Using muons from backscattered photons on targets for various studies at the EIC

A Future Muon-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory: Muon Accelerator Systems

5 Apr 2023, 13:40

30m

Remote

Afternoon Session

Speaker

Ethan Cline (Stony Brook University)

Description

There has been significant discussion in the community regarding a future ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ collider. While such a facility is still decades away from realization, it is also understood that significant technological development and feasibility demonstrations are necessary at lower beam energies. Here we propose such a possibility coupled with a rich physics program. We propose a future Muon-Ion Collider that would serve as a natural extension to the EIC program currently planned in the 2030’s and 40’s. We envision this collider would be implemented as an upgrade to the EIC, with $\mu$ beam energies between 18 GeV and 200 GeV and a luminosity of 1033 cm−2s−1. In this presentation we discuss the challenges of generating $\mu$ beams that satisfy the design requirements of such a collider, and review some current efforts in the field to design such beams. We discuss the physics reach of a future muon-ion collider and identify opportunities for synergy between the nuclear and particle physics communities.

Funding acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 2012114, and the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science at Stony Brook University.

Presentation materials

muon_accelerator_system.pdf