The primary goal of NP SciDAC Partnership projects is to enable and support research on current high-profile computationally intensive topics in theoretical nuclear physics of direct relevance to the experimental research programs at existing or approved NP facilities. Research topics of interest and the associated facilities include:

• Heavy Ion Collider Physics (HICP), e.g. at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC): Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) studies of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP); the QCD equation of state (EOS), phase diagram and critical point; algorithmic developments for the numerical simulations of systems with nonzero chemical potential.
• Medium Energy Nuclear Physics (MENP), e.g. at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF): QCD spectroscopy, including exotic mesons; hadron structure, strong decays, and photocouplings; hadron-hadron interactions.
• Low Energy Nuclear Physics (LENP), e.g. at the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator (ATLAS) and the Facility for Radioactive Ion Beams (FRIB): Nuclear structure calculations (ab initio and models); nuclear reactions; the nuclear matter EOS; nuclear astrophysics; nuclear forces from LQCD; nuclear matrix elements for “fundamental symmetries” and “beyond the Standard Model” studies.

Funding Opportunities

Scientific Computation Application Partnerships in Nuclear Physics
Pre-applications are due on October 30th, 2011
Applications are due on January 5th, 2012
University, Industry, etc.: DE-FOA-0000581
National Laboratories: LAB 11-581