Update from NSACNuPECC Long Range Planning Meeting

Susan J. Seestrom

NSAC Chair

U.S. Department of Energy

Office of Science

Outline

• Overview of NSAC

• NSAC Long Range Plan

• Progress toward LRP

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 MarchCommittee of Visitors: Prof. Sherry Yennello Chaired, NSAC accepted in March

Priorities of the Long Range Plan

Recommendations of the LRPI. 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.

II. 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.

III. 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.

IV. 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.

1. Complete the 12 GeV CEBAF upgrade

2. Build Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

3. New Standard Model Initiative (DUSEL)

4. RHIC luminosity & detector upgrades

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

Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan

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Hall D, Feb 17th

Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan

Expect to request the start of engineering design in FY 2011 24

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

February 26, 2010 NSAC Meeting 9

MeRHIC physics

MeRHIC: ~$350M (FY09)

Includes e beam + IR mods, but not new detector + hadron beam cooling

LHC HI starts

Luminosity upgrade:

Further luminosity upgrades (pp, low-E)

RHIC-II science by-passing RHIC-II project

Opportunity for up-grade or 1st EIC stage

(MeRHIC)EIC = Electron-Ion Collider; eRHIC = BNL realization by adding e beam to RHIC

PHENIX Barrel and Forward Vertex Detector

Luminosity and detector upgrades are underway for RHIC

STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker

Implementing the recommendations of the Long Range Plan

CUORE receives CD2/3

Investments in neutrons, neutrinos, and fundamental symmetries

Majorana Demonstrator UnderwayR&D for nEDM 25

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!