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

July 27, 2012

From July 13(Fri) to 15(Sun), the fifteenth 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 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.
From this meeting the committee is chaired by Junji Haba, Professor of the KEK Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS). The ex-committee members whose term of service was over at the end of March attended the meeting as observers.

Following the opening remark by Masanori Yamauchi, Director of KEK-IPNS, the status and plan of the accelerator complex, status of the experiments to be performed from this year to the summer of 2013(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 the R&D of experiments in preparation were reported.
The open sessions of this PAC meeting on Friday and in the morning of Saturday were held at Kobayashi Hall in the style of symposium; many physicists who are currently not involved in the J-PARC projects joined the discussions.                                                        

Also, this time, a new proposal to measure the excited states of the nucleon and three proposals under consideration by PAC were presented.The committee will comment on the reports and evaluate the proposals, and summarize the outputs as the meeting minutes in the near future.