Minutes of
The 6th Plenary ACFA Meeting

September 18, 2001 at Media Hotel, Beijing/China

The 6th Plenary ACFA meeting was held at Media Hotel, Beijing, China on 13:30 -18:00 September 18, 2001.

Participants

Won Namkung (Chairman)
In-Soo Ko (Secretary) A.S. Raja Rao (Deputy Secretay)
S.N.Tovey (Univ.of Melbourne) Hesheng Chen (IHEP/Beijing)
Chuang Zhang (IHEP/Beijing) Shouxian Fang (IHEP/Beijing)
Jia-er Chen (Peking Univ.) Amit Roy (NSC/NewDelhi)
B. Bhandari (SINP/India) Judjarmoko(NAE/Indonesia)
Yong-Ho Chin (KEK, WG leader) Seigi Iwata (KEK, WG leader)
Setsuya Kawabata (KEK, OECD rep.) Shin-ichi Kurokawa (KEK/Tsukuba)
Hirotaka Sugawara (KEK, Obs.) Sachio KOmamiya (Tokyo Univ, Obs.)
Byong-Ho Choi (KAERI/Korea) Dongchul Son (Kyungpook Nat'l Univ.)
Moohyun Yoon (POSTECH, Obs.) Herbert O. Moser (Nat'l Univ. Singapore, Obs.)
June-Rong Chen (SRRC/Hsinchu) Gwo-Huei Luo (SRRC/Hsinchu)
Takehiko Ishii (NSRC/Thailand) Weerapong Pairsuwan (NSRC/Thailand)
Tran Thanh Minh (INST/Hanoi) Vo Van Thuan (Inst.of Physics/Hanoi)

Program

September 18 (Tuesday), 2001

  1. Approval of agenda
  2. Miniutes of 5th ACFA Plenary Meeting
  3. Brief Presentation on Australian Light Source Project (Tovey)
  4. Membership Review: Application from Bangladesh
  5. Reports from Working Groups
    1. High Power Proton Accelerator WG (Fang)
    2. Electronic Publication WG (Chin)
    3. Study Group for Physics/Detector at LC (Iwata)
    4. Network WG (Kawabata)
  6. Reports by Representatives
    1. Global Science Forum (Kawabata / Komamiya)
    2. Second Asian Accelerator School (Kurokawa)
    3. Compilation of Asian Accelerator Catalogue (Kurokawa)
  7. ACFA-CERN School
  8. Selection of Venues
    1. Venue for the &th ACFA meeting
    2. Venue and year for 3rd APAC
  9. Status Rport on Asian Activities on Accelerator Science (Kurokawa)
  10. Statement on Linear Collider (Komamiya / Kurokawa)
  11. Creation of LC Accelerator Working Group (Kurokawa)
  12. Revision of bylaws on rgional delegates (Tovey)

Summary

1. Opening seesion

Prof. W. Namkung, Chair of ACFA, welcomed all participants, and participants introduced themselves. There were 27 participants.

2. Minutes of the 5th Plenary ACFA Meeting

The minutes of the 5th Plenary ACFA Meeting drafted by ACFA Secretary, Prof. I. S. Ko was discussed at the 6th ACFA Meeting. After corrections, Cairns or Melbourne instead of Caine on Item 9, raised by Prof. Tovey, the minutes were passed.

3. Brief Presentation on Australian Light Source Project

Prof. Tovey introduced the Australian activity on the new light source project in Melbourne.

4. Membership Review

Bangladesh was approved unanimously as a new member of ACFA. The number of regional/country members becomes twelve (12) with one observer (Singapore).

5. Reports and Discussions on the ACFA Working Groups

  1. High Power Proton Accelerator (HPPA) Working Group
    Prof. Fang of IHEP reported that the first HPPA W/G meeting was held in February 2001 in Daeduck, Korea. And the second W/G meeting will be held on September 20, 2001 during this conference period.

  2. Electronic Publication Working Group
    Prof. Y. Chin of KEK reported that PAC/EPAC/APAC collaboration of e-publication, and standard procedures were established under Joint Accelerator Conference Website (JACoW). A brief report on JACoW team meeting held during PAC01 in Chicago was also reported. The immediate task to be solved is to establish a mirror site of JACoW at KEK.

  3. Study Group for Physics/Detectors at LC
    Prof. S. Iwata of KEK reported that the 3rd W/G Workshop was held in Taipei on August 2000, and the 4th Workshop is planned in Beijing in 2001.

  4. Network Working Group
    Prof. Kawabata of KEK reported that the ACFA Website would be reopen in the near future.

6. Report and Discussions by Representatives

  1. Global Science Forum
    Prof. Kawabata and Prof. Komamiya reported the current status.

  2. Second Asian Accelerator School
    Prof. Kurokawa proposed the second Asian Accelerator School in Indore in 2003, and the committee made its strong endorsement.

  3. Compilation of Asian Accelerator Catalogue
    Prof. Kurokawa proposed its importance, and the representative of each country/region was designated. In this catalogue, the conventional medical accelerators are excluded.

    Japan: Kurokawa Korea: Yoon China: Zhang
    India: Roy Taiwan: Chen Thailand: Pairsuwan
    Bangladesh: Hoque Singapore: Moser Vietnam: Vo
    Indonesia: Judjarmoko (for Djaloeis) Malaysia: Chia Pakistan: Hoorani
    Australia: Tovey will appoint a person

7. ACFA-CERN School

Prof. Chen of IHEP proposed ACFA-CERN school on high-energy physics, and the first school is planned in Autumn 2002 in nearby Beijing area. The committee endorsed the proposal

8. Selection of Venues

  1. Venue for the 7th Plenary ACFA meeting
    Prof. Namkung reminded the previous venues for the plenary meetings.Pohang, Korea (96), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (97), Tsukuba, Japan (98), Indore, India (99), Kyongju, Korea (00), Beijing, China (01).Prof. Tovey proposed Melbourne, and Prof. Kurokawa proposed Tsukuba.The committee selected Melbourne as the next venue unanimously. Prof. Tovey proposed September or October 2002 because of good weather in Melbourne.

  2. Venue for the APAC04
    The committee members recommended Korea as the host country for APAC04, and the Korean delegates accepted the recommendation. The local organizing committee will announce the detailed plan on place and time of the year (Spring or Autumn) by the 7th Plenary ACFA meeting in Melbourne.

9.Status Report for Asian Activities on Accelertor Sciences

Since the 6th ACFA Meeting was held during APAC01, most of status was reported during this conference. Prof. Kurokawa ditributed the activity reports from member countries/regions. He needs a cover page from ACFA Chairman for an official document.

10. ACFA Statement on Linear Colliders

Prof. Komamiya explained the need on the supporting statement from ACFA for Linear Collider to activate Japanese Government's action. Prof. Chen of SRRC and Prof. Tovey suggested that the statement should include not only high energy physics community but also the accelerator community, because ACFA supports the statement. The Statement is adopted and passed (with deleting references).

11. Creation of LC Accelerator Working Group

Prof. Kurokawa proposed to establish a new ACFA Working Group for next generation linear colliders. The proposal was approved unanimously. The number of ACFA W/G becomes five (5). The official name for the Working Group will be announced later, and the committee appoints Prof. Kurokawa as the W/G leader.

12. Revision of Bylaws

Prof. Tovey explained his proposal distributed prior to the meeting. After serious discussions, the conclusion is as follows.The last sentence in the Article 4b, "A single representative can serve for no more than two consecutive terms," is deleted.