5th FCC Physics Workshop

Europe/London
Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH)), Alexandra Welsch (University of Liverpool / The Cockcroft Institute), Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool), Gavin Salam (University of Oxford), Panagiotis Charitos (CERN), Theun van Veen (University of Liverpool)
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Welcome to the 5th FCC Physics workshop in Liverpool! 

 

 

The event is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951754.

 

For health reasons, the 5th FCC Physics workshop will finally be held as a purely online event.  All plenary and parallel sessions will be accessible for remote participants by a zoom link. Sessions will generally run 8.30 - 12.00 and 13.00-17.00 UK time (UTC).

The structure of the week will be as follows

  • Monday am: Welcome, overview of FCC feasibility and Physics studies
  • Monday pm: Higgs Physics 1 (ee/hh)
  • Tuesday morning: Higgs physics 2, PID and flavour tagging
  • Tuesday afternoon: Flavour (tau, b) physics
  • Wednesday morning: Detector session
  • Wednesday afternoon: QCD and Precision EW
  • Thursday morning: ee/ep/hh MDI, Software
  • Thursday afternoon: Direct searches for new particles
  • Friday morning (start 8:30 UTC):
      Selected physics Highlights 
      Joint Software/performance/detector
  • Friday afternoon: Status and future plans, outlook

The detailed timetable is now posted

Following the recommendations from the European Strategy for Particle Physics, CERN has now launched the FCC Feasibility study (FCC-FS), of the FCC colliders (ee and hh) as a global project with its international partners[1]. The study goals include optimization of the placement and layout of the ring and related infrastructure, and demonstration of the geological, technical, environmental and administrative feasibility of the tunnel and surface areas, as well as the preparatory administrative processes required for a potential project approval, together with the Host States. The study will deepen the design of FCC-ee and FCC-hh and their injectors, supported by R&D on key technologies. The financial feasibility study will focus on the first stage (tunnel and FCC-ee)[2]. One of the pillars of the FCC-FS organization is the Physics Experiments and Detectors (PED) study, in which the physics case and detector concepts will be consolidated for both colliders (FCC-ee and FCC-hh, with its heavy ion programme and with the e-p option)[2]. 

The 5th FCC Physics, Experiments and Detectors workshop will reflect the status and achievements of FCC PED studies and initiate new activities. All PED Working group packages will be represented, Physics Programme, Physics Performance, Detector Concepts and Physics Software and Computing, as well as the joint FCC-ee Accelerator-Experiment working groups (machine-detector interface (MDI) and centre-of-mass energy calibration, polarization and monochromatization (EPOL)). Joint sessions and tutorials will reinforce the synergies between working groups.      
The workshop welcomes the widest community, geographically, thematically (colliders and beyond), and members of other ‘Higgs factory’ and future projects. 

If you want to remain up-to-date on the FCC physics and experiments activities, or if you plan to participate in the study, please register to the mailing lists at the following URLs: 
https://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=fcc-experiments-lepton 
https://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=fcc-experiments-hadron
https://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=fcc-experiments-ep

[1]    CERN council documents describe the organization and milestones of the FCC-FS; 
[2]    More details can be found in the kick-off presentations at the FCC week in June 2021.
 

Participants
    • 08:30 10:10
      Higgs Physics: 2
      Convener: Yves Sirois (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
    • 10:10 10:40
      Coffee break 30m
    • 10:40 12:00
      Higgs Physics: 2
      Convener: Freya Blekman (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:00 14:45
      Flavour at FCC
      Convener: Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 14:45 15:25
      Coffee break 40m
    • 15:25 16:45
      Flavour at FCC
      Convener: Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
      • 15:25
        B to K* tau tau 15m
        Speaker: Tristan Miralles (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))
      • 15:45
        Bs to PhiPhi 15m
        Speaker: Roy Aleksan (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
      • 16:05
        Ks reconstruction and B+ to D K+ 15m
        Speaker: Emmanuel Francois Perez (CERN)
      • 16:25
        B to K* nu nu 15m
        Speaker: Matthew William Kenzie (University of Warwick (GB))
    • 19:00 20:30
      21st Century Particle Physics: Discussions on Science and Faith

      Particle physicists working on CERN’s next large particle collider - the Future Circular Collider, and theologians will discuss the common ground between science, philosophy, and religion.

      This event is open to all people and is not restricted to any particular faith.

      To register, please visit: physicsandfaith.eventbrite.co.uk

      Panel members:
      • Fr. Andrew Pinsent, Research Director at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford
      • Professor John Ellis, CERN and KCL
      • Prof Elaine Howard Ecklund, Director of the Religion and Public Life Program in Rice's Social Sciences Research Institute
      • Dr Nikos Rompotis, University of Liverpool
      • Dr Kate Shaw, University of Sussex
      • Revd Canon Dr Mike Kirby, University of Liverpool
      The discussion will be moderated by acclaimed science writer, Dr Michael Brooks.

    • 08:30 09:50
      Detector Concepts
      Convener: Didier Claude Contardo (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
    • 09:50 10:10
      Coffee break 20m
    • 10:10 12:00
      Detector Concepts
      Convener: Martin Aleksa (CERN)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch break 1h
    • 13:00 14:35
      FCC Physics: QCD
      Convener: Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)
      • 13:00
        Hadronization corrections in event shapes 15m
        Speaker: Silvia Ferrario Ravasio (University of Milan - Bicocca)
      • 13:20
        Jet energy spectrum and substructure in e+e− collisions at 91.2 GeV 15m
        Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
      • 13:40
        Event Generators & Parton Showers 15m
        Speakers: Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)
      • 14:00
        A Robust Measure of Event Isotropy at Colliders 12m
        Speaker: Cari Cesarotti (Harvard University)
      • 14:15
        Parton structure, forward physics and eA and FCC-eh 15m
        Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (AGH UST Krakow)
    • 14:35 15:05
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:05 17:15
      FCC Physics: Precision Electroweak
      Convener: Michael Peskin
      • 15:05
        KKMCee status and planning 12m
        Speaker: Staszek Jadach (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
      • 15:20
        Path to FCC-ee 0.01% Theoretical Luminosity Precision 12m

        Path to FCC-ee 0.01% Theoretical Luminosity Precision with an Eye toward Synergies with Other FCC Precision Theory Requirements and toward Recent Developments

        Speakers: Bennie Ward, Bennie Ward (Baylor University (US))
      • 15:35
        Three-loop elliptic integrals for the Standard Model rho parameter 15m
        Speaker: Samuel Abreu (CERN)
      • 15:55
        Electroweak pseudo-observables and Z-boson form factors at two-loop accuracy 15m
        Speaker: Johann Usovitsch (CERN)
      • 16:15
        Partonic structure of electron 15m
        Speakers: Stefano Frixione (INFN), Stefano Frixione (CERN)
      • 16:35
        Tools for higher loops 15m
        Speaker: Janusz Gluza (University of Silesia (PL))
      • 16:55
        Path to precision 20m
        Speaker: Ayres Freitas
    • 08:30 10:30
      Machine Detector Interface
      Convener: Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))
    • 10:30 10:45
      Coffee break 15m
    • 10:45 12:15
      Software
      Convener: Philipp Roloff (CERN)
      • 10:45
        Status of the software 15m
        Speaker: Gerardo Ganis (CERN)
      • 11:05
        Lesson learned when migrating the IDEA drift chamber software to EDM4hep 15m
        Speaker: Lia Lavezzi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
      • 11:25
        Lesson learned when migrating the IDEA DR calo software to DD4hep and to EDM4hep 15m
        Speakers: Iacopo Vivarelli (University of Sussex (GB)), Roberto Ferrari (INFN Pavia (IT)), Sang Hyun Ko (Seoul National University (KR))
      • 11:45
        FCC software step-by-step 25m
        Speaker: Valentin Volkl (CERN)
    • 12:15 13:00
      Lunch break 45m
    • 13:00 14:15
      FCC Physics: Direct BSM searches
      Convener: Albert De Roeck (CERN)
    • 14:15 14:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 14:45 16:35
      FCC Physics: Direct BSM searches
      Convener: Jose Valle
    • 17:00 18:30
      The FCC global collaboration and international forum: (Restricted to the National Contacts / Invited colleagues)
      Convener: Gregorio Bernardi (APC Paris CNRS/IN2P3)
    • 08:30 09:30
      FCC Physics Neutrinos and Flavour
      Convener: Serguey Petcov
    • 10:00 12:00
      Joint Software, Physics Performance and Detector session
      Convener: Felix Sefkow (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
    • 13:00 14:15
      Next steps
      Conveners: Joost Vossebeld (University of Liverpool (GB)), Prof. Joost Vossebeld
    • 14:15 14:45
      Coffee break 30m
    • 14:45 16:45
      Next steps
      Convener: Maria Chamizo Llatas (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))