1st Muon Community Meeting

from Thursday 20 May 2021 (12:00) to Friday 21 May 2021 (19:30)
Zoom

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 May 2021
21 May 2021
AM
09:00
BD (until 12:00)
09:00 High-charge 2ns protons bunches from the ESS linac for muon cooling tests - Tord Johan Carl Ekelof (Uppsala University (SE))  
09:30 Joined session with RF in RF room  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:20 BD WG alone: preparation of the afternoon summary of BD R&D list - Elias Metral (CERN)  
09:00
HEC (until 12:00)
09:30 Lattice design for the collider and critical aspects - Christian Carli (CERN)  
09:55 Exotic option for the HE complex: vFFA and collider lattice with skew QPs - Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL)  
10:20 Preparation of the HEC summary + R&D list  
09:00
MDI (until 12:00)
09:00
MPC (until 11:45)
09:00 Target complex: design and challenges - Dr Marco Calviani (CERN)  
09:20 Radiation protection constraints for the muon collider target area - Claudia Christina Ahdida  
09:40 Slow extraction tests of components - Oliver Aberle (CERN)  
10:00 HiRadMat potential and future perspectives - Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)  
10:50 Frictional cooling  
11:10 Prioritisation, discussion  
09:00
Magnets (until 12:00)
09:00
PC (until 12:00)
09:00
RF (until 12:00)
09:00 Proton driver - Frank Gerigk (CERN)  
09:30 Joined session with BD in RF room  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 R&D roadmap proposal for Accelerators SRF  
11:00 R&D roadmap proposal for Muon cooling NRF  
11:20 SRF and NRF test facility requirements  
11:40 Discussion  
09:00
RPOT (until 12:00)
09:00 Joined session with MPC in MPC room  
09:00
Synergy (until 12:00)
PM
12:00
Plenary session (in same zoom room) - Chris Rogers (STFC) (until 13:45)
12:00 Short welcome talk - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
12:05 Roadmap Process - Dave Newbold (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))  
12:25 Snowmass Process / US View - Mark Palmer (BNL)  
12:45 MAP R&D Items - Mark Palmer (BNL)  
13:10 Collaboration Goal and Meeting Goal - Daniel Schulte (CERN)  
13:25 Test Facility Considerations (including existence of non-CERN options) - Roberto Losito (CERN)  
13:40 Breakout rooms - Elias Metral (CERN)  
13:45
Coffee break (until 14:00)
14:00
BD (until 20:00)
14:00 Introduction and Objectives of the BD WG - Elias Metral (CERN)  
14:25 Joined session with RF and MPC in RF room  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Joined session with RF and HEC in RF room  
17:15 Joined session with PC in PC room  
17:45 BD WG alone - Elias Metral (CERN)  
18:20 Joined session with HEC in HEC room  
19:00 --- Coffee break ---
19:10 BD WG alone: summary of the day and what remains to be done tomorrow - Elias Metral (CERN)  
14:00
HEC (until 20:00)
14:00 Short introduction - Dr Antoine Chance (CEA Irfu)  
14:10 Overview of magnet needs for a vFFA for a skew collider ring - Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL)  
14:35 Overview of magnet needs for a RCS - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
15:00 Overview of magnet needs for a muon collider - Christian Carli (CERN)  
15:25 Discussion - Everybody  
16:10 Joined session with RF and BD in RF room  
17:15 Joined with MDI and RPOT in RPOT room  
18:20 Joined with BD (in HEC room) with a short talk (~ 10 min) from Jean-Baptiste Lagrange about the needs in simulation tools for a vFFA - Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Science and Technology Facilities Council)  
14:00
MDI (until 20:00)
14:15 Common issues (including physics and detector considerations) - Donatella Lucchesi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Donatella Lucchesi  
14:40 MARS IR and nozzle optimization @ 0.125, 1.5 and 3 TeV - Nikolai Mokhov (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
15:00 Studies @1.5-3.0 TeV with FLUKA - Dr Francesco Collamati (INFN Roma I (IT))  
15:20 Discussion  
15:30 Extrapolations to 6-10, what is needed (interaction region design, etc.) - Yuri Nosochkov Yunhai Cai (SLAC)  
16:05 A Superconducting Detector Magnet for the Muon Collider - Matthias Mentink (CERN)  
17:15 Joined session with HEC and RPOT in RPOT room  
14:00
MPC (until 20:00)
14:00 Introduction; objectives - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
14:25 Joined session with RF and BD in RF room  
16:10 Target solenoid and capture region magnets - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
16:40 Target solenoid - quanch limits and predictability of codes - Anton Lechner (CERN)  
17:00 Cooling system magnets - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
17:20 Final cooling magnets  
18:00 Chicane and Front end: lattice and beam physics issues/opportunities - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
18:20 Rectilinear: lattice and beam physics issues/opportunities - Diktys Stratakis (Fermilab)  
18:40 Final cooling: lattice and beam physics issues/opportunities - David Neuffer  
19:00 PIC/HCC/HFoFo: lattice and beam physics issues and opportunities - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)  
19:20 Target: visions and opportunities - Chris Densham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
19:40 Discussion  
14:00
Magnets (until 20:00)
14:00 Joined session with HEC in HEC room  
15:45 Joined session with MDI in MDI room  
16:10 Joined session with MPC in MPC room  
14:00
PC (until 20:00)
14:00 Brief introduction - Dr Simone Gilardoni (CERN)  
14:15 High power study of J‐PARC Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) - Kazami Yamamoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)  
14:40 Thoughts on proton drivers for a muon facility - Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL)  
15:05 SPL-II - Frank Gerigk (CERN)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 SNS Accelerator: Major Challenges & Mitigation Measures - Andrei Shishlo (SNS)  
16:15 PIP-II challenges - Arkadiy Klebaner (Fermilab)  
16:40 Discussion - Simone Gilardoni (CERN)  
17:15 PDAC challenges - Elias Metral (CERN)  
14:00
RF (until 20:00)
14:00 Objectives of the RF Working Group - Alexej Grudiev (CERN)  
14:10 Introduction and overview - Jean-Pierre Delahaye  
14:25 Muon Production & Front End - David Neuffer  
14:50 Capture & Cooling - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
15:15 6D Cooling - Diktys Stratakis (Fermilab)  
15:40 Discussion - Everybody  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Low Energy acceleration: Linac & RLA - S. Alex Bogacz (Jefferson Lab)  
16:35 High Energy Acceleration - J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
17:00 Discussion - Everybody  
17:10 SRF technology for the Muon Colliders - Robert Alan Rimmer  
17:30 High-gradient and Nb3n Technology - Sam Posen (Fermilab)  
17:50 SRF technology under stronger magnetic field - Sergio Calatroni (CERN)  
18:10 NRF technology for muon collider - Walter Wuensch (CERN)  
18:30 Cu Cryogenic RF technology - Sami Tantawi (SLAC)  
18:50 --- Coffee break ---
19:00 Experimental Vacuum RF R&D at MTA for Muon Cooling - Yagmur Torun (Illinois Institute of Technology)  
19:20 Experimental High Pressure RF R&D at MTA for Muon Cooling - Katsuya Yonehara (Fermilab)  
19:40 NCRF R&D for Muon Cooling and International MICE - tianhuan luo (LBNL)  
14:00
RPOT (until 20:00)
17:15 Introduction - Claudia Christina Ahdida  
17:40 Neutrino hazard & mitigation - Nikolai Mokhov (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
18:05 Mitigation methods from machine side - Christian Carli (CERN)  
18:30 Movers in the arcs - Helene Mainaud Durand (CERN)  
14:00
Synergy (until 20:00)
15:00 Introduction and aims - Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College (GB))  
15:10 nuSTORM: science, synergies, and demonstration - Paul Kyberd (Brunel University (GB))  
15:30 Muon beams at PSI: ambitions for future development - Angela Papa  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Muon beams at ISIS: ambitions for future development - Adrian Hillier (UKRI/STFC - ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon source)  
16:30 Pion-production target design for Mu2e-II: status update - Vitaly Pronskikh (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
16:50 A New Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Program at Fermilab - Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology)  
17:10 Discussion - Everybody  
13:00
BD: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
HEC: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
MDI: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
MPC: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00 Test facility discussion  
13:30 Prioritisation  
13:00
Magnets: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
PC: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
RF: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
RPOT: summary preparation (until 14:00)
13:00
Synergy: summary preparation (until 14:00)
14:00
Summaries of Working Groups R&D lists (in same zoom room) - Daniel Schulte (CERN) (until 15:40)
14:00 RF - Alexej Grudiev (CERN)  
14:25 Magnets - Lionel Quettier  
14:50 High-Energy Complex - Antoine Chance (CEA Irfu)  
15:15 Muon Production and Cooling - Chris Rogers (STFC)  
15:40
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
Summaries of Working Groups R&D lists (in same zoom room) - Daniel Schulte (CERN) (until 18:05)
16:00 Proton Complex - Simone Gilardoni (CERN)  
16:25 Beam Dynamics - Elias Metral (CERN)  
16:50 Radiation Protection and Other Technologies - Claudia Christina Ahdida  
17:15 MDI - Nadia Pastrone (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
17:40 Synergy - Kenneth Long (CERN)  
18:05
Coffee break (until 18:25)
18:25
Test facilities discussion (in same zoom room) - Roberto Losito (CERN) (until 19:00)
18:25 Test facilities discussion - Roberto Losito (CERN)  
19:00
Final discussion (in same zoom room) - Elias Metral (CERN) (until 19:30)
19:00 Final discussion - Elias Metral (CERN)