New Frontiers at RHIC Workshop

1. New Frontiers at RHIC Workshop Peter Bond Deputy Director for Science and Technology October 29, 2005

2. RHIC and BNL • In case there is any doubt – RHIC’s science and the facility are crucial to BNL • Its future evolution is also very important QCDLab is an elegant, exciting concept that also excites DOE What do we need to do to make it real ?

3. Making QCDLab real • First step is meetings like this one – experts make a convincing science case to themselves BUT • Keep in mind the arguments for other audiences • General NP community • DOE, OMB, and Congress Each audience requires less detail, but a compelling reason and each audience is vital to success

4. What is the Lab Priority ? • Lab presented a “Business Plan” to DOE in May • There were four initiatives, two of them major • NSLS II • QCDLab • Staggered starts - NSLS first – why ?

5. Major Initiative: RHIC “QCD Lab” • Scope:Evolve the RHIC complex to further the study of QCD experimentally and theoretically • Luminosity, polarization, and experimental equipment upgrades • Electron ring and associated new e+A/e+p detector • High-end computing capability for next-generation lattice QCD simulations • Expectation: RHIC, eRHIC, and QCDOC as a “QCD Lab”will play a major role in determining: • The nature of the quark-gluon plasma and the visible universe • The origin of the spin of the proton • The role of the color glass condensate in the structure and interaction of high energy hadrons • Benefit to DOE and Taxpayer: • “The discovery and characterization of this new state of matter formed at extreme conditions never before available in the laboratory will yield new insight into the early phases of the universe.” (from DOE Strategic Plan) • Taxpayers’ intellectual curiosity about the origin and structure of the universe • Train next generation of scientists • Competition:LHC for heavy ions

6. RHIC “QCD Lab” • Construction cost and schedule: • Luminosity and detector upgrade; electron ring & new detector Costs ~$500-680M; Schedule ~FY 09-15 • Core competencies: • Extraordinary facilities • Tera (peta)-scale computing • Advanced concepts • Revenue, manpower, and space: • Planned R&D, AIP, capital equipment for accelerators and detectors for next five years: $18M/yr (in FY 05$) • Laboratory discretionary investment • No additional manpower and space needed in next five years

7. RHIC “QCD Lab” Hurdles Strategy Consequences of Lack of Success Plan B Technical - i.e., electron cooling, ERL Fund R&D Lower ultimate luminosity for RHIC and eRHIC Concentrate on stochastic cooling Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan process Convince the community Much more difficult to get support Concentrate on running RHIC Communicate the value of the program Retain operating funding for RHIC Catastrophic: loss of 1/3 of BNL’s revenue, international leadership in Nuclear Physics, intellectual vitality, large user base Renege on international and interagency commitments Develop AGS-based program

8. What are the hurdles to be overcome ? • The technical and science hurdles are the “easy” ones • Competition • LHC for science • TJLAB (12 GeV), RIA, other DOE offices for funding • TJLAB for QCDLab • Cost

9. Summary • RHIC has been a great success and has an exciting future • QCDLab is a compelling vision, but will require much collaborative work between the community and the Lab to make it real • Meetings like today set the vital science foundation – lab has been using and will use its resources (not just money) to help move it up the chain