Pair Background Envelopes in the SiD Detector

Abstract

The beams at the ILC produce electron positron pairs due to beam-beam interactions. This note presents for the first time a study of these processes in a detailed simulation, which shows that these pair background particles appear at angles that extend to the inner layers of the detector. The full data set of pairs produced in one bunch crossing was used to calculate the helix tracks, which the particles form in the solenoid field of the SiD detector. The results suggest to further study the reduction of the beam pipe radius and therefore to either add another SiD vertex detector layer, or reduce the radius of the existing vertex detector layers, without increasing the detector occupancy significantly. This has to go along with additional studies whether the improvement in physics reconstruction methods, like c-tagging, is worth the increased background level at smaller radii.