Light Source Reviews

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BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES -- Serving the Present,
Shaping the Future

• Light Source Reviews
• The BES Perspective
• July 23, 2002
• Pedro A. Montano
• Materials Sciences and Engineering
• Basic Energy Sciences

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BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES -- Serving the Present,
Shaping the Future

• The light source reviews are performed every
  three years.
• The BES objective is to produce the best science
  possible at our facilities.
• The user community should have access to the
  light sources using a
• proposal evaluation system that is fair and
  stimulate the performance of high quality
  research.
• The resources provided to the facilities should
  be used to optimize its utilization as well as
  the development of new and better techniques for
  synchrotron radiation applications.

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BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES -- Serving the Present,
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• Topics covered in the review
• Facility performance (schedules, users
  participation, etc)
• Selected presentations of the most outstanding
  research performed at the Facility during
  the last two years (by field of research)
•   RD plans and future scientific directions
•   Laboratory plans that may affect the Facility
• The schedule should include time for the
  reviewers to meet individually with the facility
  scientific staff in their focus areas and
  additional areas of interest. We would like to
  have a focus session with representatives of the
  users community (i.e. User Executive Committee)
  and PRT spokespersons (not affiliated to the
  Facility), without the laboratory management
  presence. The agenda and logistics for the review
  should be coordinated with BES.

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• Information Requested from the Facility 
• 1)  Facility
• i. Brief description of the facility ( one
  paragraph).
• ii. Provide a breakdown of all staff (permanent
  and temporary) and their assignments (personnel
  and budget allocation to each specific
  assignment) accelerator staff, facility beamline
  scientists, facility beamline operational staff,
  technicians and operators assign to users
  support, computing, clerical and administration.
  
• iii. Brief description of on going RD activities
  at the facility accelerator improvements,
  beamlines improvements, etc 
• 2)    Beamlines
• i. Drawing of the floor plan, with a brief
  description of each beamline.
• ii. Describe the facility beamlines available to
  users and percentage time allocated to outside
  users.
• iii. How many beamlines (facility, PRT) are
  operational and what percentage of operational
  time is allocated to outside users.
• iv. Describe the communities served by each
  beamline (i.e. Biology, Materials Science, etc).
• 3)      Support facilities- sample preparation,
  computing capabilities, etc
• i. What is available?
• ii. What is planned?

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•      Information Requested from the Facility
  (continued) 
• Users
• i. How is beam time allocated to outside user?
• ii. Reviewing process A plot of the beam time
  allocations per year vs. the number of
  groups receiving this time allotment (i.e.
  Materials Science, Biology, etc). Also user
  experiments per year, and proposals per year.
  Percentage of beam time per year allocated to
  facility scientists.
• Impact
• i.   List all publications in the last two years
  in refereed journals only. This list should
  separate papers according to work performed by
  outside users or facility staff. Separate out
  conference proceedings.
• ii.    List invited lectures and major awards for
  facility staff and outside users.
• iii.   List the twenty most important
  publications of work performed at the facility
  over the past two years, include Citation index.
• 3)      Cost Indicator
• i. Cost per paper (total cost of beamlines
  operation/ number of papers per year).
• ii.   Cost per delivered beam day (delivered beam
  days/ number of papers per year).
• 4)     

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•         Future
• i.   Describe in a brief statement the plans for
  future beamlines and facility upgrade.
• ii.  Describe the potential impact on the
  facility of the phasing out of some or all PRTs
  due to financial or scientific difficulties,
  provide a budget estimate of what will be needed
  to keep such beam lines operating.
• iii. Identify potential problems- such as power
  shortages, environmental contamination, etc
• iv. Provide a budget estimate required to upgrade
  the beamlines scientific instrumentation, motor
  controls, detectors and associated electronics.
• v.   What are the expected trends in user demand
  internal, external and scientific area they
  represent (materials, chemistry, biology etc).

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•         The reviewer should provide an
  individual evaluation addressing the following
  issues
•    Quality of the research performed at the
  facility in terms of number and impact of
  published research.
•      Appropriateness and quality of the facility
  staff research and development (RD) program.
•      Satisfaction of the user community with the
  facility support and staff.
•      Overall availability of quality beam time
  to the user community.
•      What is the user demand at the facility?
•      Evaluate the proposal review process for
  beam time allocation, effectiveness and fairness.
•      Evaluate the fairness in the distribution
  of beam time among users, i.e. facility staff vs.
  outside users.
•     Evaluate the appropriateness of the beamline
  instrumentation to satisfy the present and future
  needs of the user community.
•     Evaluate the cost effectiveness of beamline
  operation, i.e. cost of operating a specific
  beamline in relation to its demand by users.
•    Evaluate what is an appropriate level of
  research and development funding for efforts
  related to improving operations, accelerator,
  insertion devices, advanced instrumentation, etc
•    What will be the most effective way to
  improve the scientific productivity in number and
  quality, support for facility RD and/or direct
  support to the users?
•    Cost effectiveness of the facility,
  publications, and scientific impact vs. cost of
  operation.
•    How the facility sees its role in the
  synchrotron radiation community at large?
•   What is the expected future capability of the
  facility and specifically of the PRT operational
  structure?

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Shaping the Future

• The Reviews of the Four BES Synchrotron
  Radiation Facilities were completed by February
  2002.
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• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
  (SSRL) April 3-5, 2001
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• National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) July
  11-13, 2001
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• Advanced Photon Source (APS) October 16-18, 2001
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• Advanced Light Source (ALS) February 4-6, 2002
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• Some Interesting Statistics for the Four
  Synchrotron Radiation Facilities in FY 2001
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• Total Number of Users 6568
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• Total Number of General Users 4412
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• Total Number of Publications 2061
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• Total Number of Beamlines 166
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