Second US Muon Collider Collaboration Meeting

Aug 7, 2025, 1:30 AM → Aug 8, 2025, 11:30 PM America/Chicago

University of Chicago

Karri Folan Di Petrillo (University of Chicago)

WELCOME TO THE SECOND ANNUAL US MUON COLLIDER COLLABORATION MEETING We invite you to the second meeting of the US Muon Collider community on August 7-8th at the University of Chicago. 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 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 International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) will present the status from Europe, including the European Strategy process.  The meeting will begin on Thursday August 7th and include a banquet dinner that evening. We are also planning for a poster session and will open the call for abstracts shortly. The deadline for registration is 1 July 2025. Please note the Muon Collider Accelerator School taking place earlier in the week

Organizing Committee Scott Berg (BNL) Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern)  Karri DiPetrillo (Chicago)  Paolo Ferracin (LBNL) Steve Gourlay (Fermilab) Tova Holmes (Tennessee) Walter Hopkins (ANL) Matheus Hostert (Iowa) Sergo Jindariani (Fermilab) Mithlesh Kumar (BNL) Zhen Liu (Minnesota) Mark Neubauer (UIUC)  Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton) Mark Palmer (BNL) Kevin Pedro (Fermilab) Ben Rosser (Chicago)  Emma Snively (SLAC) Diktys Stratakis (Fermilab) Zahra Tabrizi (Pittsburgh)

Thu, August 7

8:00 AM Check-in and Breakfast

Plenary: Morning Plenary 1

1 Welcome to UChicago & Logistics

Speaker: Karri Folan Di Petrillo (University of Chicago)

2025.08.07.USMCCWelcome.pdf

2 Physics Theory

Speaker: Dr LianTao Wang

muonC_2ndUSmeeting.pdf

3 Muon Collider in the future of particle Physics

Speaker: M SPIROPULU (CALTECH)

muC-UofC-08072025.pdf

4 Muon Collider Design Choices: Sensitivities and Priorities

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Shiltsev (NIU)

Shiltsev_USMCC25_v2.pptx

10:30 AM Coffee

Plenary: Morning Plenary 2

5 The USMCC Effort

Speaker: Sergo Jindariani (Fermilab)

MuC_USMCC2025.pdf

MuC_USMCC2025.pptx

6 View from Japan

Speaker: Ryuichiro Kitano

muCmeeting_080725_kitano.pdf

7 IMCC Status and Plans

Speaker: Dr Rebecca Taylor (CERN)

IMCCPlansStatus_USMCC_2025.pdf

Slides_Link

12:30 PM Lunch + Poster Session

Parallels: Accelerator

8 Progress on the HFOFO snake channel for 6D Muon Cooling

Speaker: Caroline Riggall (University of Tennessee)

20250807_Riggall_HFOFO.pdf

20250807_Riggall_HFOFO.pptx

9 Progress on TeV acceleration for the Fermilab Muon Collider

Speaker: Kyle Capobianco-Hogan (Stony Brook University)

K G Capobianco-Hogan Progress on TeV acceleration for the Fermilab Muon Collider.pdf

K G Capobianco-Hogan v 1.pdf

10 Proton Driver for the Demonstrator and Muon Collider

Speaker: Austin Hoover (ORNL)

main.pdf

11 Progress on High Power Targetry

Speaker: Dr Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

USMCC_CM_Yonehara08072025.pptx

12 Discussion

Parallels: Detector Performance

Conveners: Lawrence Lee (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Nadia Pastrone (INFN Torino (IT)), Sarah Demers (Yale University)

13 Pandora Overview and Special Considerations for µµ Environment

(15'+3')

Speakers: Gregory Penn (Yale University), Gregory Penn

PFlow_Penn_USMCC.pdf

14 Calibration Challenges in the MAIA Calorimeters

(15'+3')

Speaker: Rose Powers (Princeton University)

Powers_USMCC_detector_talk.pdf

Powers_USMCC_detector_talk.pptx

15 ECal BIB Mitigation Studies

(15'+3')

Speaker: John Dervan (Northeastern University)

Dervan_USMCC_2025.pdf

16 Trigger and DAQ Rate Considerations

(15'+3')

Speaker: Angira Rastogi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

ARastogi_USMCC_Aug2025.pdf

17 Topical Discussion: Detector Considerations for Neutrinos at $\phi\approx\pi$

(3'+15')

Speakers: Matheus Hostert (Harvard University), Matheus Hostert (Harvard)

neutrino_slice_discussion.pdf

Parallels: Theory

Convener: Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

18 Towards realistic predictions for weak bosons as partons of the muon (15'+3')

Speaker: Richard Ruiz

rruiz_MuonUSA_WZpartons.pdf

19 Guaranteed Deliverables at the Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speakers: Rodolfo Capdevilla (Fermilab), Rodolfo Capdevilla

2508_Deliverables.pdf

20 Precision Physics at the Muon Collider

Speaker: Yang Ma (UCLouvain)

UCmuC_2025_YM.pdf

21 Colored Particle Production at High-Energy Muon Colliders

Speaker: Arthur Wu (University of Pittsburgh)

Arthur MuC.pdf

22 Probing Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings at the Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speaker: Yu-Chen Guo (University of Pittsburgh (Liaoning Normal University))

Yu-Chen_USMCC_2025.08.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee

Plenary: Afternoon Plenary

23 QuarkNet! (13'+2')

Speaker: Ken Cecire

Cecire_Wood_MCC2025.pdf

24 MAIA + MUSIC Overview (23'+2')

Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

spagan-detector-usmcc.pdf

25 Instrumentation R&D Directions (23'+2')

Speaker: Nadia Pastrone (INFN Torino (IT))

InstrumentationR&D_NPastrone_7aug25.pdf

26 Detector and Accelerator Synergies (23'+2')

Speakers: Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin)

Dasu-MC-Det-Acc-Synergies-2025-08-07.pptx

5:30 PM Workshop Photo

6:00 PM Dinner

Fri, August 8

8:30 AM Breakfast

Plenary: Morning Plenary

27 Other opportunities with muon beams

Speaker: Dr Cari Cesarotti

usmcc_muBeam_small.pdf

28 Bluesky R&D

Speaker: Cristian Pena

CPena_BlueSkyR&D_MuonCollider.pdf

29 Deep Dive on Timing Detectors

Speaker: Murtaza Safdari

USMCC_TimingDetectorsDeepDive.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee

Parallels: Accelerator

30 Muon Collider Magnet Development in Europe

Speaker: Dr Luca Bottura

20250808_USMCC_Bottura_Magnet.pptx

31 Muon Collider Magnet Development in the USA

Speaker: Dr Ramesh Gupta (Brookhaven National Labortaory)

gupta-muon-magnets-usa-08Aug2025.pdf

32 Recent Developments in RF Cavities with Beam Windows for the Future Muon Collider Ionization Cooling Channels

Speaker: Dillon Merenich (NIU)

merenich_USMCC.pptx

33 Multi-physics approach in the design and optimization of muon cooling cavity

Speaker: Dr Zenghai Li (SLAC)

Muon-Anual-Meeting-Muon-Cavity-202508-7-8.pptx

34 Discussion

Parallels: Detectors and Instrumentation R&D

Conveners: Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Simone Mazza (University of California, Santa Cruz)

35 Introduction and 4D tracking

Speakers: Jennifer Ott (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Jennifer Ott

JOtt_muC_LGADs.pdf

JOtt_muC_LGADs.pptx

36 Status of 4D tracking detectors and readout

Speaker: Artur Apreysan

4D-trackers-Apresyan-MuC2025.pdf

37 Forward Muon Detection and Luminosity Measurement

Speaker: Darin Acosta

FwdMuonAndLumi.pptx

38 Dual readout in homogenous inorganic scintillators for precision calorimetry

Speaker: Grace Cummings (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

GECummings_USMuonCollider_2025.pdf

39 Achieving Sub-Picosecond Clock Synchronization for Accelerators and Detectors

Speaker: Dr Rohith Saradhy (University of Minnesota)

2025_08_07_USMCC_ClockDis

Parallels: Theory

Convener: Matheus Hostert (Harvard University)

40 Fermion Portal Dark Matter at a Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speakers: Pouya Asadi, Pouya Asadi (University of Oregon)

USMCC_08_2025.pdf

41 Heavy QCD axion at a 3/10 TeV Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speaker: Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

axion_muc_chicago.pdf

42 Testing Lepton Flavor at High-Energy Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speaker: Samuel Homiller (Cornell University)

250808_homiller_usmcc_lfv-at-muc-full.pdf

43 Electroweak Symmetry Restoration at High-Energy Muon Colliders (15'+3')

Speaker: Ishman Mahbub

EW Restoration_muon_collider.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch

Parallels: Accelerator

44 Demonstrator Overview

Speaker: Diktys Stratakis (Fermilab)

MuC_Demo_Talk.pdf

45 New Test Area with SC Solenoid at SLAC

Speaker: Dr Emma Snively (SLAC)

SLAC_High_Field_Test_Area_USMCC-2025.pdf

46 Discussion

Parallels: Computing + AI/ML

Conveners: Kevin Pedro (Fermilab), Mark Neubauer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Walter Hopkins (Argonne National Laboratory), Walter Hopkins (Argonne National Laboratory)

47 How to simulate a muon collider detector

Speaker: Benjamin Rosser (The University of Chicago)

usmcc_simulation_overview.pdf

48 Tracking software and ML tracking

Speaker: Rocky Bala Garg

USMCC_Tracking_RBG.pdf

49 AI/ML opportunities

Speaker: Abhijith Gandrakota (Fermilab)

AIML_MuC_Abhijith.pdf

50 Computing resources and challenges

Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

Computing Resources and Challenges USMCC.pdf

Computing Resources and Challenges USMCC.pptx

51 Open discussion

Parallels: Neutrino Theory + Experiment

Convener: Matheus Hostert (Harvard University)

52 Electroweak Observables from TeV Muon Collider Neutrino Beams (15'+3')

Speakers: Adrian Thompson (Northwestern University), Adrian Thompson

ucmcc_thompson.pdf

53 A Modern View of a Neutrino Factory (15'+3')

Speaker: Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University)

NF_Gehrlein.pdf

54 The Neutrino Kaleidoscope: Searches for Non-Standard Neutrino Oscillations at Neutrino Telescopes with a TeV Accelerator Source (15'+3')

Speakers: Gray Putnam, Nicholas Kamp (Harvard University)

MuonCollider@Chicago_2025_v2.pdf

55 Light Axion Production at Future Muon Collider (15'+3')

Speaker: Keping Xie (Michigan State University)

ALP_MuC.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee

Plenary: Afternoon Plenary

56 Neutrino Physics with Muon Coliders

Speaker: Matheus Hostert (Harvard)

M_Hostert_MuC.pdf

57 Summary Experiment

Speaker: Benjamin Rosser (The University of Chicago)

usmcc_experimental_summary.pdf

58 Summary Accelerator

Speaker: Dr Steve Gourlay (Fermilab)

MuC_Summary.pptx

59 Summary Theory

Speaker: Dr Zahra Tabrizi (University of Pittsburgh)

MuColMeetingAug2025.pdf

60 Reserve for USMCC

61 Closeout

Speaker: Karri Folan Di Petrillo (University of Chicago)

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