MESON collaboration meeting
(MESON99)
MESON collaboration meeting was held
at RCNP in
Osaka on March 8 in 1999.
The participants were
A.D. Krisch , S. Kullander, Z.
Sujkowski, M.
Harakeh, K. Kilian, A.W. Thomas, J. Arview
J. Cameron, W.T.H. van
Oers, O.
Schult, V. Gogohia, Y. Nagai, H. Ejiri, and H.
Toki
We state here briefly the idea and
the history
of MESON in order to remind the
purpose of MESON.
International
collaborations among medium
nuclear particle
laboratories/groups are now getting
very
important. Actually, it is
not realistic
and appropriate for each laboratory
to have all
kinds of accelerators/beams,
detectors/spectrometers and research
groups.
Directors/group leaders of eleven laboratories in the
field of
the medium energy physics got
together at RCNP Osaka on March 1997
to discuss
possible collaboration. We then agreed
to build an international
collaboration network
MESON (Medium Energy Science Open Network)
in order to
1. Promote
international
collaboration in medium energy physics
2. More effectively conduct
research
in medium energy physics
3. Encourage efficient use of research
facilities by
the international community
4. Facilitate the free exchange of
scientific and
technical staff and students
MESON 97 was held at RCNP Osaka in
May 1997,
just after the International Symposium on
Quark Lepton Nuclear Physics at
Osaka.
There we discussed possible collaborations on
experimental and theoretical
research programs
and on future plans.
Hence, we felt it a good time to hold MESON
99 on
the occasions of the International
Symposium on Nuclear Electron Weak
Spectroscopy
for Symmetries in Electro Weak
Nuclear-processes, NEWS 99, which
was held from
March 9 to 12 in Osaka.
The program included is
1.
Discussions on
research and collaboration programs at individual laboratories
(17:00-18:30)
2. Discussions on future plans (18:30-19:00)
3.
Dinner and
free discussions (19:00-20:00)
4. Free Discussions and Summary
(20:00-21:00)
We have heard the present status of each laboratory
and
group from all the participants.
We could know the recent activities
of these
places. Particularly important to note here
is the intimate collaboration of the
three
institutes in Europe (Uppsala, Groningen, Juelich)
to provide the efficient use of
their
experimental facilities to Europian nuclear physicists.
We made sure the continuation of the
MESON
collaboration. We discussed the possibility of
moving the chairman to someone in
another
institute. We decided to keep H. Ejiri
as the chairman of MESON and
selected again H.
Toki as the Scientific Secretary.
We decided to hold the next MESON
meeting at
Adelaide in connection with the
International Symposium on Quark
Nuclear Physics
(QNP2000).
Chairman: H. Ejiri
(RCNP-Osaka)
Scientific Secretary: H. Toki
(RCNP-Osaka)