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SUSY in the Forward Region

This workshop presentation discusses the motivation behind studying the forward region for SUSY endpoint measurements and the resolution degradation in nominal tracker designs. It also covers background simulations using WHIZARD and explores the properties of different background samples. The analysis includes considering both the central and forward regions.

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SUSY in the Forward Region

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  1. SUSY in the Forward Region Bruce Schumm UC Santa Cruz ECFA/DESY Linear Collider Workshop April 1-4, 2003

  2. Participants Sharon Gerbode, Heath Holguin, Paul Mooser, Adam Pearlstein, Bruce Schumm (all UCSC), with substantial help from Tim Barklow at SLAC Sharon, Heath, Paul, and Adam are senior physics majors at UCSC. Sharon is writing her senior thesis this year; other three are just getting started

  3. Motivation Resolution of forward tracking degrades in nominal tracker designs. SUSY endpoint measurements require high precision. Might there be information in the forward direction? Will our instrumentation be up to the task?

  4. selectrons LSP

  5. Right-handed selectrons at Ecm = 1 TeV

  6. Background Simulation I Making use of WHIZARD Monte Carlo package Some credits: • WHIZARD due to Wolfgang Kilian • Making use matrix elements from O’Mega program (Thorsten Ohl) • Implementation by Tim Barklow, SLAC Background processes characterized by final state (e.g. e+e-e+e- includes Z0 Z0 channel as well as nominal gg channel)

  7. Background Simulation II We are beginning with eeee backgrounds for now e+ e+ e- g* e+ g* e- e-

  8. Background Simulation III The cross section for this process is effectively infinite • Must choose cut-offs which are guided by experi- mental constraints. This can be tricky, and there is a risk that a dom- inant background will go unmodelled N.B. Background simulations done by Tim Barklow

  9. Hard Cut-off Sample For this sample, a hard cutoff was applied to the invariant mass of any e+in/e+out e-in/e-out or final- state e+e- pair In the absence of any feedback, Tim chose a cut- off of

  10. Weiszacker-Williams Sample Complementary to hard cutoff sample Cross-section determined by integral over Cut of imposed on any eg pair Photon virtuality always set to g* e- e+ g*

  11. SUSY-Inspired Cuts Look a distribution of backgrounds for SUSY-like events • Define `fiducial region’ *) |cosq| < .995 (100 mrad) *) pt > pcut (pcut = 0.2 and 5.0 GeV/c) • `SUSY event’ if and only if 1 electron and 1 positron in fiducial region

  12. q (mrad) Hard cut-off component; SUSY cuts use pcut = 0.2 q (mrad)

  13. Weiszacker-Williams component; SUSY cuts use pcut = 0.2 q (mrad)

  14. Hard cut-off; pcut = 5.0 Hard cut-off; pcut = 0.2 pt (GeV/c) q (mrad)

  15. Weiszacker-Williams pcut = 5.0 GeV/c Weiszacker-Williams pcut = 0.2 GeV/c pt (GeV/c) q (mrad)

  16. 3-D Back-to-Back Cut Require two `SUSY’ leptons to be back-to-back (cosq < -.96) Hard-cut sample; lowest-q track Weiszacker-Williams sample; all tracks

  17. 2D Back-to-Back Cut Two `SUSY’ leptons back-to-back in axial projection Weiszacker- Williams sample Hard-cut sample

  18. Up and Coming… Tim Barklow has now generated hard cut-off sample with cut-off of Weiszacker-Williams background has been modified by Tim Barklow to retain photon virtuality in final-state kinematics Must explore properties of these two background samples, plus enen sample Will check central-region analysis (Sharon) in addition to consideration of forward region (new students)

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