P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) reports to HEPAP (High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel) that advises High-Energy Physics of DOE Office of Science and Division of Physics of NSF. We will build on the “Snowmass” community study to hash out priorities for the next 10 years within 20-year context.
- Charge
The charge to P5 was issued by Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of Office of Science, Department of Energy, and Dr. Sean L. Jones, Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Science Foundation, to the HEPAP chair JoAnne Hewett on November 2, 2022
- Logo
The five overlapping P's follow the color scheme of five rings in the Olympics rings, conveying the global nature of the field, as well as the overlapping nature of our science. Even though the Olympics rings represent only five continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia), we make sure to include projects in the Antartica as well, such as CMB and Icecube.
- News
- 9/7/2022: Murayama had the first meeting with DOE. Met Harriet Kung, Michael Procario, Glen Crawford.
- 9/7/2022: Murayama had the first meeting with NSF. Met officers of NSF PHY, Denise Caldwell, Jean Allen, James Shank, Darren Grant, William Wester, Kaushik De. Also meeting the directorate of MPS, Sean Jones, Saul Gonzalez.
- Constant discussion with JoAnne Hewett on the membership of the panel. Yet we had to wait till the new director of HEP is confirmed, and the charge is issued officially.
- 11/2/2022: Charge was issued to HEPAP from DOE and NSF. Now we can get our work started!
- 11/3/2022: Karsten Heeger from Yale agreed to be the deputy chair of P5. Way to go!
- Intense discussions to form the panel by JoAnne, Karsten, and Hitoshi. Paying careful attention to balance among scientific expertise, geography, DOE vs NSF, age, including international memberships.
- 11/18/2023: The first meeting with Regina Rameika, the new director of the Office of High-Energy Physics at DOE.
- JoAnne and Hitoshi attended the EPP2024 meeting in Irvine.
- JoAnne and Hitoshi attended the EPP2024 virtual meeting. The charge to P5 was shown for the first time.
- By the end of 2022, we managed to assemble the panel, in consulation with DOE and NSF. A very diverse panel with amazing expertise spanning all areas of our field.
- 1/1/2023: Very sad news that Meenakshi Narain has passed away. She played a major role in the Snowmass process on the energy frontier. She was on the list of panel members. A big shoe to fill to replace her.
- 1/23/2023: Yuri Gershtein from Rutgers agreed to be on the panel. He would provide perspective from US-CMS replacing Meenakshi, with his own expertise.
- 1/30/2023: We could add another member to the panel, Amalia Ballarino from CERN. She will add a crucial expertise on the development of high-field superconducting magnets, as well as perspective from CERN. The panel is now complete.
- 2/6/2023: The kick-off meeting of the panel with DOE and NSF on zoom. The first briefing on the budget process, and the discussion on the work plan.
- Strong demand from the community to provide American Sign Language and Live Captioning at Town Halls. DOE approved expenses. Lots of challenges with logistics and support. We also decided not to record the talks (except for the internal use by the panel) to encourage open discussions.
- 2/22-23/2023: The first Town Hall at LBNL focused on the cosmic frontier with 513 registrants. Lunch is provided outside in an unusually cold weather in Berkeley. Wonderful talks on science, in addition to a talk by Fiona Harrison on the Astro 2020 report, and by Andreas Haungs on the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy. The open remark session was oversubscribed by a factor of three, followed by a nice reception overlooking the Bay Area. It was the first time for the panel members to meet in person.
- 3/21-24/2023: The second Town
Hall at Fermilab and Argonne. It focused on Neutrino, Rare
Processes and Precision Frontier, High-Energy Astrophysics. We
tried to overlap
with EPP2024
at Fermilab. Very good communication between two panels.
- 4/11/2023: The cost subcommittee was formed and started the work.
- 4/12-24/2023: The third Town Hall at Brookhaven. It focused on Energy, Instrumentation, Computational Frontiers, as well as Gravitational Wave. Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) came in person, while we heard from Asian programs from Masa Yamauchi (KEK) and Yifang Wang (IHEP) on zoom. It was announced that JoAnne Hewett will be the next director of Brookhaven the day before the meeting. She will be stepping down from the HEPAP chair.
- 4/15/2023: A session at the APS/DPF meeting in Minneapolis. Good interaction with the community.
- 4/20/2023: A P5 closed meeting with NSF on the infrastructure issues at the South Pole with Debra Fisher (Director AST), Jim Ulvestad (Director OPP), and Nigel Sharp (AST). The issue is not trivial, and clearly requires a congressional action to coordinate NSF with the military.
- 4/28/2023: P5 had an internal tutorial on various collider options and their challenges. Very useful.
- 5/3-5/2023: The fourth Town Hall at SLAC. It focused on Underground, Accelerator, Theory Frontiers, as well as Community Engagement. In addition to science, we learned about Public Policy and Government Engagement from Louise Suter (Fermilab), Early Career report from Julia Gonski, communiating HEP to the public by Sean Carroll, climate of the field from Erin Hanson, and the situation with non-physicists in our community from Cindy Joe. All of them are important issues. It also marked the last meeting attended by JoAnne Hewett as an ex officio member.
- 5/31-6/2/2023: The first closed session in Austin TX. We formed many working groups for detailed discussions.
- Many meetings of the working groups.
- 6/5/2023: The first virtual town hall hosted by UT Austin. We felt strongly that not all town halls are hosted by national laboratories but also by universities. It focused on university research, the landscape of HEP across the nation, and the early career community. In particular, we had an exclusive session with early career scientists only, ad we learned about issues that had not been talked about openly.
- 6/8-9/2023: Murayama attended HEP Early Career Award Network Summer 2023 Workshop to give updates on the P5 process.
- 6/14-15/2023: Received important information from the ACE Science Workshop.
- 7/3-6/2023: Presentation on the update of the P5 process at the International Workshop on the CEPC, Edinburgh. .
- 6/27/2023: The second and last virtual town hall hosted by Virgina Tech. It focused on theory, small projects, and research and development across frontiers including but not limited to instrumentation and computing. Very useful. This meeting marks the end of the information gathering phase of the panel.
- 6/21-23/2023: The second closed session in Gaithersburg, MD. The first day was intended to be at NSF in Alexandria, but the visit by the Indian Prime Minister Modi booted us out. Yet we had a very fruitful discussion with NSF. Jay's committee presented their preliminary findings. We also heard from Cole Donovan who worked at State Department on international agreements, and DOE/HEP program managers.
- Many meetings of the working groups.
- 7/11-14/2023: The third closed session in Santa Monica, CA. Sally Seidel is the interim HEPAP chair and attended the P5 meeting for the first time. We heard reports from Committees of Visitors, both from DOE and NSF, and from Jlab and Oak Ridge about their visions.
- 7/16/2023: a presentation on the P5 process at the ICFA meeting at the 31st Lepton Photon Conference in Melbourne.
- Town Halls
We will have four town hall meetings with people in the community to give short presentations on issues, visions, science, projects of interest to the field, including an open-mic session. If people want to speak privately with the panel, we will try to accommodate the request as much as we can, especially for early career scientists. They are not tied to any specific Snowmass frontiers.
In addition, we will have a set of invited talks at the meetings cenetered around some of the Snowmass frontiers, on the visions of the communities and specific set of projects. This is an important part of the information gathering mode for the panel.
We plan for two additional virtual town halls to receive more input from the community.
- Hybrid Town Halls
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Cosmic Frontier (except for High-Energy Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave), open sessions on February 22 and 23, followed by a closed session for the panel in the morning on 24
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Fermilab/Argonne, Neutrino, Rare Processes and Precision Frontier, High-Energy Astrophysics, Mar 21, 22, 24 (Fermilab), 23 (Argonne)
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Brookhaven, Energy, Instrumentation, Computational Frontiers, Gravitational Wave, Apr 12, 13, 14
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SLAC, Underground, Accelerator, Theory Frontiers, Community Engagement, May 3, 4, 5
- Virtual Town Halls
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UT Austin, university research, the landscape of HEP across the nation, and the early career community, including a exclusive session to early career scientists, June 5
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Virgina Tech, theory, small projects, and research and development across frontiers including but not limited to instrumentation and computing, June 27
- Presentations
- Perspectives from Snowmass to P5 in 2013/2014, Steve Ritz, July 17, 2022
- Perspecitives from NSF, James Shank, July 17, 2022
- Perspectives from DOE, Harriet Kung, July 17, 2022
- Moving Forward with P5, JoAnne Hewett, July 26, 2022
- Presentation at HEPAP, Hitoshi Murayama, December 8, 2022
- Previous P5 Reports
- Related Panels and Reports
- Panel Members
- Cost Committee
We thank all national laboratories for providing their personnel for this activity.
- Jay Marx (Caltech), chair
- Gil Gilchriese, Matthaeus Leitner (LBNL)
- Giorgio Apollinari, Doug Glenzinski (Fermilab)
- Norbert Holtkamp, Mark Reichanandter, Nadine Kurita (SLAC)
- Jon Kotcher, Srini Rajagopalan (BNL)
- Allison Lung (JLab)
- Harry Weerts (Argonne)
- hitoshi at berkeley.edu
- Phone (510) 486 6659, Campus phone (510) 642-1019
- Location Bldg. 050-5056E (LBL), 411 Physics South Hall (Campus)
