Comments on: “Snowmass” (Not Snowmass)

By: Ken Bloom

Ken Bloom — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:21:59 +0000

You are right; I have fixed it.

By: Ethaniel

Ethaniel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:40:30 +0000

Hi,

I think that the word “cosmic” is missing in “The intensity and frontiers”.

Regards.

By: Ken Bloom

Ken Bloom — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:26:36 +0000

I should say — other regions of the world are going through similar processes. The Europeans in particular have been running a similar study that is ahead of the US schedule; they had a major meeting at the end of September to discuss future plans. Certainly everyone in the US understands that we’re just part of a global picture, and indeed at last week’s meeting we had representatives from HEP around the world who told us about their future plans, to inform our own deliberations.

By: Stephen Brooks

Stephen Brooks — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:24:57 +0000

Are you sure Snowmass is just for “particle physics in the United States”, or is it the whole planet now?

It’s been something of a consensus in the areas I’ve worked in (neutrino factory but the ILC people also say this) that the next big facility may have to be globally funded. On the time scales concerned, it’s important to note that China’s government budget (and that of some other emerging countries) will be growing, so by the time the future facilities are starting to be built, the US’s science budget will no longer be a large proportion of the total world science budget.