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-=Physics Program=
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-==Qweak==
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-== Primakoff==
-== CLAS==
-= Prior and Future use of NSF Funds=
-=Facilities=
-\hspace{0.5in}The Idaho State University Department of Physics Strategic Plan
-identifies the use of experimental nuclear physics techniques as
-its focus area to addressing problems in both fundamental and
-applied science.  The major efforts of the department include
-fundamental nuclear and particle physics, nuclear reactor fuel
-cycle physics, nuclear non-proliferation and homeland security,
-accelerator applications, radiation effects in materials and
-devices, biology and health physics.  Because of this focus, the
-department has been characterized as one of the largest nuclear
-physics graduate programs in the nation with an average of over
-graduate students.  One of the key
-ingredients to the department's success has been the completion
-of the Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) on April 30, 1999.  A substantial
-amount of lab space (4000 sq. ft.) within the department has
-become available due to a combination of the IAC and a remodeling
-of the physics building.  A detector lab with the potential to
-construct proto-type drift chambers in a clean room environment
-is currently planned as part of the lab space renovation.
-The Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) is located less than a mile
-away from campus and will provide a machining facility for
-detector construction, an electronics shop for installation of
-instrumentation, and beam time for detector performance studies.
-The IAC houses ten operating accelerators as well as a machine and
-electronics shop with a permanent staff of 8 Ph.D.'s and 6
-engineers.  Among its many accelerator systems, the Center
-houses a Linac capable of delivering 20 ns to 2 $\mu$s electron
-pulses with an instantaneous current of 80 mA up to an energy of 25
-MeV at pulse rates up to 1kHz.  The IAC has donated beam time to
-the Q$_{weak}$ project for the purpose of testing detector
-performance.  One of the goals of these tests will be to evaluate
-the Q$_{weak}$ detector at high rates.  The IAC is well suited
-for these rate tests as the Q$_{weak}$ calibration rates will be
-much lower than the electron and photon rates the IAC is capable of
-generating. A full description of the facility is available at
-the web site (www.iac.isu.edu).
-The Beowulf REsource for Monte-carlo Simulations (BREMS) is
-a 12 node, 64 bit cluster housed in the ISU physics department
-which can support the high performance computing needs of
-the physics research program.  This facility is the result of an
-investment made by NSF award PHYS-987453.  This infrastructure
-will be an effective means for performing GEANT4 simulations of
-the Q$_{weak}$ experiment as well as Garfield simulations of the
-Region II drift chamber design.  Simulation speed is increased on
-BREMS by running the simulation in parallel on many CPUs.
-A version of GEANT4 known as ParGeant4~\cite{ParGeant4} has recently been
-distributed which will allow these simulations to be run in parallel.
-=The Broader Impact of the Idaho State University Nuclear Physics Research Program=

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