Mass and Cross Section Measurement of light-flavored Squarks at CLIC
Abstract
We present a study of the prospects for the measurement of TeV-scale light-flavored right-squark masses and the corresponding production cross section at a 3 TeV e+e- collider based on CLIC technology. The analysis, performed in the framework of the CLIC Conceptual Design Report, is based on full Geant4 simulations of the CLIC_ILD detector concept, including standard model physics background and machine related hadronic background from two-photon processes. The events are reconstructed using particle flow event reconstruction, and the mass is obtained from a template fit built from generator-level simulations with smearing to parametrize the detector response. For an integrated luminosity of 2/ab, a statistical precision of 5.9 GeV, corresponding to 0.52%, is obtained for unseparated first and second generation right squarks. For the combined cross section, a precision of 0.07 fb, corresponding to 5%, is obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.3446,
title = {Mass and Cross Section Measurement of light-flavored Squarks at CLIC},
author = {Frank Simon and Lars Weuste},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3446},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of LCWS11, Granada, Spain, September 2011