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Muon colliders are an exciting possibility for reaching the highest energies possible on the shortest timescale. They potentially combine the greatest strengths of $e^+e^-$ and $pp$ colliders by bridging the energy versus precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Matthew Forslund , Patrick Meade

The experimental discovery of large nu_mu-nu_tau mixing indicates that analogous mixing in the charged lepton sector could be substantial. We consider the possibility that if a high intensity muon beam, perhaps at the early stages of a muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marc Sher , Ismail Turan

Heavy spin-one particles are well-motivated new physics candidates that can have their origin in weakly coupled extensions of the Standard Model gauge group or in strongly coupled Composite Higgs models. Due to the variety of production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Francesca Acanfora , Michael J. Baker , Timothy Martonhelyi , Andrea Thamm

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and the most precise measurements of the parameters of the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance and cost of these…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel M. Kaplan

We discuss the technical feasibility, key machine parameters and major challenges of a 14 TeV c.m.e. muon-muon collider in the LHC tunnel. The luminosity of the collider is evaluated for three alternative muon sources - the PS synchrotron,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 D. Neuffer , V. Shiltsev

As the planning stages for a high energy muon collider enter a more concrete era, an important question arises as to what new physics could be uncovered. A TeV-scale muon collider is also a vector boson fusion (VBF) factory with a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-20 Tsz Hong Kwok , Lingfeng Li , Tao Liu , Ariel Rock

One of the fundamental challenges for future leptonic colliders and neutrino factories as well as for high-sensitivity studies of lepton universality is to design and construct new high-intensity sources of muons and positrons. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-18 Armen Apyan , Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny , Wiesław Płaczek

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel M. Kaplan

The FCC program at CERN provides an attractive all-in-one solution to address many of the key questions in particle physics. While we fully support the efforts towards this ambitious path, we believe that it is important to prepare a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-24 Marco Drewes , Elena Shaposhnikova , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Over the last decade there has been significant progress in developing the concepts and technologies needed to produce, capture and accelerate O(1021) muons/year. This development prepares the way for a new type of neutrino source (Neutrino…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 S. Geer

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…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Stephen D. Holmes , Vladimir D. Shiltsev

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable confirmations of the Standard Model (SM) describing the Electro-Weak and Strong Interactions. The Higgs boson was observed at CERN-LHC at 7-8 TeV and 13 TeV. The HL-LHC, a major luminosity upgrade…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Carlo Rubbia

Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 D. Neuffer , M. Palmer , Y. Alexahin , C. Ankenbrandt , J. P. Delahaye

Both muon colliders and non-colliding muon storage rings using muon collider technology have the potential to become the first true ``neutrino factories'', with uniquely intense and precisely characterized neutrino beams that could usher in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce J. King

We propose a new strategy to probe heavy neutrinos with non-universal fermion couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using a novel production mechanism and machine-learning algorithms. Focusing on proton--proton collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Yin-Fa Shen , Alfredo Gurrola , Francesco Romeo , Denis Rathjens , Andres Flórez

The eventual prospect of muon colliders reaching several TeV encourages us to consider the experimental opportunities presented by very copious stores of muons, approaching $10^{21}$ per year. I summarize and comment upon some highlights of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Chris Quigg

We update present bounds on the helicity of the neutrinos produced in muon decay, including e+ e- -> fbar f LEP 2 data. These significantly reduce the limits derived from all the other electroweak precision data. In Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Francisco del Aguila , Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra , Jorge de Blas

A low-energy medium-luminosity Muon Collider (MC) is being studied as a possible Higgs Factory (HF). Electrons from muon decays will deposit more than 300 kW in superconducting magnets of the HF collider ring. This imposes significant…

A complete scheme for production, cooling, acceleration, and ring for a 1.5 TeV center of mass muon collider is presented, together with parameters for two higher energy machines. The schemes starts with the front end of a proposed neutrino…

Muon colliders offer the possibility to go to very high energies with relatively small circular colliders, energies up to 10 or 14 TeV are envisioned. Due to their very clean collider environment they provide a fantastic tool to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-23 Jürgen Reuter