A Survey of the Latin American High Energy Physics community on the future flagship project at CERN for the ESPP Update

TL;DR

This survey-based paper gathers Latin American high energy physics community's perspectives on CERN's future flagship project, highlighting regional participation, community input, and potential contributions to inform European strategy updates.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Latin America's involvement in high energy physics and presents survey results to guide future strategic decisions at CERN.

Findings

Latin American participation at CERN is significant.

Community priorities emphasize detector development and collaboration.

Survey results inform European strategy for future projects.

Abstract

This document collects input from Latin America as a contribution to the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. It emerges from a survey of members of the Latin American Association for High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (LAA-HECAP) that collected data in February and a subsequent town-hall meeting, inspired by the ECFA guidelines for national communities. This contribution first reviews the Latin American participation at CERN, provides background on LAA-HECAP, and then presents the survey methodology and its results. Some conclusions are drawn based on the results of the survey.