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We discuss the main elements of a collider facility based on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. We show that very competitive luminosities could be reached for high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders. A first set of parameters was…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Allen Caldwell , John Farmer , Nelson Lopes , Alexander Pukhov , Ferdinand Willeke , Thomas Wilson

In July 2013 ICFA established the Neutrino Panel with the mandate "To promote international cooperation in the development of the accelerator-based neutrino-oscillation program and to promote international collaboration in the development a…

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spread of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: serve the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 D. Adey , S. K. Agarwalla , C. M. Ankenbrandt , R. Asfandiyarov , J. J. Back , G. Barker , E. Baussan , R. Bayes , S. Bhadra , V. Blackmore , A. Blondel , S. A. Bogacz , C. Booth , S. B. Boyd , A. Bravar , S. J. Brice , A. D. Bross , F. Cadoux , H. Cease , A. Cervera , J. Cobb , D. Colling , L. Coney , A. Dobbs , J. Dobson , A. Donini , P. J. Dornan , M. Dracos , F. Dufour , R. Edgecock , J. Evans , M. A. George , T. Ghosh , A. deGouvea , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. Haesler , G. Hanson , M. Geelhoed , P. F. Harrison , M. Hartz , P. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando-Morata , P. J. Hodgson , P. Huber , A. Izmaylov , Y. Karadhzov , T. Kobilarcik , J. Kopp , L. Kormos , A. Korzenev , A. Kurup , Y. Kuno , P. Kyberd , J. P. Lagrange , A. M. Laing , J. Link , A. Liu , K. R. Long , N. McCauley , K. T. McDonald , K. Mahn , C. Martin , J. Martin , O. Mena , S. R. Mishra , N. Mokhov , J. Morfin , Y. Mori , W. Murray , D. Neuffer , R. Nichol , E. Noah , M. A. Palmer , S. Parke , S. Pascoli , J. Pasternak , M. Popovic , P. Ratoff , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , P. Rubinov , E. Santos , A. Sato , E. Scantamburlo , J. K. Sedgbeer , D. R. Smith , P. J. Smith , J. T. Sobczyk , S. Soldner-Rembold , F. J. P. Soler , M. Sorel , A. Stahl , L. Stanco , P. Stamoulis , S. Striganov , H. Tanaka , I. J. Taylor , C. Touramanis , C. D. Tunnel , Y. Uchida , N. Vassilopoulos , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , E. Wildner , M. J. Wilking , W. Winter , U. K. Yang

Parameters are given of 4 TeV and 0.5 TeV (c-of-m) high luminosity muon-muon Colliders. We discuss the various systems, starting from the proton accelerator needed to generate the muons and proceeding through muon cooling, acceleartion and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. B. Palmer , J. C. Gallardo

We investigate the sensitivity of future high-energy muon colliders to heavy Majorana neutrinos, considering both opposite-sign ($\mu^+\mu^-$) and same-sign ($\mu^+\mu^+$) collision modes. We focus on $\mu^+\mu^-$ colliders operating at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Parham Dehghani , Mariana Frank , Benjamin Fuks

A muon collider (MC) would require a high-power proton driver to generate intense muon beams at the start of the accelerator chain. Like other high-power facilities, the driver would accumulate intense proton bunches via charge-exchange…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Austin Hoover , Vasiliy Morozov , Amith Narayan , Maurice Piller

It is widely accepted that the next lepton collider beyond a Higgs factory would require center-of-mass energy of the order of up to 15 TeV. Since, given reasonable space and cost restrictions, conventional accelerator technology reaches…

We propose the development and construction of a novel muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA as an upgrade to succeed the electron-ion collider (EIC) that is scheduled to commence in the early 2030s, by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Darin Acosta , Wei Li

The Muon Collider, recently highlighted as Recommendation 1 in the U.S. National Academies report on Elementary Particle Physics, offers a unique opportunity for fixed-target experiments with high energy and luminosity. This paper outlines…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-07 Henry T. Klest

Muon colliders provide an exciting new direction to expand the energy frontier of particle physics. We point out a new use of these facilities for neutrino and beyond the Standard Model physics using their main detectors. Muon decays along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Luc Bojorquez-Lopez , Matheus Hostert , Carlos A. Argüelles , Zhen Liu

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a neutrino beamline facility located at Fermilab. The facility is designed to aim a beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed in South Dakota. The neutrinos are produced in a…

Construction of future Muon Collider (or dedicated mu-ring) tangential to the energy frontier pp colliders will give opportunity to realize mu-p collisions at multi-TeV center of mass energies at a luminosity of order of $10^{33}$…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Burak Dagli , Bora Ketenoglu , Saleh Sultansoy

A new experimental area designed to develop, test and verify muon ionization cooling apparatus using the 400-MeV Fermilab Linac proton beam has been fully installed and is presently being commissioned. Initially, this area was used for…

This document is the second in a series of reports on the exciting physics that would be accessible at Fermilab in the event of an upgraded proton source. Where the first report covered a broad range of topics, this report focuses…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Barenboim , A. de Gouvea , T. Dombeck , N. Grossman , D. Harris , D. Michael , M. Szleper , M. Velasco , S. Werkema

The ALICE experiment is dedicated to the study of the quark gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) is under consideration by the ALICE experiment to be part of its program of detectors upgrade…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antonio Uras

Muon has emerged as a promising optimizer for large-scale foundation model pre-training by exploiting the matrix structure of neural network updates through iterative orthogonalization. However, its practical efficiency is limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ziyue Liu , Ruijie Zhang , Zhengyang Wang , Yequan Zhao , Yupeng Su , Zi Yang , Zheng Zhang

The production of high-intensity muon beams is crucial for advancing particle and accelerator physics, both now and in the future. Achieving these high-intensity goals requires overcoming significant challenges in high-power targetry. Here,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Michael T Hedges , Madeleine Bloomer

The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new concepts have been proposed that would revolutionize neutrino…

We summarize the physics motivations for future accelerators at CERN. We argue that (a) a luminosity upgrade for the LHC could provide good physics return for a relatively modest capital investment, (b) CLIC would provide excellent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert De Roeck , John Ellis , Fabiola Gianotti

Muon accelerators, a potential technology for enabling $\mathcal{O}$(10 TeV) parton center of mass energy collisions, would also source an intense, collimated beam of neutrinos at TeV energies. The energy and size of this beam would be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicholas W. Kamp , Gray Putnam