May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
NSF Nuclear Physics
• Budget Overview: FY2003, FY2004
• NSF Initiatives
• Physics Division issues
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
NSF NP Program
• Facility: MSU Coupled Cyclotron Facility
• University Facilities: ND, FSU, SUNY-SB
• User Groups: RHIC, JLAB
• Collaborations:– LANSCE (UCNA, npd); NIST– Solar neutrinos, double beta decay
• Individuals
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
Research Highlights
Muon g-2
Neutron Monochromator at NIST
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
Research Highlights
Search for Stable 16Be
Breakout from Hot CNO Cycle
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
Research Highlights
Distribution of Proton Charge and Magnetism
Dense Matter Equation of State
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
NSF/MPS FY2003 Budgets
Budgets: FY2002 FY2003 FY2003
($ millions) (Actual) (Request) (Final)
NSF R&RA 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
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
NSF/MPS FY2004 Budgets
Budgets: FY2003 FY2003 FY2004
($ millions) (Request) (Final) (Request)
NSF R&RA 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
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
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
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
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
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
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
May 15-16, 2003 RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting
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?