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Description
Muon colliders have emerged as an exciting option for enabling access to the 10 TeV energy scale in the post High Luminosity LHC era in a compact and power-efficient way compared to proton-proton alternatives. However, significant research and development is required to address the fundamental challenge that muons are unstable, and will decay continuously while moving through an accelerator complex. These challenges mean that careful optimization of the machine-detector interface (MDI) between the accelerator and any experiment is critically important in order to minimize beam-induced background (BIB) while maximizing luminosity. In this talk, I'll present some of the latest developments in MDI studies for a muon collider, describe their impact in the context of the proposed MAIA (Muon Accelerator Instrumented Apparatus) detector for a 10 TeV muon collider, and discuss some directions for future work on both MDI and on the detector design itself.
