Dear Colleagues,
The President's FY2011 budget proposal have been released and
details are available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/ <https://exch-mail.slac.stanford.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/>
The Department of Energy appendix is at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/doe.pdf
High Energy Physics starts at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/doe.pdf#page=9
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Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)
Identification code 89-0222-0-1-251 | 2009 | actual 2010 | est. 2011 est. |
00.04 High Energy Physics ....................| 955 | 862 | 829 |
High Energy Physics.-The high energy physics (HEP) program
aims to understand how our universe works at its most fundamental
level, by discovering the most elementary constituents
of matter and energy, probing the interactions between them,
and exploring the basic nature of space and time itself. The program
encompasses both experimental and theoretical particle
physics research and related advanced accelerator and detector
technology research and development (R&D). The primary mode
of experimental research involves the study of collisions of energetic
particles using large particle accelerators or colliding beam
facilities.
In addition to contributing to breakthrough scientific discoveries,
HEP research also makes major contributions to accelerator
technology and provides the expertise necessary for the expansion
of such technology into medicine, industry, and homeland security,
as well as materials, biology, and chemistry research using
light sources. One notable recent example is the Linac Coherent
Light Source, now operating at the SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory: the concept and proof-of-principle for this state-of the-
art basic energy sciences facility grew out of particle accelerator
technology developed for the HEP program.
The HEP budget request supports a world leadership program
at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Funding is
provided for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research program,
including support for software and computing, pre-operations
and maintenance of the U.S. built systems that are part of the
LHC detectors; and accelerator commissioning and accelerator
physics studies using the LHC.
While the future trajectory of the worldwide HEP program has
an emphasis on the energy frontier, the proposed long-range
program will provide the U.S. with a balanced and diverse array
of world-leading efforts, including new facilities to ensure continued
U.S. leadership at the intensity and cosmic frontiers of exploration,
such as intense particle beams to probe rare and subtle
particle interactions, or ground and space-based observatories
for understanding dark energy and dark matter.
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This is, of course, just the beginning of a long and unpredictable
process
Sincerely,
Norman Graf
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