present StFX`s presentation to join Belle II. He says it is rare that a primarily undergraduate university is part of this type of...