2–5 May 2023
SLAC
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Some comments in the status of high energy physics (remote)

4 May 2023, 16:10
5m
SLAC

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2575 Sand Hill Rd Menlo Park, CA 94025
Not Early Career Scientist Contributed Remarks

Speaker

Daniel Harlow (MIT)

Description

Success in high energy physics has traditionally been defined as discovering new particles. There has not been much of that happening in recent years, and if we continue to think in this way then it now seems quite likely we are headed towards a future of failure. I will argue that the solution to this problem is broadening the nature of the field, and I will also emphasize that in practice this is already happening. It is time for "official" priorities and communications to reflect this.

Primary author

Daniel Harlow (MIT)

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