MONTHS after US particle physics experienced brutal funding cuts, reasons for optimism are emerging. So concluded a panel of leading physicists at a meeting in Washington DC last week.
The panel was asked by the US Department of Energy to consider four possible funding scenarios – and how they would spend the money over the next decade. “We can’t do everything we’d like to do, it can’t all go as quickly as it should, but we can do a great deal,” says physicist Mel Shochet of the University of Chicago.
Among the big losers in the cuts were those involved in…
