Muon Cooling, Muon Colliders, and the MICE Experiment

Abstract

Muon colliders and neutrino factories are attractive options for future facilities aimed at achieving the highest lepton-antilepton collision energies and precision measurements of parameters of the Higgs boson and the neutrino mixing matrix. The performance and cost of these depend on how well a beam of muons can be cooled. Recent progress in muon cooling design studies and prototype tests nourishes the hope that such facilities can be built during the coming decade. The status of the key technologies and their various demonstration experiments is summarized.

5 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Proc. COOL'13 Workshop, Murren, Switzerland, 10-14 June 2013

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