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Nuclear Physics at NSF

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, ββ, ϑ 13 ) Frontier Center (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics) NSCL FY2008 total: $45M.

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Nuclear Physics at NSF

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  1. 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, ββ, ϑ13) • Frontier Center (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics) • NSCL • FY2008 total: $45M

  2. Additional Funding • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) • small (<$1M); 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

  3. 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/advisory/cov.jsp • highlights

  4. 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

  5. FY2008-10 Summary • FY2008 R&RA: $4.827B • FY2009 R&RA request: $5.594B • Recovery Act: $3B; op. plan approved • $2.5B R&RA, including • $0.3B MRI • $0.2B ARI • FY2009 R&RA conference: $5.183B (+7%); op. plan approved • FY2010 (total) request: $7B (FY08+16%) • … to $9.7B in FY2014

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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 R&D 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 not required

  9. FY2010 R&RABudget Request

  10. FY2010 MPSBudget Request

  11. FY2010 Physics Division Budget Request

  12. 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 R&D: supplanted by S4

  13. 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)

  14. Backup Slides

  15. 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

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