DC Field User Program
Statistics
DC Users
• 2007 – 404 Total users
• 2008 – 313 Total users
• 2007 – 185 Distinct Projects
• 2008 – 123 Distinct Projects
• 2009 – already ~ 180 (unofficial)
2008 New PIs
• 96 Distinct PIs
• 16 new (17%)
Bartkowiak, Marek
Bonn, Doug
Bozovic, Ivan
Coldea, Amalia
Gervais, Guillaume
Hu, Qing
Kawamoto, Tadashi
Luke, Graeme
November 5, 2008
Mammadov, Eldar
Rodrigues Jr, Durval
Sirtori, Carlo
Soffa, William
Sutherland, Michael
Wessles, Bruce
Zheludev, Andrey
Zudov, Michael
User Committee Meeting 2008
Slide 3
23 New Users in 2009 (17 in 2008)
Affronte, Marco
CNR, stituto Nazionale di fisica della material
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Ashoori, Ray
Dickerson, James
Vanderbilt University
Dressel, Martin
University of Stuttgart
Ferdeghini, Carlo
University of Genova CNR/INFM-LAMIA
University at Buffalo-State University of New York
 Ganapathy, Sambandamurthy
Gedik, Nuh
MIT
Geibel, Christoph
Max Planck Institute
Karpinski, Janusz
ETH-Zurich
Knappenberger, Kenneth
Florida State University
Koyama, Keiichi
Tohoku University
Levy, Jeremy
University of Pittsburgh
Newman, Nathan
Arizona State University
Boston College
 Opeil, Cyril
Seehra, Mohindar
West Virginia University
Suchalkin, Sergey
SUNY at Stony Brook
Terashima, Taichi
National Institute for Materials Science
Tesanovic, Zlatko
Johns Hopkins University
Kanazawa University
 Tsujii, Hiroyuki
The University of Texas at Austin
 Tutuc, Emanuel
Valla, Tonica
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Vasanelli, Angela
University Paris Diderot
Success rate for magnet time
• 2007 – Requests – 374
–Accepted – 293 – 78%
–Rejected - 81 – 23%
• 2008 – Requests – 339
–Accepted – 245 - 72%
–Rejected – 94 – 28%
• 2009 last quarter –
Hybrid: 14 requests for 4 weeks of time
Resistive: 58 requests for 28 weeks of time
Energy Budget
Sitters
⅓ × 20MW × 31 Hr ~ 200 MWHr
Sweepers
¾ × 20MW × 31 HR ~ 450 MWHr
Sitters
⅓ × 30MW × 31 Hr ~ 300 MWHr
Sweepers
¾ × 30MW × 31 HR ~ 675 MWHr
2008 – no budget
2009- budget
2008 – no budget
2009- budget
$5M in 2008
$2M in 2000
• Energy Budgets give us a “knob” to control
electric bill.
• Decrease in cost of natural gas – electrical bill
looks hopeful
• Increase in budget? New magnets? New
instrumentation?
• Future looks bright hopeful…