Past and present chairs of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society explain how the high-energy physics community in the US decides the priorities for research through regular planning exercises that started 40 years ago at Snowmass, Colorado.
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Butler, J., Chivukula, R.S., de Gouvea, A. et al. How high-energy physics plans its future. Nat Rev Phys 4, 565–567 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-022-00493-9
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