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

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

Speaker: Prof. Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan)

10 MAPS progress in US

Speaker: Caterina Vernieri (SLAC)

11 LGAD Development for PID / TOF

Speaker: Simone Mazza

12 AIM summary

13 Test beam results - muon drift tube and scintillator

coffee break

Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

14 MDI Engineering and cryomodule concept for FCC-ee

Speaker: John Seeman (SLAC)

15 Beam-Beam studies of SuperKEKB relevant to FCC-ee

Speaker: Ji Qiang (LBNL)

16 Next steps in defining a magnet R&D program

17 Discussion

Review L2/3 PED progress

18 Status of dual-readout calorimeter

19 Summary if Calorimeter WP 2-4

Reception

Wednesday 9 September

Plenary

20 FCC project overview (TBA)

21 FCC PED Overview

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

22 FCC Accelerator Progress

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

coffee break

Plenary

23 US engagement in FCC

Speaker: Regina Rameika

24 US FCC Accelerator efforts overview

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

25 US FCC PED efforts overview

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

26 AI & Genesis: impact on future colliders

Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (LBL)

27 Collaboration forming

Lunch break

Accelerator parallels

28 The US Accelerator R&D Program

Speaker: TBC

29 The GARD RF Roadmap

Speaker: Matthias Liepe (Cornell)

30 US Beam Physics and AI/ML R&D

Speaker: Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL)

31 The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee

Physics/Reconstruction/AI

32 FCC S&C Overview

Speaker: David Lange

33 Beam Backgrounds

34 Event Generators

Speaker: Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Northwestern University)

35 Simulation and Reconstruction

Speaker: Giovanni Marchiori

36 Jet Flavor Tagging

37 Core Software and Detector Geometry

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

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

38 R&D Opportunities for the US on FCC-ee

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

39 Status of the MDI for FCC-ee

Speaker: Manuela Boscolo (CERN/INFN)

Detector

40 The EIC and synergies with FCC-ee

Speaker: Ernst Sichtermann (LBL)

Panel discussion: US involvement in the Reference Design for FCC

Reception: Conference Dinner

Thursday 10 September

Accelerator parallels

41 HFCC-ACC Funding and alternate sources

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

42 RF Power sources for FCC-ee

Speaker: Emilio Nanni (SLAC)

43 IR magnets for FCC-ee

Speaker: Brett Parker (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Report from DRDs

44 Gaseous tracking detectors

45 DRD3 / Silicon Trackers

Speaker: Jerome Baudot (IPHC-Strasbourg)

46 Calorimetry

Speaker: Marc-Andre Pleier (BNL)

47 Electronics and Integration

Speaker: Frank Simon (KIT)

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

48 HTS Magnets for FCC-ee

Speaker: TBD

49 Integrated US SRF program for FCC-ee

50 AI / ML for Accelerator design and Operation

Physics/Reconstruction/AI: AI for FCC-ee

51 Intelligence on chip

Speaker: Qibin Liu (SLAC)

52 AI for Detector Optimisation

Speaker: Wonyong Chung (Princeton University)

53 AI for PF

Speaker: Dolores Garcia (MIT)

54 AI for Jet Tagging

Speaker: Gregor Krzmanc (SLAC)

55 Discussion AI for FCC

Lunch break

Accelerator parallels

56 Laboratory proposals

LDRD initiatives for PED & Computing

57 Integrating stitched and coffea into the key4hep ecosystem

Speaker: Lindsey Gray (Fermilab)

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

58 Discussion and prioritization

PED overflow

59 Particle Flow at FCC

traditional + ML, performance and systematics

Panel discussion: Discussion on Early Career Scientists Engagement

Friday 11 September

Plenary

60 The impact of detector design and systematic uncertainties on physics measurements

61 Opportunities at the Z-pole focusing on Flavour physics

Speaker: Zoltan Ligeti (LBL)

62 CPAD efforts and FCC detectors needs

Speaker: Jonathan Asaadi (University of Texas Arlington)

coffee break

Plenary

63 Interaction Region developments

Speaker: Fabrizio Palla (INFN Pisa)

64 Accelerator summary and overview

Speaker: Tor Raubenheimer (SLAC)

65 PED summary and overview

66 Computing summary and overview