Building a state-of-the-art particle detector requires several steps. When you’ve decided what you want to measure, you have to decide which is the best, fastest and most reliable technology to make these measurements. When you’ve shown that your chosen technology can actually measure things to the specific requirements, you have to show that you can […]
Going with the particle flow
The particle flow algorithm joins smart programming with the high granularity of next-generation particle detectors to measure energies with unprecedented resolution
The familiar image of a collision event in a particle detector is a beautiful mess: Gossamer lines shoot and spiral every which way from a common point, revealing the paths of the post-collision projectiles. Unfortunately for particle tagging, the tracks almost always end in knotty energy clusters, leading physicists down trails that stop abruptly, unresolved, […]
R&D panel reviews calorimetry R&D for ILC detectors
The calorimeters for the ILC detectors have to show excellent performance if researchers want to fully exploit the physics potential of the ILC. Many processes that are unique for the physics programme of the ILC are characterised by multiple-jet production that can be reconstructed by new calorimetry techniques to very high energies with unprecedented precision. […]