Review of muon-proton and muon-nucleus collier proposals

Abstract

Construction of future Muon Collier (or dedicated µ-ring) tangential to the energy frontier hh colliders will give opportunity to realize µp and µA collisions at multi-TeV center-of-mass energies with sufficiently high luminosities. Obviously, such colliders will essentially enlarge the physics search potential of corresponding muon and hadron colliders for both the SM (especially for clarifying QCD basics and confinement hypothesis) and BSM phenomena. In addition, they will provide parton distribution functions for adequate interpretation of energy frontier hh colliders’ and cosmic ray experiments data. This paper is devoted to review of main parameters of µh colliders proposed until now. © World Scientific Publishing Company.