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?