ASAHEL (A Simple Apparatus for High Energy LEP)

Abstract

The TLEP Design Study Working Group published "First Look at the TLEP Physics Case" in December 2013. TLEP, a 90-400 GeV high-luminosity, high precision, e+e- machine, is now part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study, as a possible first step (named FCC-ee) towards a high-energy proton-proton collider (named FCC- hh). The above paper presents an initial assessment of some of the relevant features of the FCC-ee potential, to serve as a starting point for the more extensive design study that is now carried out. FCC-ee will provide the opportunity to make the most sensitive tests of the Standard Model of electroweak interactions. The first requirement of the detector must therefore be to ensure it has the capability to make these precise tests. The detector must have excellent vertexing and tracking performances and a highly granular, homogeneous calorimetric system covering as great a solid angle as possible. Following the ALEPH philosophy of using as few detection techniques as possible, we propose to evaluate the modifications that would be needed for an "ALEPH-like" detector to fulfil the requirements of FCC-ee. We will investigate the use of Micromegas detectors instead of limited-streamer tubes and will adjust the size of the detector and its granularity.