User Liaison and Industrial Cooperation Group

The essential mission of the "User Liaison and Industrial Cooperation (ULIC) Group" is to maximize the research activities of RIBF by attracting users in various fields with a wide scope. The ULIC Group consists of two teams.

RIBF User Liaison Team provides various supports to visiting RIBF users through the RIBF Users Office. Managing RIBF beam time and organizing the Program Advisory Committee Meetings to review RIBF experimental proposals are also important mission of the Team in order to enhance common use of the RIBF. The Industrial Cooperation Team supports potential users in industries who use the beams for application purposes or for accelerator related technologies other than basic research. Production of various radioisotopes by the AVF cyclotron is also one of the important mission. The produced radioisotopes are distributed to researchers in Japan for a charge through the Japan Radioisotope Association.

Research Subjects

• Facilitation of the use of the RI Beam Factory
• Support of experiments in the RI Beam Factory
• Promotion of the RI Beam Factory to interested researchers
• Distribution of radioisotopes Zn-65, Cd-109 and Y-88 produced at RIKEN AVF Cyclotron
• Investigation of novel industrial applications of the accelerator beam and its related technologies.

Publications

1. Tanaka T., Yamada A., Suzuki Y., Kobayashi T., Takahashi K., Kambara T., Saito F., Okamura K., Uchikoshi S., Nakano N., Hamago S., Takenaka M., Mano D., Morisaki S., and Ogura A.:
   "Improvement of gas sensitivity for a polymer membrane electrode by high-energy ion beam irradiation".
   Trans. Mater. Res. Soc. Jpn. 36, No. 3, pp. 321-324(2011).

Organization