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Description
The Standard Model has been largely discovered and probed through collisions of two types of particles: electrons and protons. Building higher energy colliders with these particles is getting increasingly difficult, in the electron’s case due to its low mass and propensity to radiate energy and in the proton’s case due to the composite nature of the particle. Over the past decades an alternative path has begun to emerge: a collider built utilizing muons could avoid these existing limitations, but of course introduces its own challenging hurdles. This talk gives an overview of the physics possibilities of a muon collider, including the unique probes of new physics such as machine could deliver. A brief overview of the status of the international collaboration working towards such a machine will also be discussed.
| Keyword-1 | muon colliders |
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| Keyword-2 | future colliders |
| Keyword-3 | high energy physics |