Snowmass 2021
Dear colleagues,
Over the next year, the U.S. particle physics community will be engaged in Snowmass 2021, an in-depth process to define the most important questions for our field and to identify the most promising opportunities to address these questions in a global context. The process will have its roots in a series of preparatory meetings organized by Snowmass conveners, starting with a Snowmass Planning Meeting at Fermilab on November 4 - 6, 2020, and ending with a Snowmass Summer Study at the University of Washington, Seattle, on July 11 - 20, 2021.
To optimally engage all participants in the process, the Division of Particles and Fields invites the international community to submit written documents as described below. Given the increasing importance of interdisciplinary work in related fields such as astrophysics, cosmology, gravity, nuclear physics, accelerator physics, AMO, and materials science, members of the Divisions of Astrophysics, Gravitational Physics, Nuclear Physics, Physics of Beams and members of other units with a connection to particle physics are strongly encouraged to participate in this process.
Letters of Interest (submission period: April 1, 2020 – August 31, 2020)
Letters of interest allow Snowmass conveners to see what proposals to expect and to encourage the community to begin studying them. They will help conveners to prepare the Snowmass Planning Meeting that will take place on November 4 - 6, 2020 at Fermilab. Letters should give brief descriptions of the proposal and cite the relevant papers to study. Instructions for submitting letters are available at https://snowmass21.org/loi. Authors of the letters are encouraged to submit a full writeup for their work as a contributed paper.
Contributed Papers (submission period: April 1, 2020 – July 31, 2021)
Contributed papers will be part of the Snowmass proceedings. They may include white papers on specific scientific areas, technical articles presenting new results on relevant physics topics, and reasoned expressions of physics priorities, including those related to community involvement. These papers and discussions throughout the Snowmass process will help shape the long-term strategy of particle physics in the U.S. Contributed papers will remain part of the permanent record of Snowmass 2021. Instructions for submitting contributed papers are available at https://snowmass21.org/submissions/.
Best regards,
Young-Kee Kim, DPF Chair
On behalf of the Snowmass Advisory Group