Summary of Main Points The Physics We Are Doing Education and Outreach The Resources Needed

1. A Program in Medium Energy Nuclear PhysicsNuclear Physics LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignD. H. Beck*, P. T. Debevec, M. Grosse Perdekamp, D. W. Hertzog*, P. Kammel, N. C. R. Makins, A. M. Nathan, J.-C. Peng, S. E. Williamson • Summary of Main Points • The Physics We Are Doing • Education and Outreach • The Resources Needed OVERVIEW *Co-PIs

2. Summary of Major Points • Our research program is at the forefront of our field • 20 grad students, reflecting the inviting nature of our projects • We continue to take on leading roles in large-scale projects • Our success depends on… • Quality, size, and coherence of our group • Highly experienced research physicists • Top quality postdocs and students • Excellent technical support • Strong funding from NSF and UIUC

3. NPL RESEARCH STAFF • Faculty • Doug Beck • Paul Debevec • Matthias Perdekamp • David Hertzog • Naomi Makins • Alan Nathan • Jen-Chieh Peng • Graduate Students • Chu, Ping-Han (JCP) • Crnkovic, Jason (DH) • Ely, Seth Ryland (JCP) • Joosten, Sylvester (NM) • Kiburg, Brendan (DH/PK) • Knaack, Sara (PK) • Koster, John (MGP) • Lamb, Rebecca (NM) • Leitgab, Martin (MGP) • McKinney, Cameron (MGP) • Meredith, Beau (MGP) • Muether, Mathew (DB) • Myers, Luke (AN) • Ngai, Wah Kai (JCP) • Rubin, Josh (NM) • Schroeder, Noah (DH) • Wang, Youcai (JCP) • Webber, David (DH) • Yang, Ruizhe (MGP) • Yoder, Jacob (DB) • Research Physicists • Peter Kammel • Steve Williamson • Postdocs • Markus Diefenthaler • Young Jin Kim • Serdar Kizilgul • Chris Polly • Anselm Vossen • Peter Winter = Out of town Today, we are running at LUND, JLAB and PSI 35 on research staff !

4. 7 Ph.Ds Awarded During the Current Grant Period *2009 APS Dissertation prize in Nuclear Physics

5. Active engagement of undergraduates

6. Guidance from the Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan – Dec. 2007 • QCD and the Structure of Hadrons • Phases of Nuclear Matter • Nuclei: From Structure to Exploding Stars • In Search of the New Standard Model Our group has had significant input in planning the next 10 year science priorities

7. Scientific Themes that Guide our Group • Precision measurements • Establish standard model parameters of particle physics • Test sensitively for physics beyond the SM • These efforts play an important complementary role to the direct discoveries anticipated at the LHC • Confronting QCD at a fundamental level • Determine the role of quarks, antiquarks & gluons to the internal structure and properties of hadrons • Understand the origin of hadron spin • Quark and gluon spin and orbital angular momentum contributions

8. Some Highlights – details later Standard Model Our Expt. Final Collins asymmetries from Belle Anomalous magnetic moment of muon Anti-quark orbital motion GF to 5 ppm (from tm) Weak interaction strength Strange quark contribution to proton density Determination of the pseudoscalar coupling gP

9. Confronting QCD … • nPOL: Neutron polarizability • Alan Nathan • (B) HERMES: Proton structure  origin of proton spin • Naomi Makins • (C) G0: Proton structure  strange quark content in the proton • Doug Beck, Steve Williamson Data taking complete (D) PHENIX: hadron formation, proton structure  origin of proton spin Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (E) JLab Transversity: hadron formation  proton spin Jen-Chieh Peng (F) E906: quark asymmetry in nucleon  quark sea decomposition Jen-Chieh Peng, Naomi Makins Active data taking or design

10. Precision Measurements • (A) MuLan: Measurement of the Fermi constant (to 0.5 ppm) • Paul Debevec, David Hertzog, Peter Kammel • (B) MuCap: Measurement of pseudoscalar coupling constant (to few %) • Peter Kammel, David Hertzog Data taking complete • (C) MuSun: Measurement of muon capture on the deuteron (to few %) • Peter Kammel, David Hertzog • (D) nEDM: Measurement of the neutron electric dipole-moment (to 2x10-28 e cm) • Doug Beck, Jen-Chieh Peng, Steve Williamson • (E) Daya Bay: Measurement of q13 neutrino mixing angle (to few degrees) • Jen-Chieh Peng • (F) New Muon g-2: Measurement of the muon magnetic moment (to 0.14 ppm) • Paul Debevec, David Hertzog, Peter Kammel • (G) Mu2e: Charged lepton violation test (to 10-16 BR !) • Paul Debevec, David Hertzog, Peter Kammel Active data taking or design

11. Long-Term Experimental Planning Tables of “Who does What” should be in your handouts

12. Experiments that Completed Data Taking(highlights and current analysis) • G0: Backward data on H and D targets  GSE, GSM and GSA separately • HERMES:Analysis highlights include constraints on • Orbital L for antiquarks in the proton sea • Total angular momentum J of quarks and gluons in the proton • nPolCompton scattering on the deuteron  neutron polarizability • Muon g-2:All data now published on am , dm, Lorentz / CPT test • Dam is >3 s from SM theory • MuLan: Final ~ 2x1012 events being analyzed • Published tm to 11 ppm; new GF to 5 ppm • MuCap:Final large data set being analyzed • Published gp in agreement with cPT • FNAL866 Analysis of Drell-Yan data yields constraints on • Gluon distributions in the proton and neutron • Spin-orbit correlation of antiquarks in the nucleon

13. Ongoing and Developing Projects(some highlights and activities) • PHENIXConstruction projects (MPCs, RPCs) and Analysis efforts • SSAs in di-hadron interference fragmentation in polarized pp. • Completed two MPCs and started RPC factory • BelleFinal direct determination of Collins fragmentation function • FNAL E906 Drell-Yan at 120 GeV; approved for 2010 run, construction starting • MuSun New PSI m-d capture experiment approved in 2008 • Developed first TPC pad readout test station • First TPC test / commissioning run ongoing now • Daya BayMeasurement of q13 • Peng is PMT leader (there are a lot of PMTs!) • @Illinois, PMT test laboratory; magnetic field influence, 2D scans, … • nEDMMajor R&D and Design / Construction effort • Measurements of polarized 3He relaxation and dressed spin • Developed large-aperture superfluid He prototype valve assembly. • New g-2New proposal in development • Beam design and overall planning • New W/SciFi calorimeter built and tested

14. Our experiments are located remotely Brookhaven Long Island FNAL PSI, Switzerland Instrumentation development and analysis at Illinois KEK, JPARC Japan Daya Bay China SNS, Oak Ridge JLab Newport News DESY, Germany

15. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n To answer fundamental questions, requires custom equipment. These are built here.

16. Design Reality To answer fundamental questions, requires custom equipment. These are built here.

17. On this campus we are preparing key parts of a new neutron EDM measurement with 2x10-28 e-cm

18. As we have done before… Here, the G0 superconducting torroid magnet is being mapped at in old NPL accelerator high-bay, prior to shipping to JLab

19. MPC Production at Illinois in the NPL MPC assembly team in Urbana Dmitri Aleksandrov Kurchatov Frank Ellinghaus Colorado Oleg Eyser UCR Don Isenhower ACU Andrey Kazantsev Kurchatov Nathan Means Stony Brook Ken Sedwick* UCR Cole Watts* ACU John Wood* ACU Ryan Wright* ACU ------------------------------------------------- John Blackburn Illinois John Koster Illinois Beau Meredith Illinois Ruizhe Yang Illinois Aaron Veicht* Illinois Hazel Kim* Illinois Tyler Natoli* Illinois *undergraduate students pre-amp and APD-Holder gluingUV curing crystal cleaning and TYVEK wrap APD and crystal gluing(36 hours curing in jigs) wrapping preparation aluminum and tetlar wrapping calibration test stand

20. reflective wrap light tight wrap Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) Gluing PbWO4 + APD + Preamp

21. Technical Staff • David Northacker: Assistant Research Physicist • chamber gas system design expert • experienced national lab tech • now at BNL supporting the RPC factory • E906 chamber gas design • Eric Thorsland: Research Engineering Assistant • design, machining, welding, vacuum, assembly, testing • glass blowing, laser expert • Phenix piston calorimeter • EDM test apparatus • John Blackburn: Physical Sciences Technical Assistant • Inventor design; scintillator specialist, machining • PHENIX piston calorimeter • MuLan detector • EDM test apparatus

22. Senior Research Physicists • Peter Kammel: Research Associate Professor • MuSun: Conceived, designed, proposed and leading this new, approved PSI experiment (see talk). • MuCap: Conceived, designed, proposed and led experiment (see talk) • New (g-2)m: His planning and beam designs led to the current FNAL plan • Supervised Clayton (Dissertation prize); Now supervising 2 Ph.D. students (with dwh); advisor to numerous research undergraduates • Mu2e; Exec. Board; muon capture expert • Steve Williamson:Principal Research Scientist • nEDM: Subsystem manager 3He services (see talk) • Prior: was G0: Experiment Coordinator, Run Coordinator, and Magnet Subsystem Manager Senior Research Physicists critical for us to take on major new projects

23. Leadership and Scientific Service by an Active Staff • Spokesperson, co-spokesperson, deputy-spokesperson roles in 8 experiments(G0, nPOL, Transversity-JLab, PHENIX, MuLan, MuCap, MuSun, g-2) • Run-, Technical-, or Analysis-Coordinators in several experiments (e.g. HERMES, G0) • > 100 invited talks in last 3 years • Chairs, co-chairs, or organizing committees for workshops and conferences (several here in Urbana) • Service work for DNP, NSF, DOE, NSAC-LRP, NSAC subcommittees, NuSAG, PACs at LUND, J-PARC, BNL, JLAB • Reviewers and editorial service for several journals

24. Service Examples & Recognitions(I picked out a few; see CVs for many more) • Chair BNL Program Advisory Committee (Beck) • Arnold T. Nordsieck Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007 (Beck) • Center for Advanced Study Associate 2009/2010 (Beck) • Chair LUND Electron Accelerator Program Advisory Committee (Debevec) • NSAC Long Range Plan (Hertzog) • Chair CIPANP 2006 (Hertzog) • APS Fellowship for 2009 (Kammel) • NSAC and Long Range Plan (Makins) • BNL & JLAB Program Advisory Committees (Makins) • NuSAG Subcommittee (Makins) • USA Baseball Bat Advisory Committee (Nathan) • Fellowship Committee of the DNP (Peng) • J-PARC Program Advisory Committee (Peng) • Co-Chair, Workshop on DG in the Nucleon, Urbana, 2008 (Perdekamp) • Co-Chair, Workshop on Parity Violating Asymmetries at RHIC RBRC, (Perdekamp) • Co-Chair, Workshop on Physics with Polarized Protons at RHIC II BNL (Perdekamp) • Xerox Award for Research Excellence – 2009 (Perdekamp) • 2009 APS Dissertation Prize in Nuclear Physics (Clayton)

25. I N S T I T U T E F O R N U C L E A R T H E O R Y C o n t a c t | S e a r c h | S I t e M a p Li-Bang Wang -2006 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Recipient Organizing Scientific Meetings(and many more) Hertzog (chair) Beck Liss Peng Selen Willenbrock May 30 – June 3, 2006 Soft Photons and Light Nuclei June 16-20, 2008 Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois and TUNL Nathan PHENIX Collaboration Meeting University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  ~ July 17-19 2008, Urbana, IL ~ Perdekamp Nuclear Medium Effects on the Quark and Gluon Structure of Hadrons June 3-7, 2008 ECT*, Trento, Italy Perdekamp Gluon Polarization in the NucleonJoint Illinois-MIT-RBRC Workshop ~ June 16-17 2008, Urbana, IL ~ Perdekamp

26. We invest in a range of “Broader Impacts” activities • Research  classroom • Undergraduates and research • Physics and general “problems” and pedagogical methods transferred into general Math curriculum • Modern physics experimental lab re-development with new “near research” experiments • Outreach efforts • Saturday Honors Physics Program speakers • Physics of Baseball • Research Educational • 20 graduate students; 38 undergraduates, REU • Physics communications short course at CIPANP • Underserved populations • Middle school girls science project • Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

27. CONSTANT EFFORT SCENARIO – 2 faculty summer salaries removed Details in Doug’s presentation later … Overview of Budget – Year 1 Non-Personnel 19% Tuition charges University mandated overhead

28. Duty Primary Space (offices, labs) Doug Computers and support Dave Tech work plan Doug NSF communication Dave Proposal issues Dave Monthly staff meetings Dave Budet issues Doug Travel, dislocation Dave Equipment purchase Doug Student employment Dave Management Plan – no changes • Major issues involve whole group; monthly meetings • Evaluation of current and future research directions • Hiring postdocs, grant issues, tech time requests • Each project runs its own budget • Equipment, travel, supplies allocated annually per request and inline with approved proposal • 6 years ago, we assigned specific P.I. responsibilities and this plan has worked well

29. Reiteration of Major Points • Our research program is at the forefront of our field • 20 grad students, reflecting the inviting nature of our projects • We continue to take on leading roles in large-scale projects • Our success depends on… • Quality, size, and coherence of our group • Highly experienced research physicists • Top quality postdocs and students • Excellent technical support • Strong funding from NSF and UIUC Now, here comes the science program !!!