Muon Colliders, Neutrino Factories, and Results from the MICE Experiment

TL;DR

This paper reviews the potential of muon colliders and neutrino factories, emphasizing recent advancements in muon cooling technology demonstrated by the MICE experiment, crucial for future high-energy physics facilities.

Contribution

It summarizes recent progress in muon cooling techniques and experimental results from MICE, highlighting technological developments for future muon-based colliders and neutrino factories.

Findings

Successful demonstration of muon ionization cooling in MICE

Progress in muon cooling design studies and prototype tests

Potential for building high-energy muon 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 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 starting in the coming decade. The status of the key technologies and their various demonstration experiments is summarized, with emphasis on recent results from the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE).