[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54210-54211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23566]


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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: [email protected] 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: 
[email protected]. 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: 
[email protected].

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.
[FR Doc. 03-23566 Filed 9-15-03; 8:45 am]
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