The Muon Smasher's Guide
Abstract
We lay out a comprehensive physics case for a future high-energy muon collider, exploring a range of collision energies (from 1 to 100 TeV) and luminosities. We highlight the advantages of such a collider over proposed alternatives. We show how one can leverage both the point-like nature of the muons themselves as well as the cloud of electroweak radiation that surrounds the beam to blur the dichotomy between energy and precision in the search for new physics. The physics case is buttressed by a range of studies with applications to electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter, and the naturalness of the weak scale. Furthermore, we make sharp connections with complementary experiments that are probing new physics effects using electric dipole moments, flavor violation, and gravitational waves. An extensive appendix provides cross section predictions as a function of the center-of-mass energy for many canonical simplified models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.14043,
title = {The Muon Smasher's Guide},
author = {Hind Al Ali and Nima Arkani-Hamed and Ian Banta and Sean Benevedes and Dario Buttazzo and Tianji Cai and Junyi Cheng and Timothy Cohen and Nathaniel Craig and Majid Ekhterachian and JiJi Fan and Matthew Forslund and Isabel Garcia Garcia and Samuel Homiller and Seth Koren and Giacomo Koszegi and Zhen Liu and Qianshu Lu and Kun-Feng Lyu and Alberto Mariotti and Amara McCune and Patrick Meade and Isobel Ojalvo and Umut Oktem and Diego Redigolo and Matthew Reece and Filippo Sala and Raman Sundrum and Dave Sutherland and Andrea Tesi and Timothy Trott and Chris Tully and Lian-Tao Wang and Menghang Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14043},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
105 pages, 41 figures, 5 tables