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Center-of-mass energy determination using $e^+e^-$ to $\mu^+\mu^-$ $(\gamma)$ events at future $e^+e^-$ colliders

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2022-11-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Accelerator Physics

Abstract

Methods for measuring the absolute center-of-mass energy, s\sqrt{s}, and its distribution, are investigated for future e+ee^+e^- Higgs-factory colliders using in situ e+ee^+e^- collisions. We emphasize the potential of an estimator based on the measurement of muon momenta that we denote sp\sqrt{s}_p. It can be determined with high precision in e+ee^+e^- to μ+μ\mu^+\mu^-(γ\gamma) events while being sensitive to effects from beam energy spread, beamstrahlung, initial-state radiation (ISR), final-state radiation (FSR), crossing angle, and detector resolution. The measurement precision is enabled by a high-precision low-mass tracker; the reported performance estimates are based on full simulation of the tracker response of the ILD detector concept for the ILC operating at s=250\sqrt{s} = 250 GeV. The underlying statistical precision is 1.9 ppm for a 2.0 ab1^{-1} dataset at ILC. The ultimate utility will depend largely on how well one can calibrate and maintain the tracker momentum scale.

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@article{arxiv.2209.03281,
  title  = {Center-of-mass energy determination using $e^+e^-$ to $\mu^+\mu^-$ $(\gamma)$ events at future $e^+e^-$ colliders},
  author = {Brendon Madison and Graham W. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03281},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

30 pages; Submitted to the Proceedings of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021). v3 correct scaling formula in footnote 1 and add corresponding reference