E7: Particle Physics and Technology Working Group
Working Group Convenors:
Email distribution
list of the working group
Link
to the local E7 working group page on the Snowmass server
Particle Physics and Technology:
Particle physics has often been the driver of progress in technologies
that are the key to advances in other scientific fields, in industry
and eventually commerce. Examples of past decades range from cryogenic
vacuum systems and superconducting wire and magnet technology to the
invention of the World Wide Web. At other times, although not directly
the generator of new technologies, our field has sparked progress by
pushing new technologies to meet the needs of our next-generation
experiments or numerically intensive theoretical investigations. Recent
examples include high-precision radiation-tolerant particle detectors
like silicon pixels that are now finding applications in the field of
medical imaging as fast, low-exposure alternatives to X-ray films;
compact high-speed electronics capable of acquiring and processing vast
floods of data; high-gradient linear accelerators for electron-positron
colliders that may form the basis for the future development of X-ray
free electron lasers of super-high instantaneous brilliance;
petabyte-scale analysis challenges of current and next generation
collider experiments and the plans to meet these needs through the
development of "Data Grids". Astrophysics has joined particle physics
in this role through new programs such as large-scale sky surveys,
precise measurements of cosmological parameters, and simulation of
astrophysical processes. The scale, complexity and duration of ongoing
and future programs have forced new approaches to the development of
software by large and distributed collaborations, and have benefitted
from the application of new statistical and algorithmic approaches from
applied mathematics. These changes have resulted in the adoption of new
programming models and tools and have led to a major role by computing
professionals (software engineers) in experiments and advanced
computation.
Session Schedule, Talks, and Papers
The working group met during the three week long workshop in July
of 2001. The session schedule contains
most of the presentations.
The Nuclear and Plasma Science Society also organized
Technolcogy Lectures during the workshop.
Summary Report of the Working Group:
Portable Document Format (PDF) or
Post Script (PS)
Other Contributions:
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/snowmass_e7/index.html
was last updated Nov 29th, 2001 by Stephan Lammel