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Thirteenth Program Advisory Committee Meeting for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at J-PARC Held

January 30, 2012

Opening remark by Koichiro Nishikawa, Director of KEK-IPNS

From January 13 to 15, the thirteenth J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting was held at KEK Tsukuba Campus with the participation of fourteen committee members (twelve members from outside KEK, including five from abroad).
The PAC is the committee to evaluate and assess joint-usage proposals on the experiments at the J-PARC Main Ring as well as important issues to push forward the research program. The committee is chaired by Katsuo Tokushuku, Professor of the KEK Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS).

Following the opening remark by Koichiro Nishikawa, Director of KEK-IPNS, the status of the recovery of J-PARC, the achievements of the accelerator complex from test run of beams starting in Decemberand the operation plan, the readiness of the experimental programs to be resumed (the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment as well as, in the Hadron Hall, the nuclear and hadron experiments at the K1.8 and K1.8BR beamlines and a kaon decay experiment at the KL beamline, etc.), and progress in the R&D of experiments in preparation were reported. Also, this time, a new proposal to search for H-Dibaryon was presented. The committee will comment on the reports and evaluate the proposals, and summarize the outputs as the meeting minutes in the near future.

Spokespersons representing experimental groups reported the status.