From keppeljlab@gmail.com Fri Oct 2 05:28:08 2009 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:28:06 +0200 From: Cynthia Keppel To: Rolf Ent Subject: last but not least Hey there, I think this (below) is now all you need from me to go ahead with a new version of the general narrative....?.... \section{Broader Impact} This project will provide advanced, internationally-competitive, scientific training for African-American students in a field where they are sorely under-represented. According to the recent American Institute of Physics (AIP) manpower survey, African-Americans make up at most 1\% of physics researchers. This group has increased the numbers of women (also grossly under-represented in physics according to AIP) scientists in the past. This group ran the first accelerator-based nuclear physics experiment where more shifts were taken by women than by men, an effort which attracted wide attention, even from such an unlikely source as {\it Ms. Magazine}. Three of our seven current graduate students are African-American, and three are women. This proposal will assist the numerous communities utilizing parton distribution functions. The BONUS results, the improved approach to target mass corrections, the new measurements of $F_L$, and generally the proposed global modeling efforts, will all facilitate significant reductions in parton distribution uncertainties at large $x$. These uncertainties are seen as a major challenge to a broad swath of current science, including JLab and Brookhaven experiments, neutrino oscillation experiments, and even to aspects of the Large Hadron Collider program at CERN. The group is leading a major collaboration within CTEQ to produce a web-available (via the pdf library at CERN) set of large x optimized parton distribution functions. For the precise interpretation of the upcoming generation of neutrino oscillation experiments understanding the low $Q^2$ {\sl nuclear} response is also important. While our efforts for the MINER$\nu$A experiment itself are broadly aimed at understanding nucleon structure in the nuclear medium, cross section results from this experiment are also expected to play a major role in reducing uncertainties in MINOS and other oscillation experiments. Similarly, our low-$Q^2$ E04-001 results found direct application for KEK experiments. Finally, we note that the new Hampton University medical physics graduate program, the first nationally at an historically black college and the first at all in the State of Virginia, grew from an extension of Dr. Keppel's particle detection work supported by previous experimental nuclear physics research to a dedicated, on campus, nuclear medicine technology development center. Based in part on the success of this center, HU is currently commissioning the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, a \$200M cyclotron center for cancer treatment. The existence of expertise found locally at JLab and internally with both the nuclear experimental group and the medical instrumentation center have facilitated this major effort. We note that this is a symbiotic project in that the cyclotron center has a dedicated research beam line that can be used, for instance, for detector testing. Moreover, HU nuclear students now have a direct opportunity to experience firsthand accelerator principles not easily accessed at a national laboratory. -- Cynthia Keppel, PhD HU Endowed Professor of Physics HUPTI Scientific and Technical Director Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist 757-727-5823 office 757-725-6844 cell 757-299-7633 fax keppel@jlab.org