Physics potential of a muon-proton collider

“…Possible muon-hadron colliders and their scientific potential have been discussed previously, for example in Refs. [5][6][7]. A MuIC at BNL would serve also as a major step toward a future muon-antimuon (µ + µ − ) collider, which has received revived attention in the particle physics community in recent years because of its potential of reaching √ s = O (10) TeV in a relatively compact tunnel (e.g., the size of the LHC).…”

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A Muon-Ion Collider at BNL: the future QCD frontier and path to a new energy frontier of $μ^+μ^-$ colliders

Acosta,

2021

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We propose the development and construction of a novel muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA as an upgrade to succeed the electron-ion collider (EIC) that is scheduled to commence in the early 2030s, by a joint effort of the nuclear and particle physics communities. The BNL facility could accommodate a muon storage beam with an energy up to about 1 TeV with existing magnet technology. When collided with a 275 GeV hadron beam, the MuIC center-of-mass energy of about 1 TeV will extend the kinematic coverage of deep inelastic scattering physics at the EIC (with polarized beams) by more than an order of magnitude in Q 2 and x, opening a new QCD frontier to address many fundamental scientific questions in nuclear and particle physics. This coverage is comparable to that of the proposed Large Hadron-Electron Collider (LHeC) at CERN, but with complementary lepton and hadron kinematics and beam polarization. Additionally, the development of a MuIC at BNL will focus the worldwide R&D efforts on muon collider technology and serve as a demonstrator toward a future muon-antimuon collider at O(10) TeV energies, which is an attractive option to reach the next high energy frontier in particle physics at an affordable cost and a smaller footprint than a future circular hadron collider. We discuss here the possible design parameters of the MuIC, kinematic coverage, science cases, and detector design considerations including estimates of resolutions on DIS kinematic variables. A possible road map toward the future MuIC and muon-antimuon colliders is also presented.

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“…With the main objective of measuring Higgs boson properties, there has been renewed interest in muon colliders [1,2,3]. At the low energy level, there has been numerous works concerning (g − 2) µ from the theoretical and experimental point of view [4,5,6,7].…”

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Two-to-two processes at an electron-muon collider

Bouzas

Larios

2021

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Based on a recent proposal to build an electron-muon collider, we study two-to-two production processes e − µ + → f f , γγ that originate from dimension 6 and 8 operators. We compare the sensitivity to those effective couplings obtained at the collider with that of low energy measurements of µ → eγ, µ → eēe and µ → e conversion that have recently been reported in the literature. Whereas for the production of first family fermions the sensitivity of the collider processes is much weaker, for the second and third familiy fermions it is similar or stronger than that of low-energy processes. In the case of e − µ + → γγ, the sensitivity to a dimension 8 contact operator turns out to be the strongest in comparison.

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Physics potential of a muon-proton collider

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Probing the RK(*) anomaly at a muon collider

Probing the RK(*) anomaly at a muon collider

A Muon-Ion Collider at BNL: the future QCD frontier and path to a new energy frontier of $μ^+μ^-$ colliders

Two-to-two processes at an electron-muon collider

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