2020 Physics Critique: Can a muon collider be operational within the next 30 years?

TL;DR

This paper reviews the physics potential and technological challenges of muon colliders, concluding that building a 3 TeV muon collider within 30 years is feasible with current technological advancements.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive critique and roadmap demonstrating the feasibility of operationalizing a 3 TeV muon collider within three decades.

Findings

Muon colliders offer high precision and energy experiments due to muon's properties.

Technological advancements make a 3 TeV muon collider feasible within 30 years.

A detailed roadmap for building a 3 TeV muon collider is proposed.

Abstract

A 2020 physics critique report for Year 4 MSci Physics with Particle Physics & Cosmology with the University of Birmingham, School of Physics & Astronomy. Muon colliders are a proposed next-generation particle accelerator which benefit from the muon's fundamentality and relatively high mass to perform simultaneous high precision, high energy experiments. This critique reviews their physics potential and technological feasibility, then proposes a roadmap for how a 3 TeV muon collider could be built, concluding that it is experimentally possible for a muon collider to be operational in 30 years.