Hokkaido University Nuclear Reaction Data Centre (JCPRG)

A research project to compile Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data was initiated in 1974, which was approved by the Theoretical Nuclear Physics Society and the Experimental Nuclear Physics Society in Japan. When this project started, a mutual agreement with the JAERI Nuclear Data Centre was concluded; this Study Group would be responsible for Charged- Particle Nuclear Reaction Data while JAERI would be in charge of Nuclear Neutron Data. The original database (NRDF, Nuclear Reaction Data File) was devised by the Study Group under the sponsorship of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture through the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. With data storage and retrieval functions added to the original NRDF system, the project developed from the stage of research and development to the practical working stage of data compilation and data dissemination in 1987. Subsequently, the Study Group was reorganized to become the Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group (JCPRG) in NRDC, and was assigned an annual budget through the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Hokkaido University by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. This regular JCPRG budget ended in 2001, and was replaced by a yearly competitive process. The primary aims of JCPRG are to construct and provide an academic-oriented database according to an original and unique format by compiling and storing all charged-particle nuclear reaction data produced with Japanese accelerators. JCPRG is also responsible for transforming NRDF to EXFOR format, and sending these files to IAEA-NDS. On April 1, 2007, the Japan Charged-Particle Nuclear Reaction Data Group (JCPRG) was reorganized to the Hokkaido University Nuclear Reaction Data Centre (JCPRG) as a measure taken in the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. At the same time, the graduate school collaboration field ''Nuclear Data'' science with Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) was established in the Department of Cosmosciences of the Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University. JCPRG comprises an Advisory Committee, a Steering Committee and the NRDF-to-EXFOR Working Group. The Advisory Committee consists of representatives from the main laboratories and institutes in Japan. The Steering Committee manages the work programme of JCPRG, under the advice and guidance of the Advisory Committee.