J. Gonski Colloquium "A Collider for the Future of High Energy Physics"

Julia is a Panofsky Fellow working on energy frontier experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She completed her postdoc at Columbia and PhD at Harvard, both on the ATLAS experiment. Her research focuses on novel approaches to searching for beyond the Standard Model physics, particularly incorporating machine learning and anomaly detection. She also works on fast ML for electronics in advanced trigger and readout systems. Julia is involved in organizing for future colliders as a member of CPAD and coordinator of the AI, Integration, and Microelectronics area in the Higgs Factory Coordinating Consortium. High energy particle colliders have been a cornerstone of fundamental physics research for decades, providing increasingly stringent evidence of the Standard Model and enabling key discoveries. Outstanding goals for the field, such as precision characterization of the Higgs boson, probing the dark sector, and exploring the unknown, require a plan to ensure that the successes of collider physics don’t end with the Large Hadron Collider around 2040. The 2023 US P5 report lays the groundwork for future collider planning, prioritizing an off-shore “Higgs factory” followed by a multi-TeV discovery machine. The Future Circular Collider (FCC), proposed to be hosted at CERN with international collaboration, offers a combined program for both of these priorities. The P5 process, FCC program, and ongoing work will be discussed alongside related topics of alternate collider designs and accelerator/detector R&D, together laying out a bright and exciting future for our understanding of the fundamental universe.