Kick-off Meetg. "Polarization for the e+e- -> Higgs run at the FCC-ee"

from Monday, 2 November 2026 (09:00) to Tuesday, 3 November 2026 (19:00)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Nov 2026
3 Nov 2026
AM
09:00
Second day (until 11:15)
09:00 Transport of polarized beams in the booster and injection into the collider - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)  
09:20 Polarization in collisions, beam beam depolarization - Dr Tatiana Pieloni (EPFL) Yi Wu (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
09:35 spin matching considerations for the interaction region - Alain Blondel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
09:55 spin rotator options for FCCee - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)  
10:35 spin rotators studies for CEPC - Duan,Zhe duanz  
10:55
morning second day part 2 (until 13:00)
11:10 --- coffee ---
11:40 Progress on monochromatization - Anna Korsun  
12:10 Physics with polarized beams at the WW - Matteo Defranchis  
12:20 Phsics with polarized beams at the Higgs and at the Tera-Z - Alain Blondel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
11:10 --- coffee break ---
PM
12:55
First day -- part 1 (until 16:20)
13:00 Introduction and word from the project leader - Alain Blondel Frank Zimmermann  
13:20 Motivation: why measure the electron Yukawa coupling? - Matthew Philip Mccullough  
13:50 requirements on integrated luminosity, monochromatization and beam polarization - David d'Enterria  
14:20 Accelerator challenges for ee--> H with longitudinally polarized beams - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)  
14:45 Polarization studies for CEPC - Dr Zhe Duan (IHEP)  
15:15 spin effects in e+e- --> Higgs production and possible S/B improvements, what spin state(s) are most desirable?  
15:40 FCC-ee injector overview -- Polarized beams? - Dr Simone Gilardoni (CERN)  
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:40
First day -- part 2 (until 19:10)
16:45 Present Polarizer Ring Design for Energy Calibration - Madeleine Laura Watson (University of Surrey (GB))  
17:25 Considerations on positron polarization in view of a polarized Run at 63 GeV - Christian Carli (CERN)  
17:55 Electron polarization for a polarized FCC-ee - Eduardo Granados (CERN)  
18:25 day 1 wrap up and introduction to day 2, Dinner directions - Alain Blondel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
19:30 --- Dinner (Meyrin) ---
13:00 --- LUNCH BREAK ---
14:00
second day afternoon part 1 (until 17:50)
14:00 Polarization & centre-of-mass energy monitoring requirement for polarized H(125) run -- Is an upgrade required wrt. what we already foresee for the Z and W runs? - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))  
14:30 Polarimeter set up for FCC-ee  
15:05 Machine parameters - Franck Zimmermann  
15:30 simulation tools  
16:00 -- Summing up+: what additional hardware would be needed?  
16:25 round table discussion, next steps, next meetings.