High Energy Physics Advisory Panel

The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) is a permanent advisory committee to the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, created in 1967 and organized under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972.[1]

Under the FACA, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel meets in public, and subpanels are appointed to meet and deliberate in private. In high-energy physics, peer review groups of scientists, knowledgeable in their fields, are asked to sit on these subpanels, and to make recommendations about future high energy physics projects. HEPAP either accepts or rejects panels’ recommendations, and the Department of Energy decides which projects to support in turn.[2][3]

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, a subcommittee of HEPAP, produces periodic reports, roughly once a decade, outlining funding priorities for particle physics investments by the United States.[4] Its most recent report was released in December 2023.

  1. ^ "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP)". U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
  2. ^ Riordan, Michael; Lillian Hoddeson; Adrienne W. Kolb (2015). Tunnel visions : the rise and fall of the superconducting super collider. Chicago. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-226-29479-7. OCLC 907132862.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Wojcicki, Stanley (January 2008). "The Supercollider: The Pre-Texas Days — A Personal Recollection of Its Birth and Berkeley Years". Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. 01 (1): 259–302. doi:10.1142/S1793626808000113. ISSN 1793-6268.
  4. ^ "About P5". Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5). U.S. Particle Physics. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-06-16.