RIBF User Group Town Meeting
22 March, 2018@TUS

UEC Report: Isobe
RNC-RIBF Report: Yoneda
Report on the mid-term plan: Ueno

FY2017 (and 2018?) RIBF UEC members• Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2019

• T. Isobe : RNC : Exp. : Chair Æ vice-chair from FY2018• T. Nakamura : Titech : Exp. : HP
• S. Ota : CNS : Exp. : Users meeting• Y. Kanada-En'yo : Kyoto : Theor. : Thesis award• K. Yoshida : Niigata : Theor. : vice-chair, RIBF User Group List

• Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2021

• K. Wimmer : U-Tokyo : Exp. : vice-chair Æ chair from FY2018• S. Sakaguchi : Kyusyu : Exp. : HP, Users meeting HP• Y. Watanabe : KEK : Exp. : Users meeting• W. Horiuchi : Hokkaido : Theor. : Thesis award• T. Matsumoto : Kyusyu : Theor. : RIBF User Group List

• Supplemental members• M. Asai : JAEA : Exp• J. Gibelin : LPC : Exp.

UEC activity• Report at RIBF MT Committee meeting• Thesis award• Award for 2018 is under preparation• RIBF 10th anniversary symposium• 2 day workshop. ~120 participants.

• Users meeting 2018RIBF week 2018 Sep 3rd.~• Sep. 3 (Mon.) : SAMURAI ICW• Sep. 4 (Tue.) : SAMURAI ICW• Sep. 5 (Wed.) : RIBF Users meeting• Sep. 6 (Thu.) : RIBF Users meeting / SUNFLOWERWS• Sep. 7 (Fri.) : SUNFLOWER WS

What I wanted to do.
• Provide occasion to establish strong
communication among nuclear physicists forfuture RIBF.
• experimentalists and theorists• domestic users and foreign users• Think strategy to introduce γ-tracking array
seriously.
• Whitepaper is being made.
• Maybe need to have workshop.

RIBF Status ReportKen-ichiro YONEDA
User Liaison and Industry Cooperation GroupRIKEN Nishina Center
RIBF Users Group Town Meeting
Tokyo University of Science, Noda, 22 March, 2018

• RRC RF Update• “User Fee” Issue• RIBF Beam Time Operation in 2nd Half of FY2017• Beam Time Plan in and after 1st Half of FY2018• Announcements

RRC RF update (1/3)
shown in last Town Meeting
picture by K.Yamada

 old cooling water pipe à renewed Frequency coverage 20-45MHz à 16-38.7MHz
V acceleration 18.25 MHz to be in the range
U acceleration also 18.25 MHzRRC RF update (2/3)

RRC RF update (3/3)

 on-site work underway as scheduled test & conditioning from April

“User Fee” Issue
Report Article by Director En’yo

Pressure for “fee”
seems to be getting
weaker, but…

To appear in the next “Nuclear Physics News”

Beam Time Operation -- FY2017 2nd Half

• 238U only in new facility“reserved” experiments only
• SHE experiment @ E6 started
Now

Beam Time Schedule Oct-Dec 2017
October
DecemberNovember

SHE@E6

ImPACT-OEDO

BRIKENBeam Time Schedule Jan-Mar 2018

January

SHE@E6MarchFebruary

AVF-standalone only

RRC: RF update
until end of MarchBeam Time Operation -- FY2018 1st Half

• RIBF new facility after “golden week”• June 78Kr still conditional• SHE@E6 1st priority
NowBeam Time Plan April-June 2018

April

June
SHE@E6
RRC: RF conditioning
May78Kr, tentative

18O

http://www.nishina.riken.go.jp/rarfmt/pc.html

Beam Time Plan July-September 2018

July

September
SHE@E6SHE@E6August

http://www.nishina.riken.go.jp/rarfmt/pc.html

Backlog experiments

beam# expdays

Light ions320.518O

41948Ca730.570Zn

421.5

78Kr

636.5

124Xe

319.5

238U

1375

Total

40222.5

FY2017 – 64.5 days of PAC-approved exps done
FY2016 – 79 days of PAC-approved exps done
FY2015 – 62 days of PAC-approved exps doneAnnouncements (1/2)

Publication List
from NP-PAC expts
Now available
on the web

Here!

Announcements (2/2)•

Next NP-PAC
to be held on 29 Nov (Thu) – 1 Dec (Sat)
NN2018@Omiya 4 Dec (Tue) – 8 Dec (Sat)•RIBF Symposium and Mini-Workshop
http://www.nishina.riken.go.jp/ulic/ulic_apply.html[Symposium]
Objective: Exchange views among researchers in a relevant field.
Maximum amount of financial support: 500,000 JPY
Deadline: Application must be submitted in March and in September.
[Mini-Workshop]
Objective: To solve specific problem. Analysis meeting is acceptable.
Maximum amount of financial support: 150,000 JPY
Deadline: Applications will be accepted all the time being reviewed
and evaluated immediately.