Fw: BNL User's Group Congressional action

videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov

Dear Collaborator,
(in particular US residenc/RHIC users group in case you have not received it
otherwiese.
Please take action if you agree on this.

regards
    Flemming
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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

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From: "Richard Seto" <seto@phyun0.ucr.edu>
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: BNL User's Group Congressional action

>
> Dear friends,
>
> The funding for our high energy colleagues running at the AGS has been
> terminated in the President's 2003 budget. As the chairman of the
> RHIC/AGS users committee representing high energy physicists, nuclear
> physicists, and space biologists, I am asking you to write your
> congressman. This should only take a few minutes.  We have done most
> of the work for you. Its a lot easier than ordering a book from
> Amazon.  Jeff Mitchell has set up a web site at
> http://qgp.physics.iastate.edu/uec/agshep/
>
> These letters should not be sent from lab addresses.  Please use
> either your home address or university address (whichever is in the
> congressperson's district)
>
> -Richard Seto
> for the RHIC/AGS UEC
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> more info:
>
> Why should you bother?  - The sciences are under fire. In
> particular the physical sciences have suffered relative to the life
> sciences. Many in congress are acutely aware
> of this problem. This has even been pointed out by Harold Varmus -
> then the head of NIH. I believe that we do well to work together as a
> group of scientists supporting one another's research. There will come
> a time when those who work at RHIC or on the NASA beam line will be
> asking our high energy friends for their support.  As you probably
> realize, in the eyes of most congressman and the general public there
> is no difference between the various fields. (Perhaps the NASA work
> can be differentiated a little, but I doubt it.)
>
> Can it hurt some of us? The template letter is careful to ask that NEW
> money be used for the purposes of restoring the budget for the AGS
> high energy program. As you probably know, RHIC has done rather
> well in this budget (at least so far - remember it has not yet been
> approved by congress). There was an additional $14M earmarked for RHIC
> running. Tom Kirk has insisted to the DOE that he would NOT sacrifice
> RHIC running.  I do not believe that an increase for one part of
> science generally means that other parts of science suffer. In fact I
> believe the opposite.  With the demise of the SSC, we were all
> hurt. We want the general support for science, and in particular the
> physical sciences, to increase.
>
> I would like to note that there was a concerted effort by many people
> to increase the funding for both J-Lab and RHIC. Lots of visits were
> made to different congressmen and senators. I believe that the money
> set aside for RHIC (and JLAB) running was a direct results of the
> combined lobbying effort of many people, including many of you.
>
> even more info:
>
> The two major experiments which will be terminated will be 949 (the
> rare K decays) and 962 (g-2). Numerous other experiments will be cut
> as well - an emulsion experiment to look for /Lambda/Lambda nuclei,
> the Crystal Ball experiments, and experiments with the Hyperball.
>
> Let me briefly tell you about E949 an E962. Both of these experiments
> are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model.  These experiments
> present a unique opportunity for such observations before the Large
> Hadron Collider begins operation at CERN in 2006, and will provide
> information which is complementary to that which will be obtained
> there.
>
> E949 is a continuation of E787 which measures the branching ratio K+
> to pi+ nu nubar.  Since there are no strangeness changing neutral
> currents to first order in the SM, the decay proceeds through
> intermediate loops with heavy particles and is therefore very
> sensitive to new interactions.  If there is no new physics the
> experiment will measure V_td, one of the critical elements of the CKM
> matrix that is currently not well determined. Already the two events
> observed by E787 are providing constraints on global fits to CKM
> parameters and E949 will have an order of magnitude greater
> sensitivity. Comparisons of measurements in the kaon and B systems
> will provide the best overall test of the Standard Model picture
> CP-violation and search for new physics.
>
> E962 is the measurement of "g-2", the anomalous magnetic moment of
> the muon. The magnetic moment can be calculated to a very high degree
> of accuracy including many loop corrections. If the measurement
> indicated that the calculations including standard model particles did not
> match the experimental results, this would again indicate that there was
> new physics. Whatever the final answer from g-2, it will provide an
> important constraint for physics beyond the standard model, and will have
> to fit into the global picture along with the information gained at new
> facilities such as the LHC.
>
> For information on E949 contact Steve Kettell at kettell@bnl.gov.  For
> information on E962 contact Lee Roberts at roberts@bu.edu.
>
> Richard Seto
>
>
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