Name: Second US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2025-08-07T01:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-08T23:30:00-05:00
Location: University of Chicago

Monday, August 4, 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025

8:00 AM Check-in and Breakfast
Check-in and Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Morning Plenary 1
Morning Plenary 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome to UChicago & Logistics - Karri Folan Di Petrillo (University of Chicago)

9:15 AM Physics Theory - LianTao Wang

9:40 AM Muon Collider in the future of particle Physics - M SPIROPULU (CALTECH)

10:05 AM Muon Collider Design Choices: Sensitivities and Priorities - Vladimir Shiltsev (NIU)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Morning Plenary 2
Morning Plenary 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM The USMCC Effort - Sergo Jindariani (Fermilab)

11:25 AM View from Japan - Ryuichiro Kitano

11:50 AM IMCC Status and Plans - Rebecca Taylor (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch + Poster Session
Lunch + Poster Session
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Accelerator
Accelerator
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: KPTC 120
Contributions

2:00 PM Progress on the HFOFO snake channel for 6D Muon Cooling - Caroline Riggall (University of Tennessee)

2:20 PM Progress on TeV acceleration for the Fermilab Muon Collider - Kyle Capobianco-Hogan (Stony Brook University)

2:40 PM Proton Driver for the Demonstrator and Muon Collider - Austin Hoover (ORNL)

3:00 PM Progress on High Power Targetry - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

3:20 PM Discussion
Detector Performance
Detector Performance
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: KPTC 106
Contributions

2:00 PM Pandora Overview and Special Considerations for µµ Environment - Gregory Penn (Yale University) Gregory Penn

2:18 PM Calibration Challenges in the MAIA Calorimeters - Rose Powers (Princeton University)

2:36 PM ECal BIB Mitigation Studies - John Dervan (Northeastern University)

2:54 PM Trigger and DAQ Rate Considerations - Angira Rastogi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

3:12 PM Topical Discussion: Detector Considerations for Neutrinos at $\phi\approx\pi$ - Matheus Hostert (Harvard University) Matheus Hostert (Harvard)
Theory
Theory
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: MCP 201
Contributions

2:00 PM Towards realistic predictions for weak bosons as partons of the muon (15'+3') - Richard Ruiz

2:18 PM Guaranteed Deliverables at the Muon Collider (15'+3') - Rodolfo Capdevilla (Fermilab) Rodolfo Capdevilla

2:36 PM Precision Physics at the Muon Collider - Yang Ma (UCLouvain)

2:54 PM Colored Particle Production at High-Energy Muon Colliders - Arthur Wu (University of Pittsburgh)

3:12 PM Probing Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings at the Muon Collider (15'+3') - Yu-Chen Guo (University of Pittsburgh (Liaoning Normal University))
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Afternoon Plenary
Afternoon Plenary
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM QuarkNet! (13'+2') - Ken Cecire

4:15 PM MAIA + MUSIC Overview (23'+2') - Simone Pagan Griso (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:40 PM Instrumentation R&D Directions (23'+2') - Nadia Pastrone (INFN Torino (IT))

5:05 PM Detector and Accelerator Synergies (23'+2') - Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)
5:30 PM Workshop Photo
Workshop Photo
5:30 PM - 5:40 PM

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, August 8, 2025

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Morning Plenary
Morning Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Other opportunities with muon beams - Cari Cesarotti

9:30 AM Bluesky R&D - Cristian Pena

10:00 AM Deep Dive on Timing Detectors - Murtaza Safdari
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Accelerator
Accelerator
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Muon Collider Magnet Development in Europe - Luca Bottura

11:20 AM Muon Collider Magnet Development in the USA - Ramesh Gupta (Brookhaven National Labortaory)

11:40 AM Recent Developments in RF Cavities with Beam Windows for the Future Muon Collider Ionization Cooling Channels - Dillon Merenich (NIU)

12:00 PM Multi-physics approach in the design and optimization of muon cooling cavity - Zenghai Li (SLAC)

12:20 PM Discussion
Detectors and Instrumentation R&D
Detectors and Instrumentation R&D
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Introduction and 4D tracking - Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Jennifer Ott

11:18 AM Status of 4D tracking detectors and readout - Artur Apreysan

11:36 AM Forward Muon Detection and Luminosity Measurement - Darin Acosta

11:54 AM Dual readout in homogenous inorganic scintillators for precision calorimetry - Grace Cummings (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:12 PM Achieving Sub-Picosecond Clock Synchronization for Accelerators and Detectors - Rohith Saradhy (University of Minnesota)
Theory
Theory
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Fermion Portal Dark Matter at a Muon Collider (15'+3') - Pouya Asadi Pouya Asadi (University of Oregon)

11:18 AM Heavy QCD axion at a 3/10 TeV Muon Collider (15'+3') - Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

11:36 AM Testing Lepton Flavor at High-Energy Muon Collider (15'+3') - Samuel Homiller (Cornell University)

11:54 AM Electroweak Symmetry Restoration at High-Energy Muon Colliders (15'+3') - Ishman Mahbub
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Accelerator
Accelerator
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Demonstrator Overview - Diktys Stratakis (Fermilab)

2:20 PM New Test Area with SC Solenoid at SLAC - Emma Snively (SLAC)

2:40 PM Discussion
Computing + AI/ML
Computing + AI/ML
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM How to simulate a muon collider detector - Benjamin Rosser (The University of Chicago)

2:18 PM Tracking software and ML tracking - Rocky Bala Garg

2:36 PM AI/ML opportunities - Abhijith Gandrakota (Fermilab)

2:54 PM Computing resources and challenges - Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

3:12 PM Open discussion
Neutrino Theory + Experiment
Neutrino Theory + Experiment
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Electroweak Observables from TeV Muon Collider Neutrino Beams (15'+3') - Adrian Thompson (Northwestern University) Adrian Thompson

2:18 PM A Modern View of a Neutrino Factory (15'+3') - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University)

2:36 PM The Neutrino Kaleidoscope: Searches for Non-Standard Neutrino Oscillations at Neutrino Telescopes with a TeV Accelerator Source (15'+3') - Gray Putnam Nicholas Kamp (Harvard University)

2:54 PM Light Axion Production at Future Muon Collider (15'+3') - Keping Xie (Michigan State University)
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Afternoon Plenary
Afternoon Plenary
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Neutrino Physics with Muon Coliders - Matheus Hostert (Harvard)

4:25 PM Summary Experiment - Benjamin Rosser (The University of Chicago)

4:35 PM Summary Accelerator - Steve Gourlay (Fermilab)

4:45 PM Summary Theory - Zahra Tabrizi (University of Pittsburgh)

4:55 PM Reserve for USMCC

5:15 PM Closeout - Karri Folan Di Petrillo (University of Chicago)