Muon Collider in the News

How do you solve a problem like dark matter?

For the first time, researchers have accelerated muons — the heavier, unstable cousins of electrons — into a tightly controlled beam, bringing the vision of a muon collider a step closer to reality.

In December, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, called P5, released its recommendations for the future of the field, based on the input from the Snowmass process.

A muon collider could be much smaller and cheaper than a functionally equivalent proton collider, advocates say.

The physics landscape has changed.

A feasibility study for a muon smasher in the United States could be an affordable way to maintain particle physics unity.

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos.

Particle physicists are unlikely evangelists, but in papers, at conferences and with T-shirts, stickers and memes, many of them are spreading the good word of a muon collider—a next-generation machine that would smash together muons, the massive cousins of electrons.

Momentum is growing to build a particle collider in the United States that smashes muons — heavier cousins of electrons.

As the discovery of the Higgs boson approaches its 10-year anniversary, physicists are busy building on its legacy.