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/

 

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

Review L2/3 PED progress

coffee break

Review L2/3 Accelerator progress

Review L2/3 PED progress

Reception

Wednesday 9 September

Plenary

4 FCC project overview (TBA)

5 FCC PED Overview

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

6 FCC Accelerator Progress

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

coffee break

Plenary

7 US engagement in FCC

Speaker: Regina Rameika

8 US FCC Accelerator efforts overview

9 US FCC PED efforts overview

10 AI & Genesis: impact on future colliders

Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (LBL)

Lunch break

Accelerator parallels

Instrumentation/Reco/Tagging/Simulation AI

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

Report from RD/CPAD

Panel discussion: how do we plug into the Reference Design for FCC

Reception: Conference Dinner

Thursday 10 September

Accelerator parallels

Overview of L2 PED aspirations - open to contributions

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

Report from DRDs

Lunch break

Accelerator parallels

Detector/Computing

coffee break

Accelerator parallels

Instrumentation/Reco/Tagging/Simulation AI: Physics new ideas/wish list

Panel discussion: how do we plug into the CDR for detector concepts

Friday 11 September

Plenary

coffee break

Plenary