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Collaboration
About 200 scientists around the world are developing the concepts and technologies needed for a muon collider.
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Why Muons at the Energy Frontier?
Unlike protons, which comprise subatomic particles called quarks, muons come in one piece: they are elementary particles. A muon collider would allow for a new generation of experiments at the energy frontier.
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How does it work?
A muon collider complex would comprise several machines and many different components. Scientists across the world are developing and testing them.
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Muon Cooling
When scientists make muons, the particles start life as a hot gas. But to accelerate those muons, scientists need them organized in a cold beam.
A muon collider is a new type of particle accelerator that speeds up subatomic particles called muons and makes them collide to discover new subatomic forces and particles. About 200 scientists around the world are developing the concepts and technologies needed for such a machine. Fermilab is a potential future site for a muon collider.
Fermilab workshop discusses muon collider
Fermilab held a workshop in November 2009 to discuss the potential of adding a muon collider to the laboratory’s accelerator chain. Three working groups discussed the opportunity to study physics beyond the Standard Model; the design requirements and specifications; and methods for reducing detector backgrounds, making precise luminosity measurements and measuring the beam energy spread.
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Fermilab at the Energy Frontier
Muon Collider R&D is part of worldwide research at the energy frontier
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