KOPIO - Early Planning, Design & Development

这是一项为2003财年KOPIO探测器的早期规划、设计和开发提供资金的提案。KOPIO实验是美国国家科学委员会于2001年2月批准的罕见对称违反过程（RSVP）计划的一部分。然而，由于各种原因，MREFC为实验建设提供的资金尚未开始。为了有序地进行RSVP实验，物理司提供了少量的研发资金来开发所需的实验探测器。这项提议是这项活动的一部分。具体而言，该提案寻求研发资金用于：KOPIO最关键元素的工程，包括布鲁克海文国家实验室AGS光束的微束，中性光束和衰变真空罐的设计和原型设计，探测器子系统开发，实验区与探测器的设计和集成，以及项目办公室的建立。除了本科生、研究生和博士后的教育和培训，以及前沿科学发现对社会的一般影响外，本提案未具体讨论本提议研究的更广泛影响。然而，参考了RSVP建设建议（MREFC），其中讨论了为科学提供更广泛受众的活动。

This is a proposal to fund the early planning, design and development of the KOPIO detector in FY 2003. The KOPIO experiment is a part of the Rare Symmetry Violating Processes (RSVP) program approved by the National Science Board in February 2001. However, for a variety of reasons MREFC funding for construction of the experiments has not yet begun. In order to proceed in an orderly manner with the RSVP experiments, the Physics Division has provided modest R&D funds to develop the experimental detectors required. This proposal is part of that activity. Specifically, this proposal seeks R&D funds for:Engineering of KOPIO's most critical elements, which include micro-bunching of the AGS beam at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, design and prototyping of the neutral beam, and the decay vacuum tank,Detector sub-system development,Design and integration of the experimental area with the detector, andEstablishment of a Project Office. Apart from the education and training of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs, and the general impact of frontier scientific discovery on society, the broader impacts of this proposed research are not discussed specifically in this proposal. However, reference is made to the RSVP construction proposal (MREFC) in which activities to reach a much broader audience for science are discussed.