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

Europe/London
Description

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.

Registration
Registration for Muon Physics Workshop
Participants
  • 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
      • 2
        Improving the precision in modelling pion reactions in the NuWro event generator
        Speaker: Dr Kajetan Niewczas
      • 3
        Exclusive-final-state hadron observables from neutrino-nucleus multinucleon knockout
        Speaker: Dr Joanna Sobczyk
      • 4
        e4nu effort, using electron measurements to improve the precision of the GENIE event generator
        Speaker: Dr Adi Ashkenazi
    • 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
      • 6
        Neutrino measurements on Argon: MicroBooNE and ArgoNeut
        Speaker: Dr Kirsty Duffy
      • 7
        Assessing the accuracy of the GENIE event generator with electron-scattering data
        Speaker: Dr Artur Ankowski
      • 8
        Neutrino measurements in NoVA
        Speaker: Dr Linda Cremonesi
  • Thursday 11 February
    • Accelerator Physics

      zoom link:

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

    • 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
    • 13
      Bread and Butter Physics at Muon Colliders

      zoom link:

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

      Speaker: Tao Han
    • 14
      Experimental aspects of muon colliders

      zoom link:

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

      Speaker: Donatella Lucchesi
    • 16:30
      Short break
    • Joint Discussion Session