The Pixel Detector of the ATLAS experiment has shown excellent performance during the whole Run-1 of LHC. Taking advantage of the long shutdown, the detector was extracted from the experiment and brought to surface, to equip it with new service quart
er panels, to repair the modules and to ease installation of the Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The IBL is a fourth layer of pixel detectors, and has been installed in May 2014 between the existing Pixel Detector and a new smaller radius beam-pipe at a radius of 3.3 cm. To cope with the high radiation and pixel occupancy due to the proximity to the interaction point, a new read-out chip and two different silicon sensor technologies (planar and 3D) have been developed. Furthermore, the physics performance will be improved through the reduction of pixel size while, targeting for a low material budget, a new mechanical support using light weight staves and CO2 based cooling system have been adopted. An overview of the refurbishing of the Pixel Detector and the IBL project as well as the experience in its construction will be presented, focusing on adopted technologies, module and stave production, qualification of assembly procedure, integration of staves around the beam pipe and commissioning of the detector.
Measurement of the Higgs coupling to W-bosons is an important test of our understanding of the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. We study the sensitivity of the International Linear Collider (ILC) to the presence of anomalous HW+W- couplings u
sing ZH -> nu nu WW* -> nu nu 4j events. Using an effective Lagrangian approach, we calculate the differential decay rates of the Higgs boson including the effects of new dimension-5 operators. We present a Monte Carlo simulation of events at the ILC, using a full detector simulation based on geant4 and a real event reconstruction chain. Expected constraints on the anomalous couplings are given.
The ILC physics working group is a mixture of experimentalists and theorists mainly working in Japan. It has its origin in the previous LC physics study group and has been reformed with the initiative of a JSPS Creative Scientific Research project: R
esearch and Development of a Novel Detector System for the International Linear Collider. The working group is, however, formally independent of the JSPS project and is open to everybody who is interested in ILC physics. The primary task of the working group is to reexamine the ILC physics in the context of the expected LHC outcome and to further strengthen the physics case for the ILC project. The topics covered in the working group activities range from key measurements such as those of the Higgs self-coupling and the top Yukawa coupling to uncover the secrets of the electroweak symmetry breaking to various new physics scenarios like supersymmetry, large extra dimensions, and other models of terascale physics. The working group has held ten General Meetings in the period of May 2007 to June 2009 to discuss the topics mentioned above. This report ummarizes the progress made in this period and sets a milestone for future developments in ILC physics.
We studied a feasibility of measuring Higgs boson pair production in a Photon Linear Collider. The optimum energy of gamma gamma collision was estimated with a realistic luminosity distribution. We also discussed simulation study for detecting the signal against W boson pair backgrounds.
The Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity is one of the attractive candidates of physics beyond the Standard Model. One of the important predictions of the model is the existence of new heavy gauge bosons, where they acquire mass terms through the break
ing of global symmetry necessarily imposed on the model. The determination of the masses are, hence, quite important to test the model. In this paper, the measurement accuracy of the heavy gauge bosons at the international linear collider (ILC) is reported.
The measurement of the Higgs coupling to W bosons is an important program at the international linear collider (ILC) to search for the anomaly in the coupling to the gauge bosons. We study the sensitivity of ILC to the Higgs anomalous coupling to W b
osons by using ZH->vvWW* events. In this article, we report the status of the study.
We are developing the vertex detector with a fine pixel CCD (FPCCD) for the international linear collider (ILC), whose pixel size is $5 times 5$ $mu$m$^{2}$. To evaluate the performance of the FPCCD vertex detector and optimize its design, developmen
t of the software dedicated for the FPCCD is necessary. We, therefore, started to develop the software for FPCCD. In this article, the status of the study is reported.
The Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity is one of the attractive candidates of physics beyond the Standard Model. One of the important predictions of the model is the existence of new heavy gauge bosons, where they acquire mass terms through the break
ing of global symmetry necessarily imposed on the model. The determination of the masses are, hence, quite important to test the model. In this paper, the measurement accuracy of the heavy gauge bosons at ILC is eported.
Measurement of the cross-section of ee->ZHH offers the information of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, which is important to confirm the mechanism of the electro-weak symmetry breaking. Since there is huge background in the signal region, backgroun
d rejection is key point to identify ZHH events. In this paper, we study the possibility to observe the $ZHH$ events at ILC by using ZHH->vvHH/qqHH events.
Measurement of the cross-section of e+e- -> ZHH offers the information of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, which is important to confirm the mechanism of the electro-weak symmetry breaking. Since there is huge background in the signal region, backg
round rejection is key point to identify ZHH events. In this paper, we study the possibility to observe the ZHH events at ILC by using ZHH -> nu nu HH, resulting 4 jets.
