Committee Chair
HIGH ENERGY
PHYSICS PLANNING WORKSHOP
NPSS at Snowmass 2001
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| Bruce C. Brown Committee Chair |
Research in Particle Physics relies on building large scale accelerators and experiments with long lead times. Except for the cosmic accelerators which provide a limited flux of particles, we must construct particle accelerators to provide the required experimental conditions. During the first decade of the new millennium a path is charted in the available equipment and the construction projects now underway. Existing facilities will provide frontline research opportunities for half a decade or more. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will provide new opportunities in the last half of this decade. The chart for the future beyond that point has only been sketched. Options for colliding beams include linear colliders for electrons, very large hadron colliders and muon colliders. Experiments with fixed targets include neutrino factories, new facilities for studying B-meson decays and the highest energy cosmic rays. To provide tools for Particle Physics to use beyond the next decade requires us to understand the physics and technology which will create the experiments of 2010 and beyond.
The Division of Physics of Beams and the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society are sponsoring a workshop for planning the future of Particle Physics in July 2001 at Snowmass, Colorado. This workshop will follow a more than twenty year tradition of Snowmass planning studies. This year the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society will join in technical cooperation with APS in sponsoring this workshop. The NPSS contribution will focus on the technologies which impact the future of Particle Physics research. We are seeking to identify technologies and ways to bring insight about these technologies to the Snowmass participants.
The principal focus of these activities will be a “Technology School” with about a dozen half day or one day courses on critical technologies for experimental detectors and accelerators. The NPSS Short Courses, such as have been presented at the Nuclear Science Symposium, have addressed issues such as particle identification or pixel detectors in a one day format. Topics such as beam instrumentation or accelerator magnets which have been covered in 5 or 10 day courses at the US Particle Accelerator School could be covered with different emphasis. We will also consider other technologies, relevant to but not specific to our field whose development will be crucial to the future of our research. We will select with an eye on scientific opportunity and significance but the ultimate criteria will be presenters who can make excellent presentations on relevant topics.
In a related but separate activity, NPSS will participate in working groups on the interaction of particle physics and technology. (Working groups have been the typical organizational structure at previous Snowmass studies.) These groups will seek to identify, for both mature and developing technologies, the expected state of development in a relevant one or two decade time frame. In these groups, the selection criteria for topics will seek those of greatest relevance, unlike the schools where the presentation excellence will be the necessary guideline.
In accordance with the resolution passed at the Lyon meeting of the NPSS AdCom (October 2000), Igor Alexeff, President of IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society has appointed a committee to organize our collaboration with the APS DPF and DPB for the Snowmass 2001 HEP planning workshop. AdCom approved funding to support these efforts.
Committee for NPSS Technology Emphasis at Snowmass 2001
Bruce C. Brown, Chair
bcbrown@fnal.gov
Matthew A. Allen
matallen@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
William M. Bugg
bugg@slac.stanford.edu
Peter Clout
clout@vista-control.com
John E. Elias
elias@fnal.gov
Erik Heijne
Erik.Heijne@cern.ch
Thomas Katsouleas
katsoule@usc.edu
Raymond S. Larsen
larsen@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Patrick LeDu
ledu@hep.saclay.cea.fr
Alan Todd
todd@grump.com
Craig L. Woody
woody@bnl.gov
Particle Physics has traditionally interacted with NPSS at the Particle Accelerator Conference, the Nuclear Science Symposium, and the Real Time conferences. The diverse activities sponsored by NPSS range to a number of other relevant technologies including radiation effects, pulsed power and plasmas. The committee expect to draw on these strengths of NPSS as we plan Snowmass 2001 activities.
Arrangements for technology topics and presenters are ongoing at press time. Between schools and work groups we expect to cover much of the following list:
Please check our website: http://www-ap. fnal.gov/~bcbrown/NPSS_Snowmass2001_Home.html for an updated view of our activities. Your input on these activities is welcomed.
You may contact the conference directly via Cynthia M. Sazama, Conference Office, MS 122, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia IL 60510-0500; E-mail: sazama@fnal.gov ; Fax: +1 630 840 8589 or on the Web at http://snowmass2001.org .
Bruce Brown, an elected AdCom member from 1997 to 2000, is the Chair of the Committee for NPSS Technology Emphasis at Snowmass 2001. He can be reached at the Main Injector Department, Fermilab, MS341, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510; Phone +1 630 840-4404; Fax: +1 630-840-8737; E-mail: bcbrown@fnal.gov.