Unique Capabilities – Det./Elect. Missed Opportunities – Det./Elect.

Novel detectors and instrumentation for particle detection and beam diagnostics

• Calorimeters based on tungsten powder / scintillating fibers

• Cylindrical GEMs for detection of low-energy nuclear fragments

• Ultra-thin carbon mirrors for OTR beam monitoring

• Custom high-speed analog and digital circuits – pipelined readout and “smart” trigger electronics for 12 GeV detectors

Insufficient level of effort/resources available to develop quickly next generation of fine-grain, high-speed, large coverture detectors – RICH, GEMs, … required by the upcoming physics trends.

Test beam line – lack of desired particles, flux and kinematic conditions make “parasitic” test of detectors very inefficient & incomplete.

Unique CapabilitiesRadiation Detector & Imaging

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Missed OpportunitiesRadiation Detector & Imaging

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Design and development of novel detectors for nuclear physics, preclinical, clinical, plant biology & homeland security,

2D & 3D single photon single photon computed tomography (SPECT) positron emission tomography (PET) x-ray computed tomography (CT)

Technology transfer via patents, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAS) and “work-for-other” agreements.

Take natural advantage of our expertise in medical and biological applications using our expertise in nuclear physics detector technology. A limited investment in manpower or increased collaborations may give large returns both to the lab, for example, via patents, and humankind.

Unique Capabilities – Target Group

Missed Opportunities – Target Group

Highly knowledgeable, skilled & motivated,

• High power cryogenic targets

• Dynamically polarized targets – ammonia & deuterated ammonia.

• Frozen-spin targets

Undermanned – limits ability to develop,next generation of dynamically polarized targets – e.g. higher luminosity & other target materials besides NH3.technical improvements & applications,

increase pump efficiency of high power cryogenic targets (> 30% losses).

help develop applications of dynamic polarization to chemistry, materials & biology (http://sdnpi.epfl.ch/meetings.html)

Unique Capabilities - program Missed Opportunities - program

JLab unique capabilities – the highly reliable CW beam, minimal beam halo, high polarization, high current & very stable beam free of correlations has allowed to carry a long list of experiments (some considered very hard not long ago) – and many more waiting for beam

Lab response to potentially high-impact experiments (great discovery potential),

How/who determines “high-impact”? Does it have to wait for a PAC?

How to inject in short notice a “high-impact” experiment into a long term schedule – good to prepare experiments/ complicated to change (correlated energy machine)

How is the impact to the scheduled experiments taken into account?, e.g. redirection of priorities & funding at hall level, students, external funding sources,… How do large experiments requiring substantial floor time impact approval/scheduling of already approved experiments?