Third US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting

Dec 13, 2026, 4:30 PM → Dec 16, 2026, 2:00 PM US/Pacific

Poster session, USMCC 2025 · Lawrence Lee

 

WELCOME TO THE THIRD ANNUAL US MUON COLLIDER COLLABORATION MEETING We invite you to the third meeting of the US Muon Collider community on December 13–16 at Stanford University. This will be an open meeting with the primary goal to engage broader participation in the muon collider effort, familiarize groups with the current status of physics, accelerator and detector developments, and discuss ways they can contribute to the effort. The meeting will be followed by the IMCC's Demonstrator Workshop at SLAC from Dec 16-18 (Link to Indico). The main audience for the meeting are US-based physicists interested in working towards a Muon Collider as well as the physics it could cover, but all are welcome. Members of the leadership of the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) will present the status from Europe. The meeting will start in the evening on Sunday December 13 with an HEP alumni connection event. A poster session, shared with the IMCC Demonstrator Workshop, will take place on Wednesday Dec 16 at SLAC, and a social dinner will happen Tuesday night. The deadline for registration is December 1, 2026, with early bird pricing available for a limited time.

Program Committee Karie Badgley (Fermilab) J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven) Cari Cesarotti (CERN) Grace Cummings (Fermilab) Javier Duarte (UCSD) Spencer Gessner (SLAC) Samuel Homiller (Pittsburgh) Austin Hoover (ORNL) Matheus Hostert (Iowa) Kiley Kennedy (Tufts) Lawrence Lee (UT Knoxville, co-chair) Michael Peskin (SLAC, co-chair) Ben Rosser (Chicago) LianTao Wang (Chicago) Jaehoon Yu (UT Arlington) Local Organizing Committee Spencer Gessner (SLAC) Emilio Nanni (SLAC) Lauren Tompkins (Stanford) Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)

 

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Sun, December 13

4:30 PM → 7:30 PM \sigma_{\mu\mu}: A Particle Physics Alumni Reunion

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

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Mon, December 14

7:30 AM → 8:00 AM Registration

8:00 AM → 9:50 AM Plenary

8:00 AM Introduction from USMCC and Organizers

8:20 AM The Physics Case for a Muon Collider

Speaker: Samuel Homiller (University of Pittsburgh)

8:50 AM Overview of Accelerator Challenges and US Opportunities

Speaker: Stephen Gourlay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:20 AM Designing a Muon Collider Detector

Speaker: Matt LeBlanc (Brown University)

9:50 AM → 10:20 AM Break

10:20 AM → 12:15 PM Plenary

10:20 AM How to Simulate a Muon Collider Environment

Speaker: Tova Holmes (University of Tennessee)

10:45 AM 10 TeV Physics at FCC-hh

Speaker: Tevong You (King's College)

11:15 AM 10 TeV Physics at Plasma Colliders

Speaker: Linda Xu (SLAC)

11:45 AM A Broader View of Funding Strategies

Speaker: Eric Isaacs (RCSA, AAAS)

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Conference Photo

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Break: Lunch

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Accelerator Parallel

1:45 PM Progress on bunch compression experiments

Speaker: Vasiliy Morozov (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

2:03 PM Progress on laser-assisted charge-exchange (LACE) injection

Speaker: Timofey Gorlov

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Experiment Parallel

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Theory Parallel

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM → 5:30 PM Accelerator Parallel

3:30 PM RF cavity design for the muon cooling system

Speaker: Dr Carmelo Barbagallo (Northern Illinois University / CERN)

3:50 PM 5 T solenoid setup for RF breakdown tests

Speaker: Sophia Morton (Stanford, SLAC)

4:10 PM H-FOFO optics for 6D ionization cooling

Speaker: Caroline Riggall (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

4:30 PM Beam diagnostics for a muon cooling channel

Speaker: Cecilia Hanna (Princeton University)

4:50 PM Cooling demonstrator transport and matching

Speaker: Cheng-Hsu (Bryan) Nee (UW-Madison)

3:30 PM → 5:30 PM Experiment Parallel

3:30 PM → 5:30 PM Theory Parallel

Tue, December 15

8:00 AM → 10:00 AM Plenary

8:00 AM Intense Beam Facilities and Their Role in µC Demonstration

Speaker: J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:30 AM Physics Opportunities with Intense Muon, Proton, and Neutrino Beams

Speaker: Innes Bigaran (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

9:00 AM µCATALYST Summer Student Program

Speaker: Larry Lee (University of Tennessee)

9:15 AM Kavli Foundation "Worlds Collide" Program

“Worlds Collide” is a virtual seminar series aimed at establishing and strengthening communication channels between scientists and experts from other fields essential to the construction and operation of a future muon collider. Worlds Collide is sponsored by The Kavli Foundation and the US Muon Collider Collaboration.

Speaker: Jessica Howard (University of California, Santa Barbara and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

9:30 AM Enabling a Muon Collider with Advanced AI

Speaker: Chad Mitchell

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Break

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Accelerator Parallel

10:30 AM Scalable beam-beam simulations in WarpX

Speaker: Arianna Formenti

10:52 AM Differentiable simulations of muon cooling

Speaker: Nicholas Smith (Fermilab)

11:36 AM Accelerator design with agentic AI workflows

Speaker: Keegan Downham

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Experiment Parallel

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Theory Parallel

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Break: Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Accelerator Parallel

1:30 PM Design of the muon accelerator chain

Speaker: Kyle Capobianco-Hogan (Stony Brook University)

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

Speaker: Fulvia Pilat

2:24 PM Planned muon collider research at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Alex Bogacz

2:42 PM Magnet R&D for the Muon Collider

Speaker: Daniel Davis

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Experiment Parallel

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Theory Parallel

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Plenary: Panel

3:30 PM Panel: The Case for Reaching the 10 TeV Scale

Speakers: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma), Maxim Perelstein, Tevong You (King's College), Wolfgang Altmannshofer

5:30 PM → 7:30 PM Conference Dinner

Joint with IMCC Demonstrator Workshop

Wed, December 16

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Plenary

8:30 AM On Miracles

Speaker: Chris Rogers (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Break

9:30 AM → 11:30 AM Plenary: Closing

9:30 AM Summary of Theory Program

Speaker: Cari Cesarotti

9:50 AM Summary of Accelerator Program

Speaker: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

10:10 AM Summary of Experimental Program

Speaker: Kiley Kennedy (Tufts University)

10:30 AM Closing: Thanks

10:45 AM Closing Talk

Speaker: Raman Sundrum

11:30 AM → 1:30 PM Break: Transfer to SLAC, Lunch

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