“…The book on Materials and Life Science with Quantum Beams at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex is an extract of the larger Topical Collection Facilities in the journal Quantum Beam Science [4], compiling a comprehensive description of MLF at J-PARC. Interestingly, the concept of Quantum Beam Science reunifying various short-wavelength and high-energetic electromagnetic and particle beams, predominantly for applications in materials and life sciences [5], has been minted in Japan around the stakeholder organizations [6].…”