Workshop Goals & Scope:
The workshop will bring together experts in neutrino physics and high-energy colliders to explore the unique opportunities that a high-energy muon collider offers in answering key neutrino-related questions. The primary focus will be identifying questions that cannot be addressed by current or near-future experiments, with an emphasis on exploring new physics through neutrino interactions at such a collider.
The workshop will involve contributions from both neutrino and collider physicists as well as machine experts, who will collaborate to assess the need for a dedicated neutrino detector and investigate how high-energy neutrinos from muon decay could help address broader questions in the main detector. The discussions and outcomes of the workshop will be concluded in a white paper. The white paper will summarize the key findings, possible neutrino-related measurements, and design considerations for the collider, including the potential for incorporating a neutrino factory. This workshop, which will be first in this topic, will serve as a hub for the community, fostering collaborations that could shape the future of neutrino studies at high-energy muon colliders.
Dates: Oct 27th -29th, 2025 (Mon. - Wed.)
Location: Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (Pitt PACC), University of Pittsburgh
Workshop Venue: Courtyard by Marriott Pittsburgh University Center (100 Lytton Ave.)
Organizing Committee: Kun Cheng (Pitt PACC), Tao Han (Pitt PACC), Tova Holmes (Tennessee), Samuel Homiller (Pitt PACC), Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech), Donna Naples (Pitt PACC) and Zahra Tabrizi (Pitt PACC)
Administrator: Joni George
Confirmed Speakers:
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) [TBD],
Innes Bigaran (Virginia Tech),
Vedran Brdar (OSU),
Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern),
Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M),
Max Fieg (Fermilab),
Carolina Figueiredo (Princeton),
Julia Gehrlein (CSU),
Matheus Hostert (Iowa U.),
Doojin Kim (South Dakota U.),
Young-Kee Kim (Fermilab) [TBD],
Larry Lee (Tennessee),
Zhen Liu (UMN),
Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton U.),
Victoria Parrish (MSU),
Vladimir Shiltsev (NIU) [TBD],
Keping Xie (MSU)
