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C. T. Potter

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arXiv2020

Primer on ILC Physics and SiD Software Tools

We first outline the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, particle production and decay, and the expected signal and background at a Higgs factory like the International Linear Collider (ILC). We then introduce high energy colliders and collider detectors, and briefly detail the ILC and the Silicon Detector (SiD), one of the two detectors proposed for the ILC. Next we review the available software tools for ILC event generation, SiD detector simulation, and event reconstruction. Finally we suggest open avenues in research for detector optimization and physics analysis. The pedagogical level is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics and research scientists in related fields.

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arXiv2020

Correcting for Leakage Energy in the SiD Silicon-Tungsten ECal

A dominant contribution to ECal resolution at high energy (eg. 100 GeV) comes from leakage beyond the containment of the calorimeter. We have studied the leakage energy for the SiD silicon-tungsten ECal and developed a neural network algorithm for estimating the leakage energy and correcting the energy measurement. The SiD TDR design calls for 20 thin 2.5 mm tungsten layers followed by 10 thick 5.0 mm tungsten layers. We have investigated the impact on the leakage energy of a reduced number of layers, and the ability of an optimized neutral network analysis to correct for the leakage with a reduced number of layers, and reduced material thickness. Reducing layer numbers is motivated by cost containment.

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arXiv2020

pySiDR: Python Event Reconstruction for SiD

Event reconstruction in the ILC community has typically relied on algorithms implemented in C++, a fast compiled language. However, the Python package pyLCIO provides a full interface to tracker and calorimeter hits stored in LCIO files, opening up the possibility to implement reconstruction algorithms in a language uniquely well suited to working with large lists of hits built with list comprehensions. Python, an interpreted language which can perform complex tasks with minimal code, also allows seamless integration with powerful machine learning tools developed recently. We discuss pySiDR, a Python package for SiD event reconstruction.

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arXiv2017

NMSSM Light Decoupled Higgs Singlet at CEPC

We describe the phenomenology of light singlet Higgs bosons in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetry Model (NMSSM) which are mostly decoupled from the rest of Supersymmetry. Noting that the Large Hadron Collider has not excluded this scenario, we describe previous searches for light Higgs bosons at the Large Electron Positron collider and evaluate the sensitivity to neutralino production and decay to light singlet Higgs bosons at the proposed $\sqrt{s}=250$~GeV Circular Electron Positron Collider.

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arXiv2017

Backgrounds for Fast Simulation $\mathbf{e^+ e^-}$ Collider Studies at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s}=91,250,350,500}$ GeV

Various proposals for a new $e^+ e^-$ collider operating below 1 TeV are now under consideration by the worlwide High Energy Physics community. Among these are the International Linear Collider and the Circular Electron Positron Collider. We describe high statistics Standard Model background simulation samples generated with MG5_aMC@NLO for $e^+e^-$ collider studies at $\sqrt{s}=91,250,350,500$ GeV. Fast detector simulation is performed with Delphes and DSiD, the detector card for the SiD detector. The samples are compared with other simulation samples generated with Whizard.

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arXiv2016

Pseudoscalar Gluinonia to 750 GeV LHC Diphotons

Interpreting the diphoton mass excesses near 750~GeV reported by ATLAS and CMS as pseudoscalar gluinonia, bound states of two gluinos, we perform a scan in Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetry parameter space, fixing $m_{\tilde{g}}\approx 380$~GeV and identifying an experimentally viable point. We generate events with this point, perform fast simulation, and carry out an analysis modeled on the ATLAS search which reproduces features of the diphoton excess. This interpretation requires an enhancement of the signal strength above the nominal rate found in the literature and neglecting the gaugino mass unification constraint $M_{3}\approx 3M_{2}$.

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arXiv2016

DSiD: a Delphes Detector for ILC Physics Studies

We describe DSiD, a fast simulation Delphes detector for the International Linear Collider (ILC) based on the full simulation performance of the SiD detector. SiD is one of two detectors described in the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR). The tracking efficiency, tracking momentum resolution, electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter energy resolution, particle identification and flavor tagging efficiencies are taken from the Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) study as described in ILC TDR Volume 4: Detectors. In a cross-check study with $4 \times 10^6$ $e^+ e^- \rightarrow b \bar{b}$ events generated at $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV and simulated by Delphes with the DSiD detector card, these performance characteristics are measured and found to be commensurate with the DBD results. For a new physics use case example, we describe a study of Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric $e^+ e^- \rightarrow 2 χ_3 \rightarrow 2χ_1 2 h_1$ with $h_1 \rightarrow 2a_1$ or $h_1 \rightarrow b\bar{b}$ at the $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV ILC. The card is available on HepForge.

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arXiv2015

Natural NMSSM with a Light Singlet Higgs and Singlino LSP

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is an attractive extension of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics which solves the SM hierarchy problem. Motivated by the theoretical $μ$-term problem of the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM), the Next-to MSSM (NMSSM) can also account for experimental deviations from the SM like the anomalous muon magnetic moment and the dark matter relic density. Natural SUSY, motivated by naturalness considerations, exhibits small fine tuning and a characteristic phenomenology with light higgsinos, stops and gluinos. We describe a scan in NMSSM parameter space motivated by Natural SUSY and guided by the phenomenology of an NMSSM with a slightly broken Peccei-Quinn symmetry and a lightly coupled singlet. We identify a scenario which survives experimental constraints with a light singlet Higgs and a singlino lightest SUSY particle. We then discuss how the scenario is not presently excluded by searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and which channels are promising for discovery at the LHC and International Linear Collider.

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arXiv2013

ATLAS Searches for Beyond the Standard Model Higgs Bosons

The present status of ATLAS searches for Higgs bosons in extensions of the Standard Model (SM) is presented. This includes searches for the Higgs bosons of the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model (2HDM), the Minimal Supersymmetric Model (MSSM), the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Model (NMSSM) and models with an invisibly decaying Higgs boson. A review of the phenomenology of the Higgs sectors of these models is given together with the search strategy and the resulting experimental constraints.

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arXiv2013

Exotic Higgs Decay h to 2a at the International Linear Collider: a Snowmass White Paper

A Higgs factory like the International Linear Collider (ILC) can play a significant role in searching for exotic decays of Higgs bosons. As an illustration, we investigate the ILC sensitivity for the decay topology $h\to a_1 a_1 \to τ\bar ττ\bar τ$ in the Next-to-Minimal-Supersymmetric-Standard-Model (NMSSM). Here $h$ can be either Standard-Model-like or non-standard, and $a_{1}$ is the lightest CP-odd Higgs boson. We also compare results to expectations for this channel at the LHC.

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arXiv2012

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions

This Report summarises the results of the second year's activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to present the state of the art of Higgs Physics at the LHC, integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. The first working group report Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables (CERN-2011-002) focuses on predictions (central values and errors) for total Higgs production cross sections and Higgs branching ratios in the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension, covering also related issues such as Monte Carlo generators, parton distribution functions, and pseudo-observables. This second Report represents the next natural step towards realistic predictions upon providing results on cross sections with benchmark cuts, differential distributions, details of specific decay channels, and further recent developments.

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arXiv2011

Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables

This Report summarizes the results of the first 10 months' activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Sections Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to present the status-of-art on Higgs Physics at the LHC integrating all new results that have appeared in the last few years. The Report is more than a mere collection of the proceedings of the general meetings. The subgroups have been working in different directions. An attempt has been made to present the first Report from these subgroups in a complete and homogeneous form. The subgroups' contributions correspondingly comprise the main parts of the Report. A significant amount of work has been performed in providing higher-order corrections to the Higgs-boson cross sections and pinning down the theoretical uncertainty of the Standard Model predictions. This Report comprises explicit numerical results on total cross sections, leaving the issues of event selection cuts and differential distributions to future publications. The subjects for further study are identified.

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