IPPP topical meeting on physics with high-brightness stored muon beams

10 Feb 2021, 13:00 → 11 Feb 2021, 21:00 Europe/London

To connect on the 10th February please use the following zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/95245283814?pwd=a2FwMGsxNDFmYUlrTk8wcHhGY29Bdz09

and to connect on the 11th February please use the following link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97531999873?pwd=OERRMWsvWEZPa1hUQTVZWE1oeUk5QT09

 

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The recent update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics  recommended

• R&D on the production of bright muon beams as a means to explore the energy and intensity frontiers
• A programme of experimentation is developed to determine neutrino cross-sections with the precision required to maximise the reach of the future neutrino-frontier exploration programme.

The European Laboratories Director’s Group has initiated the international Muon Collider collaboration to spearhead the development of the necessary R&D programme. The collaboration has identified nuSTORM, the “Neutrinos from Stored Muons” facility, which is capable of delivering cross-section measurements of the requisite precision, as a possible R&D test-bed and technology demonstrator.

In a recent submission to the Particle Physics Advisory Panel of the STFC, the UK members of the international Muon Collider collaboration expressed its interest in joining the international effort and proposed measurements of neutrino cross-sections at nuSTORM as a stepping stone to construction of a muon collider.
 

Therefore, the IPPP invites you to a topical workshop on the physics opportunities that are presented by high-brightness stored muon beams. The meeting will be held online during the afternoon and early evening of the 10th and 11th February 2021.

The goals of the workshop will be to:

•  Review and evaluate the physics case for the muon collider, nuSTORM, and other potential applications of high-brightness muon beams
•  Consider the opportunities for a UK collaboration to establish a leading role in the emerging international effort.

The desired output of the workshop is a short document in which the status of the field is briefly reviewed and the opportunities for the UK to establish positions of leadership in the emerging international collaboration is outlined.

Wednesday, 10 February

Neutrino Physics

zoom link:
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/95245283814?pwd=a2FwMGsxNDFmYUlrTk8wcHhGY29Bdz09

1 Neutrino cross sections for oscillation experiments

Speaker: Dr Stephen Dolan

sDolanTalk.pdf

2 Improving the precision in modelling pion reactions in the NuWro event generator

Speaker: Dr Kajetan Niewczas

niewczas_210210.pdf

3 Exclusive-final-state hadron observables from neutrino-nucleus multinucleon knockout

Speaker: Dr Joanna Sobczyk

ippp_jsobczyk.pdf

4 e4nu effort, using electron measurements to improve the precision of the GENIE event generator

Speaker: Dr Adi Ashkenazi

210210_e4nu_IPPP.pdf

15:00 Coffee break

Neutrino Physics

zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/95245283814?pwd=a2FwMGsxNDFmYUlrTk8wcHhGY29Bdz09

5 Ab-initio nuclear calculations for neutrino-nucleus cross sections

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Lovato

lovato_ipp.pdf

6 Neutrino measurements on Argon: MicroBooNE and ArgoNeut

Speaker: Dr Kirsty Duffy

IPPP_KDuffy_Arxsec.pdf

7 Assessing the accuracy of the GENIE event generator with electron-scattering data

Speaker: Dr Artur Ankowski

11_Ankowski.pdf

8 Neutrino measurements in NoVA

Speaker: Dr Linda Cremonesi

NOvA_xsecResults.pdf

Thursday, 11 February

Accelerator Physics

zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97531999873?pwd=OERRMWsvWEZPa1hUQTVZWE1oeUk5QT09

9 nuSTORM, Muon Cooling and its Demonstration

Speaker: Chris Rogers (RAL)

2021-02-11_nustorm-and-cooling.pdf

10 Fixed Field Accelerators for Muon Physics and More

Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

FFAs_JPasternak_11022021.pdf

11 Targetry for High Power Muon Facilities

Speaker: Dr Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

ie-IPPWorkshop_11.02.2021_final.pdf

ie-IPPWorkshop_11.02.2021_final.pptx

14:30 Coffee break

12 The Physics Potential of High-Energy Muon Colliders

zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97531999873?pwd=OERRMWsvWEZPa1hUQTVZWE1oeUk5QT09

Speaker: Andrea Wulzer

Wulzer.pdf

13 Bread and Butter Physics at Muon Colliders

zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97531999873?pwd=OERRMWsvWEZPa1hUQTVZWE1oeUk5QT09

Speaker: Tao Han

2021-IPPP.pdf

14 Experimental aspects of muon colliders

zoom link:

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97531999873?pwd=OERRMWsvWEZPa1hUQTVZWE1oeUk5QT09

Speaker: Donatella Lucchesi

IPPP-experimental-aspects-DL.pdf

16:30 Short break

Joint Discussion Session

99-2021-02-11-IPPP-muWs-Long.pptx