NSD Update

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NSD Update

• James Symons 9/14/09

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88-Inch Cyclotron / Accelerator Based Nuclear
Science News

• Element 114 Confirmation
• Fixed Vacuum Leak in D - July 2009
• 1.88m ARRA Funding
• Move to different RF Tube
• Intensity Upgrade with new Injection System
• Signature of Extension of MOA through 2015
  Imminent
• GRETINA Installation has started in Cave 4C
• Capital equipment (900k)
• DOE and MSU signed cooperative agreement to build
  FRIB (completion around 2017/18)
• Two meetings Rare Isotope Summer School,
  JUSEIPEN

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Historic Repair of 88-Inch Cyclotrons Suspended
Two-Ton Cover Plate By Jim Morel 7/31/09
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88-Inch Cyclotron / Accelerator Based Nuclear
Science News

• Element 114 Confirmation
• Fixed Vacuum Leak in D - July 2009
• 1.88m ARRA Funding
• Move to different RF Tube
• Intensity Upgrade with new Injection System
• Signature of Extension of MOA through 2015
  Imminent
• GRETINA Installation has started in Cave 4C
• Capital equipment (900k)
• DOE and MSU signed cooperative agreement to build
  FRIB (completion around 2017/18)
• Two meetings Rare Isotope Summer School,
  JUSEIPEN

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System Assembly

• Started at the 88 Cyclotron

Support structure in Cave 4C
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88-Inch Cyclotron / Accelerator Based Nuclear
Science News

• Element 114 Confirmation
• Fixed Vacuum Leak in D - July 2009
• 1.88m ARRA Funding
• Move to different RF Tube
• Intensity Upgrade with new Injection System
• Signature of Extension of MOA through 2015
  Imminent
• GRETINA Installation has started in Cave 4C
• Capital equipment (900k)
• DOE and MSU signed cooperative agreement to build
  FRIB (completion around 2017/18)
• Two meetings Rare Isotope Summer School,
  JUSEIPEN

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Challenges

• Short term
• Get VENUS Running
• Prepare for GRETINA RUN in 2011
• Reinvigorate Trapping Program
• Medium term
• Heavy Element Upgrade
• Injection AIP Project
• BGS Focal plane gas stopper
• Detector Upgrades
• Long Term
• Replacement of the 88

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Small Digression

• Sometimes you get what you ask for, although it
  may take a little longer than expected
• 2001 NSAC Long range plan laid out a broad vision
  for the field important questions, big plans
• 2001
• RIA 1BN 2012
• Jlab 12GeV Upgrade 160M 2008
• DUSEL 130M 2009
• RHIC II 100M 2010
• (eRHIC) circa 2015

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Small Digression

• Sometimes you get what you ask for, although it
  may take a little longer than expected
• 2001 NSAC Long range plan laid out a broad vision
  for the field important questions, big plans
• 2001 2009
• FRIB 1BN 2012 550M 2018
• Jlab 12GeV Upgrade 160M 2008 350M 2014
• DUSEL 130M 2009 gt1B 2017
• RHIC II 100M 2010 80M 2014
• (eRHIC) circa 2015 After 2020

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Drivers for Accelerator-based LENP program in
next 8 years

• FRIB Construction
• FRIB Instrumentation
• Isotope Production Program

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Neutrinos, etc.

• DUSEL Progress
• Project Office on Campus
• NSF S4 Awards
• DIANA
• Majorana
• CUORE
• Prototype Crystals look great
• CD2/3 imminent
• KamLAND
• Purification for Solar Neutrino Phase going well
• DUSEL Science Report

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Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
SNO 1 kton D2O water Cherenkov 6 kmwe overburden
KamLAND 1 kton mineral oil scintillation 3 kmwe
overburden
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Solar Physics with Neutrinos
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Challenges

• Short Term
• Data taking for Kamland Solar Phase
• CD-1 for Majorana Demonstrator Project
• Start Construction Phase of CUORE
• Medium Term
• CUORE
• Technical design of DIANA
• Demonstrator at Sanford Lab
• Long Term
• DUSEL Experiments

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Another Digression

• If DUSEL goes ahead, it will be focus of activity
  for US groups
• Long baseline neutrino experiments
• Dark Matter Searches
• Neutrinoless double-beta decay
• Nuclear Astrophysics
• . . .

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Nuclear Theory News

• Spin Workshop
• New Arrival - Wick Haxton, Joint Appointment with
  UCB
• Submitted materials for DOE Program Review
• Submitted two topical center proposals
• Quantitative Jet and Electromagnetic Tomography
  (JET) of Extreme Phases of Matter in Heavy-ion
  Collisions,
• XN Wang, B Mueller, PIs
• Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics through
  high performance computing
• W. Haxton, G. Fuller PIs

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Challenges

• Short Term
• Catching their breath
• Medium Term
• Topical Center(s)
• Long Term
• Computational End Station

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RNC News

• Long polarized proton run completed, including
  first data at 500Gev
• DOE/BNL proceeding with Heavy Flavor Tracker
• Four calorimeter modules installed in ALICE
• Interviews for open positions

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RNC News

• Long polarized proton run completed at RHIC,
  including first data at 500Gev
• DOE/BNL proceeding with Heavy Flavor Tracker
• CD1 Review in November
• Four calorimeter modules installed in ALICE
• 4/11 of Calorimeter for first running
• Scientific case for additional modules
• Interviews for open positions

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Challenges

• Short term
• ALICE Computing at PDSF and LLNL
• New Hires
• RHIC Low Energy Scan
• Medium Term
• Physics with HFT, ALICE
• Long Term
• EIC, or

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Challenges

• Short term
• ALICE Computing at PDSF and LLNL
• New Hires
• RHIC Low Energy Scan
• Medium Term
• Physics with HFT, ALICE
• Long Term
• EIC, or

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Digression

• Directors Review Report is on its way
• Divisions Program Outstanding
• Observation
• Spread rather thin
• Recommendations
• New Chemistry faculty
• New Staff in Low Energy

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