DESY Physics Research Committee

Welcome to the Physics Research Committee (PRC)

The PRC gives advice to the DESY directorate on all matters related to the particle physics programme at DESY.

At present, the experimental particle physics programme is focused on DESY's activities at the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS (physics, detector upgrades, etc.), on the R&D and physics studies for future colliders (FTX) and its detectors, on the Belle II experiment, and on the ALPS-II, MADMAX and (Baby)IAXO axion experiments, plus the LUXE experiment. The comprehensive theory programme in collider phenomenology, particle cosmology, string theory and lattice field theory is also reviewed by the PRC. The PRC also comments on the DESY's computing efforts, and it eventually reviews remaining activities connected to the HERA experiments H1, HERMES and ZEUS.

PRC Chair: Steinar Stapnes (CERN)
PRC Scientific Secretary: Thomas Schoerner (DESY) - thomas.schoerner@desy.de

Next (97th) PRC meeting (PRC97): 24/25 April 2024 in person in Hamburg:
The next PRC meetings are scheduled for 5/6 November 2024 (PRC98, Hamburg) and 7-9 April 2025 (PRC99, Zeuthen, joint meeting with APC).

APC and PRC at their joint session in November 2022.

PRC at its 97th meeting in April 2022. First row: Belen Gavela, Beate Heinemann; centre row: Yannis Semertzidis, Artur Hebecker, Ulrich Husemann; back row: Steinar Stapnes, Christoph Rembser, Thomas Schörner. Not in the picture are Julia Thom-Levy, Jeff Temple and Dave Charlton who participated remotely.