The State of the Laboratory
Persis S. Drell
Deputy Director, SLAC
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An Exciting Time in Particle Physics
 The Standard Model of quarks and leptons is
fabulously successful
 It only describes 5% of the Universe
 Dark Matter and Dark Energy make up 95% of the
Universe
 New forms of matter and energy outside of current
understanding
 We don’t understand why the the Universe is matter
dominated (what happened to the anti-matter?)
 Compelling Questions confront us
 Within this decade tools coming on line to make
progress in our understanding
 Developing tools for discovery in the next decade
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A Challenging Time in Particle
Physics
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Premier US HEP accelerators will turn off by the end of the
decade
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B-Factory (SLAC) 2008
CESR (Cornell) 2008
Tevatron (FNAL) 2009
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LHC (CERN)
JPark (KEK)
KEK-B (KEK)
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Excellent progress towards international realization of such a
machine
By end of decade, the frontiers of accelerator based HEP
may all be off shore
Long term health and future of the field of HEP relies on ILC
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Not a certainty!
As a field we are struggling to balance the near term, mid
term, and long term focus of the program in a time of very
constrained budgets
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SLAC’s Role in these Uncertain
Times
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SLAC’s HEP mission:
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responsibility and an obligation to provide technical and
scientific leadership and support to the national (and
international) user community
provide unique technical capabilities for the management and
construction of large-scale projects
design, build and operate the accelerators that define the
frontiers of the field
enable members of the user community to play leadership
roles in the HEP program and have full access to the science
participate in the education of a scientifically trained
workforce, and in the training of the future leaders in the field
Challenge:
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carry out mission at a time when major changes from past way
of doing business
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No onsite frontier HEP machine
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ILC
carry out mission at time when future options uncertain
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Outline of my Talk
 A Laboratory in Transition
 How is the laboratory changing in the
next few years
 Events of the Past Year
 Impact on the user community
 Current and future HEP program
 Scientific Challenges and Opportunities
 Opportunities for the User Community
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A Laboratory In Transition
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SLAC: A Lab in Transition
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SLAC’s research vision is evolving dramatically.
 The balance and content of the scientific foci is changing
in substantial ways
Photon science is rapidly expanding
 It will be the dominant laboratory program by the end of
the decade.
 In 2009, the major accelerator-based facilities will both
be primarily serving photon science
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
 Will no longer have forefront accelerator based HEP
program on site.
 Non-accelerator efforts will grow
 Will be serving user community at accelerator facilities
that will be off site
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e.g. ILC; other potential accelerator opportunities
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Photon Science Future
 X-Rays have opened the Ultra-Small World -- Realm of
SPEAR3
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1012 photons/sec from high brightness undulator
400 eV –40 KeV
50 ps pulse
limited coherence at x-ray wavelengths
 X-ray Lasers will open the Ultra-Small and Ultra-Fast
Worlds –Realm of LCLS
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1012 photons/pulse
800 eV – 9 KeV
200 fs pulse at commissioning
few * 10 fs within 1-2 years
fully coherent at x-ray wavelengths
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SPEAR3—A New Machine
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SPC Meeting
Linac Coherent Light Source
LCLS Will Be The World’s First X-ray Laser
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LCLS: Remarkable Opportunities
for Discovery
 Femtochemistry and
Biology
 Nanostructured
Materials
 Atomic Physics
 Plasmas and Warm
Dense Matter
 Imaging of
Nanoclusters and
Single Biomolecules
 X-ray Laser Physics
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LCLS – A Large
Construction Project
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The CLOC Building: Home to the
Ultra-fast Science Center
The Ultra-fast Science Center
will be located in the CLOC building
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Central Lab Office Complex (CLOC)
Capacity >260
72,000 GSF Total
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150-Seat Conference Room
Changes to Optimize Lab for its
Future
 Laboratory Organization and Management
Structure
 New structure is built around four new
directorates -- Particle & Particle Astrophysics,
Photon Science, LCLS Construction, and
Operations.
 Lab is better positioned to serve the two science
focus areas
 New structure stresses the importance of strong and
effective line management at the laboratory
 Laboratory’s “Image”
 New web page
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New SLAC Web Page
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Previous SLAC Organization
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Draft
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Events of the Past Year
Impact on the user community
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FY2004 – A Banner Year for
SLAC
Outstanding PEP-II/BaBar performance
On-budget, on-time completion of SPEAR3
Start of LCLS
ITRP technology decision moved ILC
forward in major way
 GLAST transition to flight hardware
fabrication
 Very productive program in FFTB
 Growth and flourishing of Kavli Institute
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FY2005 is a Challenging Year
 FY05 began with a serious electrical
accident that has impacted laboratory
operations at all levels
 Halting operations was the correct and
appropriate response
 Our scientific programs must be conducted in
the safest possible manner
 Laboratory users and staff are to be commended
for manner in which they dedicated themselves
to ‘safety first’ program
 All facilities are back in operations
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We are all doing a better job at
Integrated Safety Management
 Safety, like research integrity, scientific
discipline, and fiscal responsibility, is a product
of culture and sound management
 Safety for personnel is achieved through Line
Management (Collaboration Management for
Users)
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Tools include AHA’s, JHAM’s, STA’s
Managers are responsible for developing full understanding
of each activity and assuring workers competency to
perform the activity
 Safety in planning and design process is
addressed through deliberate consideration of
safety in the review of each device or activity
 Safety in operations and work is achieved
through tight control of work authorization
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Changing the Safety Culture
 Most accidents occur when performing simple, quick
steps in a task performed hundreds of times before a
step unexpectedly goes wrong
 In almost all cases accident and injuries happen
because some aspect of the quick simple step was
different
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heavier object
awkward position
person distracted
in a hurry...
 In almost all cases with routine tasks, the only thing
between us and potential injury is whether we have
our attention focused on performing that task safely
or whether our minds are elsewhere
 Must force ourselves to focus on safety content of
what we do
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Changing the Safety Culture
 For almost all SLAC injury cases:
 Either no one else was present or had time to
stop the person
 In almost every case the injury would have
been prevented by the process:
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Plan your work
Identify the hazards
Control/Remove the hazards
Do the work as planned
 In almost every case, prevention was in the
hands of the injured person
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Review of ISMS at SLAC
 We are in the middle of a three step review
of Integrated Safety Management at SLAC
 This process will involve users as well as
staff
 Phase I Aug 31 – Sept 1
 Focused on Laboratory management and
selected facilities
 Phase II Oct 3-11
 Will involved the entire laboratory, including
users
 We need your help and support!
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FY2005 is a Challenging Year
(Cont)
 FY2005 HEP program delayed by 6
months
 With help from DOE, program readjusted
so that the B-factory ran through
summer
 Budget appropriations were only
concluded in January 2005
 HEP budget was well short of expectation
 Had to make program adjustments and
to lay-off 55 HEP supported people
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Current and Future HEP
Program
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Scientific Focus of Current and
Future SLAC Scientific Program
 Current and planned SLAC HEP program is addressing
compelling scientific questions facing the field
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Where did the antimatter go? (B-Factory)
Are there new symmetries and forces of nature? (B-Factory, ILC)
Why are there so many particles? (B-Factory)
What is Dark Matter? (LSST,GLAST,ILC)
Can we solve the mystery of Dark Energy? (LSST, JDEM, ILC)
Is there grand unification of particles and forces? (ILC, EXO)
What are neutrinos telling us? (EXO)
Are there extra dimensions of space? (ILC)
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PEP-II
ILC
Multi-TeV LC--Higher Gradient + Two Beam acceleration
Future acceleration concepts
 Doing accelerator research and technology development
to meet current challenges and for the longer term
future of the field
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Status of Program Elements
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B-factory
 Spectacular Physics Productivity continues
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Run May -- Sept 2005, Nov – July 2006
IFR upgrade deferred until summer 06
Luminosity Improvement Program Continues
Sunset date of end of 2008 for facility called out in
President’s FY06 budget
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P5 process is asking
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What factors or considerations might lead to stopping B-factory
operations one year, or two years earlier than planned?
When would we be in a position to make such a determination and
what information would be needed?
Meeting at SLAC Oct 6/7
GLAST
 Integration Activities in Bldg 33 proceeding very well
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Launch August 2007
Build-up of ISOC at SLAC
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Status of Program Elements
 ILC R&D
 Cold Linac Technology selected
 Reprogrammed effort to optimize for support of
cold design
 Participating enthusiastically in GDE process
 Linear Collider Detector
 Simulation effort and SiD detector development
 KIPAC
 Off to fast start with participation in JDEM and
LSST
 2 new faculty (joint with campus) and continued
build up of postdocs
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Status of Program Elements
 Continued test beam experiments
 FLASH
 Planning for ESA experiments to support
ILC
 E166 e+ polarization
 EXO
 Funding secured to construct 200kg
prototype to measure 2 neutrino decay rate
of Xe 136
 R&D progressing
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Status of Program Elements
 Advanced Accelerator R&D
 E164/E164X running successfully (Plasma
wake field acceleration)
 Laser acceleration experiment progressing
 SABER (FFTB replacement) in proposal
development
 Developing proposals for high gradient R&D
aimed at the next accelerator past the ILC
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Program Timelines: Exploiting the
present and preparing for the future
 Science now or soon
 Final Results of Fixed Target Program (E158)
 BaBar (now to 2008)
 GLAST (2007 – 2012/17)
 Proof of principle experiments in accelerator
research
 R&D for near term science (2012)
 Ground Based Dark Energy: LSST (first light
2012??)
 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: EXO (2012?? if
R&D successful)
 Space Based Dark Energy: JDEM (20??)
 ILC (2016?)
 R&D for farther future
 Accelerator Research
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Programmatic Priorities
 For the near term:
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We must focus on B-factory performance and delivery of
science to our largest user community
 For the mid term:
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We must continue in our leadership role for the ILC
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Highest priority new facility for the world community
We must complete GLAST construction and develop the
ISOC to enable science for the collaboration
We must work to provide additional opportunities for
science to the HEP and SLAC user community in ~2012
 e.g. LSST, EXO, JDEM, new accelerator based initiatives....
 For the long term:
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The R&D in accelerator science is our hope for the future of
the field
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To make the next accelerator *after* the ILC technically
feasible and affordable
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New Opportunities for Users
 ILC
 Accelerator
 Program of instrumentation development
 Detector
 Simulation Effort supporting the community
 Technical development of SiD concept
 LSST
 Ground based dark energy telescope
 Proposed DOE deliverable: camera
 Special Sessions on ILC/LSST:
 Today 3:45-6:15 PM
 Tomorrow 8:00-9:30 AM
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Summary
 Enormous opportunities for world
class science at SLAC
 SLAC’s programs and leadership
central to national and international
effort
 Programs are science driven,
innovative, flexible and responsive to
scientific drivers
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