Expert Support for Experiments at ISAC

这项主要资源支持(MRS)拨款申请要求为两名技术熟练、经验丰富的技术人员提供资金，以帮助利用TRIUMF的ISAC设施的实验者。*直到2016年，我们一直为一名专家技术员提供MRS资助。由于管理上的错误，我们申请续期的努力没有成功。由于这一错误，TRIUMF同意支付这名技术员一年的工资。我们现在寻求重新设立赠款，并通过增加第二名专家技术员来扩大其范围，该专家技术员将帮助支持一些新的实验。这笔赠款将使人们能够更多地获得技术援助，以帮助国际SAC的各种现有和潜在的未来用户。预算申请用于支付技术人员的工资和专用于第二名技术人员的SolidWorks许可证席位，以及相关的年度软件维护和支持费用。*这笔赠款提供的资金将使两名技术人员能够完全专注于NSERC受赠者的实验计划带来的研究工作和技术挑战，并将花费在TRIUMF分配的与这些重要研究计划无关的技术任务上的时间降至最低。这些实验是由TRIUMF内外的共同申请者以及其他一些主要来自加拿大、英国、日本、美国和墨西哥的实验者进行的。这些实验涉及各种各样的科学目标，包括测量核天体物理学所需的反应截面、寿命、部分衰变宽度和激发核态的能量；通过核反应和激光光谱学研究奇异核的结构；搜索新的相互作用和粒子的β衰变和原子宇称破坏。*以前支持的技术人员拥有一些独特的技能，使实验及时生效，而且通常是在非常短的时间内通知。我们将在提案中记录这名技术员在2013-2016年前3年补助金期间的具体活动，这如何直接支持国际SAC方案，以及由于缺乏第二名技术员，科学产出在多大程度上受到限制。如果申请成功，我们将寻求聘请另一名技术人员，具备开展新实验所需的额外、补充技能。*我们提议的管理结构(从TRIUMF的任何共同申请者中挑选一名轮值主管，担任一个或多个学年，并结合熟悉技术人员技能的TRIUMF设施协调员的知识)将确保外部用户知道并能够最大限度地利用可用的帮助。

This Major Resources Support (MRS) grant application requests funding for two skilled, experienced technicians to assist experimenters exploiting the ISAC facilities at TRIUMF.******Until 2016, we held an MRS grant funding one expert technician. Due to an administrative error, our effort to apply for a renewal of the grant did not succeed. On account of this error, TRIUMF agreed to pay the salary of this technician for one year. We now seek to re-establish the grant and expand its scope by adding a second expert technician who would help support a number of new experiments. This grant would enable increased access to technical assistance to help a wide variety of current and potential future users of ISAC. The budget request is for the salaries of both technicians and a SolidWorks licence seat dedicated to the second technician, as well as the associated annual software maintenance and support costs.******Funding provided by this grant would allow both technicians to focus completely on the research efforts and technical challenges arising from the experimental programs of the NSERC grantees and minimize time spent on technical tasks assigned by TRIUMF not associated with these important research programs. The experiments are performed by the co-applicants, inside and outside of TRIUMF, along with a number of other experimenters primarily from Canada, the U.K., Japan, the U.S.A., and Mexico. These experiments address a wide variety of scientific goals including the measurement of reaction cross sections, lifetimes, partial decay widths, and energies of excited nuclear states needed for nuclear astrophysics; the structure of exotic nuclei investigated via nuclear reactions and laser spectroscopy; and searches for new interactions and particles in beta decay and atomic parity violation.******The previously supported technician possesses a number of unique skills required to make experiments work in a timely fashion and often on very short notice. We will document in the proposal the specific activities of this technician over the duration of the previous 3 year grant from 2013-2016, how this directly supported the ISAC programme, and to what extent scientific output has been limited by the lack of a second technician. If this application were to succeed, we would seek to hire a second technician with the additional, complementary skills needed to carry out the new experiments.******Our proposed management structure (a rotating supervisor chosen from any co-applicant resident at TRIUMF for one academic term or more, combined with the knowledge of TRIUMF facility coordinators who are familiar with the technicians' skill sets) would ensure that outside users are aware and can make the best use of the available help.