[Cuga] PAC44 Call for Proposals- A message from Bob McKeown

[Lorelei Chopard]

PAC44 will be held during the week of July 25, 2016 and will continue 
the call for new nuclear physics proposals. The PAC will judge the 
technical and scientific aspects of submitted proposals and provide 
recommendations to Laboratory management. New proposals will be 
recommended for approval only if they represent high quality physics 
within the range of scientific importance represented by the previously 
approved 12 GeV proposals.*/The deadline for submission of proposals and 
updates is 8:00 a.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) on Monday, June 6, 2016./*

*/Proposals and updates for PAC44 should be submitted electronically 
using the instructions at 
/**/http://www.jlab.org/exp_prog/PACpage/instructions.html/*

*Please note:*that some changes have been made to the submission process 
which can result in your submission being considered incomplete and 
ineligible for review at the next PAC meeting.One of such changes is the 
completion of the coversheets.You will be prompted to complete each 
entry. All sections must be filled in. In some cases, you may answer N/A 
(not applicable), and this data will be reflected in your final proposal 
submission. There will be no follow-up queries from the Laboratory. If 
N/A is not appropriate for the proposal, it could result in the proposal 
being rejected for insufficient information.

*New Proposals*

Detailed information on the process for proposal submission is available 
at http://www.jlab.org/exp_prog/PACpage/guidelines.html. New proposals 
will be granted a 20 minute presentation in a public session at the PAC 
meeting. Following the public presentation session the PAC will continue 
its discussions in closed session, and at least one spokesperson should 
be available either in person or by phone for 24 hours after the public 
session to answer questions as the PAC's discussion progresses. 
Proposals will, if approved, be given a scientific rating and a beamtime 
allocation. Newly approved stage II proposals will also be considered 
for “High Impact” status for scheduling priority, as per PAC41.

For new run group proposals (those requesting new beamtime), the Hall B 
collaboration should submit proposals for complete run groups at one PAC 
meeting, where all of the anticipated physics associated with the 
proposed run group will be considered. Each run group can submit up to 4 
individual proposals (up to 3 physics topics plus 1 summary of 
additional topics) and will be granted a maximum of 4 presentations 
corresponding to these proposals. The PAC may consider each of these for 
grading, but will attempt to provide an common assessment of the whole 
run group. New experimental proposals that run (even partially) in 
parallel with previously approved run groups should be considered 
internally by the CLAS collaboration. It is also requested that 
documentation (e.g., proposal and report) from the internal review be 
submitted to the PAC for their information. A CLAS representative will 
have the opportunity to report on these additional parallel running 
proposals to the PAC, and the PAC will then provide comments on them in 
its report. Proposed parallel running in other halls should be handled 
in a similar fashion.

*Conditionally Approved Proposals*

The PAC may conditionally approve proposals when additional requirements 
must be fulfilled before full approval is granted. There are two 
categories of conditional approval:

  * C2 - must return to the PAC to address concerns or issues to obtain
    approval,
  * C1 - must meet designated technical requirements to obtain approval
    from laboratory management a further PAC review is not required.

The rule for newly conditionally approved 12 GeV proposals is that they 
must return for approval at one of the next 2 consecutive PAC meetings 
following the PAC at which they received the conditional approval status.

Proposals that received C2 status at a previous PAC may return to PAC44 
to be considered for approval. Proposals with previous conditional 
approval (C2) that wish to be considered for approval at PAC44 should 
submit an updated proposal and will be granted a 20-minute presentation 
at the PAC meeting. Following the public presentation session the PAC 
will continue its discussions in closed session, and at least one 
spokesperson should be available either in person or by phone for 24 
hours after the public session to answer questions as the PAC's 
discussion progresses. If approved, the proposals will be considered for 
rating along with the other approved proposals in the grading session.

*PAC Results*

The results of the PAC's deliberations will become public as follows: 
the list of scientific ratings and beam time allocations will be 
provided to the Hall Leaders at the PAC closeout and then posted on the 
PAC42 website within 24 hours. The final written PAC report will be 
posted on the PAC44 website and the user community notified by email as 
usual.

*Appendix: Scientific Categories for Nuclear Physics Proposals*

 1. *The Hadron spectra as probes of QCD*
    (GlueX and heavy baryon and meson spectroscopy)
 2. *The transverse structure of the hadrons*
    (Elastic and transition Form Factors)
 3. *The longitudinal structure of the hadrons*
    (Unpolarized and polarized parton distribution functions)
 4. *The 3D structure of the hadrons*
    (Generalized Parton Distributions and Transverse Momentum
    Distributions)
 5. *Hadrons and cold nuclear matter*
    (Medium modification of the nucleons, quark hadronization, N-N
    correlations, hypernuclear spectroscopy, few-body experiments)
 6. *Low-energy tests of the Standard Model and Fundamental Symmetries*
    (MOLLER, PVDIS, PRIMEX, ...)

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