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A calibration scheme is presented for improved polarization state measurement of terahertz pulses. In this scheme the polarization response of a two-contact terahertz photoconductive detector is accurately measured, and is used to correct…
Tau leptons play an important role in the physics program in ATLAS. They can be used not only in searches for new phenomena like the Higgs boson or Supersymmetry, or for electroweak measurements but also in detector related studies like the…
In a recent paper, 8 semileptonic parameters were defined to specify the most general Lorentz-invariant spin correlation functions for 2-body tau decays. These parameters can be used to search for anomalous longitudinal-versus transverse…
Recent experiments at RHIC have shown that in 200 GeV Au-Au collisions, the Lambda and Antilambda hyperons are produced with very small polarizations [1], almost consistent with zero. These results can be understood in terms of a model that…
The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of the proposed detector concepts for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The work on the ILD machine-detector interface (MDI) concentrates on the optimisation of the experimental area…
In this paper, a measurement of tau polarization in W->taunu decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic tau decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an…
The polarisation of $\tau$'s produced in Z decay is measured using 160 pb$^{-1}$ of data accumulated at LEP by the ALEPH detector between 1990 and 1995. The variation of the polarisation with polar angle yields the two parameters ${\cal…
Non-identical two particle correlation functions probe asymmetries between the average space-time emission points of different particle species. The system collective expansion would produce such asymmetry because massive particles, such as…
The beams at the ILC produce electron positron pairs due to beam-beam interactions. This note presents for the first time a study of these processes in a detailed simulation, which shows that these pair background particles appear at angles…
In this study, the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to WIMP dark matter is evaluated assuming WIMP pair production accompanied by a photon from initial state radiation, through which the process can be identified. A full detector…
Using the data collected by the four experiments at LEP during 1990-1994, a precise measurement of the tau longitudinal polarisation (P_tau) has been performed, as well as the measurement of the transverse-transverse and transverse-normal…
Quantum Tomography of tau lepton pairs produced at a Higgs Factory collider will enable measurements of their spin correlations arising from quantum entanglement. Such measurements rely on the ability to measure the components of and…
Tau-lepton decays with up to two $\pi^0$'s in the final state, $\tau^+ \to \pi^+ \bar{\nu}_\tau$, $\rho^+ (\pi^+\pi^0) \bar{\nu}_\tau$, $a^+_1 (\pi^+\pi^0\pi^0) \bar{\nu}_\tau$, are used to study the performance of the barrel part of the…
Separating signal from noise is central to experiments. Applying well-established statistical methods effectively to LLM evals requires consideration of their unique noise characteristics. We clearly define and measure three types of noise:…
The setup of two different small scale teststands for measurements regarding an electron Cherenkov detector as part of the ILC polarimeters is presented. Component measurements already carried out are analyzed and others, foreseen for the…
The International Large Detector (ILD) at the International Linear Collider (ILC) requires significantly improved subdetector systems to comply with the envisioned performance. Its central tracking detector is a Time Projection Chamber…
Supersymmetry (SUSY) with a long-lived stau is an attractive scenario in the LHC experiments because one can directly observe stau tracks in each SUSY event, and thus precise measurements of SUSY particle masses are possible. In this…
The polarization of tau leptons in the reaction e+ e- --> tau+ tau- has been measured using a e+e- collider, TRISTAN, at the center-of-mass energy of 58 GeV. From the kinematical distributions of daughter particles in tau --> e nu nu-bar,…
The International Large Detector, ILD, is a detector concept for an experiment at a future high energy lepton collider. The detector has been optimised for precision physics in a range of energies from 90~GeV to about 1~TeV. ILD features a…
In this paper a general method to measure the longitudinal polarization of $\tau$ lepton in the process $pp \rightarrow Z^{0} \rightarrow \tau\tau$ is described. The method of optimal observable allows to distinguish between the $\tau$…