Ⅳ. OPERATION RECORDS

RIKEN Accel. Prog. Rep. 51 (2018)

Program Advisory Committee meetings for nuclear physics and formaterials and life experiments
K. Yoneda,∗1 K. Ishida,∗1 H. Yamazaki,∗1 N. Imai,∗2 Y. X. Watanabe,∗3 K. Yako,∗2
H. Miyatake,∗3 M. Iwasaki,∗1 H. Ueno,∗1 and H. Sakai∗1
The Program Advisory Committees (PAC) are incharge of reviewing the scientific proposals submitted
for the use of the accelerator facility of RIKEN Nishina
Center (RNC). Three PAC meetings were held in fiscalyear 2017; one for the proposals of nuclear physics (NPPAC), and two for the proposals of materials and life
experiments (ML-PAC). The NP-PAC reviewed experimental proposals at RIBF, whereas the ML-PAC reviewed proposals at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory(RAL) and RIBF.
NP-PACThe 18th NP-PAC meeting was held from December 7–9, 2017,1) with attendance of 16 PAC members
including 8 new members. In this meeting, the experimental proposals that utilize OEDO were called forthe first time.
In the 18th NP-PAC meeting, 36 proposals were reviewed, and 25 proposals were approved as grade S or
A. The outcome of the NP-PAC meeting is summarizedin Table 1.
The 18th NP-PAC members are as follows:
A. Bracco (INFN, the chair), D. Ackermann (GANIL),
A. Andreyev (University of York), I. Hamamoto (University of Lund/RNC), R. V. F. Janssens (Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill), A. O. Macchiavelli(LBNL), D. J. Morrissey (MSU), T. Nagae (Kyoto
University), H. Nakada (Chiba University), K. Ogata(RCNP, Osaka University), T. Rauscher (University of Hertfordshire), K. Sekiguchi (Tohoku University), H. Simon (GSI), P. Van Duppen (KU Leuven),
Y. -H. Zhang (IMP). Angela Bracco from INFN became a new chairperson of the meeting.

ML-PACThe 14th and 15th ML-PAC meetings were held on
July 3, 2017, and January 11, 2018, respectively.2) The
proposal review was performed using only submitted
documents, i.e., no presentation was given by proponents, as was done for the first time in the 13th MLPAC meeting. The outcome of the meeting is summarized in Table 2.
The 14th and 15th ML-PAC members are as follows:
∗1
∗2
∗3

RIKEN Nishina Center
Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo
Wako Nulcear Science Center, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK- 247 -

Table 1. Summary of the outcome of the 18th NP-PAC
meeting. The proposals ranked as S and A are treatedas the “approved” proposals.
18th NP-PAC (December 7–9, 2017)
requested
approved
proposals (days) proposals (days)
GARIS (RILAC)
2 (57)
2 (53.5)
CRIB (AVF)
5 (38.5)
3 (17)
RIPS
1 (6)
1 (3)
KISS
3 (23.5)
3 (16.5)
BigRIPS/ZD
19 (133.5)
12 (50.5)
SHARAQ/OEDO
2 (16.5)
1 (10.5)
Rare RI Ring
1 (15)
1 (10.5)
SAMURAI
3 (27)
2 (15.5)
Total
36 (317)25 (173.5)

Table 2. Summary of the outcome of the 14th and 15th
ML-PAC meetings. The RIBF proposals ranked as A
are treated as the “approved” proposals.
14th ML-PAC (July 3, 2017)
requested
approved
proposals (days) proposals (days)
RAL
12 (52)8 (26)
RIBF
3 (18.5)
2 (8)
Total
15 (70.5)
10 (34)15th ML-PAC (January 11, 2018)
requested
approved
proposals (days) proposals (days)
RAL
21 (87)17 (47)RIBF
1 (6.5)1 (6.5)Total
30 (199)
22 (82)

A. Hiller (ISIS, RAL, the chair), T. Azuma (RIKEN),
R. Kadono (KEK), A. Kawamoto (Hokkaido University), N. Kojima (Toyota RIKEN), K. Kubo (ICU),
P. Mendels (University of Paris), A. Shinohara (OsakaUniversity), S. Sulaiman (Universiti Sains Malaysia),
H. Yamase (NIMS), S. Yoshida (Thera Projects Associates), and X. G. Zheng (Saga University).

References
1) http://www.nishina.riken.jp/RIBF/NP-PAC/index.html
2) http://www.nishina.riken.jp/RIBF/ML-PAC/index.html