1) Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility, CEBAF
6 GeV beam of up to 200uA polarized
electrons,
3 experimental halls, continuous
electron beam
i) Study in detail the nucleon's
structure and nuclear structure
ii) Does the structure of the
nucleon get modified inside the nucleus?
iii) Can we gain new insights
into quantum chromodynamics by studying the propagation of charmed mesons
in the nuclear medium? This needs a 12 GeV accelerator.
iv) Search for the exotic mesons
predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
2) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC)
colliding beams of heavy ions
with up to 100GeV per nucleon.
This machine will produce energy
densities of nuclear matter that existed within the first few moments of
time in the Big Bang. Nuclear densities may be sufficient to produce the
quark-gluon plasma, a high energy state of matter in which quarks and gluons
are no longer confined to single nucleons.
Nuclear densities will also be high enough to study the equation of state of nuclear matter in regions of interest to neutron star physics
3) Radioactive Ion Accelerator
This machine is being proposed
as a means of producing and accelerating beams of radioactive nuclei which
are of interest to nuclear astrophysics and nucleosynthesis. All the elements
heavier than iron are produced in catastrophic stellar events called supernova
explosions. The chain of element building in these explosions involves
radioacive, unstable, nuclei.
4) Neutrino Observatories - Super Kamiokande, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, SAGE and GALLEX, Amanda South Pole observatory, and others.
Neutrinos from the cosmos contain information about the stellar environments in which they were created and about particle physics properties.