Snowmass 2021 Archive

Topical groups

Topical groups by frontier. Each group's page lists its Letters of Interest and white papers.

Accelerator Frontier (AF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
AF00 — general (no specific topical group)	183	19
AF01 — Beam Physics and Accelerator Education	62	5
AF02 — Accelerators for Neutrinos	17	8
AF03 — Accelerators for EW/Higgs	33	8
AF04 — Multi-TeV Colliders	55	10
AF05 — Accelerators for PBC and Rare Processes	36	4
AF06 — Advanced Accelerator Concepts	71	11
AF07 — Accelerator Technology R&D	134	41

Cosmic Frontier (CF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
CF00 — general (no specific topical group)	195	20
CF01 — Dark Matter: Particle-like	147	29
CF02 — Dark Matter: Wave-like	85	3
CF03 — Dark Matter: Cosmic Probes	75	11
CF04 — Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: The Modern Universe	57	5
CF05 — Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: Cosmic Dawn and Before	24	8
CF06 — Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: Complementarity of Probes and New Facilities	58	2
CF07 — Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics	135	17

Community Engagement Frontier (CommF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
CommF00 — general (no specific topical group)	43	5
CommF01 — Applications & Industry	20	8
CommF02 — Career Pipeline & Development	29	0
CommF03 — Diversity & Inclusion	24	10
CommF04 — Physics Education	31	3
CommF05 — Public Education & Outreach	16	2
CommF06 — Public Policy and Government Engagement	7	3
CommF07 — Environmental and Societal Impacts	0	3

Computational Frontier (CompF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
CompF00 — general (no specific topical group)	150	9
CompF01 — Experimental Algorithm Parallelization	18	2
CompF02 — Theoretical Calculations and Simulation	116	18
CompF03 — Machine Learning	55	15
CompF04 — Storage and processing resource access (Facility and Infrastructure R&D)	26	7
CompF05 — End user analysis	26	6
CompF06 — Quantum computing	33	9
CompF07 — Reinterpretation and long-term preservation of data and code	18	2

Energy Frontier (EF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
EF00 — general (no specific topical group)	169	28
EF01 — EW Physics: Higgs Boson properties and couplings	68	21
EF02 — EW Physics: Higgs Boson as a portal to new physics	55	8
EF03 — EW Physics: Heavy flavor and top quark physics	26	10
EF04 — EW Precision Physics and constraining new physics	59	12
EF05 — QCD and strong interactions: Precision QCD	55	2
EF06 — QCD and strong interactions: Hadronic structure and forward QCD	60	7
EF07 — QCD and strong interactions: Heavy Ions	32	5
EF08 — BSM: Model specific explorations	42	15
EF09 — BSM: More general explorations	71	25
EF10 — BSM: Dark Matter at colliders	44	14

Instrumentation Frontier (IF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
IF00 — general (no specific topical group)	183	17
IF01 — Quantum Sensors	75	12
IF02 — Photon Detectors	82	2
IF03 — Solid State Detectors and Tracking	53	7
IF04 — Trigger and DAQ	29	3
IF05 — Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs)	23	6
IF06 — Calorimetry	61	13
IF07 — Electronics/ASICs	30	3
IF08 — Noble Elements	52	6
IF09 — Cross Cutting and Systems Integration	44	6
IF10 — Radio Detection	11	3

Neutrino Physics Frontier (NF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
NF00 — general (no specific topical group)	104	18
NF01 — Neutrino Oscillations	37	4
NF02 — Understanding Experimental Neutrino Anomalies	48	3
NF03 — BSM	90	13
NF04 — Neutrinos from natural sources	50	3
NF05 — Neutrino properties	56	7
NF06 — Neutrino Interaction Cross Sections	52	5
NF07 — Applications	18	3
NF08 — Theory of Neutrino Physics	9	1
NF09 — Artificial Neutrino Sources	25	9
NF10 — Neutrino Detectors	92	9

Rare Processes and Precision Frontier (RF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
RF00 — general (no specific topical group)	174	18
RF01 — Weak decays of b and c quarks	29	6
RF02 — Weak decays of strange and light quarks	20	6
RF03 — Fundamental Physics in Small Experiments	36	7
RF04 — Baryon and Lepton Number Violating Processes	31	7
RF05 — Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (electrons, muons and taus)	37	9
RF06 — Dark Sector Studies at High Intensities	52	12
RF07 — Hadron Spectroscopy	12	5

Theory Frontier (TF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
TF00 — general (no specific topical group)	183	14
TF01 — String theory, quantum gravity, black holes	11	8
TF02 — Effective field theory techniques	23	6
TF03 — CFT and formal QFT	2	11
TF04 — Scattering amplitudes	14	4
TF05 — Lattice gauge theory	60	9
TF06 — Theory techniques for precision physics	35	6
TF07 — Collider phenomenology	50	31
TF08 — BSM model building	41	12
TF09 — Astro-particle physics and cosmology	85	17
TF10 — Quantum Information Science	34	7
TF11 — Theory of Neutrino Physics	51	9

Underground Facilities and Infrastructure (UF)

Group	LoIs	White papers
UF00 — general (no specific topical group)	14	4
UF01 — Underground Facilities for Neutrinos	6	3
UF02 — Underground Facilities for Cosmic Frontier	5	0
UF03 — Underground Detectors	10	5
UF04 — Supporting Capabilities	3	0
UF05 — Synergistic Research	1	0
UF06 — An Integrated Strategy for Underground Facilities and Infrastructure	3	0