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Update from NSAC NuPECC Long Range Planning Meeting

U.S. Department of Energy. Office of Science. Update from NSAC NuPECC Long Range Planning Meeting. Susan J. Seestrom NSAC Chair. Outline. Overview of NSAC NSAC Long Range Plan Progress toward LRP. NSAC Overview.

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Update from NSAC NuPECC Long Range Planning Meeting

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Update from NSACNuPECC Long Range Planning Meeting Susan J. Seestrom NSAC Chair

  2. Outline • Overview of NSAC • NSAC Long Range Plan • Progress toward LRP

  3. NSAC Overview • Charter: “…provide advice upon request to both the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on determining the scientific priorities within the field of basic science research…” • Charges • Recurring (Committee of Visitors, Performance Measures) • Advice on specific issues (e.g. Long Range Plan, Isotopes, Rare Isotope Beam Taskforce,…) Committee of Visitors: Prof. Sherry Yennello Chaired, NSAC accepted in March

  4. Priorities of the Long Range Plan

  5. Recommendations of the LRP 1. Complete the 12 GeV CEBAF upgrade • We recommend completion of the 12 GeVCEBAF Upgrade at Jefferson Lab. The Upgrade will enable new insights into the structure of thenucleon, the transition between the hadronicand quark/gluon descriptions of nuclei, andthe nature of confinement. • We recommend construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a world-leading facility for the study of nuclear structure, reactions, and astrophysics. Experiments with the new isotopes produced at FRIB will lead to a comprehensive description of nuclei, elucidate the origin of the elements in the cosmos, provide an understanding of matter in the crust of neutron stars, and establish the scientific foundation for innovative applications of nuclear science to society. • We recommend a targeted program of experiments to investigate neutrino properties and fundamental symmetries. These experiments aim to discover the nature of the neutrino, yet-unseen violations of time-reversal symmetry, and other key ingredients of the New Standard Model of fundamental interactions. Construction of a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory is vital to U.S. leadership in core aspects of this initiative. • The experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have discovered a new state of matter at extreme temperature and density—a quark-gluon plasma that exhibits unexpected, almost perfect liquid dynamical behavior. We recommend implementation of the RHIC II luminosity upgrade, together with detector improvements, to determine the properties of this new state of matter. 2. Build Facility for Rare Isotope Beams 3. New Standard Model Initiative (DUSEL) 4. RHIC luminosity & detector upgrades

  6. Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan Hall D, Feb 17th • New physics reach provided by the 12 GeV CEBAF Upgrade: • Nuclear tomography to discover and explore the three-dimensional structure of the nucleon • The search for exotic mesons—a quark and an anti-quark held together by gluons, but unlike conventional mesons, the gluons are excited • Physics beyond the Standard Model via high precision studies of parity violation • The spin and flavor dependence of valence parton distributions—the heart of the proton, where its quantum numbers are determined • The structure of atomic nuclei, exploring how the valence quark structure is modified in a dense nuclear medium 23

  7. Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan Dec. 11, 2008: DOE selects MSU to establish FRIB May 7, 2009: Roll-out of NSCL/FRIB organization June 8, 2009: Cooperative Agreement between DOE and MSU Sept. 1-3, 2009: First Lehman Review March 17, 2010 Lehman Mini-Review of Preparations for CD1 Expect to request the start of engineering design in FY 2011 24

  8. NSAC Meeting

  9. MeRHIC physics Opportunity for up-grade or 1st EIC stage (MeRHIC) RHIC-II science by-passing RHIC-II project MeRHIC: ~$350M (FY09) Includes e beam + IR mods, but not new detector + hadron beam cooling LHC HI starts EIC = Electron-Ion Collider; eRHIC = BNL realization by adding e beam to RHIC Luminosity upgrade: Further luminosity upgrades (pp, low-E)

  10. Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan Luminosity and detector upgrades are underway for RHIC STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker PHENIX Barrel and Forward Vertex Detector Investments in neutrons, neutrinos, and fundamental symmetries Majorana Demonstrator Underway CUORE receives CD2/3 R&D for nEDM 25

  11. Summary • U. S. nuclear science has an ambitious long range plan that advances the science across 3 focus areas (QCD, Nuclei & Nuclear Astrophysics, Fundamental Symmetries &Neutrinos) • Investment is being made toward major facility improvements or new construction • Investment in scientific tools to capitalize on facility investments Exciting time for U.S. scientific community with an Administration that is strongly committed to science!

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