Physics Potential and Development of Muon Colliders & Neutrino Factories

by Cline, David B.

• ISBN13: 9781563969706
• ISBN10: 156396970X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

These proceedings report the ever increasing interest and scientific case for the muon collider and the neutrino factory. There were intense sessions on the current design of neutrino factories in Europe, Japan, and in the USA, and there is growing evidence for a low-mass Higgs boson from the precision electroweak parameters to motivate the development of a Higgs factory. The twin themes of a neutrino factory and a Higgs factory have provided a possible plan for a future program in the USA.Some of the highlights of this conference were: The very latest news on the Higgs search at LEP II, the strong case for a low-mass Higgs, the push to find SUSY particles, the neutrino mass, the interesting possibility that the SuperKamiokande results could somehow be the result of neutrino decay, the beautiful arguments for a scalar collider, the summary of the future of CERN, and particle physics in general, and the overview of the Standard Model.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I. OVERVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS: NOW AND FUTURE
The State of the Standard Model	3	(26)
C. Quigg
Higgs Searches at LEP2	29	(9)
S. L. Wu
Future Higgs Searches at the Tevatron	38	(10)
J. D. Hobbs
Precision Electroweak Parameters and the Higgs Mass	48	(12)
W. J. Marciano
Superpartners and Future Colliders	60	(7)
G. L. Kane
Physics with e+e- Linear Colliders	67	(10)
D. W. Gerdes
II. NEUTRINO MASS AND MIXING
Neutrino Masses and Mixing at the Millennium	77	(16)
V. Barger
Models of Neutrino Mass and Mixing	93	(6)
E. Ma
Do Neutrinos Decay?	99	(16)
S. Pakvasa
Scalar Physics and μ+μ- Colliders	115	(3)
Scalarland
L. B. Okun
The Scientific Need for a Scalar/Higgs Factory	118	(6)
D. B. Cline
Muon Colliders and the Non-perturbative Dynamics of the Higgs Boson	124	(6)
A. Ghinculov
T. Binoth
h→τ-τ+ at a Muon Collider	130	(8)
T. Han
Top Polarization at a μ+μ- Collider	138	(9)
G. Mahlon
S. Parke
IV. μ+μ- AND μp PHYSICS
SUSY Thresholds at a Muon Collider	147	(5)
M. S. Berger
Z' Bosons and Kaluza-Klein Excitations at Muon Colliders	152	(8)
T. G. Rizzo
Muon-Proton Colliders: Leptoquarks, Contact Interactions and Extra Dimensions	160	(11)
K. Cheung
V. NEUTRINO FACTORY, MUON COLLIDERS AND DETECTORS
Physics Opportunities with Muon Beams: Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders	171	(12)
K. T. McDonald
The Use of Neutrino Beams from Muon Storage Rings	183	(8)
A. A. Petrov
Feasibility Study of Neutrino Source Based on Muon Storage Ring	191	(8)
N. Holtkamp
From a v-Factory to μ+μ- Colliders.	199	(16)
D. Neuffer
Neutrino Factory in Japan	215	(5)
Y. Mori
PRISM	220	(6)
Y. Kuno
A Neutrino-Factory Muon Storage Ring to Provide Beams for Multiple Detectors Around the World	226	(10)
D. B. Cline
Y. Fukui
A. Garren
Intense Muon Beams and Neutrino Factories	236	(12)
Z. Parsa
Recirculating Acceleration	248	(5)
J. S. Berg
A. A. Garren
C. Johnstone
A High Power, Radiation Cooled, Rotating Toroidal Target for Neutrino Production	253	(5)
J. R. J. Bennett
Detector Construction Considerations from the Lyon Meeting	258	(9)
D. A. Harris
VI. Views from Different Laboratories
Physics Goals of the Next Century at CERN	267	(26)
J. Ellis
Program	293	(4)
List of Attendees	297	(6)
Author Index	303