[All_staff] Message from the Director: FY18 Jefferson Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD)

[Pat Stroop]

*MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR*

*September 19, 2017*

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*SUBJECT: FY18 Jefferson Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development 
(LDRD)*

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This year marks the start of the fifth year of Jefferson Lab’s LDRD 
program.It also marks the completion of a project begun in FY2016.There 
continues to be strong interest in LDRD as this year’s submissions 
included nine new proposals and a request for the 
continuation/conclusion of three projects that were initiated previously 
and anticipated continuation into FY2018.The review process has been 
completed and proposals to be funded have been selected.

The twelve proposals for FY2018 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 three “continuation” proposals (one for a project 
started in FY2016 and two for projects started in FY2017) were treated 
on an equal footing with the proposals for new projects.Ultimately of 
the twelve proposals considered, the selection committee classified one 
proposal as outstanding, four as excellent, four as good, one as weak, 
and one as excellent but not suitable for LDRD funding.

We have decided to fund the proposal that was judged to be outstanding 
and three of the proposals judged to be excellent.Included in that group 
is the continuation of three projects already underway on JLEIC 
issues:one on accelerator physics issues and two on the science driving 
JLEIC.In addition, there is one new project focused on experimental 
physics issues relevant to both the current program and JLEIC.The total 
funding for the four projects essentially exhausts the funds available 
for the LDRD program in FY2017.

The proposals we will fund this year are:

*Proposal #*

	

*Submitted By*

	

*Title*

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*/Continuation of Projects Begun in FY16/*

2018-LDRD-5

	

Riad Suleiman and Matt Poelker

	

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

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*/Continuation of Projects Begun in FY17/*

2018-LDRD-11

	

Markus Diefenthaler

	

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

2018-LDRD-4

	

Vasiliy Morozov

	

Geometry Tagging for Heavy Ions at JLEIC

*/New Project to be Started in FY18/*

2018-LDRD-9

	

David Lawrence

	

Development of Next Generation Parallel Event Processing Framework

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 FY2018 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.


- Stuart

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*12000 JEFFERSON AVENUE • NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23606 • USA • WWW.JLAB.ORG*

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