Forum Mandate
The international community is making great progress in the development of a strategy for e+e- colliders as the next major projects after the end of the LHC program. To capture the growing interest for such colliders in the US community and further foster such studies in Snowmass, we propose to form an “e+e- Collider Forum” led by EF, IF and AF.
The intent of this Forum is to initiate dialogue and discuss differences and complementarities between the various e+e- collider concepts, either linear or circular, from the accelerator, detector and physics perspectives, in harmony with the rest of the wider international community. The discussions will be informed by the Agora on future collider events, contributed white paper, and works carried on within the topical groups. The outcome of these discussions will be summarized in a report that will serve as input to the Snowmass frontier reports. The Forum however will not replace or duplicate the work that is carried out in the various topical groups that oversee all physics studies and are ultimately responsible for the final reports. Needless to say that the Forum’s activities will be carried out in close collaboration with the TG conveners of the relevant frontiers.