Fermilab
Long Range Planning Committee
Physics Landscape 2010 –
2020
Subcommittee Workplan
5/07/03
Membership
Chris
Hill
Jeff
Appel
Joel
Butler
Marcela
Carena
Estia
Eichten
Stephen
Parke
Goals
- Understand and summarize the possible scenarios
for the international field of elementary particle physics in the
2010-2020 time frame.
- Summarize the existing plans for the Fermilab
HEP facilities and likely upgrades into the era 2010-2020.
- Identify interesting yet reasonable targets of
opportunity for the Fermilab HEP program.
- Understand
the role Fermilab can play, in terms of likely available facilities
and reasonable goals for upgrades of new facilities and addressing these
scenarios.
- Understand and summarize the need for, and the
potential for, new general HEP
accelerator based initiatives in the
time frame 2010-2020
- For different funding levels, explore the
potential scope of the future HEP activities at Fermilab.
- Recommend a particular areas of interest,
targets of opportunity and plans
of action.
Scope of Work
1.
Understand and
summarize the possible scenarios for the international field of elementary
particle physics in the 2010-2020 time frame; Summarize the existing plans for
the Fermilab HEP facilities and likely upgrades into the era 2010-2020:
The general landscape for particle
physics in the next decade cannot be predicted with precision. It depends upon scenarios that unfold in the
High-pT programs of the Tevatron and LHC. A plethora of new results from LHC is
very likely, and will stimulate the field in new ways. We can roughly classify
the possible outcomes into general areas:
(a) SUSY, ...with several
subscenarios:
(i) SUGRA,
(ii) Gauge Mediation, etc.
(iii) Other
(b) Extra Dimensions.
...with several subscenarios
(c) New Strong Dynamics,
(i) Technicolor/Topcolor (TC2),
(ii) Little Higgs Models
(4) Pure Standard Model Higgs
In addition
to High-p_T developments, there will be interesting new developments in low energy spectroscopy and rare
decays:
(a) Conventional Physics, but
novel:
(i) BABAR D** resonances; SELEX
[cc]q's
(ii) CKM in K-systems
(iii) B-physics
(b) Possible new physics at low
energies
(c) Probing new physics in rare decays
(i) SUSY flavor problem
(ii) New Strong Dynamics
(4) Precision physics, eg. GIGA-Z
2.
Identify interesting
yet reasonable targets of opportunity for the Fermilab HEP program:
Given a scenario, ask "what experiment in the
context of flavor, or other, physics channels, would we most like to do
next?" Eg, if gauge mediated SUSY, what does
it say about Kaons? Neutrinos? D-mesons? B-mesons etc? Note that this
also begs consideration of the LC and VLHC in many instances. We must decide
how to place the emphasis. We are certainly looking for flavor channel
sensitivity, but don't want to squeeze wine from a stone..
Understand
the role Fermilab can play, in terms of likely available facilities and
reasonable goals for upgrades of new facilities, and addressing these
scenarios.
For different funding levels, explore the potential
scope of the future HEP activities at Fermilab
Understand and summarize the need for, and the potential
for, new general HEP
accelerator based initiatives in
the time frame 2010-2020
For
different funding levels, explore the potential scope of the future HEP
activities at Fermilab.
Recommend particular areas of interest, targets of
opportunity and plans of action.
Immediate activities:
(Marcela) Begin to think about SUSY sub-scenarios for
this. What and where is the best literature? E.g., Buras has written much about
this for K's and nu's. Uli Nierste was suggested as a key reference. We know
that the flavor problem is severe in the SUSY and NSD scenarios. (e.g., What if
LHC finds the strange squark at 500 GeV and the down squark at 1000 GeV?
Impossible!? )
(Stephen) Think about the neutrino logic tree.
We will survey and summarize the ongoing accelerator
R&D projects at the laboratory, the future extensions of this R&D that
the proponents would like to execute, and the associated resources that would
be required.
Work Process/Plan
We
propose a series of committee meetings to gather/disseminate information, with
our subcommittee augmented by a small group of expert consultants who
participate in committee meetings and contribute to the final document. The augmented committee would solicit
presentations that cover the ongoing accelerator R&D at Fermilab, summaries
of accelerator R&D programs at other laboratories, and the plans and hopes
of relevant accelerator R&D groups. The committee would arrange for one or
more talks to be given at Fermilab to communicate, and solicit comment on, the
present accelerator R&D program at the laboratory and its possible
evolution.
Each
of the five items listed in the scope of work will be assigned to a specific
committee member for coordination and this committee member will provide the first
draft of the written part of our report for the assigned area.
Foreward
There was a consensus that there would be value
added to the lab if such a committee had a more general and long term scope of maintaining
and updating the Physics Case for HEP at FNAL (and sister fields) beyond the
immediate needs of the Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee (FLRP). However,
we should focus now on the FLRP Physics Case document, envisioned to be a
succinct statement of the Physics Landscape in relationship to the Lab in the
time frame 2010-2020, with an eye to identifying key targets of opportunity.
List of Candidate Consultants
We
have not approached any of the candidates. The following list represents our initial
thoughts about which local people might best assist us in our task.
B-physics vs new physics:
Uli Nierste
Adam Liebovich
Spectroscopy, etc.
Peter Cooper
Forward Physics at High Energy:
Mike Albrow
Neutrinos:
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