Description:

Muon colliders have recently emerged as an exciting option to access
the 10 TeV energy scale. However, significant research and development
is required to address the fundamental challenge that muons are
unstable, and will decay continuously while moving through an
accelerator complex. In addition, any detector will see a very large
beam-induced background (BIB) from the decay of muons in the colliding
beams. In this talk, I will introduce and motivate the concept of a
muon collider, discuss some of the broader challenges, and then
present MAIA (Muon Accelerator Instrumented Apparatus), a proposed
detector design for a 10 TeV muon collider.

Benjamin Rosser, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

Host: Adrian Thompson