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Do you wish to:
- probe the ultimate limits of scientific knowledge?
- understand how it is acquired?
- reflect on its meaning?

Then come in, come do physics with us at ICRR's Kamioka Observatory:
do experiments that seek such knowledge!

Some recent highlights:

XENONnT - "First place in Cleanliness" wipes out old "signal" and confers new bragging rights:
New results from an upgraded detector

presented on July 22, 2022, at the IDM2022 conference in Vienna, Austria:
The IDM2022 presentation by our collaborator Knut Moraa,
our corresponding Physical Review Letters accepted paper,
the corresponding main press release,
our Kavli IPMU press release with comments by our Kavi IPMU group members in English and Nihongo,
... and some excellent independent commentary to give you some perspective on what we did here.

The XENON collaboration's big surprise on June 17, 2020, based on XENON1T data:
Low Energy Electronic Recoil Excess

Our corresponding paper on arXiv and published in Physical Review D
The Kavli IPMU press release in English and Nihongo.

Press coverage: New York Times , Forbes and nice blog: Resonaances

Did you come to know what I am about?
Here is an interview I recently had with my most awkward of buddies: with myself...