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The Physics Capabilities of mu^+ mu^- Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We summarize the potential of muon colliders to probe fundamental physics. W+WW^+W^-, \bar tt, and ZhZh threshold measurements could determine masses to precisions ΔMW=6\Delta M_W = 6 MeV, Δmt=70\Delta m_t = 70 MeV, and Δmh=45\Delta m_h = 45 MeV, to test electroweak radiative corrections. With ss-channel Higgs production, unique to a muon collider, the Higgs mass could be pinpointed (Δmh<1\Delta m_h < 1 MeV) and its width measured. The other Higgs bosons of supersymmetry can be produced and studied by three methods. If instead the WWWW sector turns out to be strongly interacting, a 4 TeV muon collider is ideally suited to its study.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9704290,
  title  = {The Physics Capabilities of mu^+ mu^- Colliders},
  author = {V. Barger and M. S. Berger and J. F. Gunion and T. Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9704290},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk presented by V. Barger at the symposium "New Ideas for Particle Accelerators", Inst. for Theor. Physics, Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 1996. Latex 2.09 with aipproc.sty and epsf.sty, 11 embedded postscript figures. Postscript version of the complete paper is also available at http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1997/madph-97-989.ps.Z or at ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1997/madph-97-989.ps.Z