From January 15 to 17,
the 9th J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting
was held at KEK Tsukuba Campus.
Since the term of some PAC members is expired at the end of this fiscal year
and new members will join in April,
both the current and new PAC members,
twenty in total including eight from abroad,
attended this meeting. The committee is chaired by Katsuo Tokushuku,
Professor of KEK Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS).
Following the opening remark by Koichiro Nishikawa,
Director of KEK-IPNS, the latest status of the J-PARC accelerator complex,
achievements in the commissioning of
the secondary beamlines
(the neutrino beamline for the T2K experiment
as well as the K1.8BR, K1.8, KL beamlines in the Hadron Hall),
progress in the R&D of the experiments in preparation,
and future perspective of J-PARC were reported.
Also, this time,
four new proposals and two resubmitted proposals,
including particle experiments with muons and neutrons
and nuclear experiments with hadrons,
were presented.
The committee will make comments on the reports
and evaluate the proposals,
and summarize the outputs as the meeting minutes in near future.
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