{"id":5470,"date":"2013-01-18T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:59:35","slug":"cern-briefing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5470","title":{"rendered":"CERN Briefing Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year the US and European HEP communities are engaging in exercises designed to put together plans for the future.  In the US it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowmass2013.org\">Snowmass 2013<\/a>, leading up to a big meeting in Minneapolis this summer.  This past week has seen preliminary meetings at <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=215504#20130114.detailed\">Irvine<\/a> to discuss future prospects for experimental study of SUSY and other BSM ideas, and at <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.princeton.edu\/indico\/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=127\">Princeton<\/a> for discussion of future prospects for study of the Higgs.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Europe, there is a plan to update the 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/council.web.cern.ch\/council\/en\/EuropeanStrategy\/ESParticlePhysics.html\">European strategy for particle physics<\/a>,   This will officially take place in May\/June, based on a document to be finalized by the CERN Council in March.  Next week in Erice there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/internalPage.py?pageId=0&#038;confId=217656\">meeting<\/a> to draft this document.  To prepare for this, there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/espp2012.ifj.edu.pl\/\">open symposium<\/a> last September, leading to the preparation of a briefing book, now available <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/getFile.py\/access?resId=0&#038;materialId=0&#038;confId=222548\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing book is a very interesting 220 page document covering in up-to-date detail the current experimental situation and future prospects, for all areas of HEP. One big issue is the Higgs: now that its mass is known, what can be learned about it using some new machine (a &#8220;Higgs factory&#8221;) beyond what can be learned from the LHC?  As far as prospects for a new, higher energy machine, the document describes the possibilities, but no decision about such a thing is likely to be made until after results become available from seeing the LHC run at 13 TeV starting in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the US and European HEP communities are engaging in exercises designed to put together plans for the future. In the US it&#8217;s Snowmass 2013, leading up to a big meeting in Minneapolis this summer. This past week has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}