HEPAP Draft Report, 10-29-01 (pdf)
The final report is due in January 2002. The panel endorses an international effort to build an e+e- linear collider as the highest priority of the US program.
Here is my summary of the HEPAP recommendations:
1. We recommend that the US take steps to remain a world leader in particle physics.
2. We recommend a twenty-year roadmap to chart our research plan on the frontiers of matter, energy, space, and time.
3. We recommend that the highest priority of the US program be a high-energy, high-luminosity, e+e- linear collider, wherever it is built in the world. The facility should be designed, built, and operated as a fully international effort. The US should take a leadership position in forming the international collaboration.
4. We recommend that the US prepare to bid to host the linear collider. If built in the US, it should be sited to take full advantage of the infrastructure avialable at SLAC and Fermilab.
5. We recommend that vigorous long-term R&D aimed toward future high-energy accelerators be carried out at high priority.
Other recommendations:
Form new committee Particle Phyusics Project Priortization Panel (P5) and would only consider peer-reviewed projects.
Due to budget realities and timing, BTeV should not receive funding as a DOE line item now or in near future. (See p23)
Future scenarios for HEP: US program must grow: +30% over 20 years +10% over 20 years LC built in US not built in US US LC cost 2/3 paid by US significant US contribution LHC US participates US participates Neutrino physics not in US in the US Heavy Flavors in US til 2010 in US til 2020 Accel. R&D continued "focused" for VLHC, multi-TEV LC
Doug Wright
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