Cern Courier Article Figures

• Figure 1: Comparison of the sizes of various futuristic hadron-hadron and lepton-antilepton colliders. Shown are footprints for the First Muon Collider (FMC), Next Muon Collider (NMC), Next Linear Collider (NLC), and Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC). These are compared with the footprint of the LHC at CERN, and the size of an existing laboratory site (Fermilab).

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• Figure 2: Schematic of the accelerator complex needed to produce, cool, and accelerate muons for a high energy muon collider.

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• Figure 3: Schematic illustrating ionization cooling. Muons pass through absorbers (labelled dE/dx) in which they loose momentum by ionization losses. The longitudinal component of the momentum is replaced by rf cavities providing acceleration in the direction of the arrows.