Expert Support for Experiments at ISAC

ISAC 实验的专家支持

• 批准号: SAPMR-2017-00007
• 负责人: Davids, Barry
• 金额: $ 6.19万
• 依托单位: TRIUMF
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=692317
• 关键词: Expert; Support; Experiments; ISAC

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.

这项主要资源支持（MRS）拨款申请要求资助两名熟练，经验丰富的技术人员，以协助实验人员利用TRIUMF的ISAC设施。直到2016年，我们举行了MRS赠款资助一名专家技术人员。由于行政错误，我们申请延长补助金的努力没有成功。由于这一错误，TRIUMF同意支付这名技术员一年的工资。我们现在寻求重新建立补助金，并通过增加第二名专家技术人员来扩大其范围，他将帮助支持一些新的实验。这笔赠款将使更多的人能够获得技术援助，以帮助国际会计准则理事会目前和今后的各种潜在用户。预算申请用于支付两名技术人员的工资和专门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。*该补助金提供的资金将使技术人员能够完全专注于NSERC受资助者实验计划所产生的研究工作和技术挑战，并最大限度地减少TRIUMF分配的与这些重要研究计划无关的技术任务所花费的时间。这些实验是由TRIUMF内外的共同申请人沿着主要来自加拿大、英国日本，美国，和墨西哥这些实验解决了各种各样的科学目标，包括测量反应截面，寿命，部分衰变宽度和核天体物理学所需的激发核态的能量;通过核反应和激光光谱学研究奇异核的结构;并寻找β衰变和原子宇称违反中的新相互作用和粒子。以前支持的技术人员拥有许多独特的技能，使实验工作及时，往往在很短的时间内。我们将在提案中记录该技术人员在2013-2016年前3年赠款期间的具体活动，这如何直接支持ISAC计划，以及科学产出在多大程度上受到缺乏第二名技术人员的限制。如果这项申请获得成功，我们将寻求雇用第二名技术人员，他们具有进行新实验所需的额外补充技能。我们建议的管理结构（从TRIUMF的任何共同申请人中选择一个或多个学期的轮流主管，结合熟悉技术人员技能的TRIUMF设施协调员的知识）将确保外部用户了解并能够最好地利用可用的帮助。