Physics requirements for Scalar Muons searches at CLIC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the experimental requirements for detecting scalar muons at CLIC, focusing on mass measurement accuracy and detector performance in a high-energy supersymmetric scenario.

Contribution

It provides the first study of scalar muon pair production at 3 TeV CLIC, analyzing detector and beam requirements for precise mass determination in supersymmetry.

Findings

Mass measurement accuracy depends on momentum resolution and beam polarization.

Generator-level results are validated with full simulation.

Preliminary detector and beam polarization requirements are proposed.

Abstract

The determination of smuon and neutralino masses in smuon pair production is an important part of the program of spectroscopic studies of Supersymmetry at a high energy linear collider. In this note we report the first results of a study of e+e- -> ~mu_R+ ~mu_R- in a high-mass, cosmology-motivated Supersymmetric scenario at 3 TeV at CLIC. This process is a good example to study requirements on the beam energy spectrum and polarisation and the track momentum resolution in a simple final state. We discuss the expected accuracy on the mass measurements as a function of the momentum resolution, luminosity spectrum, beam polarisation and time stamping capability. Results obtained at generator level are validated by comparison to full simulation and reconstruction. Preliminary requirements for the detector performances and beam polarisation are presented.