Hind Al Ali, N. Arkani-Hamed, Ian Banta, Sean Benevedes, D. Buttazzo, Tianji Cai, Junyi Cheng, T. Cohen, N. Craig, Majid Ekhterachian, JiJi Fan, M. Forslund, I. G. Garcia, S. Homiller, S. Koren, G. Koszegi, Zhen Liu, Qianshu Lu, K. Lyu, Alberto Mariotti, Amara McCune, P. Meade, I. Ojalvo, Umut Oktem, D. Redigolo, M. Reece, F. Sala, R. Sundrum, Dave Sutherland, A. Tesi, Timothy D Trott, C. Tully, Lian-tao Wang, Menghang Wang
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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.
期刊介绍:
Reports on Progress in Physics is a highly selective journal with a mission to publish ground-breaking new research and authoritative invited reviews of the highest quality and significance across all areas of physics and related areas. Articles must be essential reading for specialists, and likely to be of broader multidisciplinary interest with the expectation for long-term scientific impact and influence on the current state and/or future direction of a field.