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Scenarios about the long-time damage of silicon as material and detectors operating beyond LHC collider conditions
For the new hadron collider LHC and some of its updates in luminosity and
energy, as SLHC and VLHC, the silicon detectors could represent an important
option, especially for the tracking system and calorimetry. The main goal of
this paper is to analyse the expected long-time degradation in the bulk of the
silicon as material and for silicon detectors, in continuous radiation field,
in these hostile conditions. The behaviour of silicon in relation to various
scenarios for upgrade in energy and luminosity is discussed in the frame a
phenomenological model developed previously by the authors. Different silicon
material parameters resulting from different technologies are considered to
evaluate what materials are harder to radiation and consequently could minimise
the degradation of device parameters in conditions of continuous long time
operation.Comment: submitted to Physica Scripta Work in the frame of CERN RD-50
Collaboratio
SUSY CP phases and asymmetries at colliders
In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, physical phases of complex
parameters lead to CP violation. We show how triple products of particle
momenta or spins can be used to construct asymmetries, that allow us to probe
these CP phases. To give specific examples, we discuss the production of
neutralinos at the International Linear Collider. For the Large Hadron
Collider, we discuss CP asymmetries in squark decays, and in the tri-lepton
signal. We find that the CP asymmetries can be as large as 60%.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, To appear in the proceedings of DISCRETE'08:
Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Valencia,
Spain, 11-16 Dec 200
The importance of silicon detectors for the Higgs boson discovery and the study of its properties
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