[Cuga] Workshop on Physics at the Intensity Frontier- A message from Sebastian Kuhn

[Lorelei Carlson]

Dear Colleague,

The DOE Office of High Energy Physics has called for a workshop on 
physics at the intensity frontier to be held in Rockville, MD November 
30-December 2. The workshop goal is to identify opportunities for 
probing physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) with studies that would 
complement BSM searches at the Large Hadron Collider and information 
obtained from astrophysics and cosmology. The result will be a white 
paper than may be used to present the scientific case for supporting 
physics at the intensity frontier. It is hoped that broad participation 
by the community will also demonstrate to those responsible for policy 
and funding decisions  the enthusiasm that exists for this physics.

Physics at the intensity frontier has considerable overlap with the 
nuclear physics community involved in studies of fundamental symmetries 
and neutrinos. As a result, DOE HEP has invited the Office of Nuclear 
Physics to participate in the workshop organization. The workshop 
organizers have also asked the three of us to serve as conveners of a 
working group on neutrons, nuclei, & atoms that would draw on a 
significant portion of this part of the nuclear and atomic physics 
communities. We strongly encourage you to consider participating in the 
workshop, which may help create a strong foundation for the future 
development of his part of the nuclear physics program. 

Your participation would be welcome through several avenues. First, we 
are soliciting written input about scientific opportunities in the form 
a two page LaTex document (the template for which may be downloaded from 
the working group website below). This input will be posted for all 
members of the community to download and will provide a basis for our 
contribution to the white paper. We request that all input be provided 
by November 6, 2011. 

Second, we encourage you to attend the workshop, participate in the 
working group discussions, and consider giving a talk. While the 
schedule will likely not accommodate all possible talks, we will select 
a representative set as described on the website. Please note that 
senior researchers, post-docs, and students are encouraged to 
participate and that some limited travel support for students is 
available from the agencies. The presence of a significant 
representation from the community is considered vital to the workshop 
success. 

Third, please share this invitation with your colleagues both within the 
U.S. and abroad. Contributions from the international community will be 
important to the success of the workshop, helping us form a plan for US 
physics that will complement the work to be done by our international 
colleagues.

Please feel free to contact any one of us with questions. 

 Additional information can be obtained from the working group 
website: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/groups/particle-theory/IFW11.htm

 

Best wishes,

Wick Haxton

Zheng-Tian Lu

Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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