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The 11th Program Advisory Committee meeting for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at J-PARC held

9 Feb 2011

The 11th Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting was held from January 14 to 16 at KEK Tsukuba Campus. The committee was chaired by Katsuo Tokushuku, Professor of the KEK Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS).

Following opening remarks by Koichiro Nishikawa, Director of KEK-IPNS, the experimental programs that have been performed during accelerator operations last autumn (T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment, the programs at the Hadron Hall including the search for penta-quarks, detector commissioning at the KL beam line, beam commissioning at the K1.1BR beam line etc), the current status of the J-PARC accelerator complex and the prospects for increasing the power, as well as the progress in the R&D works for the experiments being planned were reported. Also at the meeting, two new proposals, one resubmitted proposal, and one request for full approval were presented, including a hyperon-proton scattering experiment and a search for muon-electron conversion using a brand new technique. The committee will make comments on the reports and evaluate the proposals, and summarize the outputs as the meeting minutes in the near future.