1202.3446 (Frank Simon et al.)

Mass and Cross Section Measurement of light-flavored Squarks at CLIC    [PDF]

Frank Simon, Lars Weuste

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.

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