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The Twelfth Program Advisory Committee meeting for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at J-PARC was held

25 Jul 2011

From July 8 to 10, the twelfth J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting was held at KEK Tsukuba Campus with twelve committee members (ten members from outside KEK, including three from abroad). The PAC is the committee to evaluate and assess joint-usage proposals on the experiments at the J-PARC 50GeV Synchrotron as well as important issues to push forward the research program. 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 achievements and the status of the J-PARC accelerator complex and experimental facilities before and after the earthquake on March 11, the readiness of the expermental programs to be resumed (T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment as well as, in the Hadron Hall, nuclear and hadron experiments at the K1.8 and K1.8BR beamlines, q kaon decay experment at the KL beamline, and a test experiment of a liquid Argon detector at the K1.1BR beamline, etc.), and the progress in the R&D of the experiments in preparation were reported.

Also, this time, two resubmitted proposals 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.