PHYSICS POTENTIAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUON COLLIDERS AND NEUTRINO FACTORIES: Fifth International Conference

David B. Cline, University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Conference Location and Date: San Francisco, CA, 15-17 December 1999

Subseries: Accelerators and Beams; Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Published ; ISBN 156396970X One Volume, Print; 313 pages; 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches;

Readership: Accelerator and particle physicists; high-energy physicists.

These proceedings report the ever increasing interest and scientific case for the muon collider and the neutrino factory. There were intense sessions on the current design of neutrino factories in Europe, Japan, and the USA, and there is growing evidence for a low-mass Higgs boson from the precision electroweak parameters to motivate the development of a Higgs factory. The twin themes of a neutrino factory and a Higgs factory have provided a possible plan for a future program in the USA. Some of the highlights of this conference were: The very latest news on the Higgs search at LEP II, the strong case fpr a low-massHiggs, the push to find SUSY particles, the neutrino mass, the interesting possibility that the SuperKamiokande results could somehow be the result of neutrino decay, the beautiful arguments for a scalar collider, the summary of the future of CERN, and particle physics in general, and finally the overview of the Standard Model.

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