diff --git a/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1538736 --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/muon-collider-tracking-2024-2.yml @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +name: Charged-particles reconstruction at Muon Colliders +postdate: 2024-04-25 +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 +mentees: