Fourth US FCC meeting

Name: Fourth US FCC meeting
Start: 2026-09-08T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-11T12:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

8 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 11 Sept 2026, 12:00 America/Los_Angeles

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium

SLAC

150

Carl Haber (LBNL), Caterina Vernieri (SLAC), Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Loukas Gouskos (Brown University), Michael Hance (UC Santa Cruz), Spencer Gessner (SLAC), Srini Rajagopalan (BNL), Stephen Gourlay (FNAL), Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC), Vladimir Shiltsev (Fermilab)

Description

The fourth US FCC (https://us-fcc.web.cern.ch) meeting will be hosted at SLAC. Save the date September 8-11 2026, details will follow soon.

Previous editions:

BNL, April 24-26, 2023

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1244371/

MIT, March 25-27, 2024

https://indico.mit.edu/event/876/

ANL/FNAL, April 14-17, 2025

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/67484/

Registration

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Participants

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Tuesday 8 September
- Tutorial Session: Tutorials
  
  Convener: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
  - 1
    
    Machine-Detector Interface
    
    Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)
  - 10:00
    
    Break
  - 2
    
    Beam-Beam Modeling in WarpX - Backgrounds
  - 3
    
    Beam-Beam Modeling - Turn-by-turn simulations
    
    Speaker: Peter Kicsiny (SLAC)
- Review L2/3 Accelerator progress
  - 4
    
    SRF R&D toward FCC
    
    Speaker: Kellen McGee (Fermilab)
  - 5
    
    Beam-Dust Studies of SuperKEKB relevant to FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Chad Mitchell (LBNL)
  - 6
    
    MDI simulations backgrounds and luminosity monitor systematics on FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)
  - 7
    
    Discussion
- Review L2/3 PED progress
  - 8
    
    Development of digitization framework
  - 9
    
    Straw Tracker and dN/dx
  - 10
    
    MAPS progress in US
  - 11
    
    LGAD for PID / TOF
  - 12
    
    AIM summary
  - 13
    
    Test beam results - muon drift tube and scintillator
  - 14
    
    Status of Dual-readout calorimeter
  - 15
    
    Calorimeter WP 2-4 summary
- coffee break
- Review L2/3 Accelerator progress
  - 16
    
    MDI Engineering and cryomodule concept for FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)
  - 17
    
    Beam-Beam studies of SuperKEKB relevant to FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Ji Qiang (LBNL)
  - 18
    
    Next steps in defining a magnet R&D program
  - 19
    
    Discussion
- Review L2/3 PED progress
  - 20
    
    Status of dual-readout calorimeter
  - 21
    
    Summary if Calorimeter WP 2-4
- Reception
Wednesday 9 September
- Plenary
  - 22
    
    FCC project overview (TBA)
  - 23
    
    FCC PED Overview
    
    Speaker: Guy Wilkinson
  - 24
    
    FCC Accelerator Progress
    
    Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
- coffee break
- Plenary
  - 25
    
    US engagement in FCC
    
    Speaker: Regina Rameika
  - 26
    
    US FCC Accelerator efforts overview
    
    Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
  - 27
    
    US FCC PED efforts overview
    
    Speakers: Srini Rajagopalan (BNL), Valentina Cairo (SLAC)
  - 28
    
    AI & Genesis: impact on future colliders
    
    Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (LBL)
  - 29
    
    Collaboration forming
- Lunch break
- Accelerator parallels
  - 30
    
    The US Accelerator R&D Program
    
    Speaker: TBC
  - 31
    
    The GARD RF Roadmap
    
    Speaker: Matthias Liepe (Cornell)
  - 32
    
    US Beam Physics and AI/ML R&D
    
    Speaker: Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL)
  - 33
    
    The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee
- Physics/Reconstruction/AI
  - 34
    
    FCC S&C Overview
    
    Speaker: David Lange
  - 35
    
    Beam Backgrounds
  - 36
    
    Event Generators
    
    Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)
  - 37
    
    Simulation and Reconstruction
    
    Speaker: Giovanni Marchiori
  - 38
    
    Jet Flavor Tagging
  - 39
    
    Analysis Support in the US
- coffee break
- Accelerator parallels
  - 40
    
    R&D Opportunities for the US on FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
  - 41
    
    Status of the MDI for FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Manuela Boscolo (CERN/INFN)
- Detector
  - 42
    
    The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Ernst Sichtermann (LBL)
- Discussion on Early Career Scientists Engagement: how do we plug into the Reference Design for FCC
- Reception: Conference Dinner
Thursday 10 September
- Accelerator parallels
  - 43
    
    HFCC-ACC Funding and alternate sources
    
    Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
  - 44
    
    RF Power sources for FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Emilio Nanni (SLAC)
  - 45
    
    IR magnets for FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: Brett Parker (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Report from DRDs
  - 46
    
    Gaseous tracking detectors
  - 47
    
    DRD3 / Silicon Trackers
    
    Speaker: Jerome Baudot (IPHC-Strasbourg)
  - 48
    
    Calorimetry
    
    Speaker: Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)
  - 49
    
    Electronics and Integration
    
    Speaker: Frank Simon (KIT)
- coffee break
- Accelerator parallels
  - 50
    
    HTS Magnets for FCC-ee
    
    Speaker: TBD
  - 51
    
    Integrated US SRF program for FCC-ee
  - 52
    
    AI / ML for Accelerator design and Operation
- Physics/Reconstruction/AI
  - 53
    AI for detector optimization
    
    real-time constraints (incl. AI-on-Chip)
    
    Speaker: Qibin Liu (SLAC)
  - 54
    
    Discussion AI for FCC
- Lunch break
- Accelerator parallels
  - 55
    
    Laboratory proposals
- LDRD initiatives for PED & Computing
  - 56
    
    Integrating stitched and coffea into the key4hep ecosystem
    
    Speaker: Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)
- coffee break
- Accelerator parallels
  - 57
    
    Discussion and prioritization
- PED overflow
  - 58
    
    Particle Flow at FCC
    
    traditional + ML, performance and systematics
- Discussion on Early Career Scientists Engagement
Friday 11 September
- Plenary
  - 59
    
    The impact of detector design and systematic uncertainties on physics measurements
  - 60
    
    Opportunities at the Z-pole focusing on Flavour physics
    
    Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti (LBL)
  - 61
    
    CPAD efforts and FCC detectors needs
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)
- coffee break
- Plenary
  - 62
    
    Interaction Region developments
    
    Speaker: Fabrizio Palla (INFN Pisa)
  - 63
    
    Accelerator summary and overview
    
    Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)
  - 64
    
    PED summary and overview
  - 65
    
    Computing summary and overview