DRAFT MINUTES

IUPAP WG. 9 Nuclear Science Symposium and Annual General Meeting held at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN Tokyo Office), Tokyo, August 29-30, 2017

Present:
Robert Tribble – Chair IUPAP WG.9, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Navin Alahari – Director GANIL, France
Faical Azaiez – Director, iThemba Laboratories, Zuid-Afrika
Jonathan Bagger – Director TRIUMF, Canada
Angela Bracco – Chair NuPECC, INFN-Milano, Italy

Hideto En’yo – Director RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science,
Japan
Donald Geesaman – Past-Chair of NSAC, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Paolo Giubellino – Director FAIR Germany
Thomas Glasmacher – Director FRIB, Michigan State University, USA
Stuart Henderson – Director Jefferson Laboratory, USA
David Hertzog – Chair of NSAC, University of Washington, USA
Yeongduk Kim – Institute for Basic Science, Korea for Sun-Chan Jeong

Alinka Lepine-Szily – Co-Chair ALAFNA,
Universidade. de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Berndt Mueller – Associate Director BNL, USA
Naohito Saito – Director J-PARC, Japan
Kazuhiro, Tanaka –Chair of ANPhA, KEK, Japan
Wenlong Zhan – Vice-President Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Regrets:
Pierfuigi Campana – Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
Sun-Chan Jeong – Director RISP, Korea
Dong-Pil Min – Past-Chair, ANPhA, Seoul National University, Korea
Guenther Rosner - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dinesh Srivastava – Director VECC, India
Anthony W. Thomas – Past-Chair IUPAP WG.9, U. of Adelaide, Australia
Willem T. H. van Oers – Secretary IUPAP WG.9, TRIUMF/U. of Manitoba,
Canada

Absent:
Victor Matveev – Director JINR, Dubna, Russia

Members of IUPAP C12 present as observers:
Claes Fahlander - Lund University, Sweden
Andrey Fomichev – JINR-Dubna, Russia
Wei-Ping Liu - CIAE, China
Reiner Kruecken - TRIUMF, Canada

Hideyuki Sakai - Past-Chair C12, RIKEN, Japan
Rauno Julin – Jyvaskyla, Finland
Joachim Stroth - Secretary C12, Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany
Hirokazu Tamura - Tohuku University, Japan

Guests:
Joseph Carlson - LANL, USA
Marco Durante – Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics, INFN, Italy
Reiko Fujita – Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Jason Holt – TRIUMF, Canada
Masahiko Iwasaki – RIKEN, Japan
Toshitaka Kajino – NAOJ/UT, Japan
Cedric Lorce – Ecole Polytechnique, France
Marek Lewitowicz - GANIL, France
Satoshi Mihara – KEK, Japan
Tohru Motobayashi – RIKEN, Japan
Hitoshi Murayama – IPMU, Japan
Takashi Nakamura – Tokyo Tech., Japan

Jianwei Qiu – Jefferson Lab, USA
Nigel Orr – IN2P3, France
Luke Roberts – NSCL, Michigan State University, USA

Nigel Smith – SNOLAB, Canada
Wataru Todoroki – MEXT, Japan
Hideki Ueno – RIKEN, Japan
Tomohiro Uesaka – RIKEN, Japan
Yasushi Watanabe – RIKEN, Japan
Satoshi Yokkaichi – RIKEN, Japan

In-Camera Session Attendees (Funding Agency/Government Representatives):
Faical Azaiez – NRF, Zuid-Afrika
Jonathan Bagger – NSERC/NRC, Canada

Fanny Farget – CNRS/IN2P3, France
Fernando Ferroni – INFN, Italy
Richard Frederick Garrett – ANSTO, Australia
Timothy Hallman – Department of Energy, USA
Jenny Hiscock – STFC, United Kingdom
Shigeo Koyasu – RIKEN, Japan
Shoji Nagamiya - RIKEN, Japan
Eugenio Nappi – INFN, Italy
Franck Sabatie – CEA, France
Noriko Shiomitsu – RIKEN, Japan

Wenlong Zhan – Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Words of Welcome by Chair Robert E. Tribble

Current Membership of IUPAP WG.9

Since the last meeting, Paolo Giubellino has become the Director of FAIR , replacing Karlheinz Langanke as Director pro-tem, KazuhiroTanaka has become the Chair of ANPhA, and Stuart Henderson has become the Director of Jefferson Lab, replacing Hugh Montgomery.

In January 2018, Marek Lewitowicz will become chair of NuPECC and Angela Bracco
will become the past-chair of NuPECC; Guenther Rosner will rotate off the NuPECC Executive and IUPAP WG.9. The next election of the ALAFNA Chair is in October, 2017. IUPAP WG-9 needs to contact Indian institutions to find a replacement for Dinesh Srivastava, past-director of VECC.

Sun-Chan Jeong, Director of RISP, sent regrets at the last moment due to urgent meetings about RAON with various stake holders.

IUPAP WG.9 once again discussed the inclusion of representatives of the major deep underground science laboratories. There are a large number of such laboratories and a major question was how to equitably propose representation. Robert Tribble suggested that the underground laboratories should develop an organization of the relevant facilities which could elect a representative to be proposed as a member of IUPAP WG.9. Nigel Smith, SNOLAB, agreed to take this message back to the underground laboratories’ community.

Update of Report 41

Robert Tribble has distributed a list of the laboratories that had responded to the call this past winter to update laboratory descriptions in IUPAP Report 41, as well as a list of laboratories that had not responded and a list where the present contact information was stale. He asked all the IUPAP WG-9 members to follow up with the laboratories in their region that had not responded. Tribble and van Oers will be on point for updating the science summaries in Report 41. Donald Geesaman has agreed to help and they will be asking for additional help in the near future.

Future Operation Plan of RIBF at RIKEN (Shigeo Koyasu)
Material: Slides

Shigeo Koyasu described the future plans for operations of RIBF at RIKEN. This year is the last of the 3rd long range plan, and a new seven year plan will start in April 2018, based on two pillars: expanding neutron-rich heavy element productions to the transuranium region and the production of superheavy elements 119 and beyond. Funding for the upgrade of the injector linac (RILAC) for a factor of five in intensity has been secured. Approximately 130M$ for the rest of the upgrades that would lead to a factor of 30 increase in the final RIBF intensity have been requested.

The operating budget for the Nishina Center for Accelerator Based Science has been approximately constant over the past several years, but electricity costs have increased almost 40% following the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In FY16, the budget was able to accommodate 5 months of RIBF production including one month of external funding for transmutation research. RIKEN has been urging the Nishina Center to obtain financial resources from external sources or users. The Nishina Center Advisory Committee recommended 8 months of operation of RIBF. It is understood that the request for additional operation hours at RIBF requires external new sources. However, the successful policy of in-kind contributions should be continued. The facility should continue to adhere to the open access rules for academic research.
They suggest the possibility of users to bear the electricity cost which is higher than in most countries or using an internationally acceptable framework in introducing collaboration fees. As for how the collaboration fees should be collected, RIBF may follow suit of CERN-ISOLDE, i.e., collect annual fees from countries or institutions having a long-term commitment to the facility.

The Nishina Center has sought and will seek external funds, such as competitive funds from various agencies including ImPACT (Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies) funds for Nuclear Transmutation. RIKEN would like to ask the users to bear the cost (collaboration fee), not for the electricity, but for miscellaneous expenses for the common fund for experiments. The total cost to the users would be in the order of 0.5 to 1M$, which is equivalent to one month of running of RIBF.

After this presentation, there was a wide-ranging discussion of such user fees following on discussions at previous IUPAP WG.9 meetings related to other facilities. A general concern is that if one facility implements such charges, other facilities would then be forced by their funding agencies to follow suit. This could have serious consequence on the scientific productivity and mobility of the international community. Paolo Giubellino expressed two major points: 1) Beam time should be granted based on scientific excellence. Any payments for beam time goes against this principle, 2) There is an established tradition for the user community to share some of the operating costs, but it is not connected to beam hours. He would not like to see such a connection be established. Don Geesaman said RIKEN must be very clear about what these user fees can cover. The funding agencies may refuse to allow the use of grant funds to pay them, which might cut off a facilities access to international talent.

Report from ANPha (Kazuhiro Tanaka)
Material: Slides

• In practice, ANPhA is an organization to discuss and pursue issues in the Asia nuclear physics community at present.
• The first ANPhA awards for young scientists were presented, at CNSSS, August 29, 2017.
• An ANPhA White Paper lists 26 Accelerator Facilities for Nuclear Physics in the Asia-Pacific region. The data will be updated frequently and critical analysis of the present data will be made for future facility planning and for possible future international collaboration. The data will be available on the Web site soon, and possibly published in a special issue of the AAPPS Bulletin. https://kds.kek.jp/indico/category/1706/
• The report summarized news from the various facilities and projects in progress.

Report from NSAC (David Hertzog)
Material; Slides

• The budget situation for FY18 and the future is quite uncertain with the change of administration.
• The funding agencies, DOE and NSF are supporting the 2015 NSAC Long Range Plan
• There has been considerable progress in all areas of research highlighted in the recommendations of the Long Range Plan

Five Year Plan for TRIUMF (Jonathan Bagger)
Material: Slides

• The three major projects currently underway are ARIEL II, the UltraCold neutron Facility and the Institute for Advanced Medical Isotopes (IAMI).
• Funding has now been secured for ARIEL II.
• The milestones are: first EEC approved experiments with high mass accelerated beams from ISAC utilizing the CANREB/ARIEL EBIS charge breeder, 10/2020;
• first beta-NMR experiments with photo-produced 8Li, 03/2022;
• first EEC approved experiments with photo-fission RIBs from the e-Linacs , 06/2022;
• first EEC approved experiments with RIBS from ARIEL proton target, 03/2023.
• Today, TRIUMF produces 2M doses of medical isotopes per year in partnership with Nordion.
• IAMI will house a TR24 cyclotron and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) laboratories to position TRIUMF life sciences for the 21st century.
• 2/3rd of the funding of IAMI is secured.
• A number of notable science results were reviewed
• TRIUMF is in the process of creating a new 5-Year Plan for 2020-2025. The plan will be made public in September 2018.

Report from NuPECC (Angelo Bracco)
Material: Slides

• The 2017 NuPECC Long Range Plan has been released. The primary recommendations are:
• Complete urgently the construction of the ESFRI flagship facility FAIR and develop and bring into operation the experimental programme of its four scientific pillars APPA, CBM, NUSTAR, and PANDA.
• Support for construction, augmentation and exploitation of world leading ISOL facilities in Europe.
• Support for the full exploitation of existing and emerging facilities
• Support for ALICE and the heavy-ion programme at the LHC with the planned experimental upgrades.
• Support for the completion of AGATA in full geometry.
• Support for Nuclear Theory.
• Perform R&D programmes for possible future facilities.
• Training the next generation of nuclear scientists.

Nuclear Science in Latin- America (Alinka Lepine-Szily)
Material: Slides

• The history of the Association of Latin American Nuclear Physics and Applications (ALAFNA) was reviewed.
• The nuclear science installations in Latin America were summarized.
• Recent science highlights were presented.

I’Themba Labs and the South-African Isotope Facility (Faical Azaiez)
Material: Slides

• The research at I’Themba includes ALICE and ATLAS at CERN, Nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, nuclear astrophysics and applications (radio-isotopes, radiation biology and physics)
• iThemba LABS is a world leader in accelerator produced isotopes for medicine and one of the pioneers in hadrontherapy.
• In 2017, the 52 years old Van de Graaff was replaced with a 3 MV Tandetron accelerator for Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy.
• A new 2017 long range plan gives priorities to
• The South African Isotope Facility (SAIF) project
• Transition from Radiation Therapy to radiation physics and biology
• Increase the numbers of scientists
• Replacement of accelerator experts
• Enhance the instrumentation R&D
• This involves a new 70 MeV cyclotron for isotope production, freeing the separated sector cyclotron for research and the production of radioactive beams using the ISOL method.
• The South African Institute of Nuclear Technology and Science (SAINTS) is aimed to educating the next generation in nuclear and accelerator techniques.

Nuclear Science Symposium

The 2017 Nuclear Science Symposium was held at the RIKEN Tokyo office on August 29-30, 2017. These, now biyearly, symposia provide a summary of the current forefront nuclear science and the science goals for new major initiatives. They provide representatives from the national funding agencies to see how their efforts fit into an international framework and to discuss “in-camera” their individual perspectives. The agenda and slides from the Symposium can be found at
http://www.triumf.info/hosted/iupap/icnp/nss2017.html

Report from the ‘in-Camera’ meetings (Shoji Nagamiya)
Material: Slides

The in-camera meetings were attended by representatives from funding agencies around the world. The attendees discussed up-coming projects in their regions and ways to cooperate on large projects. An outcome of the meetings was a request to IUPAP WG9 to develop guidelines on how to judge when a project grows from a regional effort to an international effort. Guidance on how to develop funding and secure support for operations for international projects is also being sought.

Future Meetings of WG.9

It was suggested that the next meeting of WG.9 be coupled to the NIC (Nuclei in the Cosmos) meeting at Gran Sasso which is being held June 24-29, 2018, perhaps with the IUPAP WG.9 meeting on June 22 either in Rome or at Gran Sasso. A final determination will be made in coordination with the 2018 IUPAP C-12 meeting.

Thanks are expressed to Hideto En’yo and the staff of RIKEN for the kind hospitality provided during both the symposium and the annual general meeting.

[These Minutes were kindly written by Donald F. Geesaman, ANL]

TRIUMF, September 12, 2017