The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall conduct a study on high magnetic field science and technology. The primary goal of the study is to be forward-looking and identify new scientific opportunities enabled by existing and emerging high magnetic field technologies for the next decade and beyond.
Questions for the study:
1. What is the status of domestic and international high magnetic field science and technology?
2. What current and future science disciplines have the most critical needs for new capabilities that could only be enabled by high magnetic fields?
3. What are the most important gaps in current high magnetic field science, technology, and infrastructure that must be met to address these critical needs?
4. What approach would the committee recommend to maximize the potential for existing and emerging high magnetic field technologies and infrastructure to close these gaps?
In responding to the above questions, the committee should consider the following:
a. The recommendations in the 2013 National Academies report High Magnetic Field Science and its Applications in the United States in light of the latest advancements in technology and engineering domestically and internationally
b. The status of multimodal capabilities such as high magnetic fields with X-ray, neutrons, free electron lasers, scanning probe microscopy/spectroscopy, and their potential impact on high magnetic field science and technology
c. Democratization of the scientific community’s access to high magnetic fields:
i. Balance between pushing toward higher magnetic field strengths vs. maximizing the science impact of currently accessible fields by making them more readily available to the users
ii. Facility models: central hub vs. central hub with spokes vs. network of distributed facilities
iii. Challenges for the scientific communities to access high magnetic field instrumentation (commercially available instrumentation vs facilities access)
d. User access model for high magnetic field user facilities
i. Free vs. user fees
ii. Operation funding model
e. Training of the next generation of high magnetic field scientists and technologists
f. High magnetic field applications, in particular those beyond conventional measurement science and particle physics, and technology transfer
g. Principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability of high magnetic field science and technology data