@article{8daa372d64954834a4cd38870d207f53,
title = "The muon Smasher's guide",
abstract = "We lay out a comprehensive physics case for a future high-energy muon collider, exploring a range of collision energies (from 1 to 100 TeV) and luminosities. We highlight the advantages of such a collider over proposed alternatives. We show how one can leverage both the point-like nature of the muons themselves as well as the cloud of electroweak radiation that surrounds the beam to blur the dichotomy between energy and precision in the search for new physics. The physics case is buttressed by a range of studies with applications to electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter, and the naturalness of the weak scale. Furthermore, we make sharp connections with complementary experiments that are probing new physics effects using electric dipole moments, flavor violation, and gravitational waves. An extensive appendix provides cross section predictions as a function of the center-of-mass energy for many canonical simplified models.",
keywords = "beyond the standard model, colliders, muon, standard model",
author = "{Al Ali}, Hind and Nima Arkani-Hamed and Ian Banta and Sean Benevedes and Dario Buttazzo and Tianji Cai and Junyi Cheng and Timothy Cohen and Nathaniel Craig and Majid Ekhterachian and Jiji Fan and Matthew Forslund and Garcia, {Isabel Garcia} and Samuel Homiller and Seth Koren and Giacomo Koszegi and Zhen Liu and Qianshu Lu and Lyu, {Kun Feng} and Alberto Mariotti and Amara McCune and Patrick Meade and Isobel Ojalvo and Umut Oktem and Diego Redigolo and Matthew Reece and Filippo Sala and Raman Sundrum and Dave Sutherland and Andrea Tesi and Timothy Trott and Chris Tully and Wang, {Lian Tao} and Menghang Wang",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Ken Van Tilburg for collaboration during the early stages of this work. We thank Kaustubh Agashe, Paolo Ciafaloni, Tao Han, Sergo Jindariani, Fabio Maltoni, and Dave Soper for useful conversations. The work of I Banta, T Cai, N Craig, G Koszegi, A McCune, and T Trott is supported by the US Department of Energy under the Grant DE-SC0011702. The work of D Buttazzo and A Tesi is supported by MIUR under Grant Number 2017L5W2PT. The work of T Cohen is supported by the US Department of Energy under Grant Number DE-SC0011640. The work of J Fan is supported by the US Department of Energy under Grant Number DE-SC-0010010. The work of I Garcia Garcia is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF7392, and in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958. The work of S Homiller, Q Lu, and M Reece was supported in part by the DOE Grant DE-SC0013607 and by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Grant No. G-2019-12504. The work of P Meade is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1915093. The work of A Mariotti is supported in part by the SRP HEP-VUB and by the EOS-be.h n.30820817. D Sutherland has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754496. The work of L-T Wang is supported by the DOE Grant DE-SC0013642. The work of S Koren is funded by a Mafalda and Reinhard Oehme Postdoctoral Fellowship. The work of M Ekhterachian and R Sundrum is supported by the NSF Grant PHY-1914731. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 IOP Publishing Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1088/1361-6633/ac6678",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "85",
journal = "Reports on Progress in Physics",
issn = "0034-4885",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "8",
}