[All_staff] Message from Hugh Montgomery: Jefferson Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD)

[Pat Stroop]

Colleagues,


This year marks the start of the fourth year of Jefferson Lab’s LDRD 
program.It also marks the completion of a project begun in FY2015.There 
continues to be strong interest in LDRD as this year’s submissions 
included six new proposals and a request for the continuation/conclusion 
of two projects that were initiated last October and anticipated 
continuation into FY2017.The review process has been completed and 
proposals to be funded have been selected.

The eight proposals for FY2017 were reviewed by the JLab LDRD Project 
Review team supplemented as appropriate by subject matter experts. In 
some cases, the Project Review Team sought advice from people outside 
the laboratory. Verbal presentations of the proposals were made and the 
committee discussed at length the merits of each proposal.In reviewing 
the projects, the team considered each project’s potential impact on the 
lab, the likelihood that it would achieve its goals, its prospects for 
attracting future funding, its strategic value to the lab, and its level 
of innovation. The “continuation” proposals (both for projects started 
in FY2016) were treated on equal footing with the proposals for new 
projects.Ultimately of the eight proposals considered, the selection 
committee classified two proposals as outstanding, two as excellent, 
three as good, and one as not suitable for LDRD funding.

We have decided to fund both the two proposals that were judged to be 
outstanding and the two proposals judged to be excellent.Included in 
that group are two projects that began last year on JLEIC issues:one on 
accelerator physics issues and one on the science driving JLEIC.In 
addition, there are two new projects, one focused on experimental 
physics issues associated with JLEIC and one on accelerator physics 
issues.The total funding for the four projects essentially exhausts the 
funds available for LDRD in FY2017, but the implications for next year 
are lower;the three projects that plan to continue into FY2018 would use 
a bit more than half the LDRD funding anticipated to be available in 
FY2018.This will allow us to have a robust LDRD program with new 
projects within the total funding envelope for the program.

The proposals we will fund this year are:

*Proposal #*

	

*Submitted By*

	

*Title*

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*/Continuation of Projects Begun in FY16/*

2017-LDRD-2

	

Riad Suleiman and Matt Poelker

	

Generation and Characterization of Magnetized Bunched Electron Beam from 
DC Photogun for MEIC Cooler (Revised)

2017-LDRD-3

	

Christian Weiss

	

Nuclear gluons with charm at EIC

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*/New Projects to be Started in FY17/*

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2017-LDRD-5

	

Markus Diefenthaler

	

Phenomenological Study of Hadronization in Nuclear and High-Energy 
Physics Experiments

2017-LDRD-6

	

Pawel Nadel-Turonski

	

Geometry Tagging for Heavy Ions at JLEIC

In sum, we are delighted with the progress that was made on the LDRD 
projects over the last three years, and look forward with great interest 
to the results of all four of the FY2017 projects and the boost they 
will give to long-term strategic directions of the laboratory.We would 
also like to express our appreciation to all the proponents and those 
who helped them with the proposals.


- Mont





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