Dear NLWCP Colleagues,
Below is a summary of our first phone meeting that took place last week Monday 2/11/2013.
To help us organize our group's Snowmass effort better, we would like to ask each of you to do the following:
1.) Please complete the tiny questionnaire at this link:
2.) If you are on an experiment and you submitted a "data sheet" for our previous Intensity Frontier Workshop in 12/2011, we would like to ask you to update it if the previously submitted information is out-of-date. You can find the old data-sheets with templates here:
If you never submitted a data sheet or you want to tell us of a new experiment, please submit one too.
3.) We encourage all of you to attend the Intensity Frontier Workshop at Argonne on 4/25-4/27, 2013. This workshop will allow for about 2 days of parallel sessions for our subgroup, enough time to survey the science, plan our case for Snowmass, and organize writing the NLWCP whitepaper.
Thank you,
Rouven, John, William
NLWCP conveners
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Brief Summary of Phone Meeting 2/11/2013 (Corrections welcome!)
Attending: (no particular order): William Wester, John Jaros, Rouven Essig, Patrick de Niverville, Ranjan Dharmapalan, Richard van de Water, Julia Vogel, Matt Graham, David Tanner, Adam Ritz, Stepan Stepanyan, Peter Sturrock, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Joerg Jaeckel, Amanda Weltman, Ray Cowan, Matt Buckley, Jim Boyce, Bertrand Echenard, Yuri Gershtein, Ashok Gasparian, Pete Markowitz, Brian Batell, Clare Burrage, Jamie Ruiz, Sarah Andreas, David McKeen
Conveners went over the goals for our subgroup and how we plan to approach Snowmass 2013. We again request "data sheets" from the various experiments if we don't have one from you previously, or if the one we have is out-of-date.
The main meeting for the Intensity Frontier subgroup will be at Argonne on 4/25-4/27, 2013. This will be a chance for us to get together and plan our case for Snowmass in Minnesota 7/29-8/6. We ask you to attend and sign up for a talk.
While Snowmass is a US planning exercise, international participation is not only welcome but also necessary, given that our subfield is being actively pursued by groups around the world. An active program in the USA is to everyone's advantage, so we highly encourage participation from everyone.
The point was made that the European Strategy for Particle Physics seemed to downplay the importance of NLWCP and there was a worry that this may happen also here. We agree that this may be a worry since our group is small. However, it's small size and (often) low-cost experiments also give it an advantage over larger and more expensive experiments. In either case, a strong showing at Snowmass is important. We feel that a strong showing at the previous Intensity Frontier workshop in 2011 was beneficial and helped our cause. While we have no direct control over future funding decisions, the only practical approach is to push our case again and explain the goals of our subgroup to a wider audience.
A question was raised if anyone is looking into the capabilities of future/planned experiments to do NLWCP physics. We think that forming a subgroup that tries to answer this question is useful, and ask for volunteers. Also, looking at old data and at old puzzles is useful.