Optimization of Silicon Detector for

the International Linear Collider

Undergraduate Research Symposium 05/16/2019

Joey Carlson
University of Oregon

In collaboration with D. Austin, J. Barkeloo, J Brau, C. Potter, A. Steinhebel

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 Background

Standard Model
- Particle Physics investigates the nature of
fundamental particles
- Particles excitations of respective fields
- Higgs Boson gives fundamental particles mass
- Exact Higgs mechanisms still unclear

Experimental Particle Physics

- Experiments done by colliding particles at extremely high energies

- Fundamental particles will spray off and are caught by energy detector
- Want exact branching ratios of the Higgs
- Shows how it couples with particles that it decays into

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 Reasons for the
International Linear Collider (ILC)
ILC uses e-, e+ collisions
- Cleanliness of collision products
- Finer energy detector
- More controllable, and better defined initial states
(polarization, energy, position of collision…)
- High rate of Higgs event from e+, e- —> Z, h
- Higgs factory in search of new physics beyond the
standard model

Muon Detector
Silicon Detector for the ILC
HCal - General purpose Silicon Detector (SiD)
- Consists of: Silicon Tracker (SiTracker),
EMCal
Tracker
e+ Beamline e- Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECal), Hadronic
Calorimeter (HCal), and Muon Detector
- Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) reconstructs
particles

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 My Goal
Discovering physically how well we can reconstruct Taus from Higgs decay

- Simulation for full SiD

- 10000 events at 250 GeV e+e- to Z, Higgs.
- Z decay to e+e- always and Higgs based off standard model
- Reconstruct Taus coming from decay chain shown below

Final State

- Detector sees the π+/- and the two γ’s

- These are in a small cluster on the detector
- When can the detector separate the two gammas to identify
this decay chain, and when they are merged?
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 Tau Finding Algorithm

γ
1) Choose events with at least one correct chain γ Sample Event
π0
π+/-
2) Reconstruct Z boson Search Cone θ
ρ+/- ντ+/-
e- rch Co
ne
Se a
θ
τ+/-
3) Highest energy charged particle is seed τ-/+ ντ+/-

4) Sum momentum vectors for Tau candidate

Beamline
e+ e-

5) Look for isolated candidates, charge conservation

Z
e+
6) Repeat until all high energy charged particles are e-
attempted.

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 Z Reconstruction

- Z reconstruction using e+, e- pairs

- Make a mass cut around the true Z

mass (91GeV) +15GeV to choose only
good events

- These 242 events now go on to Tau

reconstruction

Mass [GeV]

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 Looking at the Rho

- Tau Neutrinos are invisible to detector

- True rho energy vs. reconstructed rho

energy from correct chain

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- 235/242 events make tau selection cut

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 Collinear Approximation

- Total energy in the event is known Mass of the tau pair to get the mass of the

- Total momentum should sum to zero higgs (125 GeV).

- Neutrino momentum is roughly parallel to Tau

ντ-/+
something τ-/+
τ+/-
Missing
4vector ντ+/-
ρ+/-

- Missing momentum vector dotted onto tau

vector, and the taus dotted onto each other

- Yields two constants used to scale tau

momentum and energy
Mass of Higgs
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 Future Work

- Create more files for better statistics

ρ+/-
- Next will be to change the pixilation of the
Silicon Detector chips in order to see if θ
merging of photons can be stopped

Raw Data
Truth Info
Pandora PFOs

θ [rads]
- Current wafer which gets splashed with
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 Summary
ILC hopes to pin down the Higgs Mechanism.

SiD is important to this in making precise measurements.

Higgs->Tau,Tau is a common decay mode.

Hopes to improve Tau reconstruction with making detector finer.

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