CIRCLE LINE TOURS

A FERMILAB SEMINAR SERIES ON

THE PHYSICS PROMISE OF FUTURE ACCELERATORS

Thursday, November 11, 1999: Bill Marciano (Brookhaven): "High Energy Muon Colliders: Physics Goals And Pathways"     Streaming Video
Questions and Answers
Designated questioners: Greg Anderson (Northwestern), Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab), Dave Gerdes (MIchigan), Stu Henderson (Cornell), Hugh Montgomery (Fermilab)
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  • Outline
    1. The High Energy Frontier - A Perspective
    2. Possible "New Physics" Scenarios
      1. Higgs - Multi Higgs - Exotic Higgs
      2. SUSY - SUSY Breaking
      3. Strong Dynamics ("Technicolor"? "Other")
      4. Extra Dimensions
      5. Z', W', Heavy Fermions, Compositeness, etc.
    3. Future Lepton Colliders - Goals and Requirements
      1. Electron vs Muon Collider (General Features)
      2. 100 GeV - 100 TeV!
      3. Physics Goals
    4. Path To The First Muon Collider - 3 "Small" Steps
    5. Concluding Remarks
  • Some General References:
    1. V. Barger, M. S. Berger, J. F. Gunion, and Tao Han, "Higgs boson physics in the s channel at m+m- colliders," Phys. Rep. 286, 1 (1997) (hep-ph/9602415)
    2. V. Barger, M. S. Berger, J. F. Gunion, and Tao Han, "Particle physics opportunities at m+m- colliders, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 51A:13-31 (1996) (hep-ph/9604334).
    3. V. Barger, M. S. Berger, J. F. Gunion, and Tao Han, "Studying a strongly interacting electroweak sector via longitudinal gauge boson scattering at a muon collider," Phys. Rev. D55:142-154 (1997) (hep-ph/9606417).
    4. J. F. Gunion, ``Physics at a Muon Collider,'' (hep-ph/9802258).
    5. C. Quigg, "Physics with a Millimole of Muons," (hep-ph/9803326).
    6. V. Barger, "Overview of Physics at a Muon Collider," (hep-ph/9803480)