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Muon colliders are considered nowadays in the landscape of future lepton colliders as they have a great potential for high-energy physics: they combine cutting-edge discovery potential with precision measurements. They can offer collisions of point-like particles at very high energies, since muons can be accelerated in a ring without limitation from synchrotron radiation. However,one of the key challenges in the development of a muon collider is the delivery of a highbrightness muon beam through ionisation cooling, which is essential to produce sufficient luminosity. The ionisation cooling technique has been demonstrated in principle by the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE). Nonetheless, a number of questions remain that must be answered in order to prove that the technique can be applied in practice and one of them concerns the potential detrimental impacts of collective effects. Within the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC), these mechanisms need to be studied with high priority because they could jeopardise the generation of high-brightness muon beams. The knowledge of collective instabilities that could arise from the interaction of the beam with electromagnetic wake fields propagating in matter (absorbers, gas-filled RF cavities, etc.) as well as with the pair of charges generated by ionisation is practically non-existing. Therefore, the selected student will enter an uncharted territory, with the possibility to bring significant contributions to the community.
For more information, please contact: Elias.Metral@cern.ch or 00 33 644 298 334.
More details about the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) can be found here: https://muoncollider.web.cern.ch/ and https://mucol.web.cern.ch/.
To apply for this job email your details to Elias.Metral@cern.ch