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We investigate the potential of a muon collider for testing the presence of anomalous Higgs boson couplings. We consider the case of a light (less than $160 GeV$) Higgs boson and study the effects on the Higgs branching ratios and total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. J. Gounaris , F. M. Renard

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

The future muon collider has the potential to discover feebly interacting particles in a wide range of masses above the electroweak scale. It is particularly suitable to search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), as their production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Oleksii Mikulenko , Mariia Marinichenko

An overview is given of muon collider technology and of the current status of the muon collider research program. The exciting potential of muon colliders for both neutrino physics and collider physics studies is then described and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce J. King

A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either $\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu_e}$ or $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} +\nu_e$ which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. N. Mohapatra

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

Over the last decade there has been significant progress in developing the concepts and technologies needed to produce, capture, accelerate and collide high intensity beams of muons. At present, a high-luminosity multi-TeV muon collider…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Vladimir Shiltsev

We point out that heavy new physics contributions in leptonic dipole moments and high-energy cross-sections of lepton pairs into Higgs bosons and photons are connected model-independently. In particular, we demonstrate that a muon collider,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-03 Dario Buttazzo , Paride Paradisi

The potential of muon colliders to address fundamental physics issues is explored, with emphasis on understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. The $s$-channel production of Higgs bosons, unique to a muon collider, along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Barger

One of the challenge of future muon colliders is the production of muon beams carrying high phase space densities. In particular the muon beam normalised transverse emittance is a relevant figure of merit to meet luminosity requests. A…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 C. Curatolo , L. Serafini

High-energy lepton colliders with a centre-of-mass energy in the multi-TeV range are currently considered among the most challenging and far-reaching future accelerator projects. Studies performed so far have mostly focused on the reach for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-17 Antonio Costantini , Federico De Lillo , Fabio Maltoni , Luca Mantani , Olivier Mattelaer , Richard Ruiz , Xiaoran Zhao

Accelerator-based searches for dark matter are aiming for high sensitivity and need an experimental setup with high luminosity. This field of research is often called intensity frontier physics. One of the best motivated portals of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Vasiliy Morozov , Bogdan Wojtsekhowski

Muon Colliders have unique technical and physics advantages and disadvantages when compared with both hadron and electron machines. They should thus be regarded as complementary. Parameters are given of 4 TeV and 0.5 TeV high luminosity…

Muons are elementary particles and provide cleaner collision events that can explore higher energies compared to composite particles like protons. Muons are also far heavier than their electron cousins, meaning that they emit less…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-15 Diktys Stratakis

Addressing the mass origin and properties of neutrinos is of strong interest to particle physics, baryogenesis and cosmology. Popular explanations involve physics beyond the standard model, for example, the dimension-5 Weinberg operator or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Sitian Qian , Tianyi Yang , Sen Deng , Jie Xiao , Leyun Gao , Andrew Michael Levin , Qiang Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You

A muon collider would be a powerful probe of flavor violation in new physics. There is a strong complementary case for collider measurements and precision low-energy probes of lepton flavor violation (as well as CP violation). We illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 Samuel Homiller , Qianshu Lu , Matthew Reece

Flavor-breaking interactions due to heavy new physics can be probed at a 10 TeV muon collider in the high-energy production of quarks and leptons. The high collision energy mitigates the suppression of the new interactions, offering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Alfredo Glioti , David Marzocca , Andrea Wulzer

The long-standing discrepancy of muon $g-2$ is a hint of new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. In this letter we show that heavy new physics contribution can be fully tested at a muon collider with center-of-mass energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Wen Yin , Masahiro Yamaguchi

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