The P5 report which was presented to HEPAP last week was accepted unanimously and is now posted online (PDF).
The purpose of this report is to provide advice to funding agencies (the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation) to help inform future policy decisions. It reflects the strategy the particle physics community would like to adopt in planning future facilities and programs.
The defining principle of the strategy is to address the important questions of particle physics by pursuing advances at three interrelated frontier called the energy, intensity, and cosmic frontiers. The reports defines them this way:
• The Energy Frontier, using high-energy colliders to discover new particles and directly probe the architecture of the fundamental forces.
• The Intensity Frontier, using intense particle beams to uncover properties of neutrinos and observe rare processes that will tell us about new physics beyond the Standard Model.
• The Cosmic Frontier, using underground experiments and telescopes, both ground and space based, to reveal the natures of dark matter and dark energy and using high-energy particles from space to probe new phenomena.
Now the report is in the hands of the funding agencies as they develop policies for the future of high-energy physics.
