IPPOG forum members regularly discuss how to explain complex particle physics topics to the public. This specific working group took up the challenge to extract, from a long tradition, a wide range of working documents and even more ideas, the following stories:

• We enter the Scalar Era
• Precision counts

More are expected by the end of 2024, and will be grouped in : a specific resource page

Convener

Working Group members

IPPOG forum contributors: Barbora Bruant Gulejova (Switzerland), Farid Ould-Saada (Norway), Hans Peter Beck (Switzerland), Michael Kobel (Germany), Ivan Melo (Slovakia), Thomas Naumann (DESY), Alberto Ruiz (Spain), Jonas Strandberg (Sweden), Jonivar Skullerud (Ireland).

External contributors: TBD

Mandate

The highlights of the discussions in past years include how to explain best the Higgs mechanism, spin, particle-wave duality, or gravitational waves; how to communicate the importance of precision, and “What if no new discovery / Higgs – what now?”. The WG also dived into deep questions on ethics, beauty as a criterion of truth in science, or what means theory in science and what it means in the broad public at large, how to sell a new European Strategy for Particle Physics and how to justify the costs of always-bigger machines (HL-LHC, LC, FCC).