Status, Issues and Observations Postcards from Paraguay

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Status, Issues and Observations-- Postcards from
Paraguay

• R. Dixon

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Trip Planner

• Status
• Issues Facing the Accelerator Division
• Issues we share with the Laboratory
• Global Issues

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What is the Key to Our Success?

• AD Personnel
• Talented
• Dedicated
• Focused
• Tough
• Together

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Accelerator Division Issues (1)

• Completing the present Program
• Run II
• Neutrinos
• End of Tevatron Era
• Energy Frontier Disappears
• Fermilab is now the only U.S. HEP laboratory
• EPP2010 asks how long Tevatron should run
• Defining a future accelerator program
• Neutrinos
• Proton Driver
• Other high beam power sources for neutrinos and
  other applications such as The OBIETRON
• ILC
• Astrophysics and accelerators

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Accelerator Division Issues (2)

• Accelerator Division Manpower
• Making the Transition to the future program(s)
• Maintaining a vital workforce
• Budgets
• Global issues for later
• U.S. Support of Science
• The gathering storm

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Total Accelerator Program
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Technician Classifications
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Technician Ages
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AD manpower needs forAccelerator Operations
FY05-09
Present Level
AD now 575
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Accelerator Division Issues (3)

• Aging Infrastructure
• Collaborations w/other laboratories and
  Universities

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Laboratory Issues that Relate to AD

• Contract is to be re-bid
• History
• Institutional Relationship
• Relationship with our users
• Relationship with our funding agency
• Big science and funding
• Oversight

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Global Issues

• Science outlook in the U.S.
• Original Motivations
• What is the future of accelerators at the energy
  frontier?
• RealAccelerator RD vs Real Projects

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Rising Above The Gathering Storm Energizing and
Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
(2005)Committee on Science, Engineering, and
Public Policy
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Rising Above The Gathering Storm Energizing and
Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
(2005)Committee on Science, Engineering, and
Public Policy
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Pseudo Science
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