Name: MAP 2015 Spring Collaboration Meeting (MAP15)
Start: 2015-05-18T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-05-22T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

MAP 2015 Spring Collaboration Meeting (MAP15)

from Monday, 18 May 2015 (10:00) to Friday, 22 May 2015 (19:00)

Monday, 18 May 2015

11:30 Registration
Registration
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
13:00
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

13:00 Welcome & logistics - Timothy Meyer (Fermilab)

13:10 MAP: R&D Towards Future Neutrino Factory and Lepton Collider Capabilities - Mark Palmer (Fermilab)

13:55 Towards Concluding the Dedicated Volume on Muon Accelerators - Robert Ryne (LBNL)

14:10 Neutrino Physics Landscape - Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
15:30
15:30 - 17:40
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

15:30 Welcome - Steve Geer (FNAL)

15:40 A Complete Demonstrator of a Cooled-Muon Higgs Factory - Carlo Rubbia

16:40 Panel - Alan Bross (Fermilab) Jean-Pierre Delahaye (SLAC) Mark Palmer (Fermilab) Robert Ryne (LBNL) Vladimir Shiltsev (FNAL)
17:30 Reception / Poster Session
Reception / Poster Session
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

09:00 MICE Status and Plans - Chris Rogers (Rutherford Lab)
09:45
09:45 - 10:25
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

09:45 High-Intensity Muon Source: Status and Future Plans - Diktys Stratakis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:00 Particle production of a carbon/mercury system for the intensity frontier - Xiaoping Ding (UCLA)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:55
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
10:55
10:55 - 12:40
Contributions

10:55 Bunch-merger and low-energy production on a spallation target - Yu Bao (University of California Riverside)

11:30 Target: Status and future plans - Kirk McDonald (Princeton University)

11:55 Beam Emittance and Energy Spectra for Hg and C Targets - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:15 Front-end with gas filled cavities - David Neuffer (Fermilab)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
13:40
13:40 - 15:05
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

13:40 Simulation Studies for High-Intensity Muon Source - Hisham Sayed (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:05 Energy Deposition Studies - Pavel Snopok (IIT/Fermilab)

14:30 Discussion
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

15:30 Report from the AARD Sub-Panel - Don Hartill (Cornell University)
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

16:00 A rectilinear channel for six-dimensional muon cooling towards micron-scale emittances - Diktys Stratakis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:30 RF technology demonstrations for future cooled-muon accelerators - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab)
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

09:00 FOFO Snake - Status and Outlook - Yuri Alexahin (Fermilab)

09:25 Helical Cooling Channel Simulations - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

09:50 Hybrid Cooling Channel Simulations - Diktys Stratakis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:15 Plasma Loading Estimation in the Helical and Hybrid Cooling Channels - Ben Freemire (IIT)
10:30 Group Photo and Coffee Break
Group Photo and Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

11:00 Beam-Plasma Effects in the Cooling Channel - James Ellison (Illinois Institute of Technology)

11:20 PIC update - Vasiliy Morozov

11:50 Final cooling update - Hisham Sayed (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:10 Final muon cooling with quadrupole doublets to feed a potato slicer - Terry Hart
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Characterisation of the KURRI FFAG main ring - Chris Rogers (Rutherford Lab)

13:50 Finalizing NuMAX Acceleration - Alex Bogacz (Jefferson Lab)

14:20 Acceleration: Important Topics for Future Studies - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:50 Discussion
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

15:30 Decay Ring Design for Long Baseline NF a la NuMAX - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College/RAL-STFC) jean-baptiste lagrange (Imperial College/Fermilab)

16:00 Design of an RFFAG Ring a la nuSTORM - jean-baptiste lagrange (Imperial College/Fermilab)

16:30 Application of optimization algorithms to the facility design a la nuSTORM - Ao Liu (Fermilab)
Thursday, 21 May 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

09:00 Muon Collider Ring - Status and Outlook - Yuri Alexahin (Fermilab)

09:25 Muon collider MDI developments - Sergei Striganov (Fermilab)

09:50 1.5 TeV Muon Collider background rejection in ILCroot Si VXD and Tracker - Nikolai Terentiev (Carnegie Mellon U, USA)

10:10 Muon Collider Detector Recent Developments - Vito Di Benedetto (INFN-Napoli)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 MICE Step IV Commissiong: Overview - Milorad Popovic (FNAL)

11:30 MICE Spectrometers - Edward Overton (University of Sheffield)

12:00 Experiment in a bottle (magnetic): MICE PRY - Holger Witte (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

13:30 MICE Step IV Run Plan - Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)

13:55 MICE RF and Cooling Demo Configuration - Derun Li (LBNL)

14:20 MICE RF Drive and Diagnostics - Kevin Ronald (University of Strathclyde)

14:40 MICE Cooling Demo Performance - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College/RAL-STFC) jean-baptiste lagrange (Imperial College/Fermilab)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Contributions

15:30 Overview of the MICE RF project at MTA - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)

16:00 MICE Cavity Commissioning and Operation at MTA - Maria Leonova (Fermilab)

16:20 Breakdown Characterization in 805 MHz Cavities in Strong Magnetic Fields - Alexey Kochemirovskiy (AD)

16:40 Overview of the 805 MHz Modular Cavity project - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab)

17:10 Acoustic Breakdown Localization in RF Cavities - Peter Lane (IIT)
18:30 Cash Bar & Banquet
Cash Bar & Banquet
18:30 - 20:00
Friday, 22 May 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
Contributions

09:00 Physics in a 201 MHz RF Cavity - Alvin Tollestrup (FNAL)

09:30 Overview of the HPRF project - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)

09:50 Status of a Dielectric Loaded HPRF test - Ben Freemire (IIT)

10:10 Modeling and Simulation of Beam-Induced Plasma in a Gas-Filled RF Cavity - Kwangmin Yu (Stony Brook University) Roman Samulyak
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 CERN Neutrino Platform - Marzio Nessi (CERN)

11:30 GARD Proposals: Status and Prospects - Daniel Bowring (Fermilab) Robert Ryne (LBNL)

12:00 nuSTORM Status - Alan Bross (Fermilab)

12:15 MICE: Moving Forward - jean-baptiste lagrange (Imperial College/Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 IB Report - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

13:50 Discussion: Future of Muon Facility R&D

14:20 Concluding talk - Mark Palmer (Fermilab)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Curia II-WH2SW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl South West
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 MICE and the Next Generation of Muon Beams for Particle Physics - Kenneth Long (Imperial College London)