# Presentation: 075996

## Nuclear Physics at NSF

- Research and Education
- 200+ faculty
- 80+ postdocs
- 200+ graduate students
- 150+ undergraduates
- University facilities
- Michigan State University’s NSCL
- Tandem/LINAC laboratories
- FSU
- Notre Dame
- User group program: DOE/OS/NP is critical partner

## Nuclear Physics at NSF

- NP Experiment
- Structure
- Heavy ions
- Symmetries
- Hadrons and QCD
- NP Theory
- Nuclear Astrophysics (PNA)
- Astrophysics (Notre Dame, FSU)
- Neutrinos (Borexino, CUORE, Daya Bay)
- Frontier Center (Joint Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics)
- NSCL
- Total: $45M

## Nuclear Physics at NSF

- Research Highlights – Two flavors
- Budgets (FY2008-09)
- Special Programs
- Dates
- People

## Highlights Overview

- production of 40Mg at NSCL
- completion & fill, 50-day run at Borexino
- muon lifetime measurement at PSI
- BONUS detector for neutron structure at JLAB
- parity/binding systematics in few-body systems
- neutrino flavor oscillations and supernovae
- 10th CEU at DNP

## 	Press Release 07-154 Newly Created Forms of Magnesium and Aluminum 

**New isotopes push the edge of nuclear existence**

- In a paper published Oct. 25, 2007, in the journal *Nature*, researchers created never-before-seen isotopes of magnesium and aluminum—
- Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.

## BONUS: Towards a First-Ever 
Free Neutron Target

- Free Neutron Target

- Neutrinos and
- Supernovae

**From Fluffy Nuclei to Atoms and Back**

- How Long Do Muons Live?

- Nuclear Physics and Forensics

- Smile Protons, You're on Camera

- Source of Neutrons in Stars

## Nuclear Physics FY2008

- NSCL operations: flat (not +$1M)
- Nuclear Theory and Experiment: down 5%
- “class of 2005”
- Out-year adjustments made to move some impact to FY2009 and FY2010

## Nuclear Physics FY2009

- NSCL operations: try to restore trajectory toward optimal operations
- Nuclear Theory and Experiment: impact from FY2008, and/or move forward
- Move forward with DOE on partnered funding plan for neutron EDM (Physics Division funds)

## FY2009 R&RA Budget Request

## FY2009 MPS Budget Request

## FY2009 Physics Division Budget Request

## Special Programs

- Physics Division (target date passed):
- DUSEL R&D
- Physics at the Information Frontier
- Frontiers Centers (under review)
- Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (deadline passed)
- Some NP participation in proposals and panels
- Major Research Instrumentation (deadline passed)
- Cost sharing 30%
- Maximum request $4M
- Domestic Nuclear Detection (deadline passed)

## DUSEL

- April 2008: Workshop in Lead, SD
- Late Spring/Summer 2008: S-4 Solicitation
- Fall 2008: S-4 Funds and NSF Review
- Estimated successful MREFC start: FY2012

## DUSEL Solicitation 4

- Solicitation 4 (S-4, in clearance):  call for proposals to develop project plans for _potential candidates_ for the initial suite of experiments
- Design funds to address:  what do you need to execute the experiment you propose?
- Will include opportunity for limited, targeted R&D
- Open to all disciplines
- Up to $15M total from Physics/MPS, over 3 years
- Primarily for physics experiments
- Additional $0.5-1.0M from engineering
- Approach to BIO, GEO being determined; will depend on proposals received
- Independent of ’08 DUSEL R&D

## 	– Steve Elliott (LANL) Nuclear Physics

**	****DUSEL Experiment Development Committee**
- 	• Follows on from S-1 (New Guard)
**	****– ****Hank Sobel (UCI) Phy**
**	****– ****Steve Elliott (LANL) Nuclear Physics**
**	****– ****T.C. Onstott (Princeton) Geo/Bio**
**	****– ****Derek Elsworth (Penn State) Geo/Eng**
**	****– ****Larry Murdoch (Clemson) Geo/Eng**
**	****– ****Daniela Leitner (LBL) Accelerator Physics**
- 	• To help underground community develop the Initial 	 Suite of Experiments (S-4)

## FY2009 Proposal Submission

- Physics Division Target Date
- For Most Programs (including NP):
**Wednesday, September 24, 2008**

## People

- NSF Director: Arden Bement
- NSF Deputy Director: Kathie Olsen
- MPS Assistant Director: T. Chan
- MPS Deputy Assistant Director: Jack Lightbody
- Physics Division Director: Joe Dehmer
- Nuclear Physics
- Bradley D. Keister
-     (experiment and theory)
- Ani Aprahamian
-     (experiment,  theory,  astrophysics, & underground lab)