Project R&D Committee (PRDC) wiki

Documents

• Review Process for KAGRA project R&Ds is here.

Joint research program

It is encouraged that the applicant has submitted a proposal to the ICRR joint research program (for domestic researchers) or to the ICRR Inter-University Research Program (for overseas researchers) before applying to the KAGRA project R&D. The application deadline is January for the joint research program and February for the Inter-University Research Program. A graduate student cannot apply to the joint research program or inter-university research program but can be a leading person of a proposal for the project R&D.

Application guideline

The application should include the following items:

• title of research
• name and affiliation of each member (underline the leading person)
• research purpose (up to 200 words)
• research plan and concrete methods in the fiscal year (up to 200 words)
• research plan in the next fiscal year and onward (up to 200 words)
• previous results (for a continuing subject) or preparation status (for a new subject) (up to 200 words)
• available resources/funding (up to 200 words)
• related publications/presentations (up to 200 words)

Current project R&Ds

• Filter cavity experiment (leader: Matteo Leonardi (NAOJ, 2019-2022) -> Yoichi Aso (NAOJ, 2023-), 2019-)

  2019	Application	Presentation at F2F	Annual Report
  2020	Application	Presentation at F2F	Annual Report
  2021	Application	Presentation at F2F	Annual Report
  2022	Application	Aug 2022, Dec 2022

Past project R&Ds (except for continuing subjects)

• Crystalline mirrors with minimal thermo-optic noise for gravitational-wave detection (leader: Raffaele Flaminio (NAOJ/LAPP), 2019-2020)

  2019	Application	Presentation at F2F (none)	Annual Report
  2020	Application	Presentation at F2F	No Report