Transcript High Energy Physics Briefing to the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee

Department of Energy
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
Briefing to the
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
Dr. Robin Staffin
Associate Director, Office of High Energy Physics
DOE Office of Science
February 8, 2007
Department of Energy
The DOE HEP program in FY 2008
Office of Science
Overall HEP budget and priorities in FY 2008:
– Tevatron and B-factory support. Last year of running for B Factory.
– LHC Support (Ops and Computing) up $5.2M over FY07 Request – operations
starting
– Core research program at the universities and laboratories increased over 2007.
– Initiatives for the future of HEP:
• ILC R&D continues at FY2007 request level
• Start of new neutrino initiatives
– NUMI Off-axis neutrino Appearance experiment (NOVA): electron neutrino
appearance.
– Reactor Neutrino Detector at Daya Bay, China.
• Dark Energy
– Support for SNAP
– R&D for ground and/or space efforts that can help optimize the design of Stage III or
Stage IV experiments. Concepts will be selected by open competition, peer review;
DETF will guide us
– Dark Energy Survey (DES) Stage III experiment.
» Enabling DOE funds for the camera, led by Fermilab
» Proposed partnership with NSF-AST, and foreign partners
» **Funding is contingent on successful scientific and technical reviews by the
interested funding agencies. **
Department of Energy
High Energy Physics
FY 2008 Budget
Office of Science
($M)
Facility ops
Tevatron
B-factory
LHC (construction+ops)
LBNL and BNL infrastructure
Other Projects
Construction and non-LHC MIEs
Subtotal ops & projects
core research
University physics research
Laboratory physics research
Accelerator Science (univ + lab)
SciDAC & Lattice QCD
Subtotal core research
Accelerator Development
Detector R&D
ILC R&D
Dark Energy R&D
Subtotal R&D and new initiatives
Others (incl. SBIR/STTR in 07 and 08)
Total as shown in FY07 budget
SBIR/STTR in FY 2006
Grand Total incl SBIR/STTR
FY06
FY07
FY08
Actual Request Request
209
216
206
89
93
56
60
60
62
6
6
6
2
13
19
366
388
349
111
111
124
85
85
95
27
33
41
5
7
7
228
236
267
42
28
48
22
15
15
30
60
60
3
13
13
97
116
136
7
35
30
698
775
782
18
716
775
782
FY08 FY07
-10
-37
2
0
6
-39
13
10
8
0
31
20
0
0
0
20
-5
7
7
Department of Energy
Recent Advisory Panels
Panel
Reports to
EPP2010
National Research Council report on long term
priorities in the HEP program
April 2006
P5
HEPAP
New mid-scale initiatives
June 2006
Dark Energy
Task Force (DETF)
HEPAP & AAAC
Dark Energy techniques
June 2006
Dark Matter Science
Assessment Group
(DMSAG)
HEPAP & AAAC
Direct Detection of Dark Matter
*Draft Feb. 2007
University Grant
Program Subpanel
(UGPS)
HEPAP
Review of the Grant Program
* March 2007
Which of the 5 Beyond Einstein
Missions should go first?
* Sept. 2007
NRC Beyond Einstein
Program Assessment
Committee (BEPAC)
DOE & NASA
Topic(s)
Office of Science
Reports Due/Approved