The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States (2024)
Chapter: Appendix A: Statement of Task
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27830.
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Statement of Task
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:
- What is the status of domestic and international high-magnetic-field science and technology?
- What current and future science disciplines have the most critical needs for new capabilities that could only be enabled by high magnetic fields?
- What are the most important gaps in current high-magnetic-field science, technology, and infrastructure that must be met to address these critical needs?
- 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:
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27830.
- The recommendations in the 2013 National Academies report High Magnetic Field Science and Its Applications in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions in light of the latest advancements in technology and engineering domestically and internationally.
- 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.
- Democratization of the scientific community’s access to high magnetic fields:
- Balance between pushing toward higher magnetic field strengths versus maximizing the science impact of currently accessible fields by making them more readily available to the users.
- Facility models: central hub versus central hub with spokes vs. network of distributed facilities.
- Challenges for the scientific communities to access high-magnetic-field instrumentation (commercially available instrumentation vs facilities access).
- User access model for high-magnetic-field user facilities.
- Free versus user fees.
- Operation funding model.
- Training of the next generation of high-magnetic-field scientists and technologists.
- High-magnetic-field applications, in particular those beyond conventional measurement science and particle physics, and technology transfer.
- Principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of high-magnetic-field science and technology data.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27830.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. The Current Status and Future Direction of High-Magnetic-Field Science and Technology in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27830.
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