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Al Ali H, Arkani-Hamed N, Banta I, Benevedes S, Buttazzo D, Cai T, Cheng J, Cohen T, Craig N, Ekhterachian M, Fan J, Forslund M, Garcia IG, Homiller S, Koren S, Koszegi G, Liu Z, Lu Q, Lyu KF, Mariotti A, McCune A, Meade P, Ojalvo I, Oktem U, Redigolo D, Reece M, Sala F, Sundrum R, Sutherland D, Tesi A, Trott T, Tully C, Wang LT, Wang M. The muon Smasher's guide. Rep Prog Phys 2022; 85:084201. [PMID: 35413691 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac6678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
We lay out a comprehensive physics case for a future high-energy muon collider, exploring a range of collision energies (from 1 to 100 TeV) and luminosities. We highlight the advantages of such a collider over proposed alternatives. We show how one can leverage both the point-like nature of the muons themselves as well as the cloud of electroweak radiation that surrounds the beam to blur the dichotomy between energy and precision in the search for new physics. The physics case is buttressed by a range of studies with applications to electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter, and the naturalness of the weak scale. Furthermore, we make sharp connections with complementary experiments that are probing new physics effects using electric dipole moments, flavor violation, and gravitational waves. An extensive appendix provides cross section predictions as a function of the center-of-mass energy for many canonical simplified models.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hind Al Ali
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
| | - Ian Banta
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Sean Benevedes
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Dario Buttazzo
- INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
| | - Tianji Cai
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Junyi Cheng
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Timothy Cohen
- Institute for Fundamental Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States of America
| | - Nathaniel Craig
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Majid Ekhterachian
- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
| | - JiJi Fan
- Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America
| | - Matthew Forslund
- C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
| | - Isabel Garcia Garcia
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Samuel Homiller
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
| | - Seth Koren
- Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America
| | - Giacomo Koszegi
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Zhen Liu
- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America
| | - Qianshu Lu
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
| | - Kun-Feng Lyu
- Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China
| | - Alberto Mariotti
- Theoretische Natuurkunde and IIHE/ELEM, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and International Solvay Institutes, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
| | - Amara McCune
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Patrick Meade
- C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States of America
| | - Isobel Ojalvo
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
| | - Umut Oktem
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
| | - Diego Redigolo
- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
| | - Matthew Reece
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- LPTHE, CNRS & Sorbonne Universite, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
| | - Dave Sutherland
- INFN Sezione di Trieste, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy
| | - Andrea Tesi
- INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America
| | - Menghang Wang
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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