https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328810012
Fast timing detectors for the muon system of a muon collider experiment
1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare sez. di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Published online: 21 November 2023
The muon collider offers a great discover potential for the future of high energy physics. Indeed, it combines the advantages of a lepton collider, with clean signatures and maximum available center of mass energy, with those of a hadron collider, such as low synchrotron radiation. However, it poses interesting challenges, manly related to the fact that muons decay and their product interact with the material of the machine producing the socalled Beam-induced-Background. For this reason, a careful design of the experiments running at a muon collider must be performed, starting from simulation, and moving to the R&D on dedicated technologies. This contribution will focus on the muon system of a muon collider experiment: the current design limitations will be presented, together with the alternative solutions that are being considered. In particular, we are proposing to use the Picosec Micromegas technology for a dedicated timing layer in the muon system, which will improve the muon reconstruction performance in that region. The R&D on this technology will be discussed and preliminary results will be presented.
Key words: Muon collider / time resolution / PicosecMicromegas
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