Contents
Chapter 1

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1

Chapter 2

Beamlines ............................................................................................................... 3

Chapter 3

Storage Ring Operation .......................................................................................... 7

Chapter 4User Operations.................................................................................................... 10Chapter 5

Publications .......................................................................................................... 26

Appendix A

Summary of Experimental Stations ..................................................................... 35

Appendix B

List of Publications .............................................................................................. 43IIList of Figures
Figure 2-1

SPring-8 beamline map ............................................................................................... 7

Figure 3-1

SPring-8 storage ring operations ................................................................................. 9

Figure 4-1

Average number of selected proposals ...................................................................... 24

Figure 4-2

Selected ratio for each beamline ............................................................................... 24

Figure 4-3

Average of scheduled shifts per proposal .................................................................. 25

Figure 5-1

Summary of publications .......................................................................................... 28

Figure 5-2

Total publications in refereed papers......................................................................... 31

Figure 5-3

Publication of refereed papers ................................................................................... 32IIIIList of Tables
Table 2-1

SPring-8 beamlines .................................................................................................. 4

Table 2-2

Status of SPring-8 beamlines ................................................................................... 5

Table 3-1

SPring-8 storage ring operations ............................................................................. 8

Table 4-1

Proposal category................................................................................................... 11

Table 4-2

Number of submitted / selected / performed proposals for public use .................. 12

Table 4-3

Number of nanotechnology-related research proposals ........................................ 16

Table 4-4

Number of trial use program proposals ................................................................. 18

Table4-5

Medical bio trial use proposal................................................................................ 18

Table 4-6

Number of the program for strategic use of advanced large-scale researchresearch
facilities
facilities ..........................................................................................................
19

Table 4-7

Performed proposals for the protein 500. .............................................................. 20

Table 4-8

Number of long-term proposals ............................................................................. 20

Table 4-9-1

Power user proposals (2003A~2005B) .................................................................. 20

Table 4-9-2

Power user proposals (2006A~2007B) .................................................................. 20

Table4-10-1

Strategy proposals (2004A~2005B) ...................................................................... 21

Table 4-10-2 Strategy proposals (2006A~2007B) ...................................................................... 21
Table 4-11

Budding researchers support proposal ................................................................... 22

Table 4-12

Industrial application proposal .............................................................................. 23

Table 5-1

Summary of publications ....................................................................................... 26

Table 5-2

Publications of refereed papers .............................................................................. 29

Table5-3

Number of publications in journals ....................................................................... 33

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