[Federal Register: September 16, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 179)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Notice DE-FG01-
03ER03-27; Advanced Detector Research Program
AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice inviting grant applications.
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SUMMARY: The Division of High Energy Physics of the Office of Science
(SC), U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in
receiving grant applications for support under its Advanced Detector
Research Program. Applications should be from investigators who are
currently involved in experimental high energy physics, and should be
submitted through a U.S. academic institution. The purpose of this
program is to support the development of the new detector technologies
needed to perform future high energy physics experiments.
DATES: To permit timely consideration for award in Fiscal Year 2004,
formal applications submitted in response to this notice should be
received before December 2, 2003.
Applicants are requested to submit a letter of intent by November
3, 2003, which includes the title of the proposal, the name of the
principal investigator(s), the requested funding, and a one-page
abstract. Failure to submit a letter of intent will not negatively
prejudice a responsive formal application submitted in a timely manner.
ADDRESSES: Formal applications in response to this solicitation are to
be electronically submitted by an authorized institutional business
official through DOE's Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS)
at: http://e-center.doe.gov/. IIPS provides for the posting of
solicitations and receipt of applications in a paperless environment
via the Internet. In order to submit applications through IIPS your
business official will need to register at the IIPS website. It is
suggested that this registration be completed several days prior to the
date on which you plan to submit the formal application. The Office of
Science will include attachments as part of this notice that provide
the appropriate forms in PDF fillable format that are to be submitted
through IIPS. IIPS offers the option of submitting multiple files--
please limit submissions to only one file within the volume if
possible, with a maximum of no more than four files. Color images
should be submitted in IIPS as a separate file in PDF format and
identified as such. These images should be kept to a minimum due to the
limitations of reproducing them. They should be numbered and referred
to in the body of the technical scientific proposal as Color image 1,
Color image 2, etc. Questions regarding the operation of IIPS may be e-
mailed to the IIPS Help Desk at: helpdesk@pr.doe.gov or you may call
the help desk at: (800) 683-0751. Further information on the use of
IIPS by the Office of Science is available at: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production
/grants/grants.html.
Letters of intent referencing Program Notice DE-FG01-03ER03-27
should be submitted via e-mail at the following e-mail address:
Michael.Procario@science.doe.gov. Please include the phrase ``ADR
letter of intent'' in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Michael Procario, SC-20/Germantown
Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW,
Washington, DC 20585-1290. Telephone: (301) 903-2890. e-Mail:
Michael.Procario@science.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Future high energy physics experiments will
require higher performance detectors to exploit the higher beam
energies and intensities of new or upgraded accelerators. Higher
performance detectors are also needed to probe for new physical
processes in both accelerator-based and non-accelerator-based
experiments. Proposed detector research should be driven by the
anticipated needs of experiments to be built within the foreseeable
future. Generic detector research that could be applied to upgrades
that have not yet been approved would also be appropriate. It is
expected that the final
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engineering or fabrication of detectors for specific experiments will
not be funded by this program. Interesting technologies would include
but not be limited to charged particle track detectors, calorimeters,
or particle identification detectors that are less sensitive to
radiation, have higher resolution, are lower in cost, or can be read
out faster than currently available detectors. Proposals to develop
detector technology that is targeted at experiments for an energy
frontier e+e- linear collider should not be
submitted under this notice unless additional credible uses for the
technology are described.
It is anticipated that in Fiscal Year 2004 approximately $500,000
will be available for new awards. The number of awards will be
determined by the number of excellent applications and the total funds
available for this program. The average size of an award in the last
two years has been $55,000 per year. Multiple year grants should be
requested if the project cannot be completed in one year. A maximum of
three years will be considered. Out-year funding will be provided on an
annual basis subject to availability of funds. Cost sharing is
encouraged but not required.
Applicants are welcome to collaborate with researchers in other
institutions, such as universities, industry, non-profit organizations,
federal laboratories, and Federally Funded Research and Development
Centers (FFRDCs), which include the DOE National Laboratories. In the
case of collaborative applications submitted from different
institutions that are directed at a single research activity, each
application must have a different scope of work and a qualified
principal investigator who is responsible for the research effort being
performed at his or her institution. There must be a single technical
description of the proposed work, and separate face pages and budget
pages for each institution. The scope of work at each institution must
be clearly specified. While collaboration with researchers at FFRDCs
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and other DOE national labs are
examples of FFRDCs), is encouraged, no funds will be provided to those
organizations under this notice. The procedure for submitting a
collaborative application can be accessed via the web at: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/grants/Colab.html.
This section provides
specific details regarding collaborating institutions and states, ``The
lead organization must submit their own grant application plus the
other collaborator's applications to DOE in one package with a cover
letter which describes the role to be played by each organization, the
managerial arrangements, and the advantages of the multi-organizational
effort.''
Applications will be subjected to scientific merit review (peer
review) and will be evaluated against the following criteria, which are
listed in descending order of importance as set forth in 10 CFR
605.10(d):
1. Scientific and/or technical merit of the project;
2. Appropriateness of the proposed method or approach;
3. Competency of applicant's personnel and adequacy of proposed
resources; and
4. Reasonableness and appropriateness of the proposed budget.
In considering item 1 particular attention will be paid to:
[sbull] the importance of the physics that motivates developing the
proposed detector,
[sbull] whether the proposed research is generic detector research
that will benefit more than one experiment,
[sbull] the magnitude of the potential impact versus the risk of
failure.
General information about development and submission of
applications, eligibility, limitations, evaluations and selection
processes, and other policies and procedures are contained in the
Application Guide for the Office of Science Financial Assistance
Program and 10 CFR part 605. Electronic access to the application guide
and required forms is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html
.
In addition, for this notice, project descriptions must be 25 pages
or less, including tables and figures, but excluding forms and
certifications. The application must also contain an abstract or
project summary, letters of intent from all non-funded collaborators,
and short curriculum vitae of all senior personnel. Principal
investigators should limit themselves to submitting one proposal to the
ADR program.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number for this
program is 81.049, and the solicitation control number is ERFAP 10
CFR part 605.
Issued in Washington, DC on September 10, 2003.
John Rodney Clark,
Associate Director of Science for Resource Management.
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