Jefferson Lab Users Group Report
John Arrington (JLab Users Group Chair)
Argonne National Laboratory
JLab Users Group Meeting, June 3rd, 2014
Users Group, UG Board of Directors (UGBoD)
 Represents users to JSA, JLab Management, and outside stakeholders
• User representative on Director’s Safety Council (Ed Brash)
• Chair gives user group update at JSA, SURA board meetings
• Represent JLab Users to NUFO
 Board meets twice annually with JLab leadership, JSA representatives
 Follow up on user questions, comments, complaints, suggestions…
 Organize the Annual User Meeting and two satellite meetings (APS
April and DNP Fall meetings)
 Board Chair makes presentations at JSA, SURA board meetings
 Manage awards (Thesis Prize, Postdoc Prize, Poster Prize…)
 User voice in evaluating JSA Initiative Fund requests
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Users Group Board of Directors
May 2014 Election:
Vice-chair
Haiyan Gao
At-large members
Elton Smith
Silvia Niccolai
Garth Huber
Postdoc Rep.
Elena Long
Grad Student Rep.
Melissa Cummings
Nominating committee:
D. Day, N. Walford,
R. Holt, I. Niculescu,
K. Slifer, V. Crede
UGM organization:
Katherine (Myers) Mesick
Lorelei Chopard
Steffen Strauch
Dipangkar Dutta
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UGBoD Activities (most supported by JSA-Initiative Fund)
• Satellite meeting at the DNP Fall Meeting, Newport News VA (October)
• Selected the winner of the 2014 postdoc prize [Zhihong Ye]
• Evaluated submissions for the 2014 thesis prize [Rakitha Beminiwattha]
• Satellite meeting at the APS April Meeting in Savannah, GA (April)
• Nuclear Physics Day visits to DC (April)
• Identify/recommend candidates for DNP Executive Committee (May)
• TODAY: Board suggests nominating ROLF ENT for at-large member
• This fall: Consider nominating candidates for GHP, GFB, etc…
• Annual Users Meeting (June 2-4)
• During the Meeting: Selected and award Poster Prize winners
• Science exhibition on Capitol Hill (June 10) (organized by NUFO)
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JSA Initiatives Fund
 JSA Initiatives Fund supports several critical User Group activities
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Two Satellite Meetings per year – April APS and Fall DNP annual meetings.
Presentations by UGBoD Chair and Jefferson Lab leadership, Q&A
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Users Group Annual Meeting (+Poster Competition, Student lunches)
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Postdoctoral Prize, Thesis Prize
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2014 list of funded proposals: http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IFIndex.html
 UGBoD evaluates user-submitted proposals, passes along ratings and
comments to JSA Programs Committee
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UG Board and JSA-generated initiatives:
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Board: Travel/meeting support, poster/thesis/postdoc awards
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JSA: Graduate student fellowships, Outstanding Nuclear Physicist award
User initiatives:
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Junior scientist travel support, postdoc interview training, graduate student
organization, child-care support for travel, etc.…
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Topical workshops, collaborative efforts
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2014 JSA Postdoctoral Research Prize
 Zhihong Ye (Duke) “SciFi tracker prototype for
Proton Radius experiment in Hall B”
 Criteria: record of accomplishment in physics,
planned high-impact JLab physics program,
promise of further accomplishments in the
Jefferson Lab research fields in the future.
 Presentation at the Users Meeting (38
minutes ago)
 Profiled in upcoming “On Target” story
 Thanks to UGBoD (judges) and to Jefferson
Science Associates for funding this award
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2014 JSA Thesis Prize
 Rakitha Beminiwattha (Syracuse) : “A
Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton
through Parity Violating Electron Scattering using
the Qweak Apparatus: A 21% Result” – PhD
Thesis, Ohio University
 UGBoD selected 3 finalists, final selection
by judges: Bill Briscoe, Ron Ransome,
Rocco Schiavilla
 Presentation at the Users Meeting (9
minutes ago)
 Profiled in upcoming “On Target” story
 Thanks to the UGBoD members, guest
judges, and to JSA for funding this award
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2014 UGM Poster Prizes
 Held annually during Users Meeting: 15 entries this year
 Judges: David Lawrence, Yordanka Illieva, Michael Pennington, and Dave Mack
 2014 winners: Chao Peng (1st), Ekaterina Mastropa (2nd), and Michael Moore (3rd)
 Honorable mention: Holly Vance, Mongi Dlamini and Josh McGee
 Thanks to the judges, all of the entrants, and to JSA for funding
 Criteria: Poster quality (40%), presentation to judges (40%), total impact of work (20%)
JSA Graduate Student Fellowships
 Supported by JSA Initiative Fund (JSA generated initiative)
 The 2014-2015 fellowship winners are:
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John Hardin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael Williams, Advisor
Emmanouil Kargiantoulakis, University of Virginia; Kent Paschke, Advisor
Jie Liu, University of Virginia; Xiaochao Zheng, Advisor
Marco Pannunzio Carmignotto, Catholic University of America; Tanja Horn, Advisor
Chao Peng, Duke University; Haiyan Gao, Advisor
Ye Tian, University of South Carolina; Ralf Gothe, Advisor
Cheng-Ying Tsai, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mark Pitt, Advisor
 The students’ research proposals cover a broad scientific spectrum, including
experimental physics and accelerator physics and technology. Hardin and Tian
are repeat JSA fellowship recipients who currently are completing their 201314 academic year at Jefferson Lab.
Outreach
Nuclear Physics day Capitol Hill visits (April)
NUFO Science exhibition Capitol Hill (June)
Users alerts relating to important issues:
Budget, Helium reserve,…
Want to support more and better contact
between users and their representatives in
congress by providing support for visits,
letters (information, organization, etc…)
Dipangkar Dutta is UGBoD member leading
outreach efforts
Strong support from Kent Paschke (former
outreach member) and Sebastian Kuhn
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Nuclear Physics Day - visit to Capitol Hill
Started last year; now an annual event (Late April/Early May)
Organized by FRIB (MSU), RHIC (BSA) and JLab (JSA) and our
respective users groups
2013 - 7 JLab participants,
2014 - 14 JLab participants
Happy to have more users to participate in this event
(including post-docs and grad students)
Looking to see what support (information, organization) is
available for users year-round [JLab, JSA, APS?]
Discussions with JLab Management
➢ PAC41 – reprioritization PAC
• Board was asked for input on timing, options, impact on users
• Concern that replacing regular PAC would severely disrupt many users
• As presented at DNP meeting, JSA support allowed JLab to schedule two PAC
meetings in 2014: reprioritization (May), new proposals (July)
➢ Jan 23 Users Group Board Meeting
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Restructuring discussed extensively with management
Many concerns expressed by users. In the end, two key issues
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Limited communication of plans with users
Concern about the way layoffs were executed
Provided users summary of discussion, minutes and slides
http://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki
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Very unfortunate, but driven by need to fit within long-term budget guidance
Reminder of importance of successful 12 GeV startup, publicizing our
physics, supporting strong NP budget
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Budget
FY14: Overall NP increase, in line with “modest growth scenario”
– Supports broad nuclear physics program at cost of reduced operations and
research in the short term
– FY14 language requiring up-front funding and earmarks included put significant
additional pressure on research funding and JLab operations
FY15: President’s Budget has $24M increase over FY14
– JLab operations ~$8M below level used for FY15 planning; significant impact on
CEBAF running, ability to schedule physics running
Longer term
– Unclear what will happen in out-year budgets; My understanding is that future
guidance suggests running at ~50% of “optimized” operations.
– LRP implementation panel supported importance of 12 GeV physics
• Endorsed 2007 LRP recommendations – 12 GeV upgrade as #1 priority
• Recommended 12 GeV upgrade/operations under all scenarios considered
– Important to have sufficient operations funding to make efficient use of the
investments made in the upgrade project
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Recent UGBoD Activities
➢ Plans to improve visibility of physics program
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JLab has broad program of hadronic physics, nuclear structure,
fundamental symmetries, etc… not connected to a single central theme
Identify/promote speakers who can provide broader perspective, aimed
at the broader physics community (e.g. for your institutions colloquia)
Work with lab to collect highlights, encourage publicizing new results
Details still under discussion – input and ideas very welcome
 Possible changes to JLab UGBOD structure (preliminary discussions)
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Creation of ‘permanent’ subcommittees
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Communication, Outreach
Allow overlap between outgoing and new members
Proposed change in chair line
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Currently serve as Vice-chair, 2 years Chair, Past Chair
Switch to following: Chair Elect, Vice Chair, Chair, Past Chair
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Proposed Bylaw Changes [draft language]
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Article V, Section 1:
"The officers of the organization shall consists of a Chairperson, Chairperson-elect or PastChairperson, and Secretary/Treasurer." ----->
"The officers of the organization shall consists of a Chairperson, Chairperson-elect, Vice
Chairperson, Past-Chairperson, and Secretary/Treasurer."
Article IV, Section 2:
"The term of the Director designated as Chairperson-elect, who will succeed to the office
of Chairperson at the end of one year, shall be four (4) years. " ----->
"The term of the Director designated as Vice Chairperson shall be four (4) years. The Vice
Chairperson will succeed to the office of Chairperson-elect, Chairperson, and Past
Chairperson in their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years, respectively.“
Article V, Section 2: (Duties of Officers)
"Chairperson-Elect -In the absence of the Chairperson, the Chairperson-elect shall perform
the duties of Chairperson. Otherwise he or she will provide assistance in conducting the
affairs of the group as requested by the chairperson. The Chairperson-elect shall succeed
to the office of Chairperson at the end of one year. " ----->
Move this discussion to the description of the Chairperson, designating Chairperson-elect,
Vice Chairperson, and then Past Chairperson as taking over the duties of the Chair as
needed. Duties of these positions will be to assist in conducting the affairs of the group as
requested by the chair.
(May fix a typo or two that we found)
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Upcoming activities
 Charge for new Long Range Plan delivered in April.
 Nuclear Structure/Astrophysics: Aug 21-23, Texas A&M
 QCD: Aug 28-31 (Hot QCD in parallel with Cold (hadrons))
 Fundamental Symmetries: Sept 29-30
 We must continue to advance our physics case for the 12 GeV program. It was
strongly supported in the NSAC report on implementing the 2007 LRP, but the
other communities will be working aggressively to promote their visions. We
need to communicate the importance (and beauty) of our physics program in a
way that is compelling to the broad community.
 We have an advanced design and compelling physics case for MEIC/EIC – we need
to be sure to improve and present this case while at the same time having a
strong start to the 12 GeV era!
 And in case I forgot… Complete the 12 GeV upgrade and make ground-breaking
and transformative measurements
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12 GeV Project Highlights
Hall D & Counting House
Hall D
Hall D Central Drift Chamber
12 GeV Cryomodules
Hall C
Arc Magnets
Hall B Drift Chamber
Accelerator Commissioning Progress
1S
2214 MeV
2R
34 MeV
0R
E0 ~ 6.1 GeV
PHMS ~ 2-3 GeV
CHL1, CHL2 operational
Linacs at 2K
North Linac – 1090 MeV
South LINAC – 1090 MeV
CEBAF 2.214 GeV
Optics, Magnets great
KPP: machine capable of 12 GeV
1 pass at 2.2 GeV/pass for 8 hours
with acceptable trip rate (50% uptime)
1124 MeV
1R
2S
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Progress so far… and beyond??
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R&D Magazine: “Scientists unleash
highest-energy beam ever at
Jefferson Lab”
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…and we’re not done yet!
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Jan
Feb
Feb 5: 2.2 GeV
(1 pass) to BSY!
Mar
Apr
Apr 1: 6.1 GeV
to Hall A!!
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Today
May 7: 10.5 GeV
to Hall D!!!
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Exciting (and very busy) times ahead
 Users have many critical tasks already in progress:
– Continue analyzing rich harvest of 6 GeV data
– Support upgrade, build significant parts of new equipment
– Prepare and execute 12 GeV physics program
– Promoting the 12 GeV program
– Planning for longer term future
 Additional critical issues we need to be ready to address:
– Operations budget – maximizing output under highly constrained
budgets, increasing funding
– Long range planning: 12 GeV, MEIC/EIC
 Final reminders
– Nomination forms and envelopes available (sign envelope!!) recommending Rolf Ent for Member at-large of DNP executive
– INT workshops: Due July 17, 2014
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