Why building a muon collider

by Prof. Andrea Wulzer (IFAE)

Friday 24 Nov 2023, 15:00 → 16:00 Asia/Shanghai

B105 (CHEP)

High-energy particle colliders enable the systematic, direct and conclusive exploration of short-distance fundamental physical laws. Point-like particles such as electrons and muons are particularly suited for this purpose because their collision energy is entirely available to produce short-distance reactions. Unlike electrons, muons are sufficiently heavy to be accelerated in a ring without limitation from synchrotron radiation, allowing to envisage a muon collider energy of 10 TeV or more with a reasonably compact footprint. A muon colliders R&D plan has been established and is being developed by the newly-formed International Muon Collider Collaboration.

I will report on ongoing studies about the potential of such a very high energy muon collider to advance knowledge by direct searches for new particles and by precision measurements, and I will outline future directions of theoretical and experimental investigation towards a conclusive assessment of the muon collider physics case. 

Bio:
Dr. Andrea Wulzer, born in Rome in 1979, graduated in particle physics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2002. He obtained his PhD in theoretical high-energy physics at SISSA (Trieste) in 2005, followed by postdoctoral positions at IFAE and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 2011, he got tenured at the University of Padova and has served as an Associate Professor since 2016. During the period from 2016 to 2021, he held a joint position as CERN/EPFL Staff. In October 2022, he started the role of ICREA Research Professor at IFAE. Dr. Wulzer is a particle physicist with a focus on Beyond the Standard Model Theory and Phenomenology, as well as Collider Physics.