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SciDAC and High Energy Physics
Advanced scientific computing will be a key contributor to scientific research in the 21st Century. Within the Office of Science, scientific computing programs and facilities are already essential to progress in many areas of research. Although High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics are now separate programs at DOE, they were combined at the time the SciDAC calls were issued.
High Energy Physics Goals for SciDAC
The coming advances in computing performance, if they can be realized for scientific problems, herald a new era in scientific computing. If computers capable of 100 teraflops or more become available in the next few years, it will be possible to dramatically extend our exploration of the fundamental processes of nature. It will also be possible to predict the behavior of a broad range of complex systems, such as charged-particle accelerator components, and eventually entire accelerators.
Areas of interest to HEP that could benefit from advanced scientific computing include:
- Predicting electromagnetic fields and beam dynamics in particle accelerators, with
particular attention to processes, such as beam halos, that impact the performance of
current and proposed high-energy accelerators (coordinated with FES).
- Understanding the physical phenomena encompassed inthe Standard Model of particle
physics to determine whether additional theoretical concepts are needed to explain
fundamental interactions at very high energies or short distances.
- Understanding the structure of nuclei as well as nuclear processes involved in
energetic events such as stellar supernovae explosions.
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