Spanish input to theHEP European strategy update

Marcos Cerrada

XL Int. Meeting on Fund. Physics (IMFP2012) Benasque, june 1st

The strategy update process, launched by the CERN Council, is requiring input from communities, and funding agencies, of all countries.

recommended to do it in a coordinated way

CPAN assuming the responsibility of coordinating the submission of the Spanish input to the ESPG is a natural choice (discussed and decided during the CPAN-CEC

meeting in february 2012).

The Spanish HEP Program Manager has given full support to this decision.

A document including the spanish community views on the update of the European HEP strategy should be ellaborated and submitted to the ESPG before July 31 (2012)

Working Groups (as proposed by the ESPG)

• Physics at High Energy Frontier (J. Cuevas and J. Terrón)• Strong Intraction Physics (J. Cuevas and J. Terrón)• Astroparticle Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology (J. Cortina, I. Gil Botella)• Physics of Neutrinos (J. Cortina, I. Gil Botella)• Flavour Physics (A. Pich)• Accelerator Physics (M. Cerrada)• Particle Physics Theory (D. Espriu and M. Asorey)

• General Infrastructure and Facilities

• Organizational Structure issues (CERN, National Laboratories, European participation in global projects, EU-related issues …)

• Knowledge and Technology Transfer• Outreach and education

• General comments …

National Networks (Redes temáticas)

• Red temática del LHC (discussion on wednesday evening)

• Red temática del LC (will meet today, and by end of june 2012)

• Red temática de Flavour Physics (Flavour Workshop IMFP)

• Red temática de Astropartículas (RENATA) (had a meeting in april 2012) (additional discussions in a subgroup about neutrino physics are taking place)

• Red temática de Física Nuclear (they have their own roadmap ready)

• Portal del Grupo de Física Teórica (discussion on wednesday evening)

Spanish members of the ESG

• Carlos Pajares

Spanish Delegation at the CERN Council

• Cayetano López CIEMAT DG

member of the European Nat. Labs Committee

From European Strategy in 2006 3. The LhC will be the energy frontier machine for the foreseeable future,

maintaining European leadership in the field; the highest priority is to fully exploit the physics potential of the LHC, resources for completion of the initial programme have to be secured such that machine and experiments can operate optimally at their design performance …

General agreement from all these groups in that, today, such anstatement remains essentially valid.

There has been, from the beginning, an important contribution from thespanish community to the LHC project,

ATLAS: IFAE, IFIC, UAMCMS: CIEMAT, IFCA, UAM, UOLHCb: UB, USC, URLALICE: CIEMAT, USC

From European Strategy in 2006

3. A subsequent major luminosity upgrade (SLHC), motivated by physics results and operation experience, will be enabled by focused R&D; to this end, R&D for machine and detectors has to be vigorously pursued now and centrally organized towards a luminosity upgrade by around 2015.

The actual LHC schedule, and the input from physics results still to come, should be taken into account when reformulating thisStatement.

Most of the spanish groups involved in LHC experiments have beenalso working in preparing for LHC upgrade.

From European Strategy in 2006

5. It is fundamental to complement the results of the LHC with measurements at a linear collider. In the energy range of 0,5 to 1 TeV, the ILC, based on superconducting technology will provide a unique scientific opportunity at the precision frontier; there should be a strong well coordinated European activity, including CERN, through the Global Design Effort, for its design and technical preparation towards the construction decision, to be ready for a new assesment by Council around 2010.

There has been a high level of coordination at the spanish levelregarding R&D activities for future colliders. Managed through anational network, this effort has allowed to make significantcontributions in complementary aspects like detector, accelerator and physics studies.

As an outcome, the international visibilty of the spanish participationin this field has been important.

Detector R&D Coordination Accelerator R&D Coordination

From European Strategy in 2006 4. In order to be in position to push the energy and luminosity frontier

even further it is vital to strenghten the advanced accelerator R&D programme; a coordinated programme should be intensified, to develop the CLIC technology and high performance magnets for future accelerators …

The field of accelerator physics in our country has made a significantprogress during the last decade.

Groups at CIEMAT, IFIC, UPCALBA Synchrotron ESS Project…

Participation in European projects: EuCARD, TIARA, …

From European Strategy in 2006

6. Studies of the scientific case for future neutrino facilities and the R&D into associated technologies are required to be in a position to define the optimal neutrino programme based on the information available in around 2012; Council will play an active role in promoting a coordinated European participation in a global neutrino program.

7. A range of very important non-accelerator experiments take place at the

overlap between particle and astroparticle physics exploring otherwise

inaccesible phenomena; Council will seek to work with ApPEC to

develop a coordinated strategy in these areas of mutual interest.

TeV Gamma Rays MAGIC CTA

High energy neutrinos ANTARES KM3NeT

High energy cosmic rays AUGER next generation ground-based

JEM-Euso

Cosmic rays at the ISS AMS

Neutrinos with accelerators T2K

Neutrinos with reactors Double Chooz

Neutrino-less double beta decay NEXT

Low energy astroph. Neutrinos and p decay LAGUNA

Dark Matter ROSEBUD

ArDM

CDMS

ANAIS

EURECA

CAST upgrade

Dark Energy PAU Big Boss LSST

DES DESpec EUCLID

Gravitational Waves Advanced VIRGO Einstein Telescope

Advanced LIGO NGO

GEO-HF

- ASPERA roadmap is a necessary reference

- LSC (Canfranc) is a National Lab

List of experiments, or projects, with spanish “participation” (no ranking is made)

Experiments already existing Medium scale project or upgradesLarge or very large scale (not yet started)

Colour codes

From European Strategy in 2006 8. Flavour physics and precision measurements at the high-luminosity

frontier at lower energies complement our understanding of particle physics and allow for a more accurate interpretation of the results at the high energy frontier; these should be led by national or regional collaborations, and the participation of European laboratories and Institutes should be promoted.

9. A variety of important research lines are at the interface between

particle and nuclear physics requiring dedicated experiments; Council will

seek to work with NuPECC in areas of mutual interest, and maintain

the capability to perform fixed target experiments at CERN.

10. European theoretical physics has played a crucial role in shaping and consolidating the Standard Model and in formulating possible scenarios for future discoveries. Strong theoretical research and close collaboration with experimentalists are essential to the advancement of particle physics and to take full advantage of experimental progress; the forthcoming LHC results will open new opportunities for theoretical developments, and create new needs for thoretical calculations which should be widely supported.

SUMMARY

The process of preparing a document with the Spanish

views about the HEP European Strategy update has

already started and is being organized by CPAN.