KOPIO - Early Planning, Design & Development

这是一项为2003财年KOPIO探测器的早期规划、设计和开发提供资金的提案。KOPIO实验是美国国家科学委员会于2001年2月批准的罕见对称破坏过程(RSVP)计划的一部分。然而，由于各种原因，MREFC为实验建设提供的资金尚未开始。为了有序地进行RSVP实验，物理司提供了适度的研发资金来开发所需的实验探测器。这项提案是该活动的一部分。具体地说，该提案寻求用于以下方面的研发资金：设计KOPIO最关键的元件，包括布鲁克海文国家实验室的AGS束的微聚束、中性束的设计和样机、衰变真空罐、探测器子系统的开发、实验区与探测器的设计和集成，以及建立一个项目办公室。除了本科生、研究生和博士后的教育和培训，以及前沿科学发现对社会的普遍影响外，这项拟议研究的更广泛影响在本提案中没有具体讨论。然而，参考了RSVP建设提案(MREFC)，其中讨论了为科学接触到更广泛受众的活动。

This is a proposal to fund the early planning, design and development of the KOPIO detector in FY 2003. The KOPIO experiment is a part of the Rare Symmetry Violating Processes (RSVP) program approved by the National Science Board in February 2001. However, for a variety of reasons MREFC funding for construction of the experiments has not yet begun. In order to proceed in an orderly manner with the RSVP experiments, the Physics Division has provided modest R&D funds to develop the experimental detectors required. This proposal is part of that activity. Specifically, this proposal seeks R&D funds for:Engineering of KOPIO's most critical elements, which include micro-bunching of the AGS beam at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, design and prototyping of the neutral beam, and the decay vacuum tank,Detector sub-system development,Design and integration of the experimental area with the detector, andEstablishment of a Project Office. Apart from the education and training of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs, and the general impact of frontier scientific discovery on society, the broader impacts of this proposed research are not discussed specifically in this proposal. However, reference is made to the RSVP construction proposal (MREFC) in which activities to reach a much broader audience for science are discussed.