NSF Nuclear Physics

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NSF Nuclear Physics

• Budget Overview FY2003, FY2004
• NSF Initiatives
• Physics Division issues

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NSF NP Program

• Facility MSU Coupled Cyclotron Facility
• University Facilities ND, FSU, SUNY-SB
• User Groups RHIC, JLAB
• Collaborations
• LANSCE (UCNA, np?d?) NIST
• Solar neutrinos, double beta decay
• Individuals

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Research Highlights
Muon g-2
Neutron Monochromator at NIST
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Research Highlights
Search for Stable 16Be
Breakout from Hot CNO Cycle
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Research Highlights
Dense Matter Equation of State
Distribution of Proton Charge and Magnetism
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NSF/MPS FY2003 Budgets
Budgets FY2002 FY2003 FY2003 (
millions) (Actual) (Request) (Final) NSF
RRA 3,599 3,783 4,083 (13.1) MPS
920 942 1,041 (13.1) Physics 196
193

• Notes
• 0.65 overall reduction
• Physics Division
• low double digit percentage increase
• Advance guidance PI programs get 5 boost

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NSF/MPS FY2004 Budgets
Budgets FY2003 FY2003 FY2004 (
millions) (Request) (Final) (Request) NSF
RRA 3,783 4,083 4,106 (8.5,0.6) MPS
942 1,041 1,061 (12.7,1.9) Physics
193 217

• Note
• change over ??? yet to be resolved

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NSF Initiatives

• MRI deadline past, proposals under review
• FY2002 640K (BigBite, NP Astro)
• ITR
• Deadline past, proposals under review
• FY2004 is last planned year
• FY2002 500K for PHENIX/Globus

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Physics Division

• Physics Frontiers Centers
• 4 funded in FY2001, 1 in FY2002
• 2 held over anticipate funding
• Plasma
• JINA
• next competition begins August 2005
• steady state
• every 3 years on 6-year cycle
• existing centers to be folded in to competition

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Physics Division

• New programs
• Biological Physics
• Physics at the Information Frontier
• Advanced computing
• Networks
• Quantum information science
• Accelerator Physics and Mid-Sized Instrumentation
• NSF-wide concern
• FY2005

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NSAC Charges

• Nuclear Theory
• Opportunities
• People and Tools
• Fundamental Neutron Science
• What is the present/future science context?
• Education
• Where are we now? Where do we want to be?
• How do we get there?