Strong Dynamics at the Muon Collider: Working Group Report
Abstract
New strong dynamics at the energy scale ~ 1 TeV is an attractive and elegant theoretical ansatz for the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking. We review here the theoretical models for strong dynamics, particularly, technicolor theories and their low energy signatures. We emphasize that the fantastic beam energy resolution (sigma_E/E ~10^{-4}) expected at the first muon collider (sqrt{s} = 100-500 GeV) allows the possibility of resolving some extraordinarily narrow technihadron resonances and, Higgs-like techniscalars produced in the s-channel. Investigating indirect probes for strong dynamics such as search for muon compositeness, we find that the muon colliders provide unparallel reaches. A big muon collider (sqrt{s} =3-4 TeV) would be a remarkable facility to study heavy technicolor particles such as the topcolor Z', to probe the dynamics underlying fermion masses and mixings and to fully explore the strongly interacting electroweak sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803468,
title = {Strong Dynamics at the Muon Collider: Working Group Report},
author = {Pushpalatha Bhat and Estia Eichten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803468},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, 10 figures, uses aipproc. Plenary talk at the Fermilab Workshop on Physics at the First Muon Collider and at the Front End of a Muon Collider, November 1997