Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL) – Title: How a 10 TeV muon collider could be in the particle-physics future

Research Progress Meeting

Date: October 3, 2024

Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm

Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 [In-Person and HYBRID] 

Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL)

Title: How a 10 TeV muon collider could be in the particle-physics future

Abstract: A Muon Collider offers the potential for a scalable path towards the next generation of high-energy frontier particle colliders. A 10 TeV center-of-mass collider would allow us to study the Standard Model of particle physics in regimes qualitatively different from what we have been able to explore so far.
At the same time, the short life-time of the muon poses non-trivial technical challenges on both the accelerator and detector design. The last P5 report recognized the high-gain possible from such a machine and refers to that as “the muon shot”.
While studies towards a muon collider have been done for decades, at various degrees of emphasis, the feasibility studies towards a 10 TeV machine have ramped up and caught more and more attention in the last few years, fueled also by the current technology possibilities and the state of the field.
The compact design also offers the possibility of hosting such a collider on the Fermilab site, which has contributed to increase more and more domestic interest as well.
A recent workshop held at Fermilab also started the discussion of forming a US-based Muon Collider organization,in cooperation with the international Muon Collider Collaboration.
In this seminar I will take the occasion of this recent workshop to give to the local crowd a quick overview of the physics case and the state of the design for the accelerator complex and detectors for such a collider, focusing on the technical opportunities and challenges ahead to make this dream-project a reality.

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