Next steps for preparing the UK’s national input to 2026 Update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Thank you to everyone who participated in the second drafting day at UCL on 9th January: https://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/1183/timetable/?view=standard
Following the fruitful discussions the drafting team are now preparing a first draft of the UK’s national input which will be submitted on 31st March 2025. As agreed on January 9th, this 10-page document will aim to capture the discussions to date but will not attempt to prioritise any alternative “plan B” options for future colliders at CERN nor provide prioritisation of non-collider projects. These topics will be revisited on the next drafting day which is scheduled for 28th April at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (please save the date), such that the national input can be updated prior to the open symposium in June.
We would like to share with the community proposed timescales for circulating the draft for comments (which will be done through the Hi-Phi mailing list and through the list of registrants for the January drafting day):
· ~17th February - 3rd March: first circulation of draft of UK input around the community, with invitation to provide feedback/comments.
· ~3rd-14th March: the drafting team will work to implement comments.
· ~14th-21st March: circulation of final draft around the community. We hope that comments received at this stage would be mainly clarification/editorial points.
We are sharing these now in the hope that members of the community can allocate time to read/review the draft when circulated (we appreciate it is a busy time).
If anyone has questions or would like to discuss the process further please contact Sarah Williams (sarah.louise.williams@cern.ch), Ruben Saakyan (r.saakyan@ucl.ac.uk ) and Jim Clarke (jim.clarke@stfc.ac.uk )