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SLAC Accelerator Research Experimental Program Committee (SAREC)

4th. SAREC REVIEW MEETING - July 25th-26th, 2013

Mad River Conference Room (B52 - Room 103: Ground Floor - Map) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Charge to committee:

The Accelerator Research Division (ARD) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory manages a strong R&D program in Accelerator Science and Technology. As part of this program, the FACET Division operates a number of facilities for experimental accelerator research including the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET), the NLC Test Accelerator (NLCTA), the Accelerator Structure Test Area (ASTA) and the new beamline at the End Station Test Beam (ESTB).

The NLCTA and ASTA facilities largely support the in-house R&D programs although some external proposals can be considered. The FACET beamline supports an external user-driven program with priority given to wakefield-driven beam acceleration program. The ESTB facility, located in End Station A, is soliciting proposals for an external user-driven program.

Previous meetings of the SAREC review committee to review proposals were held in January 2011, January 2012 and October 2012. SAREC recommendations were used to award beam time in the FACET User-Aided Commissioning period (2011) and the two runs.

The charge of the SAREC committee is to:

· evaluate the merit of proposed R&D in SLAC’s experimental accelerator research facilities for advancing world-class accelerator science or accelerator technology

· evaluate the feasibility of proposed R&D in SLAC’s accelerator research facilities

· review the progress of existing R&D in SLAC’s accelerator research facilities

The committee will report to the Head of the SLAC FACET Division and is expected to meet approximately once per year. The committee will be supported with ad hoc consultants as necessary. The proposals will have been looked at by an internal committee to estimate issues associated with mounting the experiments and this information will be available to SAREC.

The specific charge for SAREC is to:

· Evaluate the scientific merit and rate the technical risk of the NEW proposals for the SLAC Accelerator Test Facilities.

· Determine whether the new proposals would be appropriate at this time or in the future.

· Review existing R&D results at the SLAC Accelerator Test Facilities and which elements need further in-depth analysis (for example):

Is the science unique and is the progress compelling?

Is the program making effective use of facility and lab resources?

Could the program be enhanced by expanding the collaboration?

· Comment on the synergy of the programs within and between the facilities. Are there opportunities SLAC should pursue? What would be needed to successfully realize these opportunities?

In addition the committee is requested to evaluate the Test Accelerator Facilities operational priorities and comment on any percieved weaknesses.

The proposals should be rated using the following rating scale:

· Excellent

· Very Good

· Good

· Fair

· Not well suited

The rating should be based on:

· the scientific merit of the proposal, assuming successful execution,

· the technical risk associated with the detailed measurements and requested beam parameters,

· the suitability of the experiment for the facility in terms of beam energy, bunch length, beam emittances, etc.

The reviewers should note if they feel that the experiment could be more reasonably performed at an alternate facility.

The proposals have been initially scanned by an internal committee looking to make sure the proposals are complete and self-consistent. In certain cases, supplemental information has been requested. If additional information is still needed for a full evaluation, the review committee should note this and may make a qualified rating or may skip the review if appropriate.

Committee Members:

Gerry Dugan (Cornell)

Eric Esarey (LBL)

Jie Gao (IHEP)

Kathy Harkay (ANL)

Sergei Nagaitsev (FNAL)

Andrei Seryi (Chair, John Adams Institute)

Kaoru Yokoya (KEK)

Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

Former Committee Members:

Uwe Bergmann (SLAC)

Vitaly Yakimenko (BNL)

Timeline:

Monday, June 17th, 2013:

a). Proposal deadline

b). Proposals go to internal committee

c). Proposals go to SAREC

Friday, June 28th, 2013:

a). Comments from internal committee to proposers

Friday, July 12th, 2013:

a). Additional comments from internal committee to proposers (if any)

b). Comments from SAREC to proposers

Friday, July 19th, 2013:

a). Changes to proposals (if any) posted

b). Access to all proposals for the all proposers

c). All presentations uploaded to review site

Thursday, Friday July 25th-26th, 2013:

a). Review (see agenda)

Partcipants (46)

Firstname	Lastname	Affiliation
Erik	Adli	University of Oslo and SLAC
Weiming	An	UCLA
Gerard	Andonian	UCLA
Sergey	Antipov	Euclid Techlabs / Argonne
Faissal	Bakkali Taheri	University of Oxford
Sam	Barber	UCLA
Christopher	Behrens	DESY-SLAC
Vinod	Bharadwaj	SLAC
Christine	Clarke	SLAC
Sebastien	Corde
Jean-Pierre	Delahaye	SLAC
Michael	Di Rosa	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yun	Fang	University of Southern California
Clive	Field	SLAC
Alan	Fisher	SLAC
Gregor	Fuhs	University of Hamburg
Spencer	Gessner	SLAC
Carsten	Hast	SLAC
Thomas	Heinemann
Zhirong	Huang
Chunguang	Jing	Euclid Techlabs/ ANL
Frederico	Joel	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Alexei	Kanareykin	Euclid Techlabs LLC
Oliver	Karger	University of Hamburg
Ivan	Konoplev	JAI, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Andrea	Latina	CERN
Selina	Li	SLAC
Eduardo	Marin Lacoma	SLAC
Ken	Marsh	UCLA
Patric	Muggli	Max Planck Institute for Physics
Alex	Murokh	RadiaBeam Technologies, LLC.
Alex	Murokh	RadiaBeam
Brendan	OShea	UCLA
Jens	Osterhoff	DESY
Dennis	Palmer	INFN- Milano
Marcos	Ruelas	RadiaBeam
Aakash	Sahai	Duke University
Ioan	Tudosa	UPenn
Navid	Vafaei-Najafabadi	UCLA
Jorge	Vieira	Instituto Superior Técnico
Johannes	Wein	University of Hamburg
H.-Ulrich (Uli)	Wienands	SLAC
Ziran	Wu	SLAC
Yunfeng	Xi	UCLA
Dao	Xiang	SLAC
Michael	Zisman	U.S. Department of Energy

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