diff --git a/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2025.yml similarity index 97% rename from projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml rename to projects/muon-collider-tracking-2025.yml index f3638dc..8b1f015 100644 --- a/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml +++ b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2025.yml @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ contacts: email: spagangriso@lbl.gov - name: Sergo Jindariani email: sergo@fnal.gov + - name: Angira Rastogi + email: arastogi@lbl.gov mentees: - name: Sarah Shinde link: https://iris-hep.org/fellows/shindesc.html diff --git a/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2026.yml b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2026.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cf7b52 --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2026.yml @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +name: Charged-particles reconstruction at Muon Colliders +postdate: 2025-12-08 +categories: + - Simulation + - Analysis tools +durations: + - 3 months +experiments: + - Future Colliders +skillset: + - C++ + - Python +status: + - Available +project: + - IRIS-HEP +program: + - IRIS-HEP fellow +location: + - Remote + - In person +commitment: + - Full time + +shortdescription: Optimization of charged-particle reconstruction algorithms in future Muon Colliders +description: > + A muon-collider has been proposed as a possible path for future high-energy physics. + The design of a detector for a muon collider has to cope with a large + rate of beam-induced background, resulting in an unprecedentedly large multplicity of particles entering the + detector that are unrelated to the main muon-muon collision. + The algorithms used for charged particle reconstruction (tracking) need to cope with such "noise" and be + able to successfully reconstruct the trajectories of the particles of interest, which results + in a very large conbinatorial problem that challenges the approaches adopted so far. + The project consists of investigating how the tracking algorithms can be improved by utilizing a combination of + directional information from specially-arranged silicon-detector layers and more advanced reconstruction techniques and algorithms + available in the experiment-generic ACTS tracking library adapted to the specific environment expected for a Muon Collider detector. + The project allows the fellow to mix acquiring good technical skills and the ability to innovate state-of-the-art tracking algorithms in this less-explored environment. + +contacts: + - name: Simone Pagan Griso + email: spagangriso@lbl.gov + - name: Sergo Jindariani + email: sergo@fnal.gov + - name: Angira Rastogi + email: arastogi@lbl.gov +mentees: diff --git a/projects/wfa-collider-bib-2025.yml b/projects/wfa-collider-bib-2025.yml index e4495ce..3703994 100644 --- a/projects/wfa-collider-bib-2025.yml +++ b/projects/wfa-collider-bib-2025.yml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ skillset: - C++ - Python status: - - Available + - Obsolete/Closed project: - IRIS-HEP program: diff --git a/projects/wfa-collider-detector-sw-design.yml b/projects/wfa-collider-detector-sw-design.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..220cfa8 --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/wfa-collider-detector-sw-design.yml @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +name: Software for Detector Design for future wake-field based colliders +postdate: 2025-12-08 +categories: + - Simulation + - Analysis tools +durations: + - 3 months +experiments: + - Future Colliders +skillset: + - C++ + - Python +status: + - Available +project: + - IRIS-HEP +program: + - IRIS-HEP fellow +location: + - Remote + - In person +commitment: + - Full time + +shortdescription: Software infrastructure and detector layout exploration for detectors at future wakefield-based colliders +description: > + Wafkefield-based acceleration techniques promised tens of GeV of acceleration in under a meter. Such concepts have been demonstrated in laboratories with single cells. + Despite this promise, only recently a coordinated effort to study end-to-end a complete collider design based on such technology has started. + Within this project, the question of what type of detector would be best suited to extract the best physics out of such very-high-energy electron-positron (or electron-electron, or photon-photon) collisions remains largely unexplored. + In this project, you will help building up the software infrastructure, within the key4hep framework, that will allow such detailed studies and start exploring detector layout assumptions and their implications. + +contacts: + - name: Simone Pagan Griso + email: spagangriso@lbl.gov + - name: Angira Rastogi + email: arastogi@lbl.gov +mentees: