Posted: Jul 06, 2012 9:41 pm
Pulsar wrote:lpetrich wrote:New boson sparks call for 'Higgs factory' - physicsworld.com - proposes a muon collider to make lots of Higgs particles. I'm skeptical, because muons have a mean life of about 2.2 microseconds. That's a half life of 1.56 microseconds. That does not exactly allow much margin for error.
The higher their speed, the longer their half-life, due to time dilation.
Great links btw
True, but getting a muon up to 100-GeV energies gives it a time dilation of about 1000, pushing its lifetime up to a few milliseconds. Not much of an improvement.
So one may have to catch both the positive muon and the negative muon from a pair-production event, and accelerate both of them.