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  1. Superconducting magnets and technologies for future colliders

    The implications of accelerator magnet R&D towards future colliders are reviewed and discussed. It starts with a brief overview of the present and future accelerator facilities which rely on the significant advances and innovations in key technologies. Then advances and needs for present key projects and studies are expanded on specific examples. This provides the lead to discuss the recent progress in accelerator magnet R&D and the future plans. We conclude with a summary of our view of the major development drivers and future perspectives.
  2. RF Technologies for Future Colliders

    Particle colliders remain indispensable scientific instruments to discover and study new elementary particles and fundamental forces of nature. Whether the collider is a factory (used to improve precision of measuring properties of already discovered particles or to enable studies of rare decay channels), an energy frontier machine (aimed at discovering new particles and forces), a heavy ion collider (allowing studies of what the universe looked like in the early moments after its creation), or an electron-hadron collider (where electrons are used for probing heavy ions or protons to study the fundamental force binding all visible matter), the radio frequency technologiesmore » play a key role in enabling the machine to reach its goals. This article considers challenges presented to the radio frequency technologies by the next generation of particle colliders and reviews R&D approaches and directions to address these challenges.« less
  3. Jets and Jet Substructure at Future Colliders

    Even though jet substructure was not an original design consideration for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, it has emerged as an essential tool for the current physics program. We examine the role of jet substructure on the motivation for and design of future energy Frontier colliders. In particular, we discuss the need for a vibrant theory and experimental research and development program to extend jet substructure physics into the new regimes probed by future colliders. Jet substructure has organically evolved with a close connection between theorists and experimentalists and has catalyzed exciting innovations in both communities. We expect suchmore » developments will play an important role in the future energy Frontier physics program.« less
  4. Electron-Hadron Colliders: EIC, LHeC and FCC-eh

    Electron-hadron colliders are the ultimate tool for high-precision quantum chromodynamics studies and provide the ultimate microscope for probing the internal structure of hadrons. The electron is an ideal probe of the proton structure because it provides the unmatched precision of the electromagnetic interaction, as the virtual photon or vector bosons probe the proton structure in a clean environment, the kinematics of which is uniquely determined by the electron beam and the scattered lepton, or the hadronic final state accounting appropriately for radiation. The Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator HERA (DESY, Hamburg, Germany) was the only electron-hadron collider ever operated (1991–2007) andmore » advanced the knowledge of quantum chromodynamics and the proton structure, with implications for the physics studied in RHIC (BNL, Upton, NY) and the LHC (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland). Recent technological advances in the field of particle accelerators pave the way to realize next-generation electron-hadron colliders that deliver higher luminosity and enable collisions in a much broader range of energies and beam types than HERA. Electron-hadron colliders combine challenges from both electron and hadron machines besides facing their own distinct challenges derived from their intrinsic asymmetry. This review paper will discuss the major features and milestones of HERA and will examine the electron-hadron collider designs of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) currently under construction at BNL, the CERN’s Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC), at an advanced stage of design and awaiting approval, and the Future Circular lepton-hadron Collider (FCC-eh).« less
  5. Production of $π^0$ and $$\eta$$ mesons in $$\mathrm{U+U}$$ collisions at $$\sqrt {s_{NN}} = 192$$ $$\mathrm {GeV}$$

    The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider measured $π^0$ and $$\eta$$ mesons at midrapidity in $$\mathrm{U+U}$$ collisions at $$\sqrt {s_{NN}} = 192$$ $$\mathrm {GeV}$$ in a wide transverse momentum range. Measurements were performed in the $π^0(η) → γγ$ decay modes. A strong suppression of $π^0$ and $$\eta$$ meson production at high transverse momentum was observed in central $$\mathrm{U+U}$$ collisions relative to binary scaled p + p results. Yields of $π^0$ and $$\eta$$ mesons measured in $$\mathrm{U+U}$$ collisions show similar suppression pattern to those measured in Au + Au collisions at $$\sqrt {s_{NN}} = 200$$ $$\mathrm {GeV}$$ for similarmore » numbers of participant nucleons. The $η/π^0$ ratios do not show dependence on centrality or transverse momentum and are consistent with previously measured values in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, nucleus-nucleus, and $e^+e^-$ collisions.« less
  6. The Future Prospects of Muon Colliders and Neutrino Factories

    The potential of muon beams for high energy physics applications is described along with the challenges of producing high quality muon beams. Two proposed approaches for delivering high intensity muon beams, a proton driver source and a positron driver source, are described and compared. The proton driver concepts are based on the studies from the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP). Here, the MAP effort focused on a path to deliver muon-based facilities, ranging from neutrino factories to muon colliders, that could span research needs at both the intensity and energy frontiers. The Low EMittance Muon Accelerator (LEMMA) concept, which uses amore » positron-driven source, provides an attractive path to very high energy lepton colliders with improved particle backgrounds. The recent study of a 14-TeV muon collider in the LHC tunnel, which could leverage the existing CERN injectors and infrastructure and provide physics reach comparable to the 100[Formula: see text]TeV FCC-hh, at lower cost and with cleaner physics conditions, is also discussed. The present status of the design and R&D efforts towards each of these sources is described. A summary of important R&D required to establish a facility path for each concept is also presented.« less
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