The International Muon Collider Collaboration – IMCC

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.

The ultimate goal is therefore to turn a cloud of muons travelling in all directions into a dense beam in one direction.  To achieve this goal, several challenges have to be overcome: For instance, the short lifetime of muons at rest and the difficulty of producing large numbers of muons in small and confined bunches to maintain a good beam quality.

In addition, the power consumptions needs to be optimised to work in a sustainable fashion. These are just three of the challenges that require the development of innovative concepts and demanding technologies.