Nuclear Physics at NSF

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Nuclear Physics at NSF

• NP Experiment
• Structure
• Heavy Ions
• Symmetries
• Hadrons and QCD
• NP Theory
• Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
• Astrophysics (Notre Dame, FSU)
• Neutrinos (Borexino, ßß, ?13)
• Frontier Center (Joint Institute for Nuclear
  Astrophysics)
• NSCL
• FY2008 total 45M

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Additional Funding

• Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
• small (lt1M) large (1-4M)
• annual average about 1.6M
• awards to university labs user groups at
  national labs
• Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
• 5-year initiative begun FY2008
• plan 50M/year, totaling 750M
• 1 NP-related award in FY08 (U Washington)
• Petascale Applications
• DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
• multi-year initiative begun FY2007
• 2 NP-related awards

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NSF-GPRA Interface

• merit review process
• Committee of Visitors
• every 3 years
• evaluation includes
• proposal decision process
• program balance
• degree of risk taking
• January 2009
• report and response available www.nsf.gov/mps/adv
  isory/cov.jsp
• highlights

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Highlights Overview

• neutron charge distribution
• polarized e vs. 2-photon exchange
• short-range correlations in nuclei
• handedness in nuclei
• archaeometry applications
• Monte Carlo studies of dense matter
• gluon component of proton spin
• pion decay constants
• magic numbers for neutron-rich nuclei
• production of 96Cd
• shape transitions in neutron-rich nuclei
• symmetries and lattice QCD hadron spectra

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FY2008-10 Summary

• FY2008 RRA 4.827B
• FY2009 RRA request 5.594B
• Recovery Act 3B op. plan approved
• 2.5B RRA, including
• 0.3B MRI
• 0.2B ARI
• FY2009 RRA conference 5.183B (7) op. plan
  approved
• FY2010 (total) request 7B (FY0816)
• to 9.7B in FY2014

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FY2009 Summary

• appropriations
• NP experiment up 0.5
• NP theory up 4.5
• NSCL 19.5M 20.5M (toward optimal ops)
• Recovery Act
• NP (theory experiment) about 12M

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FY2009 Recovery Act

• www.nsf.gov/recovery
• investigator programs
• increase success rate
• standard multi-year awards
• priority to new PIs
• cannot mix with program funds
• implementation
• make some standard awards with program funds
• frees up out-year commitments
• spreads out positive impact of Recovery Act funds
• can only work long-term with increased
  appropriations

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FY2009 Recovery Act

• 2 new solicitations
• MRI-R2
• August 10, 2009
• 200M (same as MRI-1)
• awards up to 6M
• quota of 3/university
• cost sharing exempted for all but top 100 RD
  universities
• ARI-R2 (Academic Research Infrastructure)
• LOI July 1 full proposal August 24, 2009
• 200M
• awards up to 10M
• quota of 1/university
• cost sharing exempted for all but top 100 RD
  universities

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FY2010 RRABudget Request
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FY2010 MPSBudget Request
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FY2010 Physics Division Budget Request
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DUSEL

• NSF review Jan. 28-30
• Solicitation S4
• proposals to develop project plans for potential
  candidates for the initial suite of experiments
• anticipate 15M 5M over 3 years
• proposals under review
• expect awards in summer
• DUSEL RD supplanted by S4

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People

• NSF Director Arden Bement
• NSF Deputy Director Cora Marrett (acting)
• MPS Assistant Director T. Chan search begun
• Physics Division Director Joe Dehmer
• Nuclear Physics
• BDK (expt and theory)
• Allena Opper(and astro, underground lab)

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Backup Slides
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Nuclear Physics FY2009

• NSCL operations restore trajectory toward
  optimal operations
• Nuclear Theory and Experiment
• success rate higher for FY2009
• funds freed up for use in FY2010/11
• Move forward with DOE on partnered funding plan
  for neutron EDM