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Proposal for Fermilab Participation in the LSC

Proposal for Fermilab Participation in the LSC. Thomas Nash Fermi National Acceleraor Laboratory Batavia, IL 60510 USA nash@fnal.gov LIGO LSC Meeting March 14, 2001 Morning Plenary Session DCC#: LIGO-G010124-00-Z. Fermilab. Formal Statement of Mission

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Proposal for Fermilab Participation in the LSC

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  1. Proposal for Fermilab Participation in the LSC Thomas Nash Fermi National Acceleraor Laboratory Batavia, IL 60510 USA nash@fnal.gov LIGO LSC Meeting March 14, 2001 Morning Plenary Session DCC#: LIGO-G010124-00-Z

  2. Fermilab Formal Statement of Mission Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory advances the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines. • Strong historical focus on accelerator based research • Participation in CDMS, SDSS, Auger project • Strong Astro Theory Group • Gravity is a natural future direction • This is recognized only by [a] far sighted individual[s] at Fermilab

  3. WYSIWYG:Fermilab Gravity “Group” • Assisting in LIGO commissioning • Started in Fall, 1999 • ~2 weeks every 2 months at LHO and LLO • Why? • Long standing interest in gravity • undergrad senior thesis on black hole gravity effects • An experimentalist’s need to understand detector to understand data • Who else? • 1 or 2 senior scientists with latent interest • possibility of a postdoc

  4. Plan for LSC/LIGO Activities • Continued participation in commissioning • mainly at LLO • Detector characterization • Data Analysis White Paper Revision W.G. • Develop a plan for Fermilab participation in data analysis • Stochastic Sources Group • upper limit working group

  5. Stochastic Gravity Waves Unique window to earliest universe • The competition: • Photons from CMBR at T  500 eV • Last neutrino scattering when T  1 MeV • Universe transparent to GW back to Planck time T  1019 GeV “From most of cosmic history (in log space) since the Planck time, and on most scales of structure, only … gravitational waves survive to the present.” C. Hogan, astro-ph/0009136

  6. Earliest universe: The ultimate high energy physics lab • Earliest universe may provide the only experimental information on our most profound and fundamental questions • why is the vacuum energy so small? • how is gravity quantized? • how does it unify with the other forces? • how/when did all those extra dimensions curl up and leave us with a 3+1dimension universe?

  7. Fermilab a major player in gravity? • Not now. The plate is full.The budget is thin. • CDF/D0 Run II starting • LHC accelerator and CMS participation • Long baseline neutrinos • BTev? NLC? VLHC? • CDF/D0 search for evidence of extra dimensions • FNAL theorists with important contributions • C.Hill, J. Lykken, M. Turner, E. Kolb, A Stebbins • Long range (>2010), I believe it’s a natural fit • understanding gravity will be a main focus of HEP

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