Topics

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

January 21, 2013

From January 9(Wed) to 11(Fri), the sixteenth J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting was held at Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center (IQBRC), Tokai, with the participation of thirteen committee members (eleven members from outside KEK, including seven from abroad). Committee members visited J-PARC in the morning of January 9 preceding the meeting.

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 Junji Haba, Professor of the KEK Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS).

Following the opening remark by Masanori Yamauchi, Director of KEK-IPNS, the status and plan of the accelerator complex, status of the running experiments (the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment as well as, in the Hadron Hall, the nuclear and hadron experiments at the K1.8 beamline and a kaon decay experiment at the KL beamline), and progress in the R&D of experiments in preparation were reported. This time the PAC meeting was held in Tokai; many physicists who are currently doing experiments at the J-PARC site participated in the open sessions.

Also, this time, a new proposal for an experiment at a high-momentum beam line and two 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.