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International Linear Collider (Detector Development)

Experimental Particle Physics

The International Linear Collider is an electron-positron collider with an initial collision energy of 500 GeV, upgradable to 1 TeV. It will explore the TeV energy scale, shedding light on the physics that lies there. It will complement, and build upon, the discoveries of the LHC.

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A prototype Time Projection Chamber (TPC) used to study different readout technologies.

Cornell is developing Time Projection Chamber technology for the ILC. We have built a small prototype equipped with interchangeable readout sections and an instrumented ion-collection plane to compare the performance of GEM, MicroMegas and traditional pad readout.

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A model of the large prototype endplate showing one readout module.

Cornell is also a part of LC-TPC, an international collabotation that is building a large-scale prototype. The Cornell contribution to the large prototype is the endplates

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A sample event, e+e- -> ZH, in the LCD candidate detector illustrates the complications from overlapping tracks.

We are developing TPC digitized signal simulation and event reconstruction software.

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