J-PARC News - December 2013 (Issue #104)

• On-Site Inspection by Local Governments to Confirm Measures to Prevent Recurrence of a Radioactive Material Leakage Accident  (December 5) 
• Held Meeting of Radiation Safety Review Committee (December 9) 
• Meeting of the Ibaraki Prefecture Nuclear Safety Committee (December 13) 
• The Observation of the Gold Target at the Hadron Experimental Facility
• Interim Evaluation of Neutron Instruments at the MLF (November 26 to December 25) 
• Held Accelerator Facility Safety Symposium (December 11) 
• 11th International Workshop on Asian Network for Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) and Nuclear Transmutation Technology (NTT)  (ADS+NTT 2013)  (December 12-13) 
• Received Encouragement Awards and Technology Award at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Neutron Science (December 12) 
• J-PARC Neutrino Beam Group received "SUWA" Award

J-PARC News - November 2013 (Issue #103)

• Held Explanatory Meetings for Residents on Efforts after the J-PARC Accident (October 31-November 2)
• Education and Training for Persons Engaged in Radiation Work
• Held General Training for an Emergency Situation at J-PARC (November 15)
• Meeting of Working Group for Evaluating Partitioning and Transmutation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (October 23, 30)
• Exchanging Views on Cooperation regarding Construction of a Transmutation Experimental Facility and the European MYRRHA Project (Mid October to early November)
• Japan-Australia Neutron Science Workshop: "Sharing Science with Neutrons" (November 5-6)
• FY 2013 Meeting of the Ibaraki Prefecture Society for Promotion of Neutron Utilization - Special Interest Group on In-situ Structural Analysis of Magnetic Materials (October 22)
• International Cooperation for Development of a Scintillator Detector as a 3He Neutron Detector Substitute

J-PARC News - October 2013 (Issue #102)

• Reorganized J-PARC Center to reinforce safety (October 1)
• Review Committee for the Target System and Related Matters of the J-PARC Hadron Facility (October 8-9)
• J-PARC Center Issued Safety Cards - "Science with Safety"
• Neutrino Collaboration Meeting (September 30 to October 5)
• Third Imaging Workshop using Pulsed Neutron Beams (October 11)
• Renewed Memorandum of Collaboration with Center for Korean J-PARC Users (CKorJ-PARC)

J-PARC News - September 2013 (Issue #101)

• Submission of Report on Improvement Measures for the J-PARC Accident to Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on September 26
• Safety Lecture "Fostering a Safety Culture to Prevent Accidents" by an Invited External Expert
• Training for a Radiation Accident Conducted at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF)
• Working Group for Evaluating Partitioning and Transmutation Technologies, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
• Reports by J-PARC staff at Research Meetings on Neutron Utilization

J-PARC News - August 2013 (Issue #100)

• Meeting of the External Expert Panel to review the radioactive material leak at the Hadron Experimental Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex  (J-PARC) 
• Submission of Third Accident Report on August 12
• Held First Meeting of Working Group for Evaluating Partition and Transmutation Technologies
• Result Reporting Meeting of the Industrial Users Society for Neutron Application
• Second ANNRI (Accurate Neutron Nucleus Reaction measurement Instrument: BL04 of MLF) Research Meeting
• Tenth Annual Meeting of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan

J-PARC News - July 2013 (Issue #99)

• T2K Experiment Reveals Clear Indications of the Existence of the
  "Electron Neutrino Appearance Phenomenon"!
• Meetings of External Expert Panel to Investigate the Accident at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility (July 5 and 20)
• Inspection of Accident Site by the Tokai Joint Resident's Association (July 25)
• Working Toward Direct Observation of the Gold Target
• Dedicated Hotline Established for Questions and Other Information on the Accident at the Hadron Experimental Facility (July 16)
• Elucidation of the Mechanism underlying Ceramic Capacitor Performance through Muon Beam Experiments!

J-PARC News - June 2013 (Issue #98)

• Overview of the radioactive material leak accident at the Hadron Experimental Facility
• Request by Hakubun Shimomura, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, on Response to the Accident at J-PARC (May 28)
• Meetings for Local Residents Held in Tokai to Explain the Recent Accident (June 13-15)
• Submissions of Reports on the radioactive material leak at the Hadron Experimental Facility (May 31 and June 18)
• On-site Inspection by the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (June 20)
• 1st Meeting of External Experts Panel to Verify the Radioactive Material Leak Accident (June 21)

J-PARC News Special Issue in English

• The Accident at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility

J-PARC News - May 2013 (Issue #97)

• Scintillator Detector Developed by J-PARC : Contributing to Neutron
  Measurement for Nuclear Security  (Safeguards) 
• Elucidation of the Hydrogen Activation Mechanism of
  Nickel-Iron Catalyst using the "iBIX" Neutron Experimental Equipment
• Special Report : MLF Slow Muon Beamline
• Single bunch operation testing
• Operation Status of J-PARC in Fiscal 2012
• Facility updates
• Dr. Atsushi Kimura Receives AESJ  (Atomic Energy Society of Japan)  Best Paper Award  (3/26) 
• Invited Lecture on "J-PARC Future Plans" at the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society  (April 14) 

J-PARC News - March 2013 (Issue #96)

• World's Highest Pulsed Neutron Beam Intensity Confirmed at J-PARC
• Latest Results on the µ-neutrino Deficit Phenomenon in the T2K Experiment  (975 characters) 
• The 2nd J-PARC Colloquium
  - Translational Research with Neutrons and X-rays -
• Held Workshop on "Multi-purpose Use of the J-PARC Accelerator-driven Transmutation Experimental Facility"  (372 characters) 
• Facility updates

J-PARC News - February 2013 (Issue #95)

• Achievement of World-class High Energy Resolution and Low Noise
     - J-PARC/MLF: BL02 Biomolecular Dynamics Spectrometer  (DNA)  -
• Development of KALLIOPE Positron and Electron Detector
• Facility updates
• The 12th Korea-Japan Meeting on Neutron Science
• International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics 2013
• Neutron Advisory Committee (NAC-2013)
• 12th Accelerator Technical Advisory Committee (A-TAC)
• Muon Science Advisory Committee (MuSAC)/Muon Advisory Committee (MAC) 2013
• 2013 J-PARC International Advisory Committee (IAC)
• Familiarization visit to JAEA and J-PARC

J-PARC News - January 2013 (Issue #94)

• Achievement of World-class High Energy Resolution and Low Noise
     - J-PARC/MLF: BL02 Biomolecular Dynamics Spectrometer  (DNA)  -
• 16th Program Advisory Committee  (PAC)  Meeting for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments at J-PARC
• Facility updates
• Fabrication of High-current Radio Frequency Quadrupole Linac (RFQ)
• Collaborative Workshop on Optic and Quantum Beam Science  (Tohoku University) 
• Collaboration Meeting on the T2K Experiment