BNL

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BNLs Role in High Energy Physics

• Thomas B.W. Kirk
• Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear
  Physics
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Snowmass Colorado
• July 2, 2001

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Current BNL HEP Activities

• Approaching the Energy Frontier - Higgs, SUSY,
  ???
• D0 Upgrade - Preshower Det. Software D0
  physics Run 2 startup
• Host Lab for US ATLAS Construction Computing
  Projects - LHC dets. physics
• Partner Lab for LHC Accelerator Project - SC
  magnets cable testing
• SNO and MINOS neutrino experiments
  (collaborators)
• Probing beyond the Frontier! - rare
  processes/precision meas.
• Muon (g-2) rare K decay experiments at AGS -
  propagator physics!
• Understanding the patterns - theory
• Strong HEP Theory Group in current topical areas
• Riken BNL Research Center with 0.6 Tflops QCDSP
  Supercomputer
• Inventing the tools - future machines
  technologies
• Accelerator Physics and Superconducting Magnet
  RD
• ATF, muon storage ring/collider, HTSC magnet
  concepts

Key investment!
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Near Term BNL HEP Plans (lt10 yrs)

• Exploring the Energy Frontier - Higgs, SUSY, ???
• D0 search for Higgs/SUSY in the moderate mass
  regime
• US Host Lab for ATLAS LHC physics Tier-1
  Computing Center
• Probing beyond the Frontier! - RSVP
• MECO (m -gt e direct conversion) - new physics up
  to 3000 TeV mass scale!
• KOPIO CKM (K0L -gt p0 n nbar) - golden decay for
  CP-violation h parameter
• Muon electric dipole moment (EDM)
  search/measurement?
• Understanding the patterns - theory
• Strong HEP Theory Group in key topical areas,
  including lattice gauge!
• Riken BNL Research Center with 10 Tflops QCDOC
  next generation SC
• Lattice Gauge Center with 20 Tflops QCDOC
  Supercomputer
• Inventing the tools - future machines
  technologies
• AGS Phase 1 intensity upgrade to a 0.4MW proton
  driver (100M)
• Accelerator Physics and Superconducting Magnet
  RD

n Superbeam I!
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AGS-based proton driver evolution

• Parameter AGS Now Phase 1 Phase 2
• Total beam power MW 0.14 0.40 1.00
• AGS beam energy GeV 24 24 24
• Linac beam energy GeV 0.2 1.2 1.2
• Average current mA 6 17 42
• Cycle time ms 2000 1000 400
• Protons per fill 0.6x1014 1x1014 1x1014
• Average AGS current A 3.5 5.9 5.9
• No. of bunches at extraction 6 6 6
• No. of protons per bunch 1x1013 1.7x1013
  1.7x1013
• Total bunch area eVs 15 5 5
• Beam bunch interval ms 33 20 20

n Superbeam II!
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Long Term BNL HEP Goals (gt10 yrs)

• Reaching to the Next Energy Frontier - new
  physics???
• LHC Luminosity upgrade, including detectors ltgt
  extends LHC discoveries
• Linear ee- Collider (FNAL?) ltgt extends LHC
  physics discoveries
• VLHC ltgt reaching beyond the few TeV mass scale!
• Completing the neutrino story - advanced neutrino
  exps.
• Superbeam neutrino experiments ltgt complete the
  oscillation picture
• Muon Storage Ring (BNL) ltgt CP-violation in the
  lepton sector
• Understanding the patterns - theory
• Strong HEP Theory Group in then topical areas,
  including lattice gauge!
• Riken BNL Research Center with N Pflops QCDxx
  Supercomputer?
• Inventing the tools - future machines
  technologies
• Accelerator Physics and Superconducting Magnet RD

BNL Goal!
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Muon Storage Ring on the BNL Site