Office of Science High-Energy Physics Program Sample Clauses

Office of Science High-Energy Physics Program. The Contractor shall conduct work to: perform frontier research in theoretical and experimental high-energy physics; build, maintain and operate state of the art experimental user facilities for high-energy physics; perform research and development work in accelerator science, experimental detector design and computing relevant to high-energy physics; support operations of existing DOE high-energy physics experiments and carry out construction projects in high- energy physics areas as assigned. Fermilab conducts major research programs in the following areas: Collider Physics: Several of the most important problems in particle physics can only be addressed with colliders operating at the energy frontier. Possible discoveries include the Xxxxx boson, supersymmetry, and extra dimensions. In addition, the most attractive models for dark matter involve particles that can be produced and studied in the current generation of collider experiments. The Contractor shall continue operation of the Fermilab Tevatron. Two international collaborations with a total of 1500 scientists perform research with the CDF and DZero detectors. The Tevatron program is currently scheduled to operate through 2009. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland will start to operate around 2007-8. About 3000 scientists will conduct research at the new energy frontier with the A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS) and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments. The LHC work of Fermilab under this contract consists of the following: 1.) to serve as host laboratory for the US-LHC accelerator project, building accelerator components for the LHC, and for the LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP); and 2.) to serve as the host laboratory for the U.S. part of the effort to build the CMS detector, and for the CMS research program for American researchers. Progress has been made in the last year toward realizing an International Linear Collider. The Global Design Effort (GDE) will be anchored by Fermilab and SLAC in the U.S. and several laboratories in Europe and Asia. Under this contract, Fermilab will have the lead responsibility within the U.S. for developing the superconducting accelerating modules and other responsibilities as directed by XXX. The Contractor will also perform high performance scientific computing in support of Fermilab’s major research facilities and the upcoming LHC experiments at CERN. The data collected from these experiments are becoming orders of magnitude mor...