Laser Cooling of TeV Muons

Abstract

We show that Compton scattering can be used to cool TeV-scale muon beams, and we derive analytical expressions for the equilibrium transverse angular spread, longitudinal energy spread, and power requirements. We find that a factor of a few thousand reduction in emittance is possible for a 3 TeV muon collider.

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, contributed to the NuFAct'00 International Workshop