FOCUS MEETING “Challenges and Opportunities of a Muon Collider”

Abstract
Following the European strategy update, and as a part of the Snowmass studies in the US, high energy muon colliders have received a lot of interest. They have been integrated into the European Accelerator R&D Roadmap. This concept promises to reach very high energies and luminosities because the beam can be accelerated and collided in rings due to the suppression of synchrotron radiation. On the one hand, the short muon life time, however, poses a number of challenges for the concept, ranging from muon cooling to acceleration, from neutrino radiation to detector design. On the other hand, recent studies have painted a broad picture of the physics potential of such machines. In this Focus Meeting, Daniel Schulte (CERN) and Lian-Tao Wang (U. Chicago) will give an overview of the muon collider concept, highlight the associated challenges and review its physics potential.

BIO
Daniel Schulte completed a PhD in 1996 at DESY, Hamburg, on detector backgrounds in future linear collider detectors. He began working at CERN in 1997 as a fellow and since 1998 has been a member of CERN staff. He has worked on many different accelerator and collider projects throughout his career, including both of the proposed linear colliders, the ILC and CLIC, as well as circular collider projects like the LHC and FCC-hh. He lead machine design studies for CLIC and the FCC-hh projects and now he is one of the key participants of the International Muon Collider Collaboration.

LianTao Wang is professor at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from Michigan University and held postdoctoral positions at Wisconsin and Harvard. He has been professor in Princeton before moving to Chicago. His research activity spans over several aspects of physics beyond the Standard Model including supersymmetric models, dark matter, electroweak physics and collider physics with a focus on developing new techniques for the search of new physics. Recently he has been working on the physics of future colliders, with the aim of understanding the impact of such machines for precision tests of the Standard Model and direct searches.

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