BES - SLAC Group/Department Public Websites - Stanford University

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................... 1
Science and Technology Score Calculation .............................................................. 2
GOAL 1
PROVIDE EFFECTIVE AND EFFECTIVE MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT ...................................... 3
BES................................................................................................................ 4
A STANFORD SYNCHROTRON RADIATION LABORATORY (SSRL) ........................................ 4
B LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE (LCLS) ..............................................................13
C PULSE .......................................................................................................14
D XLAM ........................................................................................................26
HEP ............................................................................................................. 31
E PEP-II .......................................................................................................31
F BABAR AT PEP-II...........................................................................................32
G ASTROPHYSICS PROGRAM AT THE KAVLI INSTITUTE ...................................................35
GLAST.................................................................................................36
LSST...................................................................................................36
SNAP ..................................................................................................38
H ILC PROGRAM ...............................................................................................38
I ACCELERATOR RESEARCH..................................................................................41
HIGH GRADIENT RESEARCH.........................................................................41
PLASMA ACCELERATION AND E-167 ...............................................................45
NLCTA AND E-163 ..................................................................................47
ACCELERATOR MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT.........................................................48
TEST EXPERIMENT PROGRAM........................................................................49
BEAM PHYSICS ........................................................................................52
J EXO DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY EXPERIMENT ...............................................................52
K THEORETICAL PHYSICS.....................................................................................53
OTHER ......................................................................................................... 57
L SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ...................................................................................57
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AT SCCS .................................................................57
ADVANCED COMPUTATIONS DEPARTMENT.........................................................58
M KLYSTRON/MICROWAVE DEPARTMENT ...................................................................61
N SCIENCE EDUCATION.......................................................................................64
O SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ............................................67
GOAL 2
EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DESIGN, FABRICATION, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS OF
RESEARCH FACILITIES ............................................................................................ 69
BES.............................................................................................................. 70
A STANFORD SYNCHROTRON RADIATION LABORATORY (SSRL) .......................................70
B LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE (LCLS) ..............................................................74
C PULSE .......................................................................................................77
D XLAM ........................................................................................................78