[Hps] Snowmass 2013: New Light, Weakly Coupled Particles

[Rouven Essig]

Dear Colleagues,

We are emailing you since you may be interested in the "New Light, Weakly
Coupled Particles" subgroup within the Intensity Frontier group that is
part of the Community Planning Meeting ("Snowmass 2013").

A.) *We now have a dedicated email list to which future correspondence will
be sent.  *We encourage you to* sign up* if you are interested in following
this subgroup --- joining this list does not commit you to do any work!  *To
sign up, **please register for our subgroup here:*

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFV0VzBvamNhcFJ4SDEyU2lWX3gyQkE6MQ

*and/or send an email to*: "listserv at slac.stanford.edu"  with the message:
"subscribe snowlwcp" in the body of the email and an empty subject line.

B.) *Several announcements:*

1. There will be an Intensity Frontier (IF) workshop at Argonne National
Lab from April 25-27, 2013.  Please plan to attend as this is the only
workshop dedicated to the IF ahead of the main "Snowmass" meeting in
Minneapolis on 7/29 - 8/6, 2013.  *If you are planning to attend, please
see the email from JoAnne Hewett and Harry Weerts at the bottom of this
email for further info and a doodle poll that will simplify our planning.*

2. Since we went through this exercise recently, our subgroup has no
additional dedicated face-to-face meetings planned.  However, we will have
one or two *phone meetings* to discuss our strategy for the Snowmass
meeting.  *The first phone meeting will take place on Monday Feb 11, 2013
at 8:30am PST (11:30am EST, 4:30pm GMT)**.  Connection details will be sent
later to those who register for our group.  *If you can't make this phone
meeting, but want to stay informed, be sure to sign up for our email list
mentioned above.

3. Our goal for Snowmass 2013 will be to provide a new document that
includes an updated physics case for our subgroup, which includes all the
latest constraints, an update on planned experiments, a projection of where
we think the field can be in 10 to 15 years, and an outline of what new
detectors and/or facilities are needed for future progress. We will again
need contributors, and we hope that we can count on many of you to
contribute as you did last time.

4. We again plan to cover hidden-sector photons, chameleons, and axions
(incl. axion-like particles).  However, for axions, we will coordinate with
the cosmic frontier (CF) subgroup CF3 (Non-WIMP Dark Matter).  They will
focus on axion searches involving microwave-cavities, the Sun, and atoms.
 Our focus will be on accelerator-based searches, including lasers.  We are
planning on a joint axion session in Minneapolis.  If you are interested in
axions, we encourage you to sign up for both our subgroup and CF3
(conveners: Alex Kusenko and Leslie Rosenberg).  In addition to the IF
Argonne meeting, you may also be interested in attending the CF workshop at
SLAC (3/5-3/8) or SnowDARK in Snowbird, Utah, 3/22-3/25.

Hope to talk to all of you soon at our phone meeting.

Best regards,

Rouven Essig, John Jaros, William Wester

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Please read if you are planning on attending the IF workshop at Argonne
National Lab from April 25-27, 2013:

Dear Intensity Frontier Colleagues,

   there will be an Intensity Frontier workshop at Argonne National Lab
from April 25-27, 2013. We need to estimate the attendance and need to
have an idea of how many rooms and what size rooms we need to
accommodate the workshop. So if you are planning to attend this
workshop we ask you to fill out the Doodle Poll below , as well as
subscribe to the mailing list, that will be used to contact possible
attendees for the workshop.
This is not for registration purposes, just to get a sense for how many
people will attend, so we can get the approval process going and
allocate rooms.

Doodle poll to attend Intensity Frontier Workshop at Argonne, April
23-27, 2013: http://www.doodle.com/r45czae3fvydgedk

Intensity Frontier Mailing List Subscription:
https://lists.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/intensityfrontier

If you have any questions please contact: intensity-frontier at anl.gov

Regards
   JoAnne Hewett & Harry Weerts
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