Future accelerators

Future accelerators is what ICFA (the International Committee for Future Accelerators) is all about Following an emergency ICFA meeting at CERN early in December, the following statement was drafted for a subsequent meeting of ICFA Members and Laboratory Directors at the TRIUMF Laboratory, Vancouver, on 16 January. High energy physics seeks to discover basic principles that underlie the workings of the physical universe through the exploration of the building blocks of matter and forces among them. World-wide effort over the past half-century has produced a remarkably successful theoretical picture describing all matter and energy as built of certain constituents, interacting through specific forces according to general principles of symmetry, relativity and quantum mechanics.