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LHμC Concept: Energy-Frontier Antimuon-Proton Collisions at CERN

  • Arda Goroglu
  • Saleh Sultansoy
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Abstract

The concept of the LHμC, an energy-frontier antimuon-proton collider based on the HL-LHC, is presented. After recalling why energy-frontier lepton-hadron colliders are indispensable as QCD explorers and reviewing the history of muon-proton collider proposals, two ways of realising μp collisions at the LHC are compared: with muon-collider beams and with ultra-cold μ+ beams as proposed for μTRISTAN. For the latter, a μTRISTAN-type booster and the re-use of the LHeC energy-recovery-linac tunnel are discussed; colliding 1 TeV antimuons with 7 TeV protons gives √s=5.3 TeV and peak luminosities of 8.8×1033 and 7.2×1033 cm−2s−1, respectively. The detector concept and the physics potential, including searches for colour-octet muons and R-parity-violating squarks, are discussed together with the main challenges.

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@misc{goroglu2026lhμc,
  title = {{LH$μ$C Concept: Energy-Frontier Antimuon-Proton Collisions at CERN}},
  author = {Arda Goroglu and Saleh Sultansoy},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.01117},
  eprint = {2611.01117},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01117},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - LHμC Concept: Energy-Frontier Antimuon-Proton Collisions at CERN
AU  - Arda Goroglu
AU  - Saleh Sultansoy
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/01
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.01117
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01117
AB  - The concept of the LHμC, an energy-frontier antimuon-proton collider based on the HL-LHC, is presented. After recalling why energy-frontier lepton-hadron colliders are indispensable as QCD explorers and reviewing the history of muon-proton collider proposals, two ways of realising μp collisions at the LHC are compared: with muon-collider beams and with ultra-cold μ^+ beams as proposed for μTRISTAN. For the latter, a μTRISTAN-type booster and the re-use of the LHeC energy-recovery-linac tunnel are discussed; colliding 1 TeV antimuons with 7 TeV protons gives √s=5.3 TeV and peak luminosities of 8.8×10^33 and 7.2×10^33 cm^−2s^−1, respectively. The detector concept and the physics potential, including searches for colour-octet muons and R-parity-violating squarks, are discussed together with the main challenges.
ER  -