Muon Collider Physics Workshop

10 Nov 2009, 10:30 → 12 Nov 2009, 18:00 US/Central

Tuesday, 10 November

14:45 → 17:45 Joint Session with Project X Workshop - Estia Eichten (Session Chair) - 1 West

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14:45 Message from the Director

Speaker: Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

15:00 Project X: Workshop Summary

Speaker: Yoshi Kuno (Osaka University)

Slides ProjectXsummary2009Kuno.pdf

15:30 Muon Collider: Physics Motivation

Speaker: Joseph Lykken (Fermilab)

Slides jlykken.pdf

16:15 Muon Collider: Complex

Speaker: Michael Zisman (LBNL)

Slides Collider-Zisman.ppt Zisman_2.pdf

17:00 Muon Collider: Machine - Detector Interface

Speaker: Nikolai Mokhov (Fermilab)

Slides MDI_mokhov_111009.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Wednesday, 11 November

08:30 → 10:10 Plenary Session - Ken Peach (Session Chair) - 1 West

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08:30 CLIC Overview

Speaker: Daniel Schulte (CERN)

Paper fnal4.pdf

Slides fnal3.pptx

09:10 Issues for Machine-Detector Interface

Speaker: Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

Slides Mu-wkshp-MDI-Seryi.ppt

09:40 Muon Collider Detector: Old Design and New Developments

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau (Fermilab)

Slides demarteau_1.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Joint Session (WG1-Physics, WG2-Detectors, WG3-MDI) - Steve Geer (Session Chair) - 1 West

10:30 Machine Parameters

Speaker: Robert Palmer (BNL)

Slides palmer_1.pdf

10:50 Detector Design Strategies

Speaker: John Hauptman (Iowa State Univ.)

Slides Detector-strategies.pdf

11:10 Tools for Calculations and Simulations

Speaker: Stephen Mrenna (Fermilab)

Slides mu2.pdf

11:30 General discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Joint Session (WG2 - Detector, WG3 - MDI) - 1West

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13:30 Collider Ring and IR Design

Speaker: Yuri Alexahin (Fermilab)

Slides MC_Latice_Design.ppt.ppt

13:50 MARS15 Modeling of Machine-Induced Backgrounds

Speaker: Vadim Alexakhin (Fermilab)

Slides valexakhin.pdf

14:10 Particle Fluxes from Muon-Muon Collisions

Speaker: Sergei Striganov (Fermilab)

Slides MuColPhys.ppt

14:30 50-T solenoid

Speaker: John Hauptman (Iowa State Univ.)

Slides 50T.pdf

14:50 Simulation and Performance of Detectors

Speaker: Corrado Gatto (INFN-Lecce)

Slides gatto_det2.ppt

15:10 Discussion

13:30 → 15:35 WG1 - Physics - Racetrack - 7N Crossover

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Session 2: Higgs and extensions (chairs: Shufang Su, Tao Liu)

13:30 Introductory remarks

Speaker: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh)

Slides intro.pdf

13:35 (A/H) Higgs Factory, Possible CP Violation and 6D Cooling

Speaker: David Cline (UCLA)

Slides dcline_1.pdf

14:00 Tests of the uplifted Higgs region

Speaker: Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)

Slides muon-collider.pdf

14:20 Tree-level Higgs FCNC's in RS models

Speaker: Manuel Toharia (Maryland)

Slides higgsfcnc.pdf

14:40 Leptophilic Higgs phenomenology at both hadron and muon colliders

Speaker: Brooks Thomas (U of Arizona)

Slides Fermilab2009.pdf

15:00 tau-mu flavor transition

Speaker: Marc Sher (College of William and Mary)

Slides msher.pdf.pdf

15:10 Discussion

15:35 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 WG1 - Physics - Curia II (2SW)

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Physics Session 3: SUSY (chair: Marcela Carena)

16:00 SUSY at ILC

Speaker: James Gainer (Northwestern & Argonne)

Slides talk.pdf

16:20 Resonant Higgs boson interference in chargino production

Speaker: Olaf Kittel (Granada U.)

Slides olaf_kittel.pdf

16:40 Probing CP-violating MSSM Higgs mixing at the Muon Collider

(remote talk)

Speaker: Federico von der Pahlen (Buenos Aires)

Slides federico_pahlen.pdf

17:00 Expectations for Supersymmetry after the LHC

Speaker: Stephen Martin

Slides martinmucol.pdf

17:20 Discussion

16:00 → 18:00 WG2 - Detectors - Racetrack 7N Crossover

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16:00 Vertex Detector and Tracking

Speaker: Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

Slides rl_mucoll_2009.pdf rl_mucoll_2009.pptx

16:30 Near zero mass cluster-timing Drift Chamber

Speaker: Francesco Grancagnolo (INFN - Lecce)

Slides FGrancagnolo.pdf

17:00 ILCroot: Infrastructure for Large Collider based on root

Speaker: Corrado Gatto (INFN)

Slides gatto_ilcroot.ppt

17:30 W-Z Reconstruction

Speaker: Anna Mazzacane (INFN-Lecce)

Slides Anna_MCPW09_111109.pdf

16:00 → 18:00 WG3 - Machine-Detector Interface - Snake Pit 2NE

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16:00 Combined-function first, elliptical emittance IR

Speaker: Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

Slides MCD_Flat_beam_talk_Nov_2009.pptx

16:30 MDI: CLIC Approach

Speaker: Daniel Schulte (CERN)

Slides MDI2.pptx

17:00 MDI: ILC Approach

Speaker: Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

Slides from_mokhov-USPAS07_v2.ppt Mu-wkshp-MDI-Seryi-WG.ppt

17:30 Calibrating the Energy at IP using Spin Precession

Speaker: Rajendran Raja (Fermilab)

Slides raja.pdf.pdf

Thursday, 12 November

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session - Franco Grancagnolo (Session Chair) - 1 West

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08:30 ILC and CLIC Detector R&D

Speaker: Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tohoku University)

Slides ILCCLICdet.pdf ILCCLICdet.pptx

09:00 Synergy in Detector Design Efforts

Panel Discussion

Speakers: Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tohoku University), Marcel Demarteau (Fermilab), Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides Graf_Synergies.ppt

09:30 Simulation Framework

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

Slides MC-Frameworks.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 WG1 - Physics - 1 West

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Session 4: Strong dynamics and exotics (chairs: Hooman Davoudiasl, Adam Martin)

10:30 4th family revisited

Speaker: Gustavo Burdman (Fermilab & Sao Paulo)

Slides fgatmuc.pdf

10:50 Heavy leptons and Z'/W' in Randall-Sundrum

Speaker: GuiYu Huang (UC Davis)

Slides last.pdf rswz.pdf

11:10 Z' physics

Speaker: Seth Quackenbush (Argonne)

Slides ZPrimemuon.pdf

11:30 FCNC, CP violation & more at the muon collider

Speaker: Amarjit Soni (BNL)

Slides soni_1.pdf

11:55 Discussion

10:30 → 12:30 WG2 - Detectors - Racetrack 7N Crossover

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10:30 Calorimetry

Speaker: John Hauptman (Iowa State University)

Slides Dual-Readout_Calorimetry.pdf

11:00 Calorimetry

Speaker: Vito Di Benedetto (INFN-Lecce)

Slides MCPW09_VDiBenedetto.pdf

11:30 Crystal Calorimetry

Speaker: Hans Wenzel (Fermilab)

Slides muoncollider2009.pdf muoncollider2009.ppt

12:00 Discussion

10:30 → 12:35 WG3 - Machine-Detector Interface - Snake Pit 2NE

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10:30 IR Magnets

Speaker: Sasha Zlobin (Fermilab)

Slides MC_IR-Magnets_MCPW2009_zlobin_v3.ppt

10:55 High field HTS open midplane Dipole

Speaker: Ramesh Gupta (BNL)

Slides gupta-muon-omd-nov09.PPT

11:20 High-gradient permanent magnet IR quadrupoles

Speaker: Finn O'Shea (UCLA)

Slides OShea.pdf

11:45 High Gradient Quadrupoles using Exotic Materials

Speaker: Robert Palmer (BNL)

Slides 0911-squad-v4.pdf

12:10 Novel accelerator magnets compatible with high energy deposition

Speaker: Rainer Meinke (AML)

Slides Meinke.pdf

12:35 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 WG1 - Physics - 1 West

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Session 5: Astro/cosmo connection (chairs: Dan Hooper, Gabe Shaughnessey)

13:30 Lepton Flavor Violation and SUSY Dark Matter

Speaker: Azar Mustafayev (U. of Minnesota)

Slides mustafayev_mc09.pdf.pdf

13:50 Leptonic Higgs Portal of Dark Matter

Speaker: Hock Seng Goh (LBNL)

Slides goh_1.pdf

14:10 Indications of dark matter from astrophysical observations

Speaker: Yu Gao (UW Madison)

Slides dm_yu_gao_09_fermilab.pdf.pdf

14:30 Electroweak Baryogenesis, Dark Matter, and a Muon Collider

Speaker: Michael Ramsey-Musolf (UW Madison)

Slides mramseymusolf.pdf (Protected)

14:50 Discussion

13:30 → 15:30 WG2 - Detectors - Racetrack 7N Crossover

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13:30 ALCPG Physics and Detector Response Simulation Tools

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides ALCPG_SimReco_Graf_091112.ppt

14:00 Physics simulation tools

Speaker: Stephen Mrenna (Fermilab)

Slides sim.pdf

14:30 Report - Action Items

15:00 Discussion, Plans

13:30 → 15:30 WG3 - Machine-Detector Interface - Snake Pit 2NE

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13:30 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary Session - Jacobo Konigsberg (Session Chair) - 1 West

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16:00 Working Group Summary: Physics

Speakers: Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh), Tao Han (UW Madison)

Slides han_4.pdf

16:20 Working Group Summary: Machine-Detector Interface

Speakers: Nikolai Mokhov (Fermilab), Robert Palmer (BNL)

Slides MDI_summary.pdf

16:40 Working Group Summary: Detectors

Speakers: John Hauptman (Iowa State University), Sergey Klimenko (University of Florida)

Slides klimenko_3.pdf

17:00 Concluding Remarks

Speakers: Estia Eichten, Steve Geer, Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab)

Slides eichten_1.pdf