1. Status of muon collider research and development and future plans
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Charles M. Ankenbrandt, Muzaffer Atac, Bruno Autin, Valeri I. Balbekov, Vernon D. Barger, Odette Benary, J. Scott Berg, Michael S. Berger, Edgar L. Black, Alain Blondel, S. Alex Bogacz, T. Bolton, Shlomo Caspi, Christine Celata, Weiren Chou, David B. Cline, John Corlett, Lucien Cremaldi, H. Thomas Diehl, Alexandr Drozhdin, Richard C. Fernow, David A. Finley, Yasuo Fukui, Miguel A. Furman, Tony Gabriel, Juan C. Gallardo, Alper A. Garren, Stephen H. Geer, Ilya F. Ginzburg, Michael A. Green, Hulya Guler, John F. Gunion, Ramesh Gupta, Tao Han, Gail G. Hanson, Ahmed Hassanein, Norbert Holtkamp, Colin Johnson, Carol Johnstone, Stephen A. Kahn, Daniel M. Kaplan, Eun San Kim, Bruce J. King, Harold G. Kirk, Yoshitaka Kuno, Paul Lebrun, Kevin Lee, Peter Lee, Derun Li, David Lissauer, Laurence S. Littenberg, Changguo Lu, Alfredo Luccio, Joseph D. Lykken, Kirk T. McDonald, Alfred D. McInturff, John R. Miller, Frederick E. Mills, Nikolai V. Mokhov, Alfred Moretti, Yoshiharu Mori, David V. Neuffer, King-Yuen Ng, Robert J. Noble, James H. Norem, Yasar Onel, Robert B. Palmer, Zohreh Parsa, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Milorad Popovic, Eric J. Prebys, Zubao Qian, Rajendran Raja, Claude B. Reed, Pavel Rehak, Thomas Roser, Robert Rossmanith, Ronald M. Scanlan, Andrew M. Sessler, Brad Shadwick, Quan-Sheng Shu, Gregory I. Silvestrov, Alexandr N. Skrinsky, Dale Smith, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Ray Stefanski, Sergei Striganov, Iuliu Stumer, Don Summers, Valeri Tcherniatine, Lee C. Teng, Alvin V. Tollestrup, Yağmur Torun, Dejan Trbojevic, William C. Turner, Sven E. Vahsen, Andreas Van Ginneken, Tatiana A. Vsevolozhskaya, Weishi Wan, Haipeng Wang, Robert Weggel, Erich H. Willen, Edmund J. N. Wilson, David R. Winn, Jonathan S. Wurtele, Takeichiro Yokoi, Yongxiang Zhao, and Max Zolotorev
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Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,QC770-798 - Abstract
The status of the research on muon colliders is discussed and plans are outlined for future theoretical and experimental studies. Besides 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 (π→μν_{μ}) 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 research and development 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)].
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- 1999
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