Task A Budget Description

Task A Budget Description

The total DoE Task A budget in FY2006 is $1,270,000. This amount includes non-base funds of $45,000 for support of Chapman's research leave at CERN and $50,000 for support of Michigan's Tier-3 computer equipment. Based on the 'balance' of the Task A account in May 2006, and using the same spending profile in 2005 to project the residual of the Task A fund by Oct. 31 2006, we expect that our budget would be overrun by about 1.7% of our total 2006 funds.

The Michigan ATLAS group also received $522,000 non-operating funds from DoE and NSF for ATLAS muon detector M&O (Maintenance and Operation) funds in FY2006. Such funds apply to specific items in the WBS (work-breakdown-structure) of the projects and are controlled by the Program Project management.

In FY2007, Task K will transfer 0.5 month summer salary for both Jianming Qian and Homer Neal to Task A, Task K will also transfer a postdoc (J. Strandberg) support to Task A. Task C will transfer 0.5 month summer salary support for Dan Amidei to Task A, and 0.5 graduate student (Andrew Eppig) support to Task A. Based on DoE 2007 budget guidance for Task A, we made our 2007 personnel support plan as included as Table 1 of this document. For comparison purpose, Task A 2006 personnel support is also represented in Table 1.

Scientific personnel support for Task A in FY2007 will include 9 month summer salary support for faculty (Zhou, 1.5 month, Neal, 2 month, Chapman, 2 month, Thun, 2 month, Qian, 1 month and Amidei 0.5 month); 57 month salary support for 5 research scientists (Diehl, Goldfarb, Levin, McKee, and Zhao); 24 month postdoctoral salary support (Burelo, Cirilli, and Strandberg); 16 month engineer salary support (Ameel, Dai and Weaverdyck); 4 month salary support for a computing project associate (Herr); 6 month secretary salary support (S. Wilson); and 18 month graduate student salary and tuition support (A. Eppig, A. Wilson and N. Panikashvili).

Chapman and Thun have been resident at CERN to lead the endcap muon detector Phase II commissioning and system integration. Zhou finished Muon Phase I work and returned to Michigan from CERN last August. She is in charge of establishing the Muon Calibration center at Michigan. Neal continues to lead the US ATLAS collaborative Tool project. He also played a leading role at Michigan for grid computing R&D and for developing the Michigan/MSU Tier-2 proposal. Amidei is working on the gauge boson Z' detection using the muons with his graduate student Andrew Eppig and Qian has begun work on B-physics studies and Higgs searches. His new postdoc Strandberg will join him on July 10, 2006 for Higgs search studies.

Our research scientists continue play leading roles in many different ATLAS research areas. Zhao was the Phase I project supervisor in Building 184 at CERN, he will be at CERN to serve as Phase II Big-Wheel (A-side) assembly and test supervisor in Building 180. McKee continues to lead the high-speed network R&D work for ATLAS through NSF research programs: UltraLight (ITR), GridNFS (NMI), and TeraPaths (MICS). He has served as PI for a joint Tier-2 proposal by UM and MSU.
If the Tier-2 proposal is accepted by US ATLAS, McKee will serve as a co-director in our Tier-2 center. Levin has been the co-coordinator of the ATLAS physics group for combined muon performance. He has also been a major physicist at CERN to supervise the students for the Phase II commissioning work. He will play an important role for software development in the Michigan muon calibration center. Diehl is in charge of software setup for the muon calibration center. He also manages the Phase 1, 1.9 detector commissioning DataBase. Goldfarb coordinates the ATLAS Muon software development at CERN. Burelo, our postdoc, has concentrated on L _b polarization physics studies at CERN, and Cirilli has been the ATLAS muon software database coordinator. Ferretti is in charge of Phase 1.9 and Phase II commissioning data at CERN, he also helps to maintain our computer file servers for commissioning. Commissioning data is processed by him to produce the DB contents.

Weaverdyck is our mechanical engineer and is a major contributor to tasks of chamber installation tooling design and fabrication. He is also in charge of building the gas monitor chambers. Dai is a scientific engineer, resident at CERN. He is in charge of the data taking DAQ systems and software. He will be the Phase III endcap detector commissioning leader. He is also the major person in our group managing the mass production of MC physics events. Ameel is an electrical engineer, who provides electronic module construction and testing. Ball is our major engineer for the CSM development and testing. He is now our computer cluster (UMROCKS) manager. Gregory is a part time engineer who provides CAD designs and readout software for testing. Graduate students, Eppig and Wilson are helping our hardware project in Phase I and Phase II commissioning. They also deeply involved in ATLAS physics studies to prepare their Ph.D. thesis topics. Panikashvili is partially supported by Michigan group. She is studying L _b physics.

Table 1: Personnel support from Task A in 2006 and 2007.

*Name*	*FY2006*	*FY2007*	*Comments*
Faculty
Jay Chapman	2 month (summer) + 60% 2 terms	2 month (summer)	additional support for sabbatical & research leave
Homer Neal	1.5 month (summer)	2 month (summer)	0.5 month on Task K
Rudi Thun	2 month (summer)	2 month (summer)
Bing Zhou	1.5 month (summer)	1.5 month (summer)	0.5 month on Task K
Jianming Qian	0.5 month (summer)	1 month (summer)	1.5/1.0 month on task K
Dan Amidei	0.0 month	0.5 month (summer)	2/1.5 month on Task C
Researchers
Ed Diehl	12 month	12 month
Steve Goldfarb	12 month	12 month
Shawn McKee	9 month	9 month	3 month from Mgrid
Dan Levin	12 month	12 month
Zhengguo Zhao	12 month	12 month
Eduard Burelo	6 month	6 month	6 month on Task K
Manuela Cirilli	6 month	6 month	6 month on M&O
Claudio Ferretti	0 month	0 month	12 month on M&O
J. Strandberg	0 month	12 month	transfer from K
Engineers
John Ameel	4 month	4 month	8 month on Task C/I
Tiesheng Dai	6 month	6 month	6 month on M&O
C. Weaverdyck	6 month	6 month	6 month on M&O
Bob Ball	2.7 month	0	support by M&O
Students
Andrew Eppig	6 month	6 month	6 month on M&O
Alan Wilson	6 month	6 month	6 month on M&O
N. Panikashvili	6 month	6 month	50% support from UM
John Purdham	4 month (summer)	4 month (summer)	supported by M&O
Other
Sherry Wilson (Secretary)	7 month	6 month	5/6 month from UM
Jeremy Herr (computing)	4 month	4 month	Collaborative Tool funds support

We request computing equipment funds of $50,000 in our FY2007 budget. In addition, the university has committed $100,000 in matching funds for the computer hardware.

We request a total of $165,000 for travel in FY2007. Michigan has the largest complement of personnel resident at CERN for muon detector work. The installation and commissioning work is crucial if the muon endcap is to be installed when the LHC turns-on. The requested travel support is based on our past three years experience working at CERN.

We put the same level of the funds ($58,000) in our FY2007 request as in FY2006 budget for materials and consumables. The funds will be used at CERN ($20k), at Michigan ($18k) and for the Electronics shop ($18k).

The indirect cost of the University of Michigan high energy physics grants are set at the off-campus rate of 26%, which applies to salaries, benefits, travel, materials and supplies, but not to equipment and to tuition.

The total Task A budget request for FY2007 is $1,395,000. Other details of the Task A FY2007 budget are given in the Task A budget sheet.

Finally, we would like to put a high priority request to DoE to fully support our graduate students, Alan Wilson, Andrew Eppig and John Purdham (total 24 months) from DoE Task A funds. The major support, at the moment, for these excellent students comes from US ATLAS M&O funds. As the LHC approaches beam collisions, they will focus on physics analysis for their Ph.D. thesis work. DoE's support will be crucial next year. The salary and tuition cost needed will be about $85,000.