Particle physics plan reflects Europe’s global thinking

Science : The European Strategy Group for Particle Physics, which met in Brussels last month, has drafted its plan for promoting the growth of the field. Besides supporting the work being done at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the report recommends that Europe contribute to other large projects, including the International Linear Collider and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), which may be hosted by other nations, among them the US and Japan. The US, in particular, could benefit from such monetary support because of the recent budgetary constraints being imposed by the Department of Energy on the proposal to build the LBNE at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.