Prospects for the study of the \stau-system in SPS1a' at the ILC

TL;DR

This study evaluates the potential for analyzing tau channels at the SPS1a' SUSY benchmark point using the ILC, demonstrating precise measurements of stau masses, cross sections, and tau polarization with full detector simulation.

Contribution

It provides a detailed simulation-based assessment of stau and tau measurements at the ILC, including mass, cross section, and polarization determinations in the SPS1a' scenario.

Findings

Stau_1 mass measured to 107.69^{+0.03}_{-0.06} GeV

Stau_2 mass measured to 183^{+11}_{-5} GeV

Tau polarization measured with ~90% accuracy

Abstract

The prospects for the analysis of tau channels at the SUSY benchmark point SPS1a', especially from e+e- -> stau_1 stau_1 and e+e- -> stau_2 stau_2, have been studied in full simulation of the ILD detector concept forseen for the International Linear Collider. All accessible SUSY channels as well as all Standard Model backgrounds were generated at a centre-of-mass energy E_CMS=500 GeV, including the beam energy spectrum and beam backgrounds expected for nominal ILC beam parameters. With an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 delivered to the experiment, the masses of the stau_1 and stau_2 can be measured to 107.69^{+0.03}_{-0.06} GeV +- 1.1 \delta M_LSP and 183 ^{+11}_{-5} GeV +- 18 \delta M_LSP, respectively, while the true values in SPS1a' are 107.9 GeV and 194.9 GeV, respectively. The cross sections for stau_1 and stau_2 pair production could be obtained with a precision of 3.1% and 4.2%, respectively. Combining the mass and cross section measurement in the stau_2 channel allows to determine the LSP mass with a relative error of 1.7%, assuming a known mixing angle. In stau_1 -> tau LSP decays, the tau polarisation is measured to be 91 +- 9% and 87.0 +- 3.4% in the pi and rho decay channels of the tau, respectively. The true value in the simulated SPS1a' sample is 89.6%.