Author:
Acosta D.,Barberis E.,Hurley N.,Li W.,Miguel Colin O.,Wang Y.,Wood D.,Zuo X.
Abstract
Abstract
We propose the development of a novel muon-proton and
muon-nucleus collider facility at the TeV scale that is capable of
performing precision deep inelastic scattering measurements in new
regimes and providing a rich program in nuclear and particle
physics. Such a facility could seed, or leverage, the development of
a muon-antimuon collider and make use of the existing hadron
accelerator infrastructure when sited at a facility such as
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, or CERN. We discuss the
possible energy and luminosity design parameters for several
collider configurations, and illustrate the science potential with
several studies on deep inelastic scattering kinematics, Higgs and
vector boson production, top quark production, and beyond Standard
Model leptoquark production. Detector design considerations and a
possible road map toward development are also given.
Subject
Mathematical Physics,Instrumentation