FORUM on superstrong fields and high energy physics

摘要

The Livingston chart of the evolution of the accelerator energy as a function of time is just one testimony of how spectacular the accelerators and high energy physics have progressed in the last century. Equally impressive in its advance has been that of lasers, though its inception was a quarter century younger. These explosive developments and successes in the respective fields have felt the presence or progress of the other in recent years in some of specific occasions and endeavors. Nonetheless, these two fields so far have marched relatively independently from each other. We are perhaps now at a crossroad where the facilitation of the one field by the other may become mutually stimulating and even more profitable for the future progress. At the Varenna Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas, we held a Forum on applications of intense lasers to high energy physics (HEP). Five panelists with a broad range of expertise from laser physics to plasma physics to high energy physics discussed this emerging cross-road of both fields in front of the Conference participants: T. Tajima, chair, G.Mourou, D.Habs, K.Nakajima, and P. Chen.