Muon Collider
Abstract
Both e+e- and {\mu}+{\mu}- colliders have been proposed as possible candidates for a lepton collider to complement and extend the reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The physics program that could be pursued by a new lepton collider (e+e- or {\mu}+{\mu}-) with sufficient luminosity would include understanding the mechanism behind mass generation and electroweak symmetry breaking; searching for, and possibly discovering, supersymmetric particles; and hunting for signs of extra spacetime dimensions and quantum gravity. However, the appropriate energy reach for such a collider is currently unknown, and will only be determined following initial physics results at the LHC. It is entirely possible that such results will indicate that a lepton collider with a collision energy well in excess of 1 TeV will be required to illuminate the physics uncovered at LHC. Such a requirement would require consideration of muons as the lepton of choice for such a collider.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.3803,
title = {Muon Collider},
author = {Stephen D. Holmes and Vladimir D. Shiltsev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3803},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
v.2., 6 pp. To appear in the 2nd edition of the book Elementary Particles, Landolt-Boernstein Series published by Springer. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:physics/9901022 by other author