Comment on $\mu p$ and $\mu A$ Luminosities of Muon-Ion Collider at BNL

Abstract

Luminosities of muon-proton and muon-nucleus collisions at a recently proposed muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA have been estimated using A Luminosity Optimizer for High Energy Physics (AloHEP) software keeping in mind beam-beam tune-shift values. It is shown that L$_{\mu p}$ = 3.6x10$^{31}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ and L$_{\mu{\rm -Au}}$ = 2.84x10$^{27}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ values can be achieved at MuIC. The physics search potential of the collider is superior to HERA. However, LHeC will provide 2 orders of higher luminosities at approximately same center-of-mass (CoM) energies.