The DOE SC program in Nuclear Physics (NP) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research and development (R&D) efforts directed at artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for autonomous optimization and control of accelerators and detectors of relevance to current or next generation NP accelerator facilities and scientific instrumentation, as well as applications applying AI/ML to advance nuclear physics computations.
Donor Name: Office of Science
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/14/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The approach for this NOFO is to support the development and application of AI/ML in all research areas of NP to expand and accelerate scientific reach and discovery. Opportunities include AI to address challenges in autonomous control, efficiency of operation of accelerators and scientific instruments, digital twinning for future colliders, efficient extraction of critical information from large complex data sets and enabling data-driven discovery of new physics. Major areas of research may include, for example:
- Efficient extraction of critical and strategic information from large complex data sets:
- Development and implementation of digital twins for future colliders;
- Efforts to address the challenges of autonomous control and experimentation,
- Efficient operation of accelerators and scientific instruments,
- Deployment of AI for reduction of large and/or complex experimental data,
- Development of software to enable data-driven discovery of new physics.
Program Objective
NP supports a broad range of activities aimed at R&D related to the science, engineering, and technology of heavy ion, electron, and proton accelerators and associated systems, as well as a suite of NP scientific instrumentation distributed among accelerator facilities around the world and in standalone mode. NP provides oversight of four accelerator-based national user facilities in accomplishing its mission: the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Facility (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU). NP is also establishing a high energy, polarized electron-ion collider (EIC) that will be located at BNL.
- RHIC is a storage ring-based collider with heavy ion beam energies up to 100 GeV/amu and polarized proton beam energies up to 250 GeV to understand quantum chromodynamics (QCD) through the study of hot, dense nuclear matter.
- CEBAF is a 12 GeV multi-pass superconducting continuous wave electron accelerator with simultaneous beam deliveries to four experimental halls used for the investigation of nuclear and nucleon structure based on the underlying quark substructure.
- ATLAS is a low energy, high intensity stable isotope accelerator with the capability of delivering selected rare isotopes for studying the origin and structure of nuclear matter. The facility is a superconducting linear accelerator delivering heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier.
- FRIB is a 200 MeV/amu superconducting radio frequency (SRF)-based linac capable of producing a variety of rare isotope beams for the study of nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics.
- EIC will be a variable center of mass energy, highly polarized electron ion collider. The EIC will provide unprecedented ability to study the proton and discover how the mass of everyday objects is dynamically generated by the interaction of quark and gluon fields inside protons and neutrons.
Funding Information
- Expected total available funding: Up to $22 million
- Expected dollar amount of individual awards: $200,000 -$3,500,000
- Expected award project period: Two years.
Eligibility Criteria
All types of domestic applicants are eligible to apply, except nonprofit organizations described in section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that engaged in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995.
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