The 197th SiD Optimization Meeting

Wednesday 17 Feb 2021, 09:00 → 10:30 America/Los_Angeles

Dan Protopopescu

Bi-weekly meeting of the SiD Detector Optimization group. Join this meeting via this link:

https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/91432972122?pwd=U1RGKzFtSEVkdERLV01HQk9vMmFGZz09

Attending: Aidan, Andy, Amanda, Chris, Christian, Dan, Dwayne, Jim, Lucas, Marty, Michael

Minutes:

• Jim - Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) for SiW ECal - smaller pixel size (50x50micron); could lower material budget and costs; ongoing study with many UO contributors
• Chris - Higgs to invisible - MVA studies; it is hoped that this analysis will be part of the SiD optimisation; first pass using a TMVA Multilayer Perceptron sees sizeable significance enhancements; more stats needed (simulations ongoing)
• Amanda - draft slides for LCWS, some inputs still to be included; needs comments/feedback on the abstract by Friday (Feb 19); will give rehearsal talk at the next SiD opt. meet.
• Lucas - presented structure of his LCWS talk, based on last six months' worth of work on H → τ+τ− CP Violation; comments/feedback on the abstract needed by Friday (Feb 19); about mixing angle precision improvement wrt to ILD as goal - Jim will think about a physics goal by Lucas' rehearsal talk at the next SiD opt. meet.

Next meeting: March 3, 2021

09:00 → 09:05 Upload area

Speakers: Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow, UK), Amanda Lynn Steinhebel (University of Oregon), Andrew Myers (University of Texas Arlington), Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington), Anne Schuetz (DESY, Germany), Bruce Andrew Schumm (University of California,Santa Cruz), Chris Potter (University of Oregon), Christopher Thomas Potter (University of Oregon), Dan Protopopescu (University of Glasgow, UK), Davis Austin (University Of Oregon), James Brau (University of Oregon), Jan Strube (PNNL), Jason Barkeloo (University of Oregon), Jim Brau (University of Oregon), Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol, UK), Joey Carlson (University of Oregon), Marcel Stanitzki (DESY, Germany), Martin Breidenbach (SLAC), Mengqing Wu (DESY, Germany), Takayuki Ueno (Tohoku University, Japan), Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC), Yevgeniya Shtalenkova (SCIPP), Mr Austin Prior (University of Texas Arlington), Lucas Braun (University of Oregon), Chester Mantel (University of Oregon), Makayla Massar (University of Oregon), Alexander Albert (Cornell University), Kehang Bai (University of Oregon), Ketevi Assamagan (BNL), Mohamed Zaazoua (CERN), Caterina Vernieri (SLAC), Michael Kagan (SLAC)

HEP_CPViolation_2021_02_17_01(1).pdf

SiD-ECal-maps-brau.pdf

09:05 → 09:20 SiD ECal Energy Resolution for MAPS

Speaker: Jim Brau (University of Oregon)

09:20 → 09:35 Higgs to Invisible: First Pass MVA

Speaker: Christopher Potter (University of Oregon)

potter_sidopt_17Feb2021.pdf

09:35 → 09:50 Hinv studies (LCWS talk draft)

Speaker: Amanda Lynn Steinhebel (University of Oregon (US))

steinhebel_lcwsHinv_draft_170221.pdf

09:50 → 10:05 H → τ+τ− CP Violation Analysis for SiD (LCWS talk plan)

Speaker: Lucas Braun