Muon Collider Feasibility

Muon colliders hold great potential for high-energy physics: they can offer collisions of point-like particles at very high energies, since muons can be accelerated in a ring without the limitation imposed by synchrotron radiation. The need for high luminosity, though, brings technical challenges — the short muon lifetime at rest, and the difficulty of producing large numbers of muons in bunches with small emittance — which call for innovative concepts and demanding technologies. Within the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC), this project takes on one of the major challenges: the transverse collective effects all along the muon collider chain.