The future prospects of muon colliders and neutrino factories

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The potential of muon beams for high energy physics applications is described along with the challenges of producing high quality muon beams.

• Two proposed approaches for delivering high intensity muon beams, a proton driver source and a positron driver source, are described and compared.
• The proton driver concepts are based on the studies from the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP).
• The MAP effort focused on a path to deliver muon-based facilities, ranging from neutrino factories to muon colliders, that could span research needs at both the intensity and energy frontiers.