A Muon-Ion Collider
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B105
CHEP
We propose the development and construction of a novel muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA as an upgrade to succeed the electron-ion collider (EIC) that is scheduled to commence in the early 2030s, by a joint effort of the nuclear and particle physics communities. The BNL facility could accommodate a muon storage beam with an energy up to about 1 TeV with existing magnet technology. When collided with a 275 GeV hadron beam, the MuIC center-of-mass energy of about 1 TeV will extend the kinematic coverage of deep inelastic scattering physics at the EIC (with polarized beams) by more than an order of magnitude in Q2 and x, opening a new QCD frontier to address many fundamental scientific questions in nuclear and particle physics. Additionally, the development of a MuIC will focus the worldwide R&D efforts on muon collider technology and serve as a demonstrator toward a future muon-antimuon collider at O(10) TeV energies, which is an attractive option to reach the next high energy frontier in particle physics at an affordable cost and a smaller footprint than a future circular hadron collider. We discuss here the possible design parameters of the MuIC, kinematic coverage, science cases, and detector design considerations including estimates of resolutions on DIS kinematic variables.
Biography:
Prof. Darin Acosta is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1993. He was a postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio State University, and afterward became a faculty member in the Physics department at the University of Florida in 1997. In the fall of 2021, he joined the faculty of the Physics and Astronomy department at Rice University. His research in experimental high-energy physics spans the search for new lepton-quark couplings and compositeness that could arise from new forces and symmetries, searches for Supersymmetric particles, Standard Model measurements, and searches for rare processes such as the Higgs decay into dimuons. He is currently a member of the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. He is an expert on the electronic trigger systems of particle collider experiments that perform real-time analysis of collision data before storage on computer disk.
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