J-PARC News - December 2014 (Issue #116)

• Reveal the Detailed Mechanisms to Give Lightness and Strength to the Mg Alloys.
• Received Encouragement Prize at 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neutron Science (December 11-13)
• Situational Emergency Training at J-PARC (November 25)
• Safety Check of the Hadron Experimental Facility with Third Party Inspection Support (December 3)
• Facility Updates
• MLF School 2014 (December 16-19)
• Hello Science School (December 15)

J-PARC News - November 2014 (Issue #115)

• Takashi Kobayashi, Head of the Particle & Nuclear Physics Division, Jointly Received the Nishina Memorial Prize 2014!
• Successful First Beam Extraction from Pulsed Neutron Imaging Instrument
• Research Scientist, Hitoshi Sugimura, Received the Young Researcher Award at the 21st Nuclear Experimental Physics Forum for his Research on Hypernuclei
• Completion of Tokai Dormitory Ⅱ Building
• Seventh Meeting of External Expert Panel to Review the Accident at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility
• Tsukuba Science Festival

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J-PARC News - October 2014 (Issue #114)

• Neutron Diffraction Used to Determine the Position and Amount of Hydrogen in Iron Under High Temperature and Pressure!
• J-PARC received "The First Prize for Research and Development" at Fiscal 2014 JAEA President's Awards
• Facility Updates
• Fiscal 2014 J-PARC Safety Audit (October 21) 
• Ozora Marche at the Muramatsu-san Kokuzodo Temple (October 12, Tokai Village) 
• 21st International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Source ICANS-XXI (September 29 to October 3, Mito City) 
• The 10th NOBUGS 2014 (September 24-26, Kobayashi Hall, KEK Tsukuba Campus) 
• International Symposium on Present Status and Future Perspective for Reducing Radioactive Wastes (October 9-10, Tokyo)
• Fourth Special Lecture Meeting of the Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science (October 10, Tokyo)

J-PARC News - September 2014 (Issue #113)

• BL14 Neutron Instrument at Work in Research on the Function of DNA (Genes) 
• Successful Production of Large Amounts of Muonium at Room-Temperature
• Accelerator Facilities
• Experimental Facilities
• Held Science Cafe "Unveiling the Mysteries of Universe with Proton Accelerators" at Tamarokuto Science Center
• International Technical Safety Forum (ITSF) 2014
• FY2014 Voluntary Disaster Preparedness Drills at the Nuclear Science Research Institute
• Safety Patrol by Occupational Safety Consultant

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J-PARC News - August 2014 (Issue #112)

• Meeting of Industrial Users Society for Neutron Application to Report FY2013
  Results from MLF (July 24, Tokyo) 
• J-PARC Scientists Teach at Tokai-mura Summer School (July 24, Ricotti, Tokai) 
• J-PARC Hello Science (August 6 and 19, Tokai Plaza Cafe of IQBRC) 
   - "Feel the Power of Electricity and Magnetism!" Summer Workshop for Children -
• Facility Updates
• Working Group for Evaluating Partitioning and Transmutation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) (Sixth Meeting: July 30, Seventh Meeting: August 20, Tokyo) 
• Unannounced Communication Drill by Ibaraki Prefecture (July 22) 
• Dr. Hiroyuki Ao Honored as Joint Winner of PASJ Award for Technical Contributions
   (August 10, Annual Meeting of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan) 

J-PARC News - July 2014 (Issue #111)

• The 2nd International Symposium on Science at J-PARC 2014
• Visit by Hakubun Shimomura, Minister of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology
• Transmutation Experimental Facility Technical Advisory Committee (T-TAC)
• Joint Accident Response Training by the Nuclear Science Research Institute and J-PARC
• Facility Updates
• Science Tour (July 12, Tsukuba City)
• Explanatory Meetings on Project Plans for FY2014 (Nuclear Science Research Institute, etc.)

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J-PARC News - June 2014 (Issue #110) 

• Generation of Antineutrino Beam for T2K Experiment
• Research Results using J-PARC Muon and Neutron Beams
    New "eyes" to see into matter
  - Successful non-destructive analysis of light elements using elementary particles called muons -
• Academic Achievement Award of Ceramic Society of Japan (FY2013)
• Trends in Experiments Using Neutron Beams
• Facility Updates
    24-hour Continuous Operation Testing of Initial Accelerator Section of Linac
• Fourth Meeting of Radiation Safety Review Committee (June 24)
• Japanese Language Classes for Non-Japanese Users (June 5-30, Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center) 
• 24th Meeting of "Science Cafe in Ricotti" (June 21, Tokai Village) 
• International Exchange Meeting (June 17, Tokai Village Nakamaru Elementary School) 

J-PARC News - May 2014 (Issue #109) 

• 2014 Workshop for Fostering Safety Culture at J-PARC (May 23) 
• Operation of Neutrino Experimental Facility Resumes
• Trends Moving Toward Construction of Transmutation Experimental Facility
• Research Results Relating to Complementary Use of Quantum Beams
• Discovery of an Oxide-Ion Conductor with a New Structure
   - Revealing crystal structure and ion flow with neutrons and synchrotron radiation - 
• Facility Updates

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J-PARC News - April 2014 (Issue #108) 

• J-PARC Staff Member Receives Prestigious Accolade! (April 15) 
• Growing Interest on Transmutation Technology Research (April 7) 
• Neutrino Collaboration Meeting (April 14-19) 
• Facility Updates
• Repair Work at Hadron Experimental Facility
• Started Construction of J-PARC Users Research Building (tentative name)  (April 8) 
• Tea Ceremony for Social Interaction between J-PARC Users and Residents of Tokai Village (April 18) 

J-PARC News - March 2014 (Issue #107) 

• Meeting of J-PARC International Advisory Committee, IAC 2014 (March 10-11) 
• Collaborative Symposium of Elements Strategy Initiative and Large Research Institutions 2014 (February 28 - March 1) 
• Neutron and Muon Beams of J-PARC/MLF Help Discovery of a New Phase in an Iron-Based Superconducting Material ! 
• 1_st J-PARC Heavy-Ion Workshop JHI2014 (at Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) , March 17-18) 
• 5_th MLF Symposium 2014  (March 18-19) 

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J-PARC News - February 2014 (Issue #106)

• Operation for user programs resumed at MLF (17 February) 
• Studies to Confirm Performance of the Linac and 3-GeV Synchrotron (Mid-December 2013 to Mid-February 2014) 
• Moving toward Construction of Transmutation Experimental Facility
• Facility Updates
• Neutron Advisory Committee  (NAC-2014) 
• Third International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics 2014 (February 13-19, J-PARC and Tohoku University) 
• The 13th Japan-Korea Meeting on Neutron Science (February 16-20; Buyeo, South Korea) 

J-PARC News - January 2014 (Issue #105)

• International Review of Renovation Plans of the Hadron Experimental Facility (January 29-31)
• The Second Meeting of Radiation Safety Review Committee (January 15)
• Emergency Drill Held for a Radiation Accident Scenario at the Neutrino Experimental Facility (January 20)
• Neutrino Collaboration Meeting (January 20-25)
• Replacement of Magnetic Horns of Neutrino Experimental Facility
• Maintenance Work at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility
• Safety Portal Site Begins Operation (December 25)
• SAT Technology Showcase 2014 in Tsukuba (January 24)