P5 Report, High Energy Physics Roadmap Now Available
July 21, 2008
The roadmap for the future of high-energy physics in the United States is now available in print.
In November 2007, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel charged the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) to develop a 10-year plan for U.S. particle physics in each of four possible budget scenarios.
In response, the 21-member subpanel, chaired by Yale professor Charlie Baltay, laid out strategies for the next decade that would allow the United States to maintain a leadership role in worldwide particle physics.
The panel recommends a balanced program of research at three frontiers to address fundamental questions about the laws of the universe: the Energy Frontier, using both hadron colliders and lepton colliders to discover and illuminate the physics of the terascale; the Intensity Frontier, comprising neutrino physics and high-sensitivity experiments on rare processes; and the Cosmic Frontier, probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and other topics in particle astrophysics.
The U.S. High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, a Department of Energy and National Science Foundation advisory committee, endorsed the plan on May 29.
You can read the report online (PDF).
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