GGI Tea Breaks -- "Challenges and Opportunities of a Muon Collider"

Wednesday 2 Mar 2022, 17:00 → 19:00 Europe/Rome

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.

This focus meeting is part of the GGI Tea Breaks' seminar series.

Additional information are available here: https://www.ggi.infn.it/seminars.pl