Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Directionof High Magnetic Field Science in the United States

18 May 2012

Dr. Patricia M. DehmerDeputy Director for Science Programs

Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energyhttp://www.science.energy.gov/sc-2/presentations-and-testimony/

User Facilities inDOE’s Office of Science

Office of Science (~$5B/year)

25,000 Ph.D. scientists, graduate students, undergraduates, engineers, and support staff at more than 300 institutions

32 national user facilities serving more than 26,000 users each year

45% of Federal support of basic research in the physical sciences

100 Nobel Prizes during the past 6 decades—more than 20 in the past 10 years

The undulator hall at the Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC, 2011. 2

Research and Facilities in the Office of Science

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Research

Facility Operations

Facility Construction

Major Items of Equipment

All Other Funding = $5B

Support for 25,000 Ph.D.s, grad students, undergrads, engineers, and support staffThe world’s largest

collection of scientific user facilities with over 26,000 users /yr

NSLS

NSLS-II

Some of the 32 Office of Science User Facilities

LCLS, SLAC; ARM, North Slope of Alaska; STAR Detector at RHIC, BNL; NSTX, PPPL; APS, ANL; MINOS far detector, U.Minn/FNAL; NSLS-II, BNL, NERSC Computing Center, LBNL

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Office of Science User Facilities, 2012

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Evaluation for the BES Facilities

Annual (rare), biennial, or triennial (common) external peer review to assess: Impact of science, in the aggregate Service to a big, happy scientific community

Examination/interpretation of data from the Annual Facilities Questionnaire User demographics Operations data Budget data Summary of user satisfaction mini survey

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Users by Discipline at the Synchrotron Light Sources

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Users by Employer at the Synchrotron Light Sources

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Characteristics of Users at the Synchrotron Light Sources in FY 2010

User Employment LevelUndergraduate Students

Graduate Students

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37% First-Time Users27% Female

Citizenship51% United States29% Foreign, Non-Sensitive Countries20% Foreign, Sensitive Countries

Nature of Research97% Nonproprietary research only1% Nonproprietary and proprietary research2% Proprietary research only < 20 20–

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Distribution of Technical Quality of 171 Beamlines (2005)

After the beamlines were counted, the operating beamlines were rated according to a quality factor. This was done by the light source senior staff. For the four DOE synchrotrons that participated in the FY 2004 pilot study, the quality factor assignments for each beamline were vetted by a “normalization” team consisting of one senior technical staff member from each of the light sources. The team visited the light sources and spot checked the ratings to ensure uniformity.

After a “beta test” during FY 2004, refined instructions were provided for FY 2005. The data shown here were collected based on FY 2005 surveys. The quality factor data indicate that only 18 percent of the beamlines at the four DOE facilities are operating at optimal performance. An equal number of operating beamlines require major upgrades or are marginally useful. The majority of beamlines, 64 percent, require minor or moderate upgrades. Across the four DOE facilities, 46 beamlines (27 percent) were rated as "Best in Class" as bench-marked against similar capabilities worldwide.

Distribution of Beamline Quality

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1.0 = optimal performance0.8 = minor upgrade required0.6 = moderate upgrade required0.4 = major upgrade required0.2 = marginally useful

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From the letter of invitation:

The High Magnetic Field Science Committee … is particularly interested in: the steward-partner model and its applicability to research facilities of

varying types, centralized vs. distributed research capabilities, opportunities and challenges of co-locating experimental capabilities.

Other questions from the Statement of Task: 

How can the operational and financial stewardship of the research and facilities be optimized to address changes in the disciplinary spectrum and user needs?

In-house versus outside users?

Your Questions

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