Daniel Schulte: Muon collider progress and plans

Tuesday 24 Mar 2026, 13:15 → 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

FB52 (AlbaNova Main Building)

A muon collider is a unique option to achieve lepton collisions at the 10 TeV scale with high luminosity. The high muon mass suppresses beamstrahlung allowing to accelerate and collide the beams in rings. The limited lifetime of the muon however poses challenges and call for technology and design innovations to make the first collider a possibility. An international collaboration is addressing these challenges. The presentation will introduce the concept, summarise the progress of the R&D and highlight the path to the future.

About the speaker:  Dr. Daniel Schulte received his PhD from Hamburg University (1996, Doktorvater B. Wiik) for the work on beam-induced background in the detector of the planned TESLA linear collider. Then he moved to CERN as fellow and later as staff. He has worked/is working on linear collider designs (CLIC and ILC, machine-detector interface, code development, beam dynamics and design), LHC (electron cloud and collimation, during construction), FCC-hh (leading collider design, up to previous ESPPU), muon collider (leading study), and some other projects (LHeC, FCC-ee, plasma, etc.).

In the OKC:  Tuesday Mar 24th, in the SU ELPA corridor (C5)