Spanish input to the HEP European strategy update

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Spanish input to theHEP European strategy update
Marcos Cerrada
XL Int. Meeting on Fund. Physics (IMFP2012)
Benasque, june 1st
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• 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)
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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

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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)

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Spanish members of the ESG

• Carlos Pajares
• Spanish Delegation at the CERN Council
• Cayetano López
• CIEMAT DG
• member of the European Nat. Labs Committee

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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

There has been, from the beginning, an important
contribution from the spanish community to the
LHC project,
ATLAS IFAE, IFIC, UAM CMS CIEMAT, IFCA,
UAM, UO LHCb UB, USC, URL ALICE CIEMAT,
USC
General agreement from all these groups in that,
today, such an statement remains essentially
valid.
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From European Strategy in 2006

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

Most of the spanish groups involved in LHC
experiments have been also working in preparing
for LHC upgrade.
The actual LHC schedule, and the input from
physics results still to come, should be taken
into account when reformulating this Statement.
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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 level regarding RD activities for
future colliders. Managed through a national
network, this effort has allowed to make
significant contributions in complementary
aspects like detector, accelerator and physics
studies. As an outcome, the international
visibilty of the spanish participation in this
field has been important.
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Accelerator RD Coordination
Detector RD Coordination
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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 RD
  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 significant progress during the last
decade. Groups at CIEMAT, IFIC, UPC ALBA
Synchrotron ESS Project
Participation in European projects EuCARD,
TIARA,
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From European Strategy in 2006

• 6. Studies of the scientific case for future
  neutrino facilities and the RD 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.
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- ASPERA roadmap is a necessary reference
- LSC (Canfranc) is a National Lab
List of experiments, or projects, with spanish
participation (no ranking is made)

• 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
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  Advanced LIGO NGO

Experiments already existing Medium scale
project or upgrades Large or very large scale
(not yet started)
Colour codes
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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.
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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.