Discussion of the scientific potential of muon beams

Wednesday 18 Nov 2015, 09:30 → 17:40 Europe/Zurich

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

14-2015-11-18-Long.pdf

2015-12-11-Muon-discussion-summary.pdf

Arrival, welcome and introduction

Arrival and welcome

Conveners: Bettina Hamoudi (CERN), Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

1 Arrival

Speakers: Bettina Hamoudi (CERN), Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

2 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

Low-energy, high-brightness muon beams

Discussion of opportunities to advance the fields served by low-energy muon beams through the development of novel muon-accelerator technologies.

Conveners: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

3 Experiment

Speaker: Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Andreas Knecht - Low Energy Muon Beams.pdf

4 Japan/Future

Speaker: Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka University)

CERN-MUON-KUNO2015.pdf

5 Discussion

Coffee

Break

Convener: Bettina Hamoudi (CERN)

Neutrinos from muon beams

Discussion of the opportunities afforded by neutrino beams produced from the decay of muons.

Conveners: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

6 Experiment

Speaker: Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (GB))

Muon_Beams_CERN_Soler.pdf

Muon_Beams_CERN_Soler.pptx

7 Theory

Speaker: Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

2015-11-18-Huber.pdf

8 A neo-conventional neutrino beam

Speaker: Alan Bross (Fermilab)

CERN_muon_NCNB.pptx

9 Discussion

Lunch

Break

Convener: Bettina Hamoudi (CERN)

Energy frontier

Discussion of the opportunities afforded by muon-antimuon annihilation in the study of the Higgs boson and the search for new phenomena at very high energy.

10 Experiment

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Blondel-exp-at-muon-colliders-CERN-2015-11-18.pdf

Blondel-exp-at-muon-colliders-CERN-2015-11-18.pptx

11 Theory

Speaker: Gian Giudice (CERN)

muonbeams.pdf

12 Unique properties of muon beams

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Delahaye

JPD@Muon potential.pptx

13 Discussion

Tea

Coffee

Convener: Bettina Hamoudi (CERN)

Accelerator challenges

Discussion of the technology-development, R&D and accelerator physics programme required to realise the potential of muon beams for particle physics.

Conveners: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

14 Accelerator Science Challenges

Speaker: Mark Palmer (FNAL)

Palmer_AcceleratorScience_2015_1118_R2a.pdf

Palmer_AcceleratorScience_2015_1118_R2a.pptx

15 Low emittance muon beam using positron on target

Speaker: Pantaleo Raimondi

mumu_CERN_PR.pdf

mumu_CERN_PR.pptx

16 the ESS linac as proton driver for a high intensity muon beam for muSTORM, NF and Muon Collider

Speaker: Marcos Dracos (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

Dracos_CERN_muons.pdf

Dracos_CERN_muons.pptx

17 A short presentation about muon study in China

Speaker: Jingyu Tang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

Muon beam study in China -Tang.pdf

Muon beam study in China -Tang.pptx

18 Muons from photons

Speaker: Mieczyslaw Krasny (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Krasny_Muonbeams_ad_hoc_contr_Nov_2015.pdf

19 Discussion

14-2015-11-18-Long.pdf

14-2015-11-18-Long.pptx

Closing discussion and conclusions

Discussion of the conclusions of the meeting.

Conveners: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB)), Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

20 Conclusions

Speaker: Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))