The Physics Case for an Electron-Muon Collider

Lu, Meng and Levin, Andrew Michael and Li, Congqiao and Agapitos, Antonios and Li, Qiang and Meng, Fanqiang and Qian, Sitian and Xiao, Jie and Yang, Tianyi and Frank, Mariana (2021) The Physics Case for an Electron-Muon Collider. Advances in High Energy Physics, 2021. pp. 1-6. ISSN 1687-7357

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Abstract

An electron-muon collider with an asymmetric collision profile targeting multi-ab-1 integrated luminosity is proposed. This novel collider, operating at collision energies of, e.g., 20–200 GeV, 50–1000 GeV, and 100–3000 GeV, would be able to probe charged lepton flavor violation and measure Higgs boson properties precisely. The collision of an electron and muon beam leads to less physics background compared with either an electron-electron or a muon-muon collider, since electron-muon interactions proceed mostly through higher-order vector boson fusion and vector boson scattering processes. The asymmetric collision profile results in collision products that are boosted towards the electron beam side, which can be exploited to reduce beam-induced background from the muon beam to a large extent. With this in mind, one can imagine a lepton collider complex, starting from colliding order 10 GeV electron and muon beams for the first time in history and to probe charged lepton flavor violation, then to be upgraded to a collider with 50-100 GeV electron and 1-3 TeV muon beams to measure Higgs properties and search for new physics and finally to be transformed to a TeV-scale muon-muon collider. The cost should vary from order 100 million to a few billion dollars, corresponding to different stages, which make the funding situation more practical.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Journal Eprints > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2023 09:24
Last Modified: 30 Mar 2024 03:47
URI: http://repository.journal4submission.com/id/eprint/1062

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