Overview of physics at a muon collider

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.56397· OSTI ID:304672

Barger, V ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)

Muon colliders offer special opportunities to discover and study new physics. With the high intensity source of muons at the front end, orders of magnitude improvements would be realized in searches for rare muon processes, in deep inelastic muon and neutrino scattering experiments, and in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. At a 100 to 500 GeV muon collider, neutral Higgs boson (or techni-particle) masses, widths and couplings could be precisely measured via {ital s}-channel production. Also, threshold cross-section studies of W{sup +},W{sup {minus}}, t{bar t}, {ital Zh} and supersymmetric particle pairs would precisely determine the corresponding masses and test supersymmetric radiative corrections. At the high energy frontier a 3 to 4 TeV muon collider is ideally suited for the study of scalar supersymmetric particles and extra {ital Z}-bosons or strong {ital WW} scattering. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}

• Research Organization: University of Wisconsin
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-95ER40896
• OSTI ID: 304672
• Report Number(s): CONF-971215--
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 441; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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