Results from the survey on The Future of HEP

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Results from the survey on The Future of HEP
The Young Physicists Panel presents

• survey design
• demographics
• balance focus
• globalization
• outreach
• building the field
• physics
• picking a plan

• Ben Kilminster
• University of Rochester

BNL, September 27, 2001
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Young Physicists Panel
(Founding members)

• Florencia Canelli, Brian Connolly, Robin
  Erbacher, Bonnie Fleming, George Fleming, Greg
  Graham, Deborah Harris, Eric Hawker, Michael
  Hildreth,
• Benjamin Kilminster, John Krane, Sabine Lammers,
  David Toback, Andre Turcot, Mayda Velasco,
• Gordon Watts, Sam Zeller, Eric Zimmerman

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Young Physicists Panel

• What is YPP ?
• Group of young people (have neither tenure nor
  other permanent position)
• Interested in furthering a positive future for
  high energy physics
• Address unique issues of young people
• Formed in expectation of Snowmass

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Survey

• First project of zero-budget YPP should have a
  good results-to-cost ratio
• Collect data about the issues of HEP from a
  diverse group of physicists with varied career
  stages, backgrounds, and research areas.
• Survey should cover variety of questions
• from
• What is the most important physics for the field
  ?
• to
• Is it more important to be near your detector or
  your advisor ?

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Survey Implementation

• Anonymous web-based survey
• Mainly multiple choice questions
• Space for comments
• Soliciting participants
• Coincide with first 2 weeks of Snowmass for
  increased publicity
• Online news, email distribution lists, paper
  copies
• Analysis
• Survey responses converted to ntuples with
  scripts and ROOT.

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Demographics / BNL
30 at Snowmass (365)
70 at Snowmass (36)
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Demographics Geography
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Plot Conventions

• Top panel, Americans
• Bottom panel, non-Americans
• Young
• Tenured

normalized
Young Tenured Total
Amer 334 328 662
non-Amer 523 323 846
Total 857 651 1508
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Physics type / Collaboration Size
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Location of work
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Balance Important to have ?

• Diverse range of experiments

Redundant detectors
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Balance Important to ?
promote mix of physicists

• host Astro-physics

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Globalization detectors , supervisors
Do we really need to be near the detector?
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Globalization labs, regional centers
Regional centers remote control
rooms,(permanent?) video conferencing, data
processing
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Outreach to public, govt.
50 willing to get personally involved , 50
no/maybe
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Why choose HEP ?

• Originally

And then
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Losing HEP talent ?
Are we retaining enough talent ?

• Why leave?

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• Most compelling physics

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Most compelling physics BNL
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• Facilities for new physics

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Facility in U.S. ? BNL
Different classification
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How to Pick a Plan

• What has most affected your current opinions of
  the options for the future of HEP?
• Talking to colleagues
• Current work
• Workshops/conferences
• Sitting and thinking

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How to pick a plan BNL
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How much do you know about
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How much do you know about
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Do you know enough to decide?
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Question 42 Pick a plan

• We looked at the online material for
  timelines(we took them at their word)
• Few options could begin construction within 3-5
  years
• Committing to a plan that takes longer
  waiting (we can change our minds)
• Only listed items that preclude other options
  (150M proton driver not listed)

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What are the choices

• If you had to choose from the following options,
  which one would you pick
• A new ee- collider (TESLA,NLC,CLIC) in the U.S.
  soon, with continued research in VLHC, and muon
  storage ring/muon collider technologies.
• TESLA in Germany soon, with the goal of a
  post-LHC higher energy VLHC in the U.S.
• TESLA in Germany soon, with the goal of an
  eventual muon storage ring/muon collider in the
  U.S.
• Reserve judgment for several years, continue
  research.
• Other (specify in the comments section).''

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Choose one
Combining the two TESLAoptions
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Depending on how much you know
Know enough
Unsure, or Dont know enough
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Choice by classification of American
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Pick a plan BNL
Do you know enough?
Pick a plan
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Broad Conclusions

• Young and tenured physicists have similar
  opinions
• Continental divide
• Lack of permanent positions primary disadvantage
  to physics career
• Field is not doing enough outreach
• Higgs/EWSB clear priorities new facility, but
  physicists prize a balanced program
• Given the options we listed, total support for a
  linear collider is strong (nearly 80)

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What next for YPP?

• Survey data available online,documentation
  released (short and long form), hope HEPAP finds
  it useful
• Young Particle Physicists chapters
• Outreach to government, to the public,internation
  al issues, young physicist issues
• Another survey in a couple years?

BNL Vivek Jain Boston U. CERN CESR DESY FNAL FSU
OSU U. Chicago U. Pitt. U. Wash.
Root trees, paw ntuples, excel format http//ypp.h
ep.net click survey hep-ex 0108040
Submitted an NSF budget proposal