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精湛、经验丰富的技术人员提供资金，以协助实验人员利用 TRIUMF 的 ISAC 设施。****** 直到 2016 年，我们都持有一项 MRS 拨款，为一名专家技术人员提供资金。由于行政错误，我们申请续签补助金的努力没有成功。鉴于这一错误，TRIUMF同意支付该技术人员一年的工资。我们现在寻求重新设立拨款并扩大其范围，增加第二位专家技术人员来帮助支持许多新实验。这笔赠款将增加获得技术援助的机会，以帮助 ISAC 当前和潜在的未来用户。预算请求用于支付两名技术人员的工资和专用于第二名技术人员的 SolidWorks 许可席位，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 受资助者的实验计划所带来的研究工作和技术挑战，并最大限度地减少花在 TRIUMF 分配的与这些重要研究计划无关的技术任务上的时间。这些实验是由 TRIUMF 内部和外部的共同申请人以及主要来自加拿大、英国、日本、美国和墨西哥的其他一些实验者进行的。这些实验解决了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研究奇异核的结构；并在β衰变和原子宇称不守恒中寻找新的相互作用和粒子。******先前支持的技术人员拥有许多独特的技能，可以使实验及时且通常在很短的时间内进行。我们将在提案中记录该技术人员在 2013 年至 2016 年的前 3 年拨款期间的具体活动、其如何直接支持 ISAC 计划，以及由于缺乏第二名技术人员而在多大程度上限制了科学产出。如果该申请成功，我们将寻求聘请第二名具有进行新实验所需的额外补充技能的技术人员。******我们提议的管理结构（从 TRIUMF 的任何共同申请人居民中选出一个或多个学期的轮流主管，结合熟悉技术人员技能组合的 TRIUMF 设施协调员的知识）将确保外部用户了解并能够充分利用可用的帮助。

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.