The true test of future detector models will be their ability to provide sufficient data for precise reconstruction of interesting physics channels. To test this it is necessary to have a full analysis toolchain, from the generation of physics events, to simulation, to analysis and reconstruction. A large amount of work was done on this for the ILC project, which used ccal02, a dual readout calorimeter with fine depth segmentation, very similar to the Muon Collider Detector proposal. While the next version of mcd00 is being developed it will be instructive to work with the datasets and reconstruction tools developed for ccal02, which can then be used on and serve as a basis of comparison for mcd.
CCAL02 Introduction
The SLIC Dual Read out Tutorial has the information needed to get started with CCAL02. This page will focus on work with the datasets
- panpyZZnunubaruds-0-1000.slcio
- W_0_100.slcio
- W_100_200.slcio
which can be found in the /ilc/ild/wenzel/ccal02/slcio_combined directory of the Fermilab DetSim machine (you need a Fermilab Kerberos principal for SSH access to this machine).
The first dataset has the decay of a pair of Z bosons into a pair of neutrinos and a pair of quarks (u + ubar, d + dbar, or s + sbar). The second two have a single W boson, generated with 0-100 or 100-200 GeV kinetic energy respectively, decaying into two quark jets.
The reconstruction will attempt to use particle flow algorithm techniques to reconstruct the W or Z mass in these datasets. This is interesting because distinguishing the W and Z can help find and measure the Higgs and other particles, which is challenging due to their natural mass width and small mass difference (W mass mean ~= 80 GeV vs Z mass mean ~= 91 GeV).
Analysis Framework
To set up the framework, it will be necessary to follow the instructions here, being sure to install the lcsim, GeomConverter and lcsim-contrib packages as well as JAS3 with the listed plugins.