Message to DPF Members

Dear Colleagues,

As described in his article in the April 17 issue of Fermilab Today, http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2007/today07-04-17.html Director of Fermilab Pier Oddone has charged me to lead a Steering Group to develop a strategic roadmap for the accelerator-based HEP physics program at Fermilab that provides discovery opportunities during the period before ILC construction can begin, while supporting the international R&D and engineering design for as early a start of the ILC as possible. The Steering Group, consisting of members of the US HEP community and Laboratory staff, will report to Director Oddone by August 1.

You can find the charge, membership and activities of the group at http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/Longrange/Steering_Public/

The Steering group would like to solicit input from the HEP community as widely as possible. As part of this effort, I have been meeting with collaborations of experiments at Fermlab, will be giving a report on the Steering group's work at Fermilab and SLAC Users meeting on June 6 and June 7, respectively, and will conduct Town Hall meetings on the same days. If you wish to give us your input, please send me a note or a letter. We would also like to hear ideas from the community on near-term experiments that can be supported by an evolution of the Fermilab accelerator complex. If you have such an idea, please write up a single-page sketch consisting of the physics case, back-of-envelope discussion of accelerator requirements, and a brief detector description. I would appreciate it if you could send me your input by Monday, June 11.

Sincerely,
Young-Kee Kim (ykkim@fnal.gov)
Chair of the Steering Group
Deputy Director of Fermilab
Professor of Physics, Univ. of Chicago