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ABSTRACT
Particle physics is now entering a new era. As the scale and the cost of the frontier colliders increases, while the timescale for projects is becoming longer, fewer facilities can be realized. Moreover, several high-energy physics (HEP) laboratories becoming multi-purpose ones. The pursuit of ever-higher energies will surely be one of the future directions of particle physics; the course will depend on whether one can continue to contain the cost of future colliders in the current worldwide environment. We must take a holistic view of particle physics - whether we find Beyond Standard Model physics at the LHC or not - and select the path to follow in a prudent manner, while maintaining HEP accelerator laboratories and expertize in all regions. Our culture and management structure must evolve to confront these challenges.
BIO
Maxim Titov is a Director of Research at CEA Saclay, France. A nuclear and particle physics researcher during his more than 30-years scientific carrier, Dr. Titov worked in both the development of advanced detector concepts and analyses of physics data from collider experiments, inevitably within the large international collaborations: HERA-B Experiment at DESY Hamburg; D0 Experiment at FERMILAB; ATLAS, CMS Experiments and RD51 Collaboration at CERN, International Linear Collider Project (ILC) in Japan. Dr. Titov was a founding member and served as the Spokesperson of the CERN-RD51 collaboration “Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector Technologies” (2007-2015, 2023) and is the Spokesperson of the CERN-DRD1 Collaboration “Gaseous Detectors Technologies” (since 2024). Recently, he was also appointed by the European Laboratory Directors Group (LDG) as the Chair of the Panel on “Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators”.
