1. Status of muon collider research and development and future plans
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D. A. Smith, H. Thomas Diehl, V. Balbekov, Nikolai Mokhov, C. Johnson, E. H. Willen, Milorad Popovic, L. Cremaldi, J. Scott Berg, M. Atac, Andrew M. Sessler, S. Alex Bogacz, R.M. Scanlan, Z. Parsa, P. Lebrun, Weishi Wan, Takeichiro Yokoi, Alfred Moretti, David B. Cline, R. Weggel, Laurence S. Littenberg, G. Silvestrov, F. Mills, Jonathan Wurtele, Eun San Kim, A. Garren, Weiren Chou, Kirk T. McDonald, Hulya Guler, Robert Rossmanith, John Corlett, T. A. Gabriel, Yoshitaka Kuno, Z. Qian, Alexandr Drozhdin, N. Holtkamp, Ray Stefanski, Stephen A. Kahn, A.N. Skrinsky, Sergei Striganov, R. J. Noble, D. Winn, E. L. Black, Tatiana A. Vsevolozhskaya, Brad Shadwick, David Lissauer, Robert B. Palmer, Kevin C. Lee, John F. Gunion, E.J. Prebys, Yongxiang Zhao, Dejan Trbojevic, Michael A. Green, Richard C. Fernow, Tao Han, A. Blondel, Shlomo Caspi, Christine M. Celata, Andreas Van Ginneken, Claude B. Reed, M. Berger, David Neuffer, Bruce J. King, T. Bolton, Valeri Tcherniatine, A. Tollestrup, D. M. Kaplan, Derun Li, Odette Benary, T. Roser, Alfred D. McInturff, Changguo Lu, Ahmed Hassanein, Peter Lee, Max Zolotorev, Pavel Rehak, Yagmur Torun, Ilya F. Ginzburg, Vernon Barger, Quan-Sheng Shu, Yoshiharu Mori, J. Norem, Lee C. Teng, Juan C. Gallardo, I. Stumer, D. A. Finley, Gail G. Hanson, Sven E. Vahsen, B. Autin, King Yuen Ng, Harold Kirk, Yasuo Fukui, William C. Turner, John R. Miller, C. Ankenbrandt, Miguel A. Furman, Alfredo Luccio, Yasar Onel, Carol Johnstone, Joseph D. Lykken, Edmund J N Wilson, Rajendran Raja, Haipeng Wang, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Stephen H. Geer, Ramesh Gupta, Yuriy Pischalnikov, and Don Summers
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Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Muon ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Center (category theory) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Proton Synchrotron ,Particle accelerator ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Accelerators and Storage Rings ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,law ,Muon collider ,Higgs boson ,lcsh:QC770-798 ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,Physics - Accelerator Physics ,Production (computer science) ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Collider - Abstract
The status of the research on muon colliders is discussed and plans are outlined for future theoretical and experimental studies. Besides continued work on the parameters of a 3-4 and 0.5 TeV center-of-mass (CoM) energy collider, many studies are now concentrating on a machine near 0.1 TeV (CoM) that could be a factory for the s-channel production of Higgs particles. We discuss the research on the various components in such muon colliders, starting from the proton accelerator needed to generate pions from a heavy-Z target and proceeding through the phase rotation and decay ($��\to ����_��$) channel, muon cooling, acceleration, storage in a collider ring and the collider detector. We also present theoretical and experimental R & D plans for the next several years that should lead to a better understanding of the design and feasibility issues for all of the components. This report is an update of the progress on the R & D since the Feasibility Study of Muon Colliders presented at the Snowmass'96 Workshop [R. B. Palmer, A. Sessler and A. Tollestrup, Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on High-Energy Physics (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, 1997)]., 95 pages, 75 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Special Topics, Accelerators and Beams