Dear Colleagues,
The funding profile by subprogram within the FY09
budget proposal for HEP is available online at:
http://www.science.doe.gov/obp/FY_09_Budget/HEP.pdf
The sections for the ILC and SCRF are as follows:
FY07 FY08 FY09
International Linear Collider R&D 41,686 14,834 35,000
"The ILC is considered by the world-wide high energy
physics community as the successor facility to the LHC,
and essential for advancing scientific progress at the
Terascale. In FY 2007, the ILC international collaboration
under the auspices of the International Linear Collider
Steering Group, and the direction of the Global Design
Effort (GDE), completed a detailed review of the R&D to be
accomplished world wide, with milestones and priorities
for that work.
The FY 2008 Energy and Water Development and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act resulted in sharply reduced
funding for ILC R&D. In response, the FY 2009 budget
supports a U.S. ILC R&D program with reduced scope compared
to FY 2007, but addressing priority areas identified by the
global R&D plan, and focused on topics for which the U.S.
has unique expertise. Accelerator efforts will be centered
on R&D for systems associated with the generation and
maintenance of very bright particle beams such as electron
sources, damping rings, beam dynamics, and beam delivery.
Support will also be provided for development and
prototyping of high level RF equipment and development of
components associated with the main linac, including ILC
cryomodules.
Where appropriate, directed R&D aimed at cost reduction
of present baseline systems and developing alternate
low-risk components will be undertaken."
FY07 FY08 FY09
Superconducting RF R&D 24,680 5,405 25,000
"The FY 2008 Energy and Water Development and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act resulted in sharply reduced
funding for Superconducting RF (SRF). This request resumes
support for infrastructure needed for the testing and
development of high-gradient superconducting accelerating
cavity and cryomodule prototypes. The testing facilities
and prototypes will help enable a host of SRF-based next
generation scientific and industrial facilities, and in
particular will be a critical component for the next
generation of accelerators across the Office of Science
complex, not just those with HEP applications.
In FY 2009, this effort will provide funds for procurement
of components and support equipment necessary to prototype
multi-cavity cryomodules. This request also enables continued
development of U.S. capability for testing individual bare
cavities, dressed cavities with all power components
attached, and cryomodules. Fermilab is the lead U.S.
laboratory coordinating the national R&D program in this
area."
Norman Graf
