# Presentation: 201476

## Physics Department Meeting

- May 25, 2007

## Steve Vigdor, New ALD for NPP

- Arrives in September from Indiana University
- STAR collaborator and expert on spin physics
- Member of all 6 NSAC Long Range Plan Working Groups!

- We are planning a department symposium to introduce our efforts to Steve (probably in September)

## Safety

- Why is accident rate rising?

- Accidents mostly not failure of work planning, but things which could happen anywhere

## This year’s DART cases

- 11 involve back/shoulder injuries from lifting/carrying
- 2 were running
- 2 were ladders
- 1 reaction to mold
- 1 bookcase fell
- 1 hand caught

- These could happen to anyone, anywhere

## Department Picnic

- July 25 (Rain Date, July 26)
- Thanks to Sal Marino/Jackie Mooney

## Department Web Page

- Up-to-date announcements
- Send them to me or Jackie Mooney for posting
- RHIC news
- Suggestions to UEC reps

## Library

- Shelving/journals removed
- Internet access (both internal/external networks) added
- Department space for visitors to work for a few hours/ a few days/ etc.
- Check it out! (Thanks to Bob Liegel)
- Remember to give book purchase suggestions to Cindy McQuilken or John Millener
- Thanks to Jim Frank for  ordering cosmology books

## Large Seminar Room

- Requesting funds from director to renovate room
- Please send email to me with suggestions for needed audio-visual equipment
- How will we use the room in the future?

## Appropriate Computing

**Reasonable Use of Computers:**Brookhaven allows the staff reasonable use of computing resources (for example, hardware, software, networks, and printers) for personal purposes unrelated to their work assignments. Such limited personal use is authorized for non-work-related activities if they satisfy the following criteria:
**Do not** interfere with official business needs.
**Do not** interfere with job performance, nor delay or compromise Brookhaven's projects.
**Do not** cause any significant costs to Brookhaven or the DOE.
**Do not** compromise information security in any way.
**Do not** involve illegal activities.
**Are not** related to business outside The Laboratory, or to any political enterprise.
**Do not** involve activities that could potentially embarrass Brookhaven or the DOE.

## Personal Use of Computers:The following examples of the personal use of computers constitute acceptable non-work-related activities that meet the criteria specified above. Ongoing education, self-training, and professional development. 
Personal correspondence and work on your own resume or those of family members. 
Work for charities and non-political local community groups. 
Good-taste Internet access. 
Various researches, such as reading newspapers and magazine articles, checking airline prices and schedules and purchasing tickets, browsing sales catalogs, comparing prices of automobiles and obtaining road maps, and checking accounts in credit unions and retirement plans. 
Work on personal finances (for example, preparing income taxes). 

- Personal correspondence and work on your own resume or those of family members.
- Work for charities and non-political local community groups.
- Good-taste Internet access.
- Various researches, such as reading newspapers and magazine articles, checking airline prices and schedules and purchasing tickets, browsing sales catalogs, comparing prices of automobiles and obtaining road maps, and checking accounts in credit unions and retirement plans.
- Work on personal finances (for example, preparing income taxes).

## Forbidden:

- Supporting or accessing sites that promote hate language, harassments, or threats.
- Supporting or accessing sites that ridicule others on the basis of race, creed, religion, sex, disability, nationality, or sexual orientation.
- Creating, downloading, viewing, storing, copying, or transmitting sexually oriented material (e.g., pornography, child pornography).
- Gambling.
- Working for commercial purposes or supporting for-profit organizations or other outside employment or businesses.
- Endorsing any product or service.
- Participating in any partisan political activity.
- Misleading someone into believing you are acting in an official capacity.
- Hosting services (such as creating or storing web sites) for purposes not related to Brookhaven’s work.
- Using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services, such as Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA.
- Using any software that allows your computer to be shared outside the Brookhaven firewall without first obtaining approval via the Cyber Security Management Information System.
- Using Internet auction sites, such as eBay.
- Creating and/or forwarding of chain letters and mass mailings.
- Violating license and other computer-related contract provisions - particularly those that expose The Laboratory to legal costs or damages.
- Using software, such as password-cracking tools, vulnerability scanners, and network sniffers, without the express written consent of the Chief Cyber Security Officer (CCSO).

## High Energy Physics

- On track for start of ATLAS data at CERN in 2008
- ATLAS will remain the department’s largest HEP effort for the foreseeable future

## Daya Bay Reactor Experiment in China

- Successful CD-1 review in April
- On track for CD-2 review in Fall, 07

- HEP program has recovered from RSVP cancellation with strong program

## HEP Budget

- HEP program approximately solvent
- With care, we should be able to do many of the things we would like to do

## Planning

- US Nuclear Physics community in the midst of long range planning exercise
- This happens every 5 years
- Large effort in Physics Department to articulate physics opportunities with future electron-ion collider
- Thanks to Thomas Ulrich (and everyone who contributed!) for leading our department effort

- http://www.bnl.gov/npp/docs/RHICplanning/PositionPaper_eA_final.pdf

## Recommendations from NSAC Long Range Planning Meeting 

- Completion of the _12 GeV Upgrade at Jefferson Lab_
- Construction of the _Facility for Rare Isotope Beams_
- A program of experiments to investigate _neutrino properties and __fundamental symmetries_
- Implementation of the _RHIC II__ luminosity upgrade, together with detector improvements_.
- Unnumbered 5th recommendation:
- 	We recommend the allocation of resources to _develop accelerator and detector technology_ necessary to lay the foundation for a _polarized __Electron Ion Collider_

## A Long Term View of RHIC

## NP Budget

## NP Budget in Physics Department

- We have great ambitions, but insufficient funds to carry out all of our plans for this fiscal year (FY08 looks good)
- Detector R&D necessary to ensure future
- We are announcing an “austerity program” for NP
- This means:
- Intense scrutiny of travel/purchases
- Intense scrutiny of requests for visitor support
- No new hires of scientific staff

## Call for Voluntary RIFS

- We would like to reduce our expenses, so we can perform high priority items
- Part time work? Department is flexible
- If you would like to volunteer for a RIF, contact me (in writing) by June 8
- Formula for severance pay is capped at $45K
- We will accept volunteers from either HEP or NP
- To qualify, the RIF must correspond to a real reduction in staff and be accepted as such by HR