CANCELED - Towards a multi-TeV Muon Collider
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PSK 3rd Floor, Multifunktionsraum
Muon colliders provide a unique route to deliver high energy collisions that enable discovery searches and precision measurements to extend our understanding of the fundamental laws of physics. All this at a single collider and on a feasible timescale!
Muons can be accelerated in rings up to very high energies, without fundamental limitation from synchrotron radiation. The International Muon Collider Collaboration hosted at CERN targets the baseline design of a muon collider facility with a center of mass energy of 10 TeV or higher, which seem feasible and sustainable with technologies that can be made available in the near future. The collaboration obtained strong support by many partner institutes across the globe, the European Union and recently the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) in the US. The physics potential of muon colliders has been investigated quite extensively over the past few years as a viable path toward the high-energy, high-luminosity frontier beyond the expected reach, despite the challenges to produce bright muon beams and mitigate the drawbacks arising from the short muon lifetime at rest.
The status of the project, future plans and synergies will be discussed.