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=Physics Program=
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==Qweak==
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===Physics Measurement===
 
===ISU's Role===
 
Work Package manager of the Detector and Front End electronics.
 
 
 
Inelastic PV measurements (<math>d_{\Delta}</math>)
 
 
 
=== Future activities===
 
 
 
== Primakoff==
 
== CLAS==
 
 
 
=== Physics Program===
 
==== Polarized Structure Functions====
 
<math>\frac{\Delta d}{d}</math>
 
 
 
=== CLAS 12 DC Design and Construction ===
 
 
 
= Prior and Future use of NSF Funds=
 
\hspace{0.5in}While at Louisiana Tech University, the PI received three prior NSF awards as a member of the Louisiana Tech Particle Physics Group. The first proposal entitled ``Parity Violating Electron Scattering at Jefferson Lab, was awarded in 2002 for three years in the amount of \$670,230 (NSF Award \#0244998) to Louisiana Tech University. The award supported the groups efforts building triggering electronics for the G0 backward angle measurements and for the initial development of the $Q_{weak}$ experiment. The second proposal, ``Precision Electroweak Measurements at Jefferson Lab, was awarded \$204,594 in 2006 (NSF Award \#0555390) with similar support for the next two years to continuing the Lousiana Group's efforts. Dr. Forest's MRI Proposal (\#PHYS-0321197) entitled {\small ``Collaborative Research:Development of a Particle Tracking System for the Qweak Experiment} was awarded \$131,770 on July 26, 2003 to develop the Region 1 tracking system for the Q$_{weak}$ experiment. The status of the work supported by the above awards which the PI was responsible for is given in section~\ref{section:QweakDetector} and shown in Figure~\ref{fig:QweakProducts}.
 
 
 
=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
 
50 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=
 
 
 
 
 
[http://www.iac.isu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/NSF Go Back]
 

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