July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 1 Present and Future Program for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology R. Blandford KIPAC Director, PPA Assistant Director for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 2 [KI]PAC: Overview *Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (2003) *Particle Phys.+Astro; DOE+NASA, NSF…; SLAC+Campus… *Computation, Experiment, Observation, Theory –KIPAC Strategic Plan April 2008 *PAC: (~$19M/81FTE + ~$2M/10FTE DPS. cf ~$101M/352FTE, PPA): –GLAST (~$4+6M/14+29FTE), LSST (~$3M/9FTE), SNAP(~$1M/4FTE) –Physics/Theory/Other (~$5M/25FTE) *Partnership –Campus: Research, salaries, buildings –Agencies: NASA, NSF… on projects, grants… –Fred Kavli (Foundation) $7.5M FKB –Kavli-Hewlett +… Endowment ->$20M over 10 years *Scientifically productive –260 published papers in 2007 by KIPAC members on KIPAC topics –~160 on DOE-related topics –Several high impact - citations, press releases etc

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 3 Overview of Financial Data – FY2008

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 4 Overview of Financial Data

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 5 Non-DOE Support *Non-SLAC, DOE support to KIPAC members (CDMS, EXO) - ~$2.5M *Non-SLAC, non-DOE support to KIPAC members –SDO, GLAST, LIGO, EXO… - ~$40M (2007) –NeXT, IRIS in recent SMEX (NASA) –Grants - ~$3M –~11/20 postdocs, ~16/30 students *Campus support –Half teaching faculty salary, ~1 postdoc, ~8/30 student GTA, administration –Start up, Enterprise fund, Bridging *Private support –FKB ($11M), PAB (~$30M), Schwob (~$1M) –Kavli-Hewlett endowment (->$15-20M over 10 years) First two Kavli Fellows advertised this summer –Simonyi ($20M), Gates ($10M), Schmidt ($1.5M), Keck($1.5M) for LSST –Agilent support of CMB research –Computational hardware (multiple)

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 6 P5 Report to HEPAP *Cosmic Frontier Recommendations –Support for the study of dark matter and dark energy as an integral part of the US particle physics program. –DOE support the space-based Joint Dark Energy Mission, in collaboration with NASA, at an appropriate level negotiated with NASA. –DOE support for the ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope program in coordination with NSF at a level that depends on the overall program budget. –Joint NSF and DOE support for direct dark matter search experiments. –Limited R&D funding for other particle astrophysics projects and recommends establishing a Particle Astrophysics Science Advisory Group.

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 7 Non-Accelerator Program *GLAST *LSST *SNAP *GLAST Physics *Non-Accelerator Physics *R&D

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 8 GLAST: Overview *GeV Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope –Successor to EGRET telescope on CGRO -~10 9 photons from ~10 4 high energy cosmic sources over ~10 yr. -Seek dark matter annihilation signal –Stanford leads Large Area Telescope - major instrument –Original design by Atwood (1993) –Successful inter-agency, international collaboration –Project cost $690M [$90M foreign contribution, $45M DOE] –NASA will contribute $25M MO&DA *June 11 launch; uniformly nominal performance –“Nominal” operation so far –Efficient cosmic ray (10 4 /  ) removal –Observing already –First light release Early August *Instrument Science Operations Center SLAC –~$4M/14 FTE Simulated LAT (>1 GeV, 1 yr)

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 9 LSST: Overview *Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (orig. DMT 1995) *Dark matter/energy using weak gravitational lensing –Test of F  CDM is now an issue of physics –Supernovae, BAO, strong lensing, ancillary science *NSF-DOE-Private Collaboration –SLAC $3M/9FTE –Simonyi-Gates $30M, Schmidt $1.5M, Keck $1.5M *Mirror cast; grinding begins in August –Site selection in Chile *SLAC leads the (3 GPx) camera collaboration;16 institutions *SLAC also working on database (~100PB) –Discussions with ASCR, industry, private *NSF CoDR(2007); NSF PDR + DOE CD1 2009?, ASTRO2010 *First light 2016

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 10 SNAP: Overview *Proposed following discovery of acceleration of universe ten years ago *LBL (Perlmutter et al) is lead institution –SLAC an early collaborator *Originally a SuperNova Acceleration Probe; now a broader suite of ways to measure dark energy *SLAC role –Electronics (Haller - core competency in space electronics) –Star Guider/image sensor (Roodman) –Strong Gravitational Lensing (RB et al) *Awaiting JDEM downselect (2009), 2017 launch *DOE ~$1M/4FTE

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 11 Non-Accelerator Physics *GLAST Physics –Strongly linked to ISOC, campus GLAST/NASA program –GLAST data analysis and service role –Scientific thrusts Dark matter/new physics, relativistic outflows, particle acceleration –Strong postdoc/student program –~6M DOE budget, ~29 FTE *KIPAC Physics –Joint with campus; overlap with theory –Phenomenological research LSST, SNAP, DES, X-ray astronomy –Strong postdoc/student program –~$3M/13FTE(2009)

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 12 Detector Development *TeV Astrophysics. –Air Cerenkov telescopes ~ TeV, ~ 100 sources H.E.S.S., MAGIC, crucial to GLAST –Future projects AGIS (ACT) Advanced Si-based photodetectors, secondary optics *CMB astrophysics –Strong NSF-supported experimental program Interferometry and bolometry Serious interest from SLAC/RF group Data management *X-ray astrophysics –Role in NASA, JAXA-supported NeXT(2013) mission Lead construction of Soft Gamma Detector as Work for Others Science role in NuSTAR (2011)

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 13 Theory *Abel, Blandford, Wechsler groups –Includes non-theory work –Excludes theory by others Non-accelerator physics *Joint seminars with Th. Phys.

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 14 Theory: Overview *High relevance to DOE Projects and Proposals –Cosmology: dark matter,energy, lensing, structure formation, clusters … –Particle astrophysics: black holes, jets, GRB, Magnetars, SNR… *Support of GLAST, LSST, SNAP, DES, CDMS… *Excellent postdocs, students (~$2M/10FTE, 2009…) *Collaboration with non-accelerator physics, theoretical physics *Strong emphasis on computational astrophysics *Supported by NSF, NASA … grants *270 papers over past three years *DOE theory review July 23

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 15 Computational Physics *Data handling –LSST mHz -> 100PB –Archive, disseminate, mine *Large scale simulation –AMR - MPI codes Dark matter simulations, galaxies, stars… –PIC codes *Visualization –Interactive system on high performance graphics hardware –Stereo and tiled display walls –GPUs

July 7, 2008SLAC Annual Program ReviewPage 16 Summary –Succesful partnership: Campus-SLAC, DOE-NASA-NSF, Physics-Astrophysics –Scientifically productive *GLAST –Highly successful implementation of HEP techniques and methodology –DOE in space; working collaboration with NASA –GLAST Physics ready to start working on data *LSST –Strong collaboration: mirror cast; camera on track –Awaiting PDR/CD1, ASTRO2010 *SNAP –Modest but key role; could expand –Awaiting JDEM downselect *Detector development –Mostly non-DOE projects and support but tapping DOE expertise *Non-accelerator Physics and Theory –High impact program strongly integrated with projects and proposals –Computationally intensive