co-Conveners

This topical group is focused on ideas and projects related with how particle physics research impacts society and the environment. Examples of impacts on society could include collaboration between particle physics research facilities and indigenous communities related with the land that those facilities reside on. Other examples could also refer to the ethical usage of software tools used in particle physics research.

Examples of impacts on the environment could range from the local environment of a research facility (pollution, regional development, international visibility, etc.) all the way to the carbon footprints of particle physics research (experiments, facilities, institutions, etc.). Looking at the long time scale of some particle physics experiment proposals, consideration of the implications of climate change and of the various commitments on carbon emissions reductions by host countries is of paramount importance to ensure the success of particle physics research in the future. Ideas and suggestions on all of those issues are encouraged within this topical group.

This topical group is also necessarily interlinked with other Community Engagement Frontier topical groups. For example, the impacts on society include issues involving inclusion and diversity and the impacts on the environment and the sustainability of the field could involve components associated with the applications and industry topical group.

A draft of the report for the topical group can be found here.

We very much encourage participation from all sections of the community! Please send us an email or join us using the following channels:

• Mailing list: SNOWMASS-COMMF-07-SOC-ENV-IMP@FNAL.GOV
• Indico meetings: https://indico.fnal.gov/category/1324/
• Slack channel: #comm-7-soc-env-imp: https://app.slack.com/client/TNNU4A570/C022G4HU2CD/details/top?cdn_fallback=2

We are very much open to any Contributed Paper that members of the community might be interested in, please get in touch with the conveners.

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.