Budget crisis forces hard choices on US high-energy physics

摘要

US high-energy physicists, facing deep budget cuts and divided on their priorities, have been given six months to come up with a consensus on the future direction of their $700 million research programme. Peter Rosen, head of the high energy and nuclear physics office at the Department of Energy, asked the department's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) last month to revisit a report that it produced in 1998 on the future direction of the discipline in the United States.