Charged Particle Tracking: From the LHC to the Muon Collider

by Benjamin Rosser (University of Chicago)

Tuesday Dec 2, 2025, 12:30 PM → 1:30 PM America/Los_Angeles

48/1-112A/B - Redwood A/B (SLAC)

Muon colliders have recently emerged as an exciting option to access the 10 TeV energy scale. However, significant research and development in both accelerator and detector design is required to address the fundamental challenge that muons are unstable. One of the main challenges for the detector is to accurately identify charged particle tracks in the presence of the enormous beam-induced background (BIB) from the decay of muons in the colliding beams. In this talk, I'll give a brief introduction to tracking at colliders, discuss the current state of the art, and describe the different approaches currently being studied by the ATLAS experiment as options for tracking in the busy collision environment of the High Luminosity LHC. I'll then give an overview of ongoing work studying next-generation tracker designs and tracking algorithms for the even busier collision environment of a future 10 TeV muon collider, and discuss how this will be essential to realizing the physics goals of such a machine.

 

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98973156241?pwd=cEU5RFdlVXoyc0JTeTlDMkozKzQ5UT09

mucol_tracking.pdf