Welcome

Muon colliders have a great potential for high-energy physics. They can offer collisions of point-like particles at very high energies, since muons can be accelerated in a ring without limitation from synchrotron radiation. However, the need for high luminosity faces technical challenges which arise from the short muon lifetime at rest and the difficulty of producing large numbers of muons in bunches with small emittance. Addressing these challenges requires the development of innovative concepts and demanding technologies.

The Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics recommended to integrate an international design study for a muon collider in the European Roadmap for accelerator R&D.

In response to this, the Laboratory Directors Group, which represents the large European Particle Physics Laboratories has initiated an International Muon Collider Collaboration to study the concept.

Useful references

The paper on the muon collider prospects that was submitted to the European Strategy Update can be found here.

We are currently forming a collaboration to carry out this study. A first meeting was held on July 3rd 2020, Indico.

Some overview and initial parameters can be found in the presentation in Indico.

In the past, the MAP collaboration studied a muon collider. Its web site can be found here. A set of publications here.