Muon Cooling and Future Muon Facilities: The Coming Decade

TL;DR

This paper discusses recent advances in muon cooling techniques crucial for developing future muon colliders and neutrino factories, highlighting progress that could enable these facilities within the next decade.

Contribution

It reviews recent progress in muon cooling design studies and prototype tests, emphasizing their importance for future muon-based facilities.

Findings

Progress in muon cooling design studies

Prototype tests show promising results

Potential for building facilities in the next decade

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 neutrino mixing matrix. The performance and cost of these depend sensitively 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 in the decade to come.