Dear Colleagues,
As you may know, our next ALCPG Workshop is being planned for August
in Snowmass. Ed Berger and Uriel Nauenberg have agreed to serve as
co-chairs for this meeting. Mark and I have been working with Ed and Uriel
developing initial plans, and starting to set up the organization.
We have written the following purpose statement, based on our vision
for the meeting, and after gathering input from some of the community.
Best regards,
Jim and Mark
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2005 International Linear Collider Workshop at Snowmass
August 14-27, 2005
The American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) will host a
two week workshop in Snowmass, Colorado, August 14-27, 2005.
The workshop is being organized for the particle physics community
to facilitate broad participation in studying and planning the linear
collider program. Particle physicists from all regions of
the world are invited and encouraged to participate, and the overall
steering committee and working group conveners will include leaders
from all regions.
The purposes of the workshop are:
1.) To develop the linear collider detector design studies
with detailed understanding of the technical details and
physics performance of candidate detector concepts, as well
as the required future R&D, testbeam plans, machine-detector
interface and beamline instrumentation, cost estimates, and
other aspects.
2.) To advance the linear collider physics studies, including
precision calculations, synergy with the LHC, connections
to cosmology and astrophysics, and relationships to the
detector design studies.
3.) To facilitate and strengthen the broad participation of
the community in linear collider physics, detectors, and
accelerators.
This workshop will be an excellent opportunity for individuals new
to the linear collider to learn about the program and to begin active
participation.
The Global Design Initiative is moving ahead with a time-line
for the accelerator conceptual design report (CDR) and technical
design report (TDR), including detailed and reliable understanding
of the costs of the linear collider. In parallel, the Worldwide Study
is organizing the global experimental program, with plans for detector
design studies, detector cost studies, detector CDRs and TDRs and
cooperation with accelerator designers on the machine-detector
interface. The 2005 ALCPG Snowmass Workshop should serve to advance
the detector and physics studies and keep them in pace with the
accelerator developments.
The ALCPG web page is http://blueox.uoregon.edu/~lc/alcpg
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James E. Brau
Physics Department
and Center for High Energy Physics
1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1274
(541) 346-4766
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