Campuses:
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Announcement Blurb: The dates for the summer study are July 11 - 20, 2021 and we are now soliciting site proposals. Send site proposals to cushman@umn.edu by November 15, 2019 and they will be evaluated by the entire DPF executive committee. Plan for ~ 1000 attendees. Include the following: Names of your local organizing committee, cost and availability of lodging (mix of low- and high-end hotels, dorms or retreat center), public transportation, rough estimate of registration cost prior to any supplement provided by DOE or a private foundation, although your plans for defraying the cost can be included. Include parallel session rooms, auditorium (seats ~ 1000), coffee breaks, AV, and administrative help. Provide a rough estimate of banquet or reception costs separately. Feel free to include any special advantages of your venue. For your reference, the 2013 website is still (mostly) available at http://www.hep.umn.edu/css2013/
Process: DPF exec reviews and chooses. Each page has the proposal and a list of pros and cons. Let's start by just filling in pro and con for each site as a way to begin the discussion.
Higgs Physics
Properties (mass and width)
Decay channels
Production processes (VBF, associated etc.)
Top Quark physics BSM: new bosons, new fermions BSM: SUSY and MET Accelerator Searches for DM and long-lived particles
ATLAS & CMS
Dedicated experiments
Electroweak: W = production, mass and Z Production processes QCD: Pdf measurements,
Precision X-section measurements
Use of QCD and Lattice in extraction of CKM elements and pseudoscalar decay constants
Heavy Ions Hadron spectroscopy: light meson, b b-bar, c c-bar, exotic tetraquark, pentaquark states
Weak decays of b & c quarks
Tests of Standard Model CP violation, CKM measurements
Lepton flavor universality tests
Rare phenomena, B(s)->mu+mu-, B->K(*)lepton+lepton-, Bs-> phi gamma,other SM tests
Beyond the SM direct searches including dark photon, Majorana neutrinos, etc...
CP violation at colliders CP violation at low energies (e.g. where CP violation is not bound by EDM measurements) Electric and magnetic dipole moments CLFV (mu to e conversion, rare muon and tau decays) Parity violation and fundamental symmetry tests Nucleon decay, n-n-bar mixing Low Energy Measurements (AMO) New Light Weakly-Coupled Particles Nano-gravity and Fifth Force, frame-dragging, Eotvos
Dark Matter Direct Detection
Particles (WIMP-like)
Waves (Axion/ALP-like)
Dark Sector Phenomenology and New Directions
Indirect DM detection (gamma and cosmic ray signatures) Astrophysical DM probes (galaxy halo substructure, clusters, large-scale structure) Dark Energy and Cosmic Expansion: Growth of structure probes Expansion (H0) and expansion history probes Inflation and the early universe: CMB, Other probes of the early universe Probes/Tests of General Relativity Gravitational waves as probes of cosmology and fundamental physics Multi-messenger astroparticle physics Cosmic Probes of Neutrino properties Cosmic Ray Physics Cosmic Observatories/Facilities (CMB, O/IR, Radio, Gamma ray, Cosmic ray, grav. wave, etc.)
(Contact degouvea@northwestern.edu, schol@phy.duke.edu to nominate conveners) Neutrino mass Neutrino cross sections Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay CEvNS 3-Flavor Oscillations Neutrino Physics from Astrophysical Sources (Solar, Atmospheric, Supernova, Extra-galactic) Sterile neutrinos and other BSM candidates Geo neutrinos, tomography and other practical applications
Field Theory Techniques and Scattering Amplitudes
(EFT, CFT, bootstrap method, amplitudes, formal connections)
Quantum Gravity, Blackholes, and String Theory (incl. connection with geometry, CM and QIS) Astro-particle Theory and Cosmology
Inflationary models, EFT for cosmology, dark energy (DAP, DGRAV connections)
Lattice gauge techniques and applications BSM model building: SUSY GUTs, composite models, string models Cross-cutting: organizational group of liaisons to Cosmic, Neutrino, Rare/Precision, Energy
(Contact John.Orrell@pnnl.gov, alysia.marino@colorado.edu to nominate conveners) Current and future laboratories and program development Low background facilities Low radiation techniques and R&D Synergies with other underground science (mining, bio, medical…)
(Contact nsergei@fnal.gov, scousine@ornl.gov to nominate conveners) Accelerators for Neutrino and High Intensity Frontiers, and PBC (Physics Beyond Colliders) Accelerators for EW/Higgs sector Accelerators for Energy Frontier: p-p, mu-mu, e-e, gamma-gamma Accelerators for rare processes and precision measurements Advanced Accelerator Concepts Accelerator Science and Technology R&D: RF, high-field magnets, accelerator and beam physics,
targets and sources, test facilities, synergies
Quantum sensors Photon Detectors Phonon Sensors Precision Timing Particle/Radiation Detectors for General Applications Trigger and DAQ Muon systems Calorimetry Electronics Charge/e-/Ionization Collection
(Contact psihas@fnal.gov, ssekula@physics.smu.edu to nominate conveners) Computational Physics and Algorithms Machine and Deep Learning Statistical Techniques Distributed and High Performance Computing Networking Computing/software infrastructure Quantum Computing Quantum Communication
(Contact rafael@purdue.edu, sbutalla2012@my.fit.edu to nominate conveners) Applications & Industry Physics Education Public Policy and Government Engagement Public Education and Outreach Diversity & Inclusion