Type P** ( Preliminary ) : Preliminary experiments by novice users or feasibility studies for new type experiments.
Period of Validity : 1 year*

* The terms described above mean the maximum length. You can terminate the approved proposal, if the work finishes within the valid term.

** Applicants who want to submit a Type P proposal are required to consult the person responsible for the experimental station on the feasibility of the experiment before submission.

Category	Deadlines
Types G and P	November 4, 2011 ( Friday ) 17:00 ( in Japanese Standard Time ) The web page will be ready from early October.
Type S1	Receive at any time*
Type S2	November 4, 2011 ( Friday ) 17:00 ( in Japanese Standard Time ) The web page will be ready from early October.
Type U	Receive at any time

Overseas applicants are required to assign a contact person to act as an intermediary with the Photon Factory. His/her approval to act as Contact Person in Japan(CPJ) is obligatory. If you don’t know appropriate person, please contact the beamline scientist that you plan to use or the Research Coordination written below.

Proposals approved by PF-PAC will become effective in April 2012.

*Applicants interested in S1 application are requested to contact the Research Coordination described below.

The spokesperson is requested to complete the user registration as follows before proceeding to the proposal application.

(a) If you have already completed user registration at <User Support System>

    1) Access the URL;https://pmsweb.kek.jp/k-pas/ and login with USER ID and

        the   password of <User Support System>.
    2) Fill out the application form for which you wish to apply.

(b)If you have not completed user registration at <User Support System>

    1) You have to register as user. Access the URL;https://pmsweb.kek.jp/k-pas/

        and click "Register new user" then fill out all the required information.
    2) USER ID and a temporary password will be informed to you by e-mail.

       Login with these information and change the password of your choice within

       48 hours.
    3) Fill out the application form for which you wish to apply after login process.

       2 working days are required to process 1) and 2), thus please start

      the procedure   leaving enough days until the application deadline.

The OS and browsers guaranteed by the “KEK proposal submission system” are listed in the following Table.

OS	Browsers
Windows XP, Vista, 7	Later than Internet Explorer 6 and 7 and 8 Mozilla Firefox 2.0
Later than Mac OS X 10.4	Later than Apple Safari 3.0 Later than Mozilla Firefox 2.0

If you come across any problems in the KEK proposal submission system or are using different OS and browsers from those listed above, please contact Joint Research Unit whose address is shown in the section 5(1).

Once data transfer of the application form is completed without any troubles, the notice of submission acceptance is sent to you by e-mail. Please confirm your submission with the e-mail message.

Received proposals are reviewed by the Photon Factory Program Advisory Committee (PF-PAC).
The committee will be held in July.

The research proposals are restricted for peaceful purposes only, based on Resolution No. 3 of the 33rd extraordinary general meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (Butsuri, 23 (1968) 250, in Japanese) and on the decision of the 522nd committee (Butsuri, 50 (1995) 696, in Japanese).

Experimental results should be published in the Photon Factory Activity Report and/or in other academic journals or presented at conferences.
In these publications, it should be clearly expressed that the research work is carried out at the Photon Factory, KEK. The publication information shoud be registered to the publication detabase of PF. One copy of reprint for each should be provided.
Concerning the rights on the results from the experiment(s) and their Intellectual Property, please contact Joint Research Unit in the Research Cooperation Division.

Joint Research Unit
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
E-mail: kyodo1[at]mail.kek.jp