Name: Third US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2026-12-13T16:30:00-08:00
End: 2026-12-16T14:00:00-08:00
Location: No location set

Third US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting

from Sunday, December 13, 2026 (4:30 PM) to Wednesday, December 16, 2026 (2:00 PM)

Monday, December 7, 2026
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Wednesday, December 9, 2026
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Friday, December 11, 2026
Saturday, December 12, 2026
Sunday, December 13, 2026

4:30 PM \sigma_{\mu\mu}: A Particle Physics Alumni Reunion
\sigma_{\mu\mu}: A Particle Physics Alumni Reunion
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The US Muon Collider Collaboration is hosting an evening for physicists who left high-energy physics for industry and their new colleagues, to reconnect with old friends and New Physics. Come for the cocktail hour, hear the physics case for a 10 TeV muon collider, and let our community show you what building one actually takes and how you can help. Your physics brain misses you. See: [https://hepalumni.muoncollider.us][1] [1]: https://hepalumni.muoncollider.us

Monday, December 14, 2026

7:30 AM Registration

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:00 AM Plenary
8:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Introduction from USMCC and Organizers

8:20 AM The Physics Case for a Muon Collider - Samuel Homiller (University of Pittsburgh)

8:50 AM Overview of Accelerator Challenges and US Opportunities - Stephen Gourlay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:20 AM Designing a Muon Collider Detector - Matt LeBlanc (Brown University)
9:50 AM Break

9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM Plenary
10:20 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

10:20 AM How to Simulate a Muon Collider Environment - Tova Holmes (University of Tennessee)

10:45 AM 10 TeV Physics at FCC-hh - Tevong You (King's College)

11:15 AM 10 TeV Physics at Plasma Colliders - Linda Xu (SLAC)

11:45 AM A Broader View of Funding Strategies - Eric Isaacs (RCSA, AAAS)
12:15 PM Conference Photo
Conference Photo
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Break: Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Accelerator Parallel
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Progress on bunch compression experiments - Vasiliy Morozov (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

2:03 PM Progress on laser-assisted charge-exchange (LACE) injection - Timofey Gorlov
Experiment Parallel

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Theory Parallel

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Accelerator Parallel
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM RF cavity design for the muon cooling system - Carmelo Barbagallo (Northern Illinois University / CERN)

3:50 PM 5 T solenoid setup for RF breakdown tests - Sophia Morton (Stanford, SLAC)

4:10 PM H-FOFO optics for 6D ionization cooling - Caroline Riggall (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

4:30 PM Beam diagnostics for a muon cooling channel - Cecilia Hanna (Princeton University)

4:50 PM Cooling demonstrator transport and matching - Cheng-Hsu (Bryan) Nee (UW-Madison)
Experiment Parallel

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Theory Parallel

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
8:00 AM Plenary
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Intense Beam Facilities and Their Role in µC Demonstration - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:30 AM Physics Opportunities with Intense Muon, Proton, and Neutrino Beams - Innes Bigaran (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

9:00 AM µCATALYST Summer Student Program - Larry Lee (University of Tennessee)

9:15 AM Kavli Foundation "Worlds Collide" Program - Jessica Howard (University of California, Santa Barbara and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

9:30 AM Enabling a Muon Collider with Advanced AI - Chad Mitchell
10:00 AM Break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Accelerator Parallel
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM Scalable beam-beam simulations in WarpX - Arianna Formenti

10:52 AM Differentiable simulations of muon cooling - Nicholas Smith (Fermilab)

11:36 AM Accelerator design with agentic AI workflows - Keegan Downham
Experiment Parallel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Theory Parallel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM Break: Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Accelerator Parallel
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Design of the muon accelerator chain - Kyle Capobianco-Hogan (Stony Brook University)

2:06 PM Muon cooling for muon catalyzed fusion at ORNL - Fulvia Pilat

2:24 PM Planned muon collider research at Jefferson Lab - Alex Bogacz

2:42 PM Magnet R&D for the Muon Collider - Daniel Davis
Experiment Parallel

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Theory Parallel

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Plenary: Panel
Panel
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Panel: The Case for Reaching the 10 TeV Scale - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma) Maxim Perelstein Tevong You (King's College) Wolfgang Altmannshofer
5:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Joint with IMCC Demonstrator Workshop
Wednesday, December 16, 2026
8:00 AM Plenary
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM On Miracles - Chris Rogers (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
9:00 AM Break

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Plenary: Closing
Closing
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Summary of Theory Program - Cari Cesarotti

9:50 AM Summary of Accelerator Program - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

10:10 AM Summary of Experimental Program - Kiley Kennedy (Tufts University)

10:30 AM Closing: Thanks

10:45 AM Closing Talk - Raman Sundrum
11:30 AM Break: Transfer to SLAC, Lunch
Transfer to SLAC, Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

12:30 PM Plenary: Poster Session (Joint with IMCC Demo Workshop)
Poster Session (Joint with IMCC Demo Workshop)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM