The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is an option for a future collider operating at centre-of-mass energies up to , providing sensitivity to a wide range of new physics phenomena and precision physics measurements at the energy frontier. This paper is the first comprehensive presentation of the Higgs physics reach of CLIC operating at three energy stages: , 1.4 and . The initial stage of operation allows the study of Higgs boson production in Higgsstrahlung () and -fusion (), resulting in precise measurements of the production cross sections, the Higgs total decay width , and model-independent determinations of the Higgs couplings. Operation at provides high-statistics samples of Higgs bosons produced through -fusion, enabling tight constraints on the Higgs boson couplings. Studies of the rarer processes and allow measurements of the top Yukawa coupling and the Higgs boson self-coupling. This paper presents detailed studies of the precision achievable with Higgs measurements at CLIC and describes the interpretation of these measurements in a global fit.
A detailed study of clan model parameters and their target dependence has been carried out in the light of void probability scaling for heavy (AgBr) and light (CNO) groups of targets present in the nuclear emulsion using 22 Ne (at an incident momentum of 4.1 GeV/c), 28 Si (at an incident momentum of 4.5 GeV/c), 16 O (at an incident momentum of 4.5 GeV/c) and 32 S (at an incident momentum of 4.5 GeV/c) projectiles. The variation of scaled rapgap probability with the single moment combination has been studied for all of the interactions. The experimental points are found to lie approximately on the NBD curve for all of the interactions, indicating a scaling behavior. According to the two-source model of particle production, in the case of 32 S-AgBr interactions at 4.5 GeV/c, the pion production mechanism has been found to be almost chaotic. On the contrary, for all of the other interactions at 4.1-4.5 GeV/c, pion production is predominantly chaotic. Average clan multiplicities (N) for all of the interactions are found to increase with the increase in the pseudo-rapidity interval η. The values of N for the AgBr target are larger than those for the CNO target. The average number of particles per clan (n c ) increases initially with the increase in pseudo-rapidity interval. An approximate saturation of the values of n c is observed for 22 Ne and 16 O projectiles around η = 6. With the increase in projectile size, the saturation of n c seems to be wiped out. It can also be observed from the tables that for a particular target the average number of particles per clan (n c ) increases with the increase in the size of the projectile nucleus. A comparison with the results of the SPS data has also been presented.
In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS, an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source of tau neutrinos is a decay of D s mesons, produced in proton-nucleus interactions, the project aims at measuring a differential cross section of this reaction. The experimental method is based on a use of high resolution emulsion detectors for effective registration of events with short lived particle decays. Here we present the motivation of the study, details of the experimental technique, and the first results of the analysis of the data collected during test runs, which prove feasibility of the full scale study of the process in future.
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