E5: Fixed-Target Experiments

Working Group Convenors: Krishna Kumar (UMass), Ron Ray (Fermilab), Paul Reimer (Argonne); Mark Strovink (Berkeley).

Fixed-target experiments offer a great diversity of beams for use in experiments of high sensitivity over a wide range of topics in particle physics. Decay, formation, and scattering experiments (including scattering on polarized or nuclear targets) all hold important potential. The study of subtle effects and rare processes offers a virtual window on very high energy scales. New kinds of experiments may reveal the structure of hadrons at an unprecedented level of detail. The task of this working group is to consider the future of fixed-target experimentation (other than experimentation using muon and neutrino beams, which are the province of working group E1).

The E5 summary talk, delivered on 7/20/01 by Paul Reimer, is available at

http://snowmassserver.snowmass2001.org/Working_Group_E5/mws/E5-summary.ppt or

http://snowmassserver.snowmass2001.org/Working_Group_E5/mws/E5-summary.pdf .

The E5 program follows. Slides from most of the talks can be found in electronic form, indexed by author, at

ftp://snowmassserver.snowmass2001.org/Working_Group_E5/slides/ .