Detector Design Challenges at a Muon Collider

The driving challenge of muon collider detector design is to achieve excellent measurement of both TeV-scale annihilation and electroweak processes while suppressing the overwhelming amount of muon beam-induced background (BIB). This talk will discuss how various BIB mitigation strategies inform detector design, including the optimization of collider lattice and shielding structures, the specification of stringent detector timing and spatial resolution requirements, and the development of dedicated BIB rejection algorithms. Closely related considerations, such as forward region design and the substantial demands on data acquisition and computing systems, will also be explored. Several of these topics will be discussed in the context of two 10 TeV muon collider detector concepts, MAIA and MUSIC.