| Speaker: | Andrea Wulzer (ICREA, Barcelona) |
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| Title: | Towards a muon collider |
| Date (JST): | Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 13:30 - 15:00 |
| Place: | Seminar Room B |
| Abstract: |
High-energy particle colliders enable the systematic, direct and conclusive exploration of short-distance fundamental physical laws. Point-like particles such as electrons and muons are particularly suited for this purpose because their collision energy is entirely available to produce short-distance reactions. Unlike electrons, muons are sufficiently heavy to be accelerated in a ring without limitation from synchrotron radiation, allowing to envisage a muon collider energy of 10 TeV or more with a reasonably compact footprint. A muon colliders R&D plan has been established and is being developed by the International Muon Collider Collaboration. I will report on ongoing studies about the potential of such a very high energy muon collider to advance knowledge by direct searches for new particles and by precision measurements, and I will outline novel challenges and opportunity for theory and phenomenology along the pathway towards a muon collider. |
