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1. Report from BPAC meeting. Purpose of BPAC: Give assessment to the Belle physics outcome and its future program including the upgrade project. Their recommendation will be presented to MEXT and governmental review committees. Membership:
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1. Report from BPAC meeting • Purpose of BPAC: Give assessment to the Belle physics outcome and its future program including the upgrade project. Their recommendation will be presented to MEXT and governmental review committees. • Membership: A.Buras (TU Muenchen), Y.Grossman (Cornell), S.Kim (Tsukuba), Y.Kuno (Osaka), T.Nakada (EPFL, Chair), T.Skwarnicki (Syracuse), W.Trishuk(Tronto), and A.Golutvin (ICL)
Draft report from BPAC • 1.Introduction • 2. Belle experiment • 2-1 Physics achievement in 2008 • 2-2 Plan for 2009 • 3. Upgrade • 3-1 Physics program • 3-2 Accelerator upgrade • 3-3 Detector upgrade • 4. Summary and recommendations
2. Funding status • We got 5 oku-yen (~$5M) to start upgrade in JFY2009 (i.e. a year from April 09). • You will hear more from KEK-DG at 5pm today.
3. What will happen to me • Allow me to step down as one of the interim spokespersons of the collaboration. • HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT I LOST INTEREST IN THE SUPERKEKB. • May I stay in the steering committee?