RIBF user group town meetingat the JPS fall meeting 2016
Agenda:1) RIBF user group activity report (Isobe) 30min.
2) Nishina center report (Yoneda) 15min.
3) Report on RIBF thesis award (Isobe) 5min.
4) Report on the RIBF Users Meeting 2016 (Ota) 10min.
5) Post RIBF plan (Ueno) 30min.
6) Other issues

UEC Report

17UEC member• N. Imai : CNS : Exp. (2013 - Mar. 2017)• T. Sumikama : Tohoku : Exp. (2013 - Mar. 2017)• A. Obertelli : Saclay : Exp. (2013 - Mar. 2017)• K. Ogata : RCNP, Okaka : Theor. (2013 - Mar. 2017) Vice Chair• M. Kimura : Hokkaido : Theor. (2013 - Mar. 2017)• T. Isobe : RNC : Exp. (2015 - Mar. 2019) Chair• T. Nakamura : Titech : Exp. (2015 - Mar. 2019) Web updating• S. Ota : CNS : Exp. (2015 - Mar. 2019) Users meeting• Y. Kanada-En'yo : Kyoto : Theor. (2015 - Mar. 2019) Thesis Award• K. Yoshida : Niigata : Theor. (2015 - Mar. 2019) RIBF Discussion
Supplement Member• P. Fallon : Berkeley : Exp (2015 - Mar. 2017)• J. Lee : Hong Kong : Exp (2015 - Mar. 2017)• M. Asai : JAEA : Exp (2015 - Mar. 2017)27

Activities• UEC meeting• MT Committee Observer Æ distributinghighlight• RIBF Users meeting Æ Ota-san• RIBF Users town meeting• RIBF Thesis award Æ Enyo-san• Co-hosted with RNC• RIBF discussion +3

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thUEC meeting at Sep 8 .
• Town meeting at Miyazaki• Requirement of FEE for the usage of RIBF.
• RIKEN guest house for the experiment at RIBF
• RIBF user liaison started new service: automaticbooking of 3 rooms at RIKEN guest house.

• RILAC long shutdown• For upgrading RILAC, RILAC is supposed to be
shutdown for a long time (half year?).

• Thesis award 201747

Requirement of FEE for the usage of RIBF.
• From this fiscal year, the budget dedicated for running
RIBF was approved.
• RIKEN executive committee asked RNC to consider
the external budgets including introduction of FEE for
the RIBF users.
• As of today, policy of RNC is not fixed yet.
• Director of RNC is thinking the introduction ofcollaboration FEE.
• 50Man-YEN/y?? (ISOLDE: 10-60Man-Yen/y, ALICE:100Man-Yen/y, BELLE: 10Man-Yen/y)• Director of RNC discussed this issue at Kakubutsuri
committee, RNC-AC and IUPAP-WG9• It is difficult to pay without beam. (Kakubutsuri)• In kind substitute. (Kakubutsuri)• Open access rule should be followed. (RNC-AC)• Do not use collaboration FEE for the operation of RIBF.
(WG9)

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Election of UEC member for
next period• Call for candidate: 2017 Jan.
• Voting: 2017 Feb.
• Voting rate was only 10~20% at last time.
• Proposal:• Chair of committee should not be RIKEN stuff.

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Number of users group members
700
680
660

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620
600
580
560
540
520
500
Nov-13Jun-14

Dec-14Jul-15Jan-16Aug-16

Mar-17• 30peoper/year• Number of members whose mail address
includes “.jp” is 431 out of 640: ~67% is
expected to be domestic users.
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RIBF Status ReportKen-ichiro YONEDA
User Liaison and Industry Cooperation GroupRIKEN Nishina Center
RIBF Users Group Town Meeting
University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, September 21, 2016• On-Campus Accommodation• RIBF Beam Time Operation in 1st half ofFY2016• Beam Time Plan of 2nd half of FY2016• Announcements

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FY2016 1st half

• SRC/BigRIPS experiments
April – June
238U, 124Xe, 18O
Now

Beam Time Schedule April – June 2016
MayApril

RRC trouble

ESPRI

238UJune

SAMURAI
TPC

238U
124Xe

CNS Active Target

EURICA final
SHARAQ
18O

SAMURAIBeam Time Schedule July – September 2016
AugustJuly

September

Low-energy branch only

FY2016 2nd half

• SRC/BigRIPS experiments“135 days” operation
238U, 48Ca (will be running out?)
NowBeam Time Schedule Plan: Oct.– Dec. 2016
Novembernucl. radius

October

BRIKEN
In-beamgamma
48Ca

238U

December

SAMURAIImPACTR3 testSAMURAINew isotope

Beam Time Schedule Plan: Jan. – Mar. 2017
Febraury

January

October
AugustScheduling
Request in June

Backlog experiments

beam

# exp

days

Light ions

424.5

18O

42048Ca413.570Zn

53478Kr

210238U

935.5

Total

28137.5* 14.5 days to be re-evaluated not included

FY2016 – 80.5 days of PAC-approved exps to be done
FY2015 – 62 days of PAC-approved exps doneAnnouncements•NP-PAC– Once a Year (for a while)– Next: December 1-3, 2016
– Call for Proposals issued in July, deadline October 11– Replacement of proposals after submission deadline is NOT accepted•

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 reviewedand evaluated immediately.

RIBF Users Thesisaward

Reports on Thesis Award 2016
• In the call of recommendations of nominees, a new
category of theoretical study related to physics at RIBF
has been added.
1. Experimental study related to an RIBF facility
2. Theoretical study related to physics at RIBF (new!)• Recommendations of nominees have been called by
RIBF-UEC and RIKEN Nishina Center(RNC), officially theUEC chair and the RNC director.
• The selection committee consists of UEC members and amember from the RNC who was appointed by the UEC chair
and the RNC director.
• Certifications and plates (new!) have been given to winners.
• A certificate ceremony and Award lectures have been held inthe special session of RIBF users group meeting (Sep.8).

Results• As already announced in the RIBF-users ML,twotheses have been selected from 9 applicants
including 4 applicants from non-Japaneseinstitutions (5 experimental and 4 theoreticaltheses),• Dr. Kosho Minomo (RCNP, Osaka)• "Determination of deformed and halo structure ofunstable nuclei by fully microscopic theory“• Dr. Clementine Santamaria (NSCL,MSU)• "Quest for new nuclear magic numbers withMINOS"

Non-English thesis• UEC discussed application of non-English thesis
and decided to accept a non-English thesis only ifthere is English publication(s) which contains main
results of the thesis.
• Moreover,• An extended abstract (About 5 pages) will be requested.
• including brief description of each chapter.

• In case that no one in the selection committee can read theoriginal thesis, we ask native reviewers from outside.
• More than one referee per report is desirable.

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