UK Community meeting on Plan B for ESPP

Europe/London
Online

Online

Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield), Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), Mark Williams (Edinburgh), Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
Description

The aim of this online meeting is to discuss Plan B for the European Strategy for Particle Physics (i.e. if FCC is not feasible/affordable).

To provide input to this meeting we encouraged the community to review some recent background material: 

 

and fill out the following survey by 20th October: https://www.menti.com/albuob47dvy

This survey is not intended to be used a vote and the results will be used to guide the discussions on the meeting.

We would also like to encourage colleagues to review material in the physics briefing book which was made available at the end of September

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2944678

This meeting will be conducted in a full online format following a community survey, but to encourage engagement we would like to encourage participants to do the following:

 

Zoom connection details can be found below:

Topic: UK Community meeting on Plan B for ESPP 
https://cern.zoom.us/j/65352529604?pwd=IfXBDtSFfsm9bVnMjBpsaJLbYhv0cN.1

Meeting ID: 653 5252 9604
Passcode: 933337

 

Registration
Registration for UK community meeting on Plan B for ESPP
    • Introduction
      • Introduction to the aims of the meeting: discuss Plan B, prioritise options, finalise UK ESPP update.
      • Summary of inputs available: survey, ESG comparison, Briefing Book, cost estimates.
      • (Short) overview of Briefing Book points relevant to Plan B
      • Summary of perspectives/considerations from UK ESG rep [Mark Lancaster]
      • (Short) summary of results from the survey (https://www.menti.com/albuob47dvyp) that was circulated to the community ahead of the meeting. As a reminder- these are intended to provide one source of input to the discussion and are not being treated as a formal vote
      Conveners: Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield), Mark Williams (Edinburgh)
    • ESG comparison of major projects

      Presentation of the ESG-commissioned project comparison followed by a short Q&A.

      Conveners: Davide Costanzo (University of Sheffield), Mark Williams (Edinburgh)
      • 1
        Summary of ESG project comparison
        Speaker: Philip Burrows (Oxford University)
    • Discussion session I: Consensus on "plan A" (FCC)

      Discussion on whether we want to adjust our current statements on Plan A which support the FCC infrastructure whilst acknowledging the divide in opinions on the staging (some in-favour of the integrated programme, others for going straight to FCC-hh). Would we like to add a statement explicitly supporting the integrated programme?

      Conveners: Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
    • 11:30
      Coffee break
    • Discussion session II: what is the "Plan B" alternative, if "plan A" is not feasible

      This will be a moderated plenary discussion on prioritisation of alternative scenarios

      Conveners: Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Discussion session II: what is the "Plan B" alternative, if "plan A" is not feasible: Wrap-up

      This will be a moderated plenary discussion on prioritisation of alternative scenarios

      Conveners: Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
    • Discussion session III: Discussion Session III: What is the preferred "Plan B" alternative if Plan A not competitive (eg CEPC)?

      Moderated plenary discussion on prioritisation of alternative scenarios

      Conveners: Ruben Saakyan (UCL), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
    • Conclusions and wrap-up

      This will include:
      - Wrap-up and conclusions from Discussion Session I-III
      - Discussion of the timeline to finalise input.
      - Closing remarks.

      Conveners: Prof. Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), Sarah Williams (University of Cambridge)
    • Draft of UK input

      This section will be used to upload the draft of the UK's addendum to our ESPPU input. The draft will be uploaded on 3rd November and comments will be accepted until 5pm on 10th November.