Dear colleague,
You are probably aware of the document "Understanding Matter, Energy, Space and Time: The Case for the e+e- Linear Collider"*. It is a statement from a world-wide community of active particle physicists, describing the kind of e+e- linear collider programme which they wish to see funded within the next decade, to run concurrently with the LHC programme.
The document should be a unique international statement of the consensus among physicists for building the machine somewhere in the world. As such we can expect it to be usefully cited in the bids to funding agencies and to governments which are now being prepared in many countries.
You may already have added your name to the supporters' list, but a significant group of colleagues contacted us recently about a few points made in the earlier version - particularly concerning the potential of the LHC - and we felt it important to make changes to meet their concerns.
The final version is now available and we are asking everyone who wants to be listed as a supporter to go to the following website:
http://www-flc.desy.de/lcsign/get_subscribers.php4
where you can find the text of the document (and a link to the suggestions made to improve the earlier drafts). You can then click one button to sign or to withold your signature.
Please do this now if you possibly can. The stimulation of the process for initiating the linear collider project depends on a clear show of support from the community.
We will only list your name if you have approved the final version of the text. Indication of support for the previous version will not be taken as approval for this final version.
Many thanks
Yours ever
Jim Brau (Oregon), Sachio Komamiya (Tokyo), David Miller (London)
(co-chairs of the Worldwide Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider)
The document was drafted on behalf of The Worldwide Study by Paul Grannis (Stony Brook, USA), Sachio Komamiya (Tokyo), Takayuki Matsui (KEK), Francois Richard (Orsay, France)
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