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We introduce a new search strategy for visibly decaying muonphilic particles using a proton beam spectrometer modeled after the SpinQuest experiment at Fermilab. In this setup, a ${\sim}$100 GeV primary proton beam impinges on a thick fixed…

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We point out that both the specific lepton number content and the high energies potentially attainable with muon-muon colliders make it advisable to consider the technical feasibility of including an option of like-sign incoming beams in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Frank Cuypers , Clemens A. Heusch

New particle acceleration schemes open up exciting opportunities, potentially providing more compact or higher-energy accelerators. The AWAKE experiment at CERN is currently taking data to establish the method of proton-driven plasma…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Wing

Particle colliders have arguably been the most important instruments for particle physics over the past 50 years. As they became more powerful, they were used to push the frontier of our knowledge into previously uncharted territory. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Kenneth Long , Donatella Lucchesi , Mark Palmer , Nadia Pastrone , Daniel Schulte , Vladimir Shiltsev

A 2020 physics critique report for Year 4 MSci Physics with Particle Physics & Cosmology with the University of Birmingham, School of Physics & Astronomy. Muon colliders are a proposed next-generation particle accelerator which benefit from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Rebecca Taylor

A muon collider could produce the heavier Standard Model particles with a boost, for example in resonant processes such as $\mu^-\mu^+\to h$ or $\mu^-\mu^+\to Z$. We propose machine configurations that produce the boost (asymmetric beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-27 Daniele Barducci , Alessandro Strumia

We quantify the discovery potential of future multi-TeV plasma wakefield colliders for new electroweak multiplets. We include beam-beam effects through realistic luminosity spectra, comparing five collider configurations: $e^+e^-$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 So Chigusa , Simon Knapen , Toby Opferkuch , Inbar Savoray , Christiane Scherb , Weishuang Linda Xu

Future searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model are without doubt in need of a diverse approach and experiments with complementary sensitivities to different types of classes of models. One of the directions that should be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-15 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleksii Mikulenko , Richard Jacobsson , Maksym Ovchynnikov

Beam dump experiments proposed at the SPS are perfectly suited to explore the parameter space of models with long-lived particles, thanks to the combination of a large intensity with a high proton beam energy. In this paper, we study how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-08 Martina Ferrillo , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Filippo Resnati , Albert De Roeck

We propose a muon-proton collider with asymmetrical multi-TeV beam energies and integrated luminosities of $0.1-1$ ab$^{-1}$. With its large center-of-mass energies and yet small Standard Model background, such a machine can not only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Kingman Cheung , Zeren Simon Wang

We establish a simple yet general parameterization of Higgs-muon interactions within the effective field theory frameworks, including both the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-25 Yang Ma , Eugenia Celada , Tao Han , Wolfgang Kilian , Nils Kreher , Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Jürgen Reuter , Tobias Striegl , Keping Xie

We propose the development of a novel muon-proton and muon-nucleus collider facility at the TeV scale that is capable of performing precision deep inelastic scattering measurements in new regimes and providing a rich program in nuclear and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-20 Darin Acosta , Emanuela Barberis , Nicholas Hurley , Wei Li , Osvaldo Miguel Colin , Yijie Wang , Darien Wood , Xunwu Zuo

Muon-based accelerators have the potential to enable facilities at both the Intensity and the Energy Frontiers. Muon storage rings can serve as high precision neutrino sources, and a muon collider is an ideal technology for a TeV or…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Mary Anne Cummings

We propose a neutrino lepton collider where the neutrino beam is generated from TeV scale muon decays. Such a device would allow for a precise measurement of the W mass based on single W production: nu l to W. Although it is challenging to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Tianyi Yang , Sitian Qian , Sen Deng , Jie Xiao , Leyun Gao , Andrew Michael Levin , Qiang Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You

Muon colliders have a great potential for high-energy physics. They can offer collisions of point-like particles at very high energies, since muons can be accelerated in a ring without limitation from synchrotron radiation. However, the…

The existence of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics is firmly suggested by both experimental observations (Dark Matter, neutrino masses) and theoretical arguments. In the hypothesis that the scale of new physics is considerably higher than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-08 Luca Mantani

Experiments like ATLAS at the HL-LHC or detectors at future hadron colliders need muon detectors with excellent momentum resolution up to the TeV scale both at the trigger and offline reconstruction levels. This requires muon tracking…

We consider possible detector designs for short-baseline neutrino experiments using neutrino beams produced at the First Muon Collider complex. The high fluxes available at the muon collider make possible high statistics deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

Experiments designed to measure neutrino oscillations also provide major opportunities for discovering very weakly coupled states. In order to produce neutrinos, experiments such as LSND collide thousands of Coulombs of protons into fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Rouven Essig , Roni Harnik , Jared Kaplan , Natalia Toro