Advancing Energy, Economic and National Security Through Science, Technology and Environmental Stewa

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Advancing Energy, Economic and National
SecurityThrough Science, Technology
andEnvironmental Stewardship
U.S. Department of Energys
Office of Science
Briefing for the Astronomy and Astrophysics
Advisory Committee
Raymond L. Orbach Director, Office of Science May
17, 2005
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Office of Science

• The Office of Science is the primary source of
  support for the Physical Sciences.
• Provides 42 of federal support to the physical
  sciences
• Provides primary support to select sub-fields
  (e.g. high energy physics, nuclear physics,
  nuclear medicine, heavy element chemistry, plasma
  physics and magnetic fusion, and catalysis.)
• Manages long-term, high-risk, high-payoff
  multidisciplinary science programs to support DOE
  missions
• Directly supports (FY 05) the research of around
  23,500 Ph.D.s, Post Docs and Graduate Students
• Constructs and operates large scientific
  facilities for the future of science.
• Accelerators, light and neutron sources,
  nanotechnology research centers
• Used by more than 19,000 researchers every year
• Number of users expected to increase dramatically
  with Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and
  nanocenter user facilities commencing operations
• Linac Coherent Light Source begins construction
• Ten billion times brighter, in the hard x-ray
  range, than any other light source in the world
• new field of ultra-fast science

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Elements of Program

• Accelerator based physics our primary tools
• Construction and operation of accelerators and
  detectors and research activities in these
  facilities
• Proton based accelerator Tevatron, LHC, K2K,
  NuMI, MiniBooNE
• Electron based accelerator B-FactoriesBaBar and
  Belle
• Non-accelerator physics
• Atmospheric solar neutrinos Super-K, KamLAND
• Particle astrophysics cosmology GLAST, Auger,
  VERITAS, SDSS, CDMS-II, AMS, CMB
• Theory
• Elementary particle theory
• Major computing efforts simulation, data
  storage, distribution, analysis
• Technology RD
• RD for accelerator and detector technologies

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Cosmic Connections
Operating Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS
(w/NASA, NSF, Sloan foundation) 3D sky
map, dark energy Supernova Cosmology Project,
Nearby Supernova Factory (w/NSF NASA)
dark energy Cosmic Microwave Background
(CMB) cosmology Cold Dark Matter Search (CDMS-II)
(underground, w/NSF) dark matter in cosmic
rays Approved Under Construction Large Area
Telescope (LAT) GLAST, 2007 (w/NASA,
foreign) gamma rays, dark matter Pierre Auger
ground array in Argentina (w/NSF, foreign) high
energy cosmic rays AMS Alpha Magnetic
Spectrometer ISS (w/NASA, foreign) cosmic
antimatter Very Energetic Radiation Imaging
Telescope Array System (VERITAS) - telescope in
Arizona (w/NSF, SAO) high energy gamma rays AXION
dark matter
search Proposed Joint Dark Energy Mission
(w/NASA) dark energy Large-aperture Synoptic
Survey Telescope LSST (w/NSF) dark energy