Nature
News: Last week, US particle physicists staked their claim
in a daring new venture to develop the
next generation of
accelerators by proposing the world's first
muon
collider.The collider could overtake two more-mature
concepts, each of which plan to smash together electrons and
positrons that have been accelerated through long, straight
tunnels.But some physicists at the
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, are concerned
about the expense and feasibility of the linear colliders, and
question whether they would push the boundaries of physics
beyond what the
Large
Hadron Collider is expected to achieve.They are now trying
to rally enthusiasm for a collider that smashes muons, a
particle that is about 200 times more massive than the
electron.
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