NEUPRFP 2009

A PDF version of the RFP is given below

Media:NEUP_RFP_2008.pdf

Proposal Due date

March 16,2009

Go/NoGo requirements

1. Commitment to reporting
2. If DOE Lab Work and safety Health program
3. Export Control
4. Standard Research Subcontract
5. Quality Assurance if non-academic partner
6. commitment to prepare additional contracts

Proposal Outline

Title:

Technical Work Scope and Mission Relevance (20% or 3 pages)

(D.Dale)

Research Plan Tasks to accomplish scope (35% or 5 pages)

1. establish and commission beamline for polarized photons 2. proof in principle asymm measurement 3. applications: variable targets

Milestones and Deliverables

12 months after: acquire beamline components (vacuum pipe for beam dump, beam dump magnet, exit window/pair converter, radiator, 4 PMTs+ bases, octal discriminators, 4-fold logic unit)

24 months after: commission beamline; begin measurements

36 months after: report on measurements with application assessment

R&D resources and Capabilities (10% or 1.5 pages)

HRRL description (with specs and picture) counting room (with picture)

(V.S.)

Timeline

year 1: establish beamline

year 2:

year 3:

(D.Dale)

Roles of Participants and Team Qualifications (15% or 2 pages)

Participant A = D.Dale = Manager Photofission physics

Participant B = V. Starovoitova = Data analysis expert

Participant C = T. Forest = DAQ, beam line design

Participant D = P. Cole = beamline instrumentation, expert complainer

Students = 2 PhD theses + 2 MS theses, 2 undergrad training

Budget form

(V.S. + CV)

Proposal Graphs

The time of flight measured by detector A. The unhatched histogram represents the flight time observed when a D2O target is used while the hatched histogram is observed when using the H2O target

overall apparatus

brem target

experimental cell closeup. Need to fix the e+/e- orbits to look the same. One of the particles will remain in the B-field while the other escapes.