Dear Colleagues,
In a recent interview with Physics World, Rolf Heuer,
Director General of CERN, raised the issue of making
CERN not just international, but also intercontinental.
"Why not involve some of the nations from the Americas
or Asia as members [of CERN]?"
(Full article at http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40364 )
Recently, Atsuto Suzuki, Director General of KEK, posted
a response to this proposal. You can read his comments
online at:
http://www.kek.jp/intra-e/Introduction/column/090921.html
Michael Procario, in his presentation to the SLAC Users'
Organization annual meeting, set out the US Department of
Energy's strategy as:
"
U.S. proposes that its relations with CERN remain basically the
same as now
* Project stakeholder/CERN-Observer (not CERN Member State)
* Will participate in the LHC program until end of US-CERN MOU (2017)
- This includes detector/accelerator "replacement"/"modest upgrades"
(Phase I LHC upgrades by ~2014))
* Will decide what its role might be for LHC major upgrade
(sLHC or Phase II)
- CERN has not yet made a decision on Phase II proposed x10 upgrade
(to be completed by ~ FY 2018?)
- U.S. position is that we will not pay LHC facility operating costs
"
His talk can be found online at:
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/sluo/2009AnnualMeeting/Talks/SLUO_pre
sentation_OHEP.pdf#page=17
Sincerely,
Norman Graf
