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Brookhaven Science AssociatesU.S. Department of Energy

Steve DierkerChairman, National Synchrotron Light Source

July 23, 2002

BES Review of NSLSJuly 11-13, 2001

BES Review of NSLSJuly 11-13, 2001


RequirementsRequirements

• Two full days of presentation, site visits, etc• Topics

• Facility performance (schedules, user participation, etc)• Selected presentations of the most outstanding research

performed at NSLS during the last two years (by field of research)• R&D Plans and future scientific directions• Brookhaven National Laboratory plans that may affect NSLS

• Time with individual facility scientific staff• Focus sessions with user representatives (UEC) and PRT

spokespersons


Information RequestInformation Request

• Facility• Brief description of facility• Breakdown of all staff and assignments• Brief description of ongoing R&D activities at facility

• Beamlines• Drawing of floor plan w/ brief description of each beamline• Describe facility beamlines available to users and percentage time

allocated to outside users• How many beamlines (facility, PRT/CAT) are operational and what

percentage of time is allocated to outside users• Describe the communities served by each beamline


Information Request (cont)Information Request (cont)

• Support Facilities – sample prep, computing, etc• What is available?• What is planned?

• Users• How is beam time allocated to outside users?• Reviewing process; beam time allocations, user experiments, and

proposals per year; percentage of beamtime allocated to facility scientists



• Impact• List all pubs in last two years in refereed journals, separated by outside

user or facility staff.• List invited lectures and major awards for facility staff and outside

users• List twenty most important publications of work performed at facility

over past two years and include Citation index• Cost Indicator

• Cost per paper– total cost of beamlines operation/number of papers per year

• Cost per delivered beam day– delivered beam days/number of papers per year



• Future• Describe plans for future beamlines and facility upgrades• Identify potential problems, e.g., power shortages, environmental

contamination, etc• What are expected trends in user demand: internal, external and

scientific area they represent, by scientific field


BES Scientific FacilitiesSurvey Results

BES Scientific FacilitiesSurvey Results

• Part 1• User satisfaction mini-survey – 8 questions• Asked on NSLS End of Run Summary Form (on line, web based)

• Part 2• User demographics – 9 questions• Budget and Operation Data – 7 questions

These were also provided to reviewers for previous two years


Preparing for the ReviewPreparing for the Review

Major Tasks• Defining agenda• Choosing and scheduling speakers• Responding to information requests• Arranging participation of users, UEC, PRTs.• Arranging site visits

Must be planned months in advance!

• We were informed in February, reviewed in July


Science Highlights - Wednesday, July 11Science Highlights - Wednesday, July 11Macromolecular Crystallography

9:15-9:45 Structural Biology of HIV Infection Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia U.

9:45-10:15 Ribosome Structure Peter Moore, Yale University10:15-10:30 Break

Low Dimensional and Strongly Correlated Electron Solids

10:30-11:00 Electronic Structure in Low Kevin Smith, Boston University Dimensional and Superconducting Solids

11:00-11:30 Strongly Correlated Solids Studied by John Hill, BNL Physics X-ray and IR

Industrial Applications

11:30-12:00 Microbeam X-Ray Diffraction and High Cev Noyan, IBM, Yorktown Throughput Methods for Industrial Use


Lunch – Wednesday, July 11Lunch – Wednesday, July 1112:00 – 1:30 Lunch in Seminar Room

Users Executive Committee

Simon Bare Chair, UOPMark Chance Past Chair, AECOMLeemor Joshua-Tor Vice Chair, Cold Spring

Harbor LaboratorySteven Almo AECOMDaniel Fischer NISTAntonio Lanzirotti Univ. ChicagoDavid Mullins Oak RidgeMichael Vaughan Stony Brook

Special Interest Group Representatives

Michael Becker Bio. Scattering & Diffraction, BNL BiologyMark Fuhrmann Imaging, BNL Env. Sci.Mahbubul Khandaker Nuclear Physics, TJNLVincent Harris XAFS, NRLJohn Sutherland Time Resolved Spectroscopy, BNL BiologyDavid Mullins UV Photoemission & Surface Sci., ORNLPaul Stevens Industrial Users, ExxonLisa Miller Infrared Users, BNL NSLSCecilia Sanchez-Hanke Students & Post Docs, BNL NSLSPeter Stephens X-ray Scattering & Crystal., Stony BrookMichael Dudley Topography, Stony Brook


NSLS Operations, Beamlines, R&D - Wednesday, July 11NSLS Operations, Beamlines, R&D - Wednesday, July 11

NSLS Operations, Beamlines, R&D

1:30-2:30 Operations, Budget, etc Steve Dierker, NSLS2:30-3:00 VUV/IR Programs and Steve Hulbert, NSLS

Beamline Upgrades3:00-3:30 X-Ray Programs and Chi-Chang Kao, NSLS

Beamline Upgrades

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:15 Beamline Controls and Detectors Peter Siddons, NSLS


Beamline Visits by Discipline and Breakout Sessions with NSLS ScientistsBeamline Visits by Discipline and Breakout Sessions with NSLS Scientists

Tour NSLS Scientists

Accelerator Sam Krinsky, Accelerator Physics Staff

Biology Lonny Berman, Vivian Stojanoff, Marc Allaire

Chemical Sciences Erik Johnson, Lisa Miller

Correlated Systems Jerry Hastings, Larry Carr, Elio Vescovo

Materials I Chi-Chang Kao, Steve Ehrlich

Materials II Wolfgang Caliebe, Steve Hulbert

Optics/Detectors/Controls

Pete Siddons, Zhong Zhong


Science Highlights - Thursday, July 12Science Highlights - Thursday, July 12Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics

8:30-9:00 Time-Resolved Structural Biology of Mark Chance, AECOM Macromolecules

9:00-9:30 Orientational Crystallography using Ron Pindak, Lucent Technology Resonant x-ray scattering

9:30-10:00 Coherent Soft x-ray Imaging, with Chris Jacobsen, Stony Brook and without Optics

10:00-10:15 Break

Materials Science

10:15-10:45 Materials under Extreme Conditions David Mao, Carnegie10:45-11:15 Highlights in X-Ray Spectroscopy Joe Woicik, NIST

Biomedical Applications

11:15-11:45 Combining X-ray and IR Lisa Miller, NSLS Microspectroscopy in the Study of Bone Diseases


Lunch – Thursday, July 12Lunch – Thursday, July 12

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch in Seminar Room

Non-NSLS PRT Spokespersons


Program Development and Source R&D Thursday, July 12Program Development and Source R&D Thursday, July 12

Scientific Program Development

1:00-1:30 The User Community & PRT System Steve Dierker, NSLS1:30-2:00 New Approaches to Serving the Jan Hrbek, Chemistry, BNL

Catalysis Community2:00-2:30 Facilitating the Growth of Nanoscience Richard Osgood, ALD for BES2:30-3:00 Opportunities for New Programs in George Sawatzky, UBC

Soft X-ray Science3:00-3:30 Expanding High Pressure Programs Donald Weidner, Stony Brook3:30-3:45 Break

Accelerator Improvements and Future Source R&D

3:45-4:30 Accelerator Improvements and R&D Sam Krinsky, NSLS4:30-5:00 Photo-injected Energy Recovery Linac Ilan Ben-Zvi, NSLS

Summary

5:00-5:30 Summary and Resource Issues Steve Dierker, NSLS


X-ray and VUV BeamlinesX-ray and VUV Beamlines


NSLS User CommunityNSLS User Community

• > 2500 Scientists

• > 400 Academic, Industrial, Government Institutions

• 50% Growth in last decade

• Strong growth in Life Sciences

Users by Field of Research

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Chemical Sciences Materials Sciences

Life Sciences Geosciences and Ecology

Applied Science and EngineeringOptical/Nuclear/General Physics

None Specified


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Northeast Users Dominate

2551 Total Users in FY2000

States with > 25 Users


Users by Employment LevelUsers by Employment Level

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FY99

FY00

Large numbers of grad students and postdocs


Users by AgeUsers by Age

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Users by EmployerUsers by Employer

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FY00Increased number of academic and BNL users


Beam Time Allocations by ScienceBeam Time Allocations by Science

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47 % of the Beam Time is used for Materials Science

16 % is used for Life Science


Experiments by ScienceExperiments by Science

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35 % of the Experiments are in Materials ScienceAverage expt duration ~ 11 days

35 % in Life ScienceAverage expt duration 1-3 days


Premier Journal PublicationsPremier Journal Publications

FY1999 FY2000 FY2001

Physical Review Letters 23 25 18Science 11 18 12Nature 13 10 21Cell 12 11 15EMBO J. 2 13 20Nature Str. Bio. 10 15 23Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 9 10 11Structure 7 5 13Applied Physics Letters 12 10 10Total Premier Journal Articles

99 117 143

• > 800 publications per year

• > 100 publications in premier journals


VUV/X-Ray Ring Usage (FY01)VUV/X-Ray Ring Usage (FY01)

Injection1.43%

Holiday2.33%

Unscheduled Downtime

1.55% Unscheduled Operations

3.94%

Com/Con5.59%

Operations58.34%

Studies6.40%

Maintenance20.42%

Interlock0.74%

Holiday2.34%

Injection1.52%

Unscheduled Downtime

3.21%

Unscheduled Operations

7.59%

Com/Con4.87%

Operations56.96%

Studies7.64%

Maintenance15.13%

VUV Ring X-Ray Ring

Actual / Planned Operation Hours = 5457 / 5260Reliability = 97.2 % Availability = 103.7 %

Actual / Planned Operation Hours = 5654 / 5266Reliability = 94.7 % Availability = 107.4 %

Both Rings continue to operatewith high Reliability and Availability


DOE Review ReportOverall

DOE Review ReportOverall

• Research is outstanding as reflected in large # of pubs and high index of citations

• Notable continued improvement in performance, especially digital orbit feedback and development of in-vacuum undulators

• IR research program is very important; a unique feature• Scientific/technical staff is doing outstanding job• NSLS is a mature and stable facility and staffing levels

should reflect this


DOE Review ReportIssues

DOE Review ReportIssues

• Beamline staff is too small to deal with users, upgrade beamlines and maintain viable scientific program

• Distorted balance in FTEs in machine physics vs beamline staff• Significant operating problem with some PRTs.• Several beamlines show signs of neglect from benign to serious• X13 insertion device should accept external users• U5 insertion device scientific program has underachieved and

should be modified• Need to focus accelerator research on projects relevant to

operational improvement of the NSLS.


DOE Review ReportRecommendationsDOE Review ReportRecommendations

• Increase beamline scientific staff• Develop a plan to optimize beamline utilization, eliminate

operation of beamlines that are not scientifically productive and/or do not have upgrading capabilities

• Develop a plan for facility control, or at least participation, in the management and operation of PRTs that are having financial and staffing problems

• Redefine U5 scientific program• Facilitate general user access to X13, on a peer review basis• Reduce accelerator physics staff• Develop a plan for accelerator research at the NSLS


NSLS ReorganizationNSLS Reorganization

ChairmanS. Dierker

ESH Division

Associate Chairfor ESHR. Casey

User ScienceDivision

Associate Chairfor User Science

C. Kao

OperationsDivision

Associate Chairfor Operations

E. Johnson

AcceleratorDivision

Associate Chairfor Accelerators

J. Murphy

Assistant to Chairfor Administration

F. Terrano

Users Executive Committee (UEC)S. Bare

Proposal Study Panels (PSPs)Allocation Panels

General Users Oversight Comm. (GUOC)

Associate Director forBasic Energy

SciencesR. Osgood

Science Advisory Committee (SAC)S. Gruner

AdministrativeServices

F. Terrano

Chasman-Green Distinguished ScientistS. Krinsky

ESH/QR. Casey

User AdministrationM. Corwin

Science Program SupportR. Pindak

Mechanical EngineeringE. Haas

Electrical SystemsR. Biscardi

OperationsR. Heese

Accelerator R&DJ. Murphy

Beamline SupportS. Hulbert

Controls & DetectorsP. Siddons

Information and OutreachL. Miller


Accelerator PhysicsAccelerator Physics

• ATF transferred from NSLS to Physics Department• Better aligned with HEP/Laboratory programs• Allows us to redirect > $500k to user program support

• Mission of Accelerator Division• Maintain and upgrade existing storage rings

– X-ray Digital Feedback for Beam Position Stabilization• Develop new Insertion Devices (e.g., Superconducting In-Vacuum

Undulators)• Investigate NSLS Upgrade Options• Basic Studies of Beam Physics


Increasing Beamline Scientific StaffIncreasing Beamline Scientific Staff

• User program support is being increased by 13 FTEs• 8 Complete or Planned New Hires

– 2 Scientists- Ron Pindak – Soft Matter, X21 (SAXS) & X24A (Low Energy Resonant Scat)- Cecelia Sanchez-Hanke – Magnetism, X13A (XMCD)

– 4 Science Associates/Technicians– 2 Web/Publications/Outreach

• 5 Redirected FTEs– 1 Scientist – 2 Beamline Controls– 2 Technicians

• Accomplished w/o new money by redefining priorities to emphasize User Program


Improved User SupportImproved User Support

Three levels of support1. Routine maintenance of beamlines2. Routine beamline operation and user support3. Support of scientific programs:

– program specific infra-structure (end stations, special equipment, laboratories, etc)

– user interfaces (software, data analysis, training, outreach)

GOALS: • NSLS provides 1 and 2 because of the economy of scale and expertise in the facility• NSLS and user community jointly provide 3


Redefine U5 scientific programRedefine U5 scientific program

• Current U5 end station supports Spin Resolved Photoemission• Associate Scientist: Elio Vescovo

• A relay mirror has been added to allow pass through to a second end station position.

• Two second end stations are being developed:• Soft X-ray Emmission Spectroscopy

– New capability – Nordgren (Uppsala) is developing end station• ARPES

– Supplements U13 (P. Johnson) capability– Kevin Smith (Boston U) has developed photoemission chamber

• Both programs will be fully operated by the NSLS and made available 100% to General Users


General User Access to X13General User Access to X13

• Two Beamlines (Two insertion devices in straight section)• X13A

– Elliptically Polarized Wiggler– XMCD, Reflectivity - Magnetism Studies– Hired new Assistant Scientist: Cecelia Sanchez-Hanke

• X13B– Mini-Gap Undulator (In Vacuum) – Just installed, currently commissioning– X-ray Microprobe & Microspectroscopy- Nanoscience, Environmental

Science, etc– Needs staff

• Both programs will be fully operated by the NSLS and made available 100% to General Users


ConclusionsConclusions

• The review is very thorough and comprehensive

• Must prepare well in advance!

• Strong involvement of user community is crucial

• The results have weight and can be useful in helping to enable change.

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