1. Experiment
This is the call for new proposals as well as updated proposals
for experiments at the RCNP Cyclotron Facility. They may be submitted
to the Director of RCNP at any time. The RCNP Beam-time Program
Advisory Committee (B-PAC)* evaluates scientific values and
feasibilities of the proposed experiments as well as the budget
requests. The result of the B-PAC is submitted to the Director. B-PAC
meets twice a year and reviews research programs received more than
one month in advance of the B-PAC meeting. The spokesperson or one of
his colleagues is requested to give an oral presentation of the
proposal at B-PAC. According to the recommendation of B-PAC, beam
time will be scheduled for approved proposals.
AVF and RING cyclotrons will be stopped till March in 2013 due to
the building upgrade. Detailed schedule will be informed when it is
fixed.
The deadline of proposals to be reviewed in the coming B-PAC is
13 February (Wednesday), 2013. Electronic submission is strongly recommended.
The next B-PAC meeting will be held on 15 March (Friday), 2013.
The spokespersons are strongly requested to give the presentation for
the B-PAC by themselves.
Spokespersons are requested to send the numerical data to the
Japan Charged-Particle Reaction data Group (JCPRG) in order to add
them to the data base after completing their experiments. URL of
JCPRG is http://www.jcprg.org/.
The beam time for approved proposals will be scheduled within
2 years from the date of the approval, depending on the status of the
preparations.
A proposal should include COVER PAGE, SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENT and DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED RESEARCH. Proposals should be sent to the RCNP
Director with "Research Program" clearly written on the envelope if it
is sent by conventional mail. The official language is English.
A document is required to describe details on radiation conditions
in the experiment. The form(pdf) is available on the URL
http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/rad/index.html,
which is in Japanese.
The RCNP Director keeps about 10% of the total beam time to be
distributed at his own discretion. This includes beam time for training
undergraduate students upon request. Those who are interested in this
beam time are asked to submit the proper proposals, at any time to the
Director.
2. Project
Proposals are called for projects which fill at least one of
following criteria.
a. Experiments which are expected to take more than 2 years to be
completed.
b. Experiments which request budgets larger than ten millions JPY
in total to RCNP.
c. Experiments which request beamtime longer than 30 days/year.
d. Projects for constructing new equipment or for doing fundamental
developments which are expected to be widely used in other
experiments.
Proposals will be reviewed by the P-PAC or a sub-committee of
P-PAC, if necessary. The spokesperson is requested to give an oral
presentation of the proposal. The deadline of proposals to be reviewed
in the coming P-PAC is 13 February (Wednesday), 2013.
At the end of the project, the spokesperson should write a report
on the accomplishments, budgets and other details of the project as an
article of the RCNP Annual Report.
Details of the call for project proposals are found on
http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/plan/project/index.html.
3. Present Status and Highlights of RCNP Cyclotron Facilities
The present status of RCNP Cyclotron Facilities is found on the
Web pages for reference for Proposals. URL is
http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/plan/b-pac/reference.html.
The WS beam course realizes both the lateral and angular
dispersion matchings. An energy resolution of better than 20 keV was
achieved with 400 MeV protons.
4. Application form
Application forms for Experiment and Project can be found on the following Web page:
http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/plan/b-pac/application.html
Document for radiation estimation can be found on the following Web page:
http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/Divisions/rad/index.html.
If you have any problem to access the URL, please contact Prof.
K. Hatanaka (hatanaka@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp).
* Present B-PAC committee
N. Aoi RCNP, Osaka University
D. Beaumel IPN, Orsay
U. Garg Notre Dame University
M. Harakeh KVI/GSI
M. Matsuo Niigata University
T. Myo Osaka Institute of Technolody
K. Ogata RCNP, Osaka University
K. Sekiguchi Tohoku University
T. Suda ELPH, Tohoku University
T. Wakasa Kyushu University
Mailing address for Proposals is following. Electronic submission is
strongly recommended.
Director Tadafumi Kishimoto
Research Center for Nuclear Physics(RCNP), Osaka University,
10-1 Mihogaoka Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
FAX: +81-6-6879-8899
Tel: +81-6-6879-8900
e-mail: director@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp
Tadafumi Kishimoto
Director of RCNP
Osaka University