Status of muon collider research and development and future plans

• Published in: Physical review special topics. PRST-AB. Accelerators and beams 1999-08, Vol.2 (8), p.081001, Article 081001
• Main Authors: Ankenbrandt, Charles M., Atac, Muzaffer, Autin, Bruno, Balbekov, Valeri I., Barger, Vernon D., Benary, Odette, Berg, J. Scott, Berger, Michael S., Black, Edgar L., Blondel, Alain, Bogacz, S. Alex, Bolton, T., Caspi, Shlomo, Celata, Christine, Chou, Weiren, Cline, David B., Corlett, John, Cremaldi, Lucien, Diehl, H. Thomas, Drozhdin, Alexandr, Fernow, Richard C., Finley, David A., Fukui, Yasuo, Furman, Miguel A., Gabriel, Tony, Gallardo, Juan C., Garren, Alper A., Geer, Stephen H., Ginzburg, Ilya F., Green, Michael A., Guler, Hulya, Gunion, John F., Gupta, Ramesh, Han, Tao, Hanson, Gail G., Hassanein, Ahmed, Holtkamp, Norbert, Johnson, Colin, Johnstone, Carol, Kahn, Stephen A., Kaplan, Daniel M., Kim, Eun San, King, Bruce J., Kirk, Harold G., Kuno, Yoshitaka, Lebrun, Paul, Lee, Kevin, Lee, Peter, Li, Derun, Lissauer, David, Littenberg, Laurence S., Lu, Changguo, Luccio, Alfredo, Lykken, Joseph D., McDonald, Kirk T., McInturff, Alfred D., Miller, John R., Mills, Frederick E., Mokhov, Nikolai V., Moretti, Alfred, Mori, Yoshiharu, Neuffer, David V., Ng, King-Yuen, Noble, Robert J., Norem, James H., Onel, Yasar, Palmer, Robert B., Parsa, Zohreh, Pischalnikov, Yuriy, Popovic, Milorad, Prebys, Eric J., Qian, Zubao, Raja, Rajendran, Reed, Claude B., Rehak, Pavel, Roser, Thomas, Rossmanith, Robert, Scanlan, Ronald M., Sessler, Andrew M., Shadwick, Brad, Shu, Quan-Sheng, Silvestrov, Gregory I., Skrinsky, Alexandr N., Smith, Dale, Spentzouris, Panagiotis, Stefanski, Ray, Striganov, Sergei, Stumer, Iuliu, Summers, Don, Tcherniatine, Valeri, Teng, Lee C., Tollestrup, Alvin V., Torun, Yağmur, Trbojevic, Dejan, Turner, William C., Vahsen, Sven E., Van Ginneken, Andreas, Vsevolozhskaya, Tatiana A., Wan, Weishi, Wang, Haipeng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Feasibility studies; Higgs bosons; Muons; Pions; Proton accelerators; R&D; Research & development
• ISSN: 1098-4402; 1098-4402; 2469-9888
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.2.081001

The status of the research on muon colliders is discussed and plans are outlined for future theoretical and experimental studies. Besides work on the parameters of a 3–4 and 0.5 TeV center-of-mass (COM) energy collider, many studies are now concentrating on a machine near 0.1 TeV (COM) that could be a factory for the s -channel production of Higgs particles. We discuss the research on the various components in such muon colliders, starting from the proton accelerator needed to generate pions from a heavy-Z target and proceeding through the phase rotation and decay (π→μνμ ) channel, muon cooling, acceleration, storage in a collider ring, and the collider detector. We also present theoretical and experimental R&D plans for the next several years that should lead to a better understanding of the design and feasibility issues for all of the components. This report is an update of the progress on the research and development since the feasibility study of muon colliders presented at the Snowmass '96 Workshop [R. B. Palmer, A. Sessler, and A. Tollestrup, Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on High-Energy Physics (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, 1997)].