# Presentation: 672526

## Cornell High EnergySynchrotron Source

**Thomas A. Weber**
**Director, Materials Research**
**National Science Foundation**
**tweber@nsf.gov**

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## CHESS Facility

**Uses X-rays from CESR**
**CHESS & MacCHESS - 5 beam lines & 10 stations**
**CHESS five year renewal in April of 1998**

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**Notes:**
MacCHESS - current support (1.07 M - 475 personnel 3.9, 595 equipment)
recommended 3 additional people at $375,000.

MacCHESS is not administered through CHESS but through the academic department of the MacCHESS PI, Steve Ealick. I'll have to inquire to get the numbers. Steve told me the numbers for the last three years of the MacCHESS grant which exired last fall (year, Direct $, Indirect $):
Year 1, $1,027,870, $271,422
Year 2, $682,396, $287,472
Year 3, $590,909, $284,250.
Year 1 had significant equipment in the budget. MacCHESS has been renewed for, I think, 5 years, starting last Fall. I'll try and dig up the numbers for the current year tomorrow.

## Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR)

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**Notes:**
Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) -- CESR is an electron-positron collider capable of producing collisions with center-of-mass energies between 9 and 12 GeV.  It provides important opportunities in particle physics research using the CLEO detector, and in synchrotron radiation science through the associated CHESS facility.  In addition, its developments in superconducting RF instrumentation have been widely adopted by other major accelerator complexes.  At this time CESR is the best facility in the world for studying the b-quark, its rare decay modes, and CP violation in the b-quark sector.  The American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields recognized the importance of CLEO/CESR contributions to this science through the award of the 1999 Panofsky Prize, the highest award of that community, to the CLEO spokesperson.  CESR operates at world record luminosities and is extremely cost-effective in comparison to similar e+e- facilities.  In order to continue to make progress on some of the central problems in particle physics, an upgrade of beam intensity and instrumentation is currently taking place and is expected to be completed in 1999.  The upgrade will boost rates in the particle physics experiments ten-fold, and proportionally increase light intensity for studies at CHESS.  The simultaneous upgrade of the CLEO detector and CESR will allow the Cornell facility to compete with the facilities at SLAC and KEK (Japan), both of which are under construction, in the worldwide search for CP violation in the b-quark sector.  Exploitation of the science opportunities that CLEO/CESR offers is one of the highest priorities of the field, as articulated in its recent long-range plan (the Gilman Panel report of HEPAP).

## CESR Review

**Cahn Panel:  Field of B physics (1/98)**
**Nine *****ad hoc *****mail reviews (2-5/98)**
**Peccei Panel:  Cooperative agreement and research program (4/98)**
**Upgrade Review Panel (10/98)**

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**Notes:**
Cahn Panel (9):
Investment in B physics is appropriate in view of importance of physics goal
Exploitation of CESR-CLEO upgrades top priority
ad hoc reviews (7 E, 1 E/VG, 1 verbal):
Cornell group are leaders and represent a vital component of the national HEP program.
Issues: Impact of new B factories, upgrade schedule, RICH detectors
Peccei Panel (7):
Cornell has dominated the field of B-physics and could retain leadership for many years
Cornell U. cost-sharing found to be low
Upgrade Panel (5):
Expects completion six months late and under budget
Recommends continued accelerator physics R&D at high luminosity frontier

## CESR Budget History and Recommendation

**FY 62-93:****	****$256M**
**FY 94-98:****	****$77.4M****	****(operating)**
**FY 94-98:****	****$26.3M****	****(upgrade)**
**FY 99:****	****$9.25M****	****(bridge funding)**
**FY 99-03:****	****$88.183M****	****(recommended)**

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## The G-line

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**Notes:**
Brock et al proposal funded at $2.5M for construction of a new beam line.

## CHESS Funding

**NSF recommendation (4/1/98)**
**$16.481 M over sixty months**
**includes $2.706 M from NIH**

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## NSF Support of Macromolecular Crystallography

**82 active grants, > $32 M**
**structural biology research**
**biochemistry related to structural biology**
**instrumentation and software development**
**database management systems**
**In addition**
**protein data bank**
**new beam lines planned at ALS and CAMD**

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