COSMOLOGY/PARTICLES · Rencontres de moriond in particle physics and cosmology
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2005-03-01 → 2009-02-28
- EU contribution
- €670,971
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- IIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - COSMOLOGY/PARTICLES (REncontres de moriond in particle physics and cosmology)
As foreseen, the project consisted in the organisation of thirteen scientific conferences over four years. Each of them gathered around 120 participants, out of which 75 % would give an oral presentation. The fraction of theoreticians and experimentalists achieved was as anticipated, as well as the fraction of young physicists among the participants and among the speakers. The objectives of bringing together theorists and experimentalists, and of giving young physicists an opportunity to present their own work were therefore achieved. The Rencontres de Moriond are more than ever recognised as an important element building the community of particle physicists and cosmologists.It is during the four years of the project that the expression 'physics of the two infinities', covering the very strong common interests between researchers on the infinitely small and researchers on the infinitely large, has started to be used, in reference to the French physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. The internal balance was also exactly as anticipated, with the anticipated difficulty that we had to restrict participants from third countries to remain below the limit of 30 %. For all events without exception, proceedings were edited, put on the web, and a paper book was distributed to each participant. All these contributions are still visible, together with all the practical information on the Moriond web site at http://moriond.in2p3.fr
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Project objective
We propose a series of three conferences each year during four years. These conferences are devoted to highenergy hadronic interactions, to electroweak interactions, and to cosmology. This allows an almost completecoverage of the progress in the closely re lated fields of particle physics and cosmology.Particle physics and cosmology involve complex and costly projects, structured international collaborations ofresearchers, and long term planning (often over more than ten years). These fields are evolving rap idly. Severalexperiments are producing results while new projects are under construction (such as the LHC at CERN, theEuropean research center in Geneva, or the Planck satellite), and discussions are underway for the nextgeneration of experiments (Linear c olliders, neutrino detectors and measurements on supernovae).The proposed conferences take place in the continuity of the Rencontres de Moriond, organised each year since1966, considered by the community of particle physicists and cosmologists as one of th e most important (amongvery few) occasions to present and defend new hot results. The scientific community is a firm support of theseconferences because of :the mixing of experimentalists and theoreticians- the small number of participants per session (around 100)the importance given to oral presentations by young physiciststhe wide scope and the importance given to actual results over speculationsthe strict scientific organisation rules and judicious selection of the most important topicsthe close year long contact between the committee members and the research teamsthe efficient practical organisationThe quality of the attendance and the support from the community have allowed Moriond to have a visible impacton this community, since :results and ideas are more easily discussed than in larger conferences, often by the young physicists directlyinvolvedyoung physicists giving the first #
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