Speaker
Description
Muon colliders provide a unique route to deliver the highest parton energy collisions that enable discovery searches and precision measurements to extend our understanding of the fundamental laws of physics. All this at a single collider and on a feasible timescale, whenever the full R&D plan could be accpmplished. Muons as heavy leptons can be accelerated in rings up to very high energies, without fundamental limitation from synchrotron radiation. The International Muon Collider Collaboration IMCC at CERN is working on a 10 TeV facility, which could even reuse existing tunnels and proving to be feasible and sustainable with technologies that can be made available in the near future. The physics potential of muon colliders has been investigated quite extensively over the past years as a viable path toward the high-energy, high-luminosity frontier beyond the expected reach, despite the challenges to produce bright muon beams and mitigate the drawbacks arising from the short muon lifetime at rest. The status of the project, future plans and synergies will be discussed.
