[Brahms-l] Fw: Review of U.S. Heavy Ion Program

From: flemming videbaek <videbaek@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 16:58:06 EST
Fwd: Final draft, letter to communityAs some of you know yet another review has been scheduled for US RHIC 
HI program this year (no 2/3-4)
Flemming

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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov
phone: 631-344-4106
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From: Rai, Gulshan 
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: re: Review of U.S. Heavy Ion Program


Dear Colleague,



The following email is being forwarded to you for your information.



Gulshan Rai

Program Manager for Heavy Ion Physics

DOE, Office of Nuclear Physics, SC-90



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Dear Colleague,



At the NSAC meeting in February, the DOE and NSF presented NSAC with a charge to review of the US program in heavy-ion nuclear physics. The letter with the full charge to NSAC can be found on the DOE web site at http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/henp/np/nsac/docs/nsacCharge_HI_021804.pdf



This note is to bring you up to date on the present status of this NSAC initiated review.



A.  The membership of the Subcommittee is as follows:



Peter Barnes, Chair        LANL

Kees de Jager              Jefferson Laboratory

Bradley Filippone          CalTech

Thomas Glasmacher          Michigan State University

Hans-Ake Gustafsson        Lund University

Ulrich Heinz               Ohio State University

Barbara Jacak              Stony Brook University

Peter Jacobs               LBNL

Jay Marx                   LBNL

Alfred Mueller             Columbia University

Steven Vigdor              Indiana University

Urs Wiedemann              CERN

Richard Casten             Yale University, ex-officio





B.  The character of this review can be seen from the following paragraphs taken from the charge:



"The NSAC is asked to examine current and proposed U.S. efforts in heavy-ion nuclear physics and identify what scientific opportunities should be pursued, in the context of U.S. and international capabilities and available resources, to ensure an optimized national research program.  In your examination of these facilities and research activities, please respond to the following questions:



What scientific opportunities should be addressed and what facility and instrumentation capabilities should be used and developed, including those supported by NSF and outside the United States, in order to maintain a strong scientific program in the coming decade?



What opportunities can be pursued with funding at the FY 2005 Budget Request level ($158.9 million) and an assumed constant level of effort into the out years?  What is the appropriate mix of facility operations, research, computer support, investments in instrumentation and accelerator capabilities, and detector and accelerator R&D that will be needed to optimally exploit these opportunities?



What are the priorities of the scientific opportunities that could be pursued with additional funds beyond this constant level of effort?"



C.  We are in the initial stages of organizing the Subcommittee which will then be establishing what information it will require from the community for its deliberations. It is requested that documentation of proposed activities that encompass future initiatives within the US heavy ion program be submitted to me by May 1.  A forum for public discussion of these initiatives with the Subcommittee is now being organized.



Please feel free to forward this message to those who might be interested.



Sincerely,



Peter D. Barnes

Chair, Subcommittee on Heavy-Ion Nuclear Physics



E-mail:  pdbarnes@lanl.gov

Surface mail:

M.S. H846, P-25

Physics Division

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM, 87545






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