Expert Support for Experiments at ISAC

ISAC 实验的专家支持

• 批准号: SAPMR-2020-00004
• 负责人: Davids, Barry
• 金额: $ 7.07万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=764737
• 关键词: Expert; Support; Experiments; ISAC

This Major Resources Support (MRS) grant application requests funding for an experienced technician to continue assisting experimenters exploiting the Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facilities at TRIUMF. This grant would enable continued access to technical assistance to help a wide variety of current and potential future users of ISAC. The budget request is solely for the salary and benefits of the expert technician. Funding provided by this grant would allow the technician 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 coapplicants, 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 nuclear 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 currently supported technician possesses a number of unique skills required to make experiments work in a timely fashion and often on very short notice. We document in the proposal the specific activities of this technician over the duration of the previous 3 year grant from 2017-2020 and how they directly supported the ISAC programme. Our proposed management structure (a rotating supervisor chosen from any co-applicant resident at TRIUMF for one academic term or more, advised by the ISAC User Liaison, who is familiar with the technician's skill set) 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）拨款申请要求为一名经验丰富的技术人员提供资金，以继续协助实验人员利用TRIUMF的同位素分离器和加速器（ISAC）设施。这笔赠款将使人们能够继续获得技术援助，以帮助各种各样的现有和潜在的未来用户。预算申请仅用于支付专家技术人员的工资和福利。由该基金提供的资金将允许技术人员完全专注于NSERC资助的实验项目所产生的研究工作和技术挑战，并最大限度地减少花在与这些重要研究项目无关的TRIUMF分配的技术任务上的时间。实验由TRIUMF内外的共同申请者以及主要来自加拿大、英国、日本、美国和墨西哥的许多其他实验者进行。这些实验解决了各种各样的科学目标，包括测量核反应截面、寿命、部分衰变宽度和核天体物理学所需的激发态能量；用核反应和激光光谱学研究奇异核的结构在衰变和原子宇称破坏中寻找新的相互作用和粒子。目前支持的技术人员拥有一些独特的技能，需要使实验工作及时，经常在很短的时间内。我们在提案中记录了该技术人员在2017-2020年的前3年资助期间的具体活动，以及他们如何直接支持ISAC项目。我们建议的管理结构（从在TRIUMF居住一个学期或更长时间的任何共同申请人中选择一名轮换主管，由熟悉技术人员技能的ISAC用户联络员建议）将确保外部用户了解并能够充分利用可用的帮助。