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Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar - Matheus Hostert, PhD; Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University
Oct 7, 2024
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
30 North Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52242
The Neutrino Slice of Muon Colliders
Matheus Hostert, PhD; Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University
Muon colliders are futuristic but strong contenders for pushing the energy frontier of particle physics. If built, these machines will not only be unique probes of high energy physics, but also very intense sources of neutrinos thanks to the short lifetime of the muon. As it turns out, the main detector designed to see muon collisions would see an unprecedented number of neutrino interactions, with about one high-energy event per bunch crossing. These events populate a very specific region of the detector barrel, which we call the "neutrino slice." They are unavoidable and would be extremely hard to mimic with backgrounds. I will discuss the potential uses of this novel source of neutrinos for electroweak physics and searches beyond the Standard Model physics.
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