COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DUSEL Experiment Development and Coordination

摘要拟建的深地下科学与工程实验室（DUSEL）将在物理学、生物学、地球科学和工程学方面进行广泛的实验，以解决这些学科的重要科学问题。必须建立一套初步实验（ISE）来解决这些问题，并提出一个令人信服的、安全的和具有成本效益的实施计划。一套完整的国际空间环境将是2009年12月为DUSEL汇编的MREFC文件的主要组成部分，随后将于2012年实施。目标和知识价值：为了解决国际空间环境的发展问题，本提案寻求对DUSEL实验发展委员会（DEDC）活动的支持，该委员会代表物理学、生物学、地球科学和工程界。该委员会将：根据S-1计划和其他计划中报告的社区驱动的努力，制定国际社会专家超集框架，与拟议活动的能力相一致。协调社区的活动，以确定ISE的组合，并完成必要的设计和实验评估，以确保在DUSEL内安全和成功的运行。科学界与NSF和Homestake设计团队，以确保超集ISE计划的按时开发和MREFC应用的及时完成。方法：这些目标将通过一系列研讨会和会议来实现，详见以下提案。DEDC将：（1）审查迄今为止开展的独立于场地的活动中确定的关键国际标准化实体，并通过与关键支持者和更广泛的社区举行研讨会，确定任何新的国际标准化实体;（2）围绕国际标准化实体或实验的逻辑分组组织工作组，为DUSEL制定一项令人信服的科学计划;（三）将这一超集的ISE组织成一个连贯的框架，并激励工作组为这些实验制定详细的科学和工程计划，以便做好准备预计2009年12月将提出一项MREFC申请;以及（4）与NSF和Homestake设计团队协调这些活动，以确保工程可行性，最大限度地有效利用多用户设施，并保证ISE在Homestake环境中相互兼容，并负责向社会和政府阐明科学愿景。预期成果和广泛影响：这些活动将有助于提高国际空间实体超集科学计划的形式和质量，并有助于及时提交海洋环境与渔业委员会的申请。这些都是以最佳成本和时间表成功开发长期多用户设施的重要组成部分，将为物理学、生物学、地球科学和工程界服务。

ABSTRACTThe proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) will house an extensive portfolio of experiments in physics, biology, geosciences and engineering to address important science questions across these disciplines. An Initial Suite of Experiments (ISEs) must be assembled to address these questions and to present a compelling, safe and cost-effective plan for their implementation. A fully developed suite of ISEs will be a major component of the MREFC document to be assembled for the DUSEL in December 2009 for subsequent implementation in 2012.Objectives and Intellectual Merit: To address the development of the ISEs this proposal seeks support for activities of the DUSEL Experiment Development Committee (DEDC), representing the physics, biology, geosciences and engineering communities. This Committee will: Develop the framework for a superset of the ISEs consistent with the community-driven efforts reported in the S-1 and other plans, and consistent with the capabilities of the proposed activity.Coordinate the activities of the community in defining the portfolio of ISEs and in completing the necessary design and evaluation of experiments to ensure safe and successful operation within a DUSEL.Liase between the scientific community and both NSF and the Homestake design team to ensure on-schedule development for the superset-ISE plans and for the timely completion of an MREFC application.Approach: These objectives will be met through a series of workshops and meetings detailed in the following proposal. The DEDC will: (1) Review key ISEs identified within the site-independent activities conducted to-date and identify any new ISEs through workshops with key proponents and the broader community; (2) Organize working groups around ISEs or logical groupings of experiments towards developing a compelling science plan for DUSEL; (3) Organize this superset of ISEs into a coherent framework and galvanize the working groups to develop detailed science and engineering plans for these experiments to reach readiness for an MREFC application anticipated for December 2009; and (4) Coordinate these activities throughout with NSF and the Homestake design team, to insure engineering feasibility, to maximize efficient use of multi-user facilities and to guarantee that the ISEs are mutually compatible within the Homestake environment, and be responsible for articulating the science vision to the community and to government.Expected Results and Broader Impacts: These activities will contribute to the form and quality of the science plan for the superset of ISEs and to the timely submission of an MREFC application. These are essential components in the path to the development of a successful long-term multi-user facility developed at optimal cost and schedule that will serve the physics, biology, geosciences and engineering communities.