Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. Muon colliders will be a paradigm-shifting tool for particle physics representing the first collider to combine the high-energy reach of a proton collider and the high precision of an electron-positron collider, yielding a physics potential significantly greater than the sum of its individual parts. They are the natural next step in the exploration of fundamental physics after the HL-LHC and a natural complement to a future low-energy Higgs factory.
Their strong physics potential is accompanied by intriguing technological challenges, due to the fact that muons are unstable particles. Addressing these challenges requires the development of innovative detector and accelerator technologies. This talk will give an overview of the project and of the R&D plans that can make the muon collider a reality.
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