Particle physics: a global picture

Report from the subcommittee to produce a new ICFA document

Judy Jackson15 July 2011

Paris, 24 July 2010• From ICFA meeting notes: “A steering committee was

formed to provide guidance for an ICFA-produced document describing opportunities for particle physics across the world. It will show the physics opportunities, and give a list of currently open questions and possible future ways to answer them.”

ICFA 18 February 20112

ICFA appointed a working group while Pier was marryinghis daughter in California. ICFA made him chair.

Subcommittee members

• Pier Oddone, chair; Sachio Komamiya; Joachim Mnich

• InterAction members: Judy Jackson, James Gillies, Tim Meyer, Barbara Warmbein, Rika Takahashi

ICFA 18 February 20113

A global picture of particle physics

Goal • To strengthen worldwide support for

particle physics as a global enterprise Strategy• Create a print publication and an

accompanying website to articulate a global vision for particle physics

• Distributed by ICFA, with cover letter from ICFA chair

ICFA 18 February 20114

Audiences

• Policy makers and opinion leaders• Funding agencies• Members of the media• The global science community• The science-interested public

ICFA 18 February 20115

Key messages

• The compelling science of 21st-century particle physics: the great questions

 • Twenty-first century tools of particle physics create

opportunities for discovery never before within reach. New results from existing experiments will shape the future direction of the field.

 

ICFA 18 February 20116

Key messages (2)

• The scale of today’s accelerators and experiments puts them beyond any single region’s ability to build or operate alone. Particle physics projects take shape as international endeavors from the start.

• In the global context of particle physics research, the whole exceeds the sum of the parts. The worldwide community has shown the ability to come together and produce results that resonate around the world.

ICFA 18 February 20117

Key messages (3)

• Ideas and technologies of particle physics enter the mainstream of society to transform the way we live and to inspire and train the next generation of scientists.

 • Particle physics collaborations have enhanced

significance as beacons for free and open exchange among men and women of science from all nations. They offer a model for cooperation from a field known for leadership in international collaboration.

ICFA 18 February 20118

DESY, 3-4 February 2011

ICFA 18 February 20119

Pier Oddone, Sachio Komamiya, James Gillies, Joachim Mnich, Tim MeyerBarbara Warmbein, Judy Jackson, Rika Takahashi

Outline: ~20 pages

0 One-paragraph distillation: Global particle physics in 60 seconds (2 pages)

1 Executive summary articulating key points (2 pages)

2 What do we know? (Particle physics in terms of space-time, matter, forces)(2 pages)

3 The great questions of 21st-century particle physics (4 pages)

4 What does it take to know?: vision, tools, laboratories (6 pages)

5 Innovation and benefits to society (4 pages)

6 Beacons for international collaboration (2 pages)

ICFA 18 February 201110

Proposed Great Questions

Is the Higgs particle the first step towards a whole new understanding?

What’s the matter with antimatter? What message do neutrinos bring from the beginning of time? Are there phenomena beyond our reach that leave their imprint

on things we can measure? Are there extra dimensions of space? What are dark matter and dark energy – the unseen universe? What is the trajectory of our universe? How did it evolve? Is there a simple explanation for it all?

ICFA 18 February 201111

Schedule

•  3-4 February: DESY workshop, create detailed draft outline• 18 February: present proposed plan, detailed outline to ICFA

for input and approval• March: subcommittee collects and writes content, tests on

audiences• 3-6 May: writing group met with Sandbox designers at CERN

to incorporate input, develop layout, assign homework• July: first full draft including layout• Late August: ICFA approval, final edit• 6 September: go to print, finalize website• 3 October: present final report at ICFA seminar at CERN

ICFA 18 February 201112

ICFA 18 February 201113

Writers, designers met at CERN May 3-6

• Created book map, overall design scheme• Gave homework writing assignments• Chose a new title

At Discovery’s Horizon became Beacons of Discovery

ADH: too many associations with Deep Water Horizon; used before for US LHC, a bit stale…

BoD: good imagery (drawing colleagues together, lighting the darkness, showing the way); amazingly, not used before (in particle physics reports, anyway)

ICFA 18 February 201114

Status as of 15 July

• In full swing, a work in progress

• Intro, Great Questions, What Do We Know?, International Collaboration sections are roughly done

• Innovation and Benefits still has holes, needs work

• Tools of Particle Physics section is most challenging: must balance regions, frontiers, projects, accelerators, experiments…. Expanded from 4-6 pages. Global photo quest in progress.

ICFA 18 February 201115

Status as of July 15

• Copy ready for review by 25 July• Pier presents “final” draft at 28 August ICFA

meeting in Mumbai• Final changes first week in September• Goes to printer 6 September to be ready for

ICFA seminar 3 October.

ICFA 18 February 201116

To do

• Finish “Tools” section (mostly photos with captions)

• Photo at KEK for “International Collaboration” section (Some of you will be in that one…)

• Finish “Innovations” section• Develop website (Hi Kevin!)• Editing, editing….

Beacons of Discovery

• This is the right time to present a worldwide picture of particle physics. Beacons of Discovery takes the next step in articulating a globally shared vision for the future of particle physics.

ICFA 18 February 201117