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:

APC and PRC at their joint session in November 2022.

PRC at its 94th meeting in November 2022. First row: Yannis Semertzidis, Christoph Rembser; centre row: Julia Thom, Steinar Stapnes, Ulrich Husemann; top row: Thomas Schörner, Beate Heinemann. Missing: Dave Charlton, Nigel Glover, Artur Hebecker, Jeff Templon (all remote participation).