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2006 RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ Meeting June 5-9, 2006

2006 RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ Meeting June 5-9, 2006. Sam Aronson Interim Director. Outline. Safety Lab Initiatives HENP and others – context and constraints in a multi-function laboratory Summary. Safety First.

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2006 RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ Meeting June 5-9, 2006

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  1. 2006 RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ MeetingJune 5-9, 2006 Sam Aronson Interim Director

  2. Outline • Safety • Lab Initiatives • HENP and others – context and constraints in a multi-function laboratory • Summary RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 2

  3. Safety First • Safety is important to us because we don’t want our employees and our users, guests and visitors to be injured • A cluster of recent incidents (after 106 hours of DART-free work) • Two of these resulted in injuries which turned out not to be life-threatening, but could have been • Work stoppages at RHIC and CFN • Did we go from being a very safe Lab to being a very unsafe Lab? • We need to look at and learn from what happened • Work observation • Human performance factors • Special issues for safety in the summer at BNL • Bikes, ticks, sun/heat RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 3

  4. Lab Initiatives • Major Initiatives; Unique user facilities BNL’s long term future is staked on these • Center for Functional Nanomaterials • In construction, initial ops 4/07, full ops 4/08 • NSLS II • Seeking CD-1, construction `09-`13, ops `14 • QCDLab • RHIC II – CD-0 `07, construction `10-`12, ops `13 • eRHIC – CD-0 `09, construction `12-`16, ops `17 • These are “technical” schedules; much work (by all of us) to make these real • The FY07 president’s budget makes all of this seem more thinkable than it seemed a year ago • That budget has done well in the House, but it ain’t over… RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 4

  5. Lab Initiatives • Smaller initiatives, which could grow over time, maybe into major lab activities • For example • Medical imaging • Energy for the 21st century • Computational science • Astrophysics & cosmology • … RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 5

  6. QCDLab • What are the issues? • Building the science cases • Building consensus in the NP community • Building the QCD user communities • Building the hardware (the easy part??) RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 6

  7. HEP & NP issues for BNL • Historical HEP & NP dominance  more balanced vis à vis BES • HEP has become an off-site business • Home base for US ATLAS, others • Niche opportunities @ AGS? (g-2, EDMs, …) • BNL has great prospects for HEP leadership in HEP nationally and internationally • We need to understand the role of future on-site HEP facilities in this picture RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 7

  8. Summary • HENP will continue to be a major and vital component of BNL’s mission and user facility portfolio for the foreseeable future • Time to recognize reality? HENP  NPP • We have the opportunity and the need now to secure that future by getting buy-in at all levels for the QCDLab vision RHIC & AGS Users', 060608 8

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