Ⅳ. OPERATION RECORDS

RIKEN Accel. Prog. Rep. 50 (2017)

Program Advisory Committee meetings
for nuclear physics and for materials and life experiments
K. Yoneda, ∗1 K. Ishida, ∗1 H. Yamazaki, ∗1 N. Imai, ∗2 Y.X. Watanabe, ∗3 K. Yako, ∗2H. Miyatake, ∗3 M. Iwasaki, ∗1 H. Ueno, ∗1 and H. Sakai∗1The Program Advisory Committees (PAC) is incharge of reviewing scientiﬁc proposals submitted foruse of the accelerator facility of RIKEN Nishina Center(RNC). In Fiscal Year 2016, two PAC meetings wereheld; one for proposals of nuclear physics (NP-PAC),
and one for 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) andRIBF.
NP-PACThe 17th NP-PAC meetings were held on December
1–3, 20161) . From this 17th NP-PAC, the experimental
proposals which utilize the Rare RI Ring were called
for the ﬁrst time.
In the 17th NP-PAC meeting, 25 proposals were reviewed, and 17 proposals were approved as grade S or
A. There was a proposal which requrested beam time
for both RIPS and BigRIPS, and only RIPS part wasapproved. The outcome of these NP-PAC meetings issummarized in Table 1.
The 17th NP-PAC members are as follows:
B.M. Sherrill (NSCL, MSU, the chair), A. Andreyev(University of York), A. Bracco (INFN), I. Hamamoto(University of Lund/RNC), H. Iwasaki (MSU),
W. Loveland (Oregon State University), S. Nakamura(Tohoku University), T. Nilsson (Chalmers Universityof Technology), K. Ogata (RCNP, Osaka University),
T. Rauscher (University of Hertfordshire), H. Simon(GSI), O. Sorlin (GANIL, absent), A. Tamii (RCNP,Osaka University), Y. Utsuno (JAEA), P. Van Duppen(KU Leuven), Y.-H. Zhang (IMP).
ML-PACThe 13th ML-PAC meeting was held on January 19–20, 20172) . This was the ﬁrst ML-PAC meeting wherethe proposals were reviewed only with documents submitted, i.e. no presentation was made by the proponents. In this meeting, 25 RAL proposals and 5 RIBF
proposals were reviewed. The summary of the outcomeof the meeting is given in Table 2.
The 13th ML-PAC members are as follows:
A. Hiller (ISIS, RAL, the chair), T. Azuma (RIKEN),
∗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- 277 -Table 1. Summary of the outcome of the 17th NP-PAC
meeting. The proposals ranked with S and A are
treated as the “approved” proposals. There was a proposal which requested beam time for both RIPS andBigRIPS.
17th NP-PAC (December 1–3, 2016)
requested
approved
proposals (days) proposals (days)
GARIS (RILAC)
2 (29)2 (29)
CRIB (AVF)
2 (27)0 (0)RIPS
2 (15.5)
2 (10.5)
KISS
2 (19.5)
2 (14.5)
BigRIPS/ZD
11(12) (104)
7 (49)
Rare RI Ring
2 (29.5)
1 (10)SAMURAI
4 (38)
3 (25)
Construction
0 (-)
0 (-)
Total
25(26) 262.5
17 (138)

Table 2. Summary of the outcome of the 13th ML-PAC
meeting.
13th ML-PAC (January 19–20, 2017)
requested
approved
proposals (days) proposals (days)
RAL
25 (171)
17 (54)RIBF
5 (28)
5 (28)
Total
30 (199)
22 (82)

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,absent), H. Yamase (NIMS), S. Yoshida (Thera
Projects Associates, absent), and X.G. Zheng (SagaUniversity).

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