After a year of intensive consultation within the US particle-physics community, and with colleagues worldwide, the HEPAP subpanel on long-range planning for US high-energy physics will submit its much-anticipated report at the end of this month for transmittal to the funding agencies. (See Physics Today, Physics Today 0031-9228 54 9 2001 22 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1420503 September 2001, page 22 .) Last January, NSF and the Department of Energy had asked HEPAP, their high-energy-physics advisory panel, to create such a subpanel to lay out a 20-year “national roadmap” for particle physics. Theorist Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University) and experimenter Barry Barish (Caltech) were chosen to chair the 25-member HEPAP subpanel.
The subpanel’s report will be presented at HEPAP’s 28 January public meeting in Washington, DC. A provisional draft has been available on the Web (http://doe-hep.hep.net/home.html) for comments since the end of October.
One of the report’s principal recommendations is no...
