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Muon colliders to expand frontiers of particle physics

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Muon colliders offer enormous potential for the exploration of the particle physics frontier but are challenging to realize. A new international collaboration is forming to make such a muon collider a reality.

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Fig. 1: Energy efficiency of present and future colliders.
Fig. 2: Schematic layout of a 10-TeV-class muon collider complex.
Fig. 3: Ionization cooling-channel scheme.

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    K. R. Long

  2. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK

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  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    D. Lucchesi

  4. INFN Padova, Padua, Italy

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  5. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA

    M. A. Palmer

  6. INFN Torino, Turin, Italy

    N. Pastrone

  7. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    D. Schulte

  8. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA

    V. Shiltsev

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Long, K.R., Lucchesi, D., Palmer, M.A. et al. Muon colliders to expand frontiers of particle physics. Nat. Phys. 17, 289–292 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01130-x

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