The Snowmass Community Planning Exercise is held every 10 years, and brings together particle physicists from across the U.S. and around the world to decide what they’ll focus research efforts on next.
Or, as the DPF puts it, they focus on"the study of fundamental particles and fields, their structure, their interactions and interrelationships, the design and development of high energy accelerators, and the design and development of instrumentation techniques for high energy physics."
It's a very collaborative process, and one that actually begins years in advance of the conference date, according to Dr. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, an associate professor at UC Irvine. Those letters of interest lead to what are known as"white papers," which are reports or guides that present a simplified version of a complex research idea.
"The whole Snowmass process is divided into 10 frontiers," Ochoa-Ricoux said, because particle physics as a field of physics is so broad that it needs to be divided up.focuses on understanding heavy particles, new kinds of particle interactions, and the mystery of dark matter -- which particle physicists still don't have a lot of information about, despite the fact that it makes up roughly 85% of matter in universe, according to Feng.
Their work ends with a set of reports"detailing the current state of the field and the most exciting experimental and theoretical opportunities for progress," Chivukula said. And those reports help determine where the finite funding available can best be used to advance the broad field of particle physics.
The Snowmass reports go to what's known as P5 -- the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel -- which prioritizes the ideas that all the conference attendees, frontier researchers, and white paper authors set forth, and"forms a plan for what can actually be built in the next five, 10, 15 years," Feng said.
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