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

March 22, 2012

On March 16 and 17, the fourteenth J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting was held at KEK Tsukuba Campus with the participation of thirteen committee members(eleven members from outside KEK, including four 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). This meeting is specially arranged to discuss the running plan of the experiments until June of this year and the mid-term plan in future.

Following the opening remark by Koichiro Nishikawa, Director of KEK-IPNS, the status and plan of the accelerator complex, reports from the experiments resumed from January(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), and progress in planning the future experimental programs in the Hadron Hall etc.were reported. The committee will comment on the reports, and summarize the outputs as the meeting minutes in the near future.

There had questions and answers to the presentations for experiments at J-PARC.

Many participants in the open sessions.