Fourth US FCC meeting

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

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

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)

 

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/

 

US_FCC_2026_meeting_poster_11x17_v2.pdf

US_FCC_2026_meeting_poster_8.5x11_v1.pdf

Tuesday 8 September

09:00 → 12:30 Tutorial Session: Tutorials

Convener: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

09:00 Machine-Detector Interface

Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)

10:00 Break

10:30 Beam-Beam Modeling in WarpX - Backgrounds

11:30 Beam-Beam Modeling - Turn-by-turn simulations

Speaker: Peter Kicsiny (SLAC)

13:30 → 15:30 Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

13:30 SRF R&D toward FCC

Speaker: Kellen McGee (Fermilab)

14:15 Beam-Dust Studies of SuperKEKB relevant to FCC-ee

Speaker: Chad Mitchell (LBNL)

14:45 MDI simulations backgrounds and luminosity monitor systematics on FCC-ee

Speaker: Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

15:15 Discussion

13:30 → 15:30 Review L2/3 PED progress

13:30 Development of digitization framework

13:50 Straw Tracker and dN/dx

Speaker: Prof. Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan)

14:10 MAPS progress in US

Speaker: Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)

14:30 LGAD Development for PID / TOF

Speaker: Simone Mazza

14:50 AIM summary

15:10 Test beam results - muon drift tubes and scintillator strips

Speaker: Elliott Chai (Michigan)

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

16:00 MDI Engineering and cryomodule concept for FCC-ee

Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)

16:30 Beam-Beam studies of SuperKEKB relevant to FCC-ee

Speaker: Ji Qiang (LBNL)

17:00 Next steps in defining a magnet R&D program

17:15 Discussion

16:00 → 17:30 Review L2/3 PED progress

16:00 Status of dual-readout calorimeter

16:20 Summary if Calorimeter WP 2-4

18:00 → 20:00 Reception and Poster Session

Wednesday 9 September

08:30 → 10:10 Plenary

08:30 Welcome to SLAC

08:40 FCC project overview (TBA)

09:10 FCC PED Overview

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

09:40 FCC Accelerator Progress

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

10:10 → 10:40 coffee break

10:40 → 12:25 Plenary

10:40 US engagement in FCC

Speaker: Regina Rameika

11:10 US FCC Accelerator efforts overview

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

11:30 US FCC PED efforts overview

Speakers: Srini Rajagopalan (BNL), Valentina Cairo (SLAC)

11:50 AI & Genesis: impact on future colliders

Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (LBL)

12:10 Collaboration forming

12:25 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 Accelerator parallels

13:30 The US Accelerator R&D Program

Speaker: TBC

14:00 The GARD RF Roadmap

Speaker: Matthias Liepe (Cornell)

14:30 US Beam Physics and AI/ML R&D

Speaker: Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL)

15:00 The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee

13:30 → 15:30 Physics/Reconstruction/AI

13:30 FCC S&C Overview

Speaker: David Lange

13:50 Beam Backgrounds

14:10 Event Generators

Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

14:30 Simulation and Reconstruction

Speaker: Giovanni Marchiori

14:50 Jet Flavor Tagging

15:10 Core Software and Detector Geometry

Speakers: Charles Leggett (LBNL), Vakho Tsulaia (LBNL)

15:30 → 16:00 coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Accelerator parallels

16:00 R&D Opportunities for the US on FCC-ee

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

16:30 Status of the MDI for FCC-ee

Speaker: Manuela Boscolo (CERN/INFN)

16:00 → 17:00 Detector

16:00 The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee

Speaker: Ernst Sichtermann (LBL)

17:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion: US involvement in the Reference Design for FCC

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner: Conference Dinner

https://www.chefchu.com/ Chef's Chu
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Los Altos, CA 94022

Thursday 10 September

08:30 → 10:00 Accelerator parallels

08:30 HFCC-ACC Funding and alternate sources

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

09:00 RF Power sources for FCC-ee

Speaker: Emilio Nanni (SLAC)

09:30 IR magnets for FCC-ee

Speaker: Brett Parker (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:30 → 10:00 Report from DRDs

08:30 Gaseous tracking detectors

08:50 DRD3 / Silicon Trackers

Speaker: Jerome Baudot (IPHC-Strasbourg)

09:10 Calorimetry

Speaker: Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)

09:30 Electronics and Integration

Speaker: Frank Simon (KIT)

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Accelerator parallels

10:30 HTS Magnets for FCC-ee

Speaker: TBD

11:00 Integrated US SRF program for FCC-ee

11:30 AI / ML for Accelerator design and Operation

10:30 → 12:00 Physics/Reconstruction/AI: AI for FCC-ee

10:30 Intelligence on chip

Speaker: Qibin Liu (SLAC)

10:45 AI for Detector Optimisation

Speaker: Wonyong Chung (Princeton University)

11:00 AI for PF

Speaker: Dolores Garcia (MIT)

11:15 AI for Jet Tagging

Speaker: Gregor Krzmanc (SLAC)

11:30 Discussion AI for FCC

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Accelerator parallels

13:30 Laboratory proposals

13:30 → 15:00 LDRD initiatives for PED & Computing

13:30 Fermi National Laboratory

Speaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

13:45 SLAC National Laboratory

Speaker: Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)

14:00 Lawrence Berkeley

Speaker: Carl Haber (LBNL)

14:15 Brookhaven

Speaker: Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)

14:30 Argonne

14:45 Discussion

15:00 → 15:30 coffee break

15:30 → 16:55 Accelerator parallels

15:30 Discussion and prioritization

15:30 → 16:55 PED overflow

15:30 Particle Flow at FCC

traditional + ML, performance and systematics

15:50 Integrating stitched and coffea into the key4hep ecosystem

Speaker: Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)

17:00 → 18:00 Panel discussion: Discussion on Early Career Scientists Engagement

Friday 11 September

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary

08:30 The impact of detector design and systematic uncertainties on physics measurements

09:00 Opportunities at the Z-pole focusing on Flavour physics

Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti (LBL)

09:30 CPAD efforts and FCC detectors needs

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)

10:00 → 10:30 coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary

10:30 Interaction Region developments

Speaker: Fabrizio Palla (INFN Pisa)

10:50 Accelerator summary and overview

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

11:10 PED summary and overview

11:30 Computing summary and overview