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${\mu}$LHC: Antimuon Ring and HL-LHC based ${\mu}^+p$ Collider

Accelerator Physics 2025-06-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Conceptual design and performance evaluation of HL-LHC based antimuon-proton collider (μ{\mu}LHC) are presented. Leveraging the μ{\mu}TRISTAN concept based on established J-PARC ultra-cold μ+{\mu}^{+} beam technology, μ{\mu}LHC will give the opportunity to achieve a 5.3 TeV center-of-mass energy, significantly surpassing EIC and LHeC. Two booster ring options for μ+{\mu}^{+} acceleration, namely, a μ{\mu}TRISTAN-based and a repurposed LHeC ERL-based systems, are explored. Achievable luminosities are predicted to exceed 1033cm2s110^{33} cm^{-2}s^{-1}. The μ{\mu}LHC offers substantially wider kinematic plane coverage, particularly in small-x and high-Q2Q^{2} regions, significantly contributing to QCD basics and Higgs boson properties. Its unique potential for BSM physics extends to muon-related phenomena like excited muons, color-octet muons, leptoquarks, and contact interactions. A possible detector concept is also outlined. Given the maturity of ultra-cold μ+{\mu}^{+} beam technology, μ{\mu}LHC is highly feasible for earlier realization than the muon collider, positioning it as a critical tool for the future of high energy physics.

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@article{arxiv.2506.15445,
  title  = {${\mu}$LHC: Antimuon Ring and HL-LHC based ${\mu}^+p$ Collider},
  author = {D. Akturk and A. C. Canbay and H. Dagistanli and B. Dagli and U. Kaya and B. Ketenoglu and A. Kilic and F. Kocak and A. Ozturk and S. Sultansoy and I. Tapan and F. Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15445},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables