Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 51: 421-500
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0318-3

Review

Towards the european strategy for particle physics: The briefing book

¹ Lund University, Lund, Sweden
² CPPM/IN2P3-CNRS and DAPNIA/CEA, Marseille, France
³ Cambridge University and DAMTP, Cambridge, UK
⁴ INFN and Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
⁵ University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
⁶ University College London, London, UK
⁷ IFAE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
⁸ University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
⁹ LPNHE-IN2P3-CNRS and University of Paris VI&VII, Paris, France
¹⁰ Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany
¹¹ Imperial College London, London, UK
¹² University of Hamburg and DESY, Hamburg, Germany
¹³ CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
¹⁴ University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
¹⁵ KVI, Groningen, The Netherlands
¹⁶ NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁷ INFN and University of Padova, Padova, Italy
¹⁸ DAPNIA, Saclay, France
¹⁹ John Adams Institute, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK
²⁰ University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
²¹ Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
²² IPPP, Durham University, Durham, UK
²³ CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK

^* e-mail: michelangelo.mangano@cern.ch

Received: 21 October 2006
Revised: 30 March 2007
Published online: 15 June 2007

Abstract

This document was prepared as part of the briefing material for the Workshop of the CERN Council Strategy Group, held in DESY Zeuthen from 2nd to 6th May 2006. It gives an overview of the physics issues and of the technological challenges that will shape the future of the field, and incorporates material presented and discussed during the Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, held in Orsay from 30th January to 2nd February 2006, reflecting the various opinions of the European community as recorded in written submissions to the Strategy Group and in the discussions at the Symposium.