The Neutrino Slice at Muon Colliders

Luc Bojorquez-Lopez, Matheus Hostert, Carlos A. Argüelles, Zhen Liu

Published 2024-12-18Version 1

Muon colliders provide an exciting new path pushing forward the energy frontier of particle physics. We point out a new use of these facilities for neutrino physics and beyond the Standard Model physics \emph{using their main detectors}. Muon decays along the main accelerator rings induce an intense, highly collimated beam of neutrinos. As this beam crosses a thin slice of the kt-scale detector, it would induce unprecedented numbers of neutrino interactions, with $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ events per second for a 10 TeV $\mu^+\mu^-$ collider. We characterize these events, showing that they are highly energetic and possess a distinct timing signature with a large transverse displacement. We discuss promising applications of these events for instrumentation, electroweak, and beyond-the-Standard Model physics. For instance, we show that a sub-percent measurement of the neutrino-electron scattering rate enables new precision measurements of the Weak angle and a novel detection of the neutrino charge radius.