IPAC'23 - Conference guide

Light Peer Review Proceedings The IPAC’23 Light Peer Review process will offer an intermediate level of publication between a non-refereed IPAC paper published in the JACoW conference proceedings and a refereed journal like PRAB. Successful peer reviewed papers will be published as part of the Institute of Physics Journal of Physics: Conference Series and therefore visible in the known publication and citation databases. The IoP Proceedings Licence Terms and Conditions can be found here . Please note that publication in the IoP Conf. Series excludes the possibility of publication in PRAB. We see the introduction of light peer review as an opportunity to publish papers that do not fulfil all the acceptance criteria of journals by virtue of their limited content – as is inevitable with the three-page limit. Examples of papers that may survive light peer review, but possibly not the rigour of PRAB, could include review papers, technical advancements without novel schemes, incremental design or performance improvements, and similar topics. The papers submitted to the Peer Reviewed IPAC’23 proceedings will be reviewed by referees selected by the Scientific Publication Board (SPB) among senior participants to the conference.  All papers are reviewed by two referees.  In the event of disagreement between referees, the SPB shall resolve the case. Due to limitations on time and number of referees, it cannot be guaranteed that all papers submitted will be reviewed.  We expect that up to 300 papers will be processed on a first come, first served basis subject to limitation on the number of reviewers available in each Main Classification. For IPAC’23 it is no longer necessary to request peer-review at the time of submission of abstracts. The first 300 papers submitted by the peer-review deadline will be peer reviewed. Authors can also volunteer to be referees at the time of registration by indicating their area of specialisation. Timeline • April 1: Deadline for LPR paper submission. • April 3 - 5: Papers sent to referees. • April 14: Deadline for 1st round evaluation of papers by referees. • April 25: Deadline for paper resubmission (for papers that were neither accepted nor rejected after the 1st round). • Paper automatically resent to the same referees upon resubmission. • May 3: Deadline for 2nd (and final) evaluation of papers. IPAC’23 / CONFERENCE GUIDE 83 Proceedings