Muon Collider Higgs Factory Mini-Workshop

Tuesday 13 Nov 2012, 08:00 → 18:00 US/Central

Curia II, Wilson Hall (Fermilab)

The MAP Collaboration will host a mini-workshop to discuss the concept of a Muon Collider operating at the Higgs resonance, and discuss the challenges associated with this approach. A Muon Collider can provide s-channel production of the Higgs and can measure the Higgs mass and width to high accuracy, particularly if the muon polarization is used to calibrate the collision energy. The muon collider approach has unique challenges in beam intensity, muon collection, cooling and acceleration and in detector design and background management. Exploration of these challenges will be initiated in preparation for further development in the 2-day UCLA Higgs Factory Collider Workshop, which will be held in early 2013. The output of this workshop will also contribute to presentations and discussions on the muon-muon Higgs Collider option at CSS2013.

 

WebEx Instructions WebEx Instructions

08:30 → 10:10 Muon Collider Higgs Factory Introduction

Convener: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (SLAC)

08:30 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Pier Oddone (Fermilab)

08:40 Workshop Goals and Critical Issues

Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (Fermilab)

Slides Palmer_GoalsAndIssues_2012_1113.pptx

09:00 Physics Motivation

Speaker: Dr Estia Eichten (Fermilab)

Slides eichten_MC.pdf

09:30 Scenario Overview and Options

Speaker: Dr David Neuffer (Fermilab)

Slides NeufferHiggs.pptx

10:00 Discussion

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:30 Proton Source (various options) and Target

Convener: Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

10:30 Project X Proton Source

Speaker: Dr Keith Gollwitzer (Fermilab)

Slides Gollwitzer121113MuonHiggs.pptx

10:45 Superconducting Rapid Cycling Synchrotron as High-Power Proton Source

Speaker: Henryk Piekarz (Fermilab)

Slides Muon-collider-HP.pptx

11:00 Proton Source Options

Speaker: Dr Charles Ankenbrandt (Muons, Inc.)

Slides Protons4Higgs.ppt

11:15 Discussion

11:30 → 12:45 Cooling Channel and Acceleration

Convener: Dr Charles Ankenbrandt (Muons, Inc.)

11:30 Cooling Channel Designs

Speaker: Dr Robert B Palmer (Brookhaven National lab)

Slides 1211-higgs.pdf

11:50 Helical Cooling Channel Options

Speaker: Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

Slides hccforhiggs111312_mod.pdf hccforhiggs111312_mod.pptx

12:10 Acceleration Scheme with Project X Linac

Speaker: Dr Valeri Lebedev (Fermilab)

Slides AccelerOfMuons.pdf

12:30 Discussion

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:25 Collider Ring

Convener: Dr David Neuffer (Fermilab)

14:00 Higgs Factory Collider Ring

Speaker: Dr Pavel Snopok (IIT/Fermilab)

Slides snopok_slides.pdf

14:15 Updated Higgs Factory Collider Ring Design

Speaker: Yuri Alexahin (Fermilab)

Slides HF_preliminary_design.pdf

14:40 Energy Measurement with Polarization

Speaker: Dr Rajendran Raja (Fermilab)

Slides Escale_new-1.pdf

14:55 Plasma Lens

Speaker: Stephen Kahn (Muons Inc)

Slides HiggsFactoryPlasmaLens.pptx

15:10 Discussion

15:25 → 16:10 Detector and Background

Convener: Dr Pavel Snopok (IIT/Fermilab)

15:25 Background Simulation

Speaker: Nikolai Terentiev (Carnegie Mellon U, USA)

Slides terentiev_Nov_13_2012_workshop_v2.pdf

15:45 Detector Considerations

Speaker: Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

Slides MUC_Hfact.pptx

16:10 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:00 Detector and Background

Convener: Dr Pavel Snopok (IIT/Fermilab)

16:30 Polarization and Detector Comments

Speaker: Alain Blondel (DPNC Université de Genève)

Slides bdl-energy-calib-HF-2012-11-13.pptx

16:45 Discussion

17:00 → 17:40 DISCUSSION on Options for a Staged Approach (MASS) - Moderated by J.P. Delahaye

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (SLAC)

Slides MASS@MCHF.pptx

Snowmass report

• MASS_White_Paper_for_Snowass_draft_outline_for_presentation.docx
• NF_MC_staged_approach.pdf
• Staged_MAP@European_Strategy.pdf

17:40 → 18:00 Plans for a Report at the Snowmass Workshop plus other HF Related Meetings