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Third US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting

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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
    • 1
      \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

      Website
  • Mon, December 14
    • Registration
    • Plenary
      • 2
        Introduction from USMCC and Organizers
      • 3
        The Physics Case for a Muon Collider
        Speaker: Samuel Homiller (University of Pittsburgh)
      • 4
        Overview of Accelerator Challenges and US Opportunities
        Speaker: Stephen Gourlay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
      • 5
        Designing a Muon Collider Detector
        Speaker: Matt LeBlanc (Brown University)
    • Break
    • Plenary
      • 6
        How to Simulate a Muon Collider Environment
        Speaker: Tova Holmes (University of Tennessee)
      • 7
        10 TeV Physics at FCC-hh
        Speaker: Tevong You (King's College)
      • 8
        10 TeV Physics at Plasma Colliders
        Speaker: Linda Xu (SLAC)
      • 9
        A Broader View of Funding Strategies
        Speaker: Eric Isaacs (RCSA, AAAS)
    • 10
      Conference Photo
    • Break: Lunch
    • Accelerator Parallel
      • 11
        Progress on bunch compression experiments
        Speaker: Vasiliy Morozov (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)
      • 12
        Progress on laser-assisted charge-exchange (LACE) injection
        Speaker: Timofey Gorlov
    • Experiment Parallel
    • Theory Parallel
    • Break
    • Accelerator Parallel
      • 13
        RF cavity design for the muon cooling system
        Speaker: Dr Carmelo Barbagallo (Northern Illinois University / CERN)
      • 14
        5 T solenoid setup for RF breakdown tests
        Speaker: Sophia Morton (Stanford, SLAC)
      • 15
        H-FOFO optics for 6D ionization cooling
        Speaker: Caroline Riggall (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
      • 16
        Beam diagnostics for a muon cooling channel
        Speaker: Cecilia Hanna (Princeton University)
      • 17
        Cooling demonstrator transport and matching
        Speaker: Cheng-Hsu (Bryan) Nee (UW-Madison)
    • Experiment Parallel
    • Theory Parallel
  • Tue, December 15
    • Plenary
      • 18
        Intense Beam Facilities and Their Role in µC Demonstration
        Speaker: J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 19
        Physics Opportunities with Intense Muon, Proton, and Neutrino Beams
        Speaker: Innes Bigaran (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
      • 20
        µCATALYST Summer Student Program
        Speaker: Larry Lee (University of Tennessee)
      • 21
        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)
      • 22
        Enabling a Muon Collider with Advanced AI
        Speaker: Chad Mitchell
    • Break
    • Accelerator Parallel
      • 23
        Scalable beam-beam simulations in WarpX
        Speaker: Arianna Formenti
      • 24
        Differentiable simulations of muon cooling
        Speaker: Nicholas Smith (Fermilab)
      • 25
        Accelerator design with agentic AI workflows
        Speaker: Keegan Downham
    • Experiment Parallel
    • Theory Parallel
    • Break: Lunch
    • Accelerator Parallel
      • 26
        Design of the muon accelerator chain
        Speaker: Kyle Capobianco-Hogan (Stony Brook University)
      • 27
        Muon cooling for muon catalyzed fusion at ORNL
        Speaker: Fulvia Pilat
      • 28
        Planned muon collider research at Jefferson Lab
        Speaker: Alex Bogacz
      • 29
        Magnet R&D for the Muon Collider
        Speaker: Daniel Davis
    • Experiment Parallel
    • Theory Parallel
    • Break
    • Plenary: Panel
      • 30
        Panel: The Case for Reaching the 10 TeV Scale
        Speakers: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma), Maxim Perelstein, Tevong You (King's College), Wolfgang Altmannshofer
    • 31
      Conference Dinner

      Joint with IMCC Demonstrator Workshop

  • Wed, December 16
    • Plenary
      • 32
        On Miracles
        Speaker: Chris Rogers (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • Break
    • Plenary: Closing
      • 33
        Summary of Theory Program
        Speaker: Cari Cesarotti
      • 34
        Summary of Accelerator Program
        Speaker: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
      • 35
        Summary of Experimental Program
        Speaker: Kiley Kennedy (Tufts University)
      • 36
        Closing: Thanks
      • 37
        Closing Talk
        Speaker: Raman Sundrum
    • Break: Transfer to SLAC, Lunch
    • Plenary: Poster Session (Joint with IMCC Demo Workshop)