NSF Reviewer 2020
What is the potential for the proposed activity to
advance knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields (Intellectual Merit); and
The NSAC long range plan for 2015 does not specify solving Faddeev equations for Nd scattering as an interest. The authors did suggest an impact of a D(n,2n) calculation for diagnosing the physics conditions of the capsule that is irradiated by laser beams at the National Ignition Facility. It was not clear how critical those calculations are for the facility. Figure 1 compares data for Ay from 1987 to their recent calculations showing a big departure from both experiment and the predictions from the Bochum group at angles less than 90 degrees.. and Figure 2 compares to data from
benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
The NSAC long range plan does identify the training of students in high performance computing as a need. The proposed training of students in this proposal appears to use FORTRAN as the training environment. The use of this language may actually be a dis-service to students who wish to enter the high performance computing field. The long range plan specifically identifies a need to collaborate with groups that develop computing hardware architectures. This proposal would have benefited from an investigation into porting their FORTRAN codes to take advantage of new computing hardware.