REPORT TO THE HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ADVISORY PANEL

The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Subpanel on the Future Vision of the U.S. Program in Particle Physics has not yet finished its work. However, based on three meetings of the Subpanel, extensive discussions and communications with the particle physics community, and many (approximately 100 so far) letters to us, we have come to agreement on two points:

1. Collaboration with CERN in research and development toward building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and detectors would provide very important opportunities for U.S. scientists to be major participants in the most promising current effort to further advance our understanding of nature on the high energy frontier. This collaboration would be an important contribution to the timely and successful advance of that frontier. It would make very valuable use of the technical progress achieved by the Superconducting Super Collider project. It would serve as the basis for further international collaboration for the U.S. program. Finally it would assure that the U.S. high energy program will be among the world leaders well beyond the decade ahead.

2. United States vitality in high energy physics through the coming decade will be assured by adequate funding to support effective running at existing facilities and the timely completion and efficient utilization of facilities now being upgraded--the Main Injector at Fermilab, the B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and CESR at Cornell.