Dear Colleagues,
Additional information on the President's proposed FY2011 budget for
the DOE Office of Science can be found at:
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/budget/11budget/Content/Volume%204.pdf
Some highlights:
p. 254:
"
The Electron Accelerator-Based Physics subprogram utilizes accelerators
with high-intensity and ultra-precise electron beams to create and
investigate matter at its most basic level. Since electrons are light,
point-like particles (unlike protons) they are well-suited to precision
measurements of particle properties and exacting beam control. The
next-generation Energy Frontier accelerator after the LHC is likely to
be a high-energy lepton (electron or perhaps muon) facility that can
probe LHC discoveries in detail.
"
The ILC funding request remains flat-flat at $35 million, viz.
p. 285
"
FY2009 FY2010 FY2011
International Linear Collider R&D 35,000 35,000 35,000
(dollars in thousands)
A TeV-scale linear electron-positron collider is widely considered by
the
international high energy physics community to be a likely successor to
the LHC, though the data from the LHC may indicate that an even higher
energy accelerator (such as a muon collider) is needed to understand the
new physics that emerges at this energy scale. In FY 2007, the
International
Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration under the auspices of the ILC
Steering
Group and the direction of the Global Design Effort (GDE) completed a
detailed review of the R&D to be accomplished worldwide with milestones
and
priorities for that work. In FY 2008, the GDE initiated a five-year
program
to develop a Technical Design Report (TDR) that will address outstanding
R&D
issues, complete a baseline design, and provide a project implementation
plan.
Completion of the TDR in 2012 is consistent with worldwide resources
currently
available for the ILC R&D and coincident with first physics results from
the
LHC (necessary to finalize operating parameters for a TeV-scale linear
collider).
In FY 2011, the ILC R&D program will continue to support an important,
leading
U.S. role in the comprehensive and coordinated international R&D
program.
Accordingly, efforts will focus on R&D for systems associated with the
generation
and maintenance of very bright particle beams, such as electron sources,
damping
rings, beam dynamics development, and beam delivery systems. Support
will also be
provided for development and prototyping of high level RF equipment and
components
associated with the main linac accelerator, including ILC cryomodules.
These R&D
efforts also have wider applicability to other projects supported by the
Office
of Science.
"
The "Advanced Detector Research" and "Detector Development" activities
have been
renamed as "Detector Development, Grants Research" and "Detector
Development,
National Laboratory Research", respectively. Their budget request can be
found
on page 286.
The "Electron Accelerator-Based Physics Funding Schedule by Activity"
can
be found on page 266, with an Explanation of Funding Changes on page
268.
Similarly, "Proton Accelerator-Based Physics Funding Schedule by
Activity" can
be found on page 257, with an Explanation of Funding Changes on page
264.
Sincerely,
Norman Graf
