LHuC: A high energy, high luminosity muon-hadron collider at CERN

5 May 2026, 11:20
20m
Sala GIOVE B, Ground Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala GIOVE B, Ground Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG6 Current Upgrades and Future Experiments WG6 Current upgrades and future experiments

Speaker

Prof. Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (AGH University)

Description

The latest developments concerning the possibility of making muon-hadron collisions by reusing the ERL infrastructure, proposed for the LHeC, will be presented. At the LH$\mu$C, a 500 GeV $\mu^+$ beam will be colliding with a 7 TeV proton beam, resulting in the centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=3.74$ TeV (higher than at the FCC-eh), with the expected luminosity above $10^{33}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$.

First half of the talk will be dedicated to the discussion of the LH$\mu$C concept – from the ultra-cold $\mu^+$-source, through the muon booster, to the main muon ring. Initial considerations regarding the machine-detector interface and the general-purpose detector will be also presented. In the second half, an overview of the LH$\mu$C scientific programme will be given, with highlights from QCD, through the Higgs-Electroweak-Top (HET) sector, to the beyond Standard Model case. The talk will conclude with a short discussion of unique and powerful synergies between the LH$\mu$C, LHeC, Muon Collider and FCC projects.

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