Speaker
Description
Future $e^+e^-$ Higgs factory collider projects are designed for preci-
sion measurements of the Higgs boson and of electroweak observables,
thereby utilizing every event to their full potential. The identification
of the pions, kaons and protons plays a key role for precision measure-
ments and event reconstruction, especially for the flavour tagging. To
improve the identification of charged hadrons at low momentum we
can use the time-of-flight method. It relies on current silicon sensor
technologies with extremely good time resolution of 10 - 30 ps. This
allows to measure the time-of-flight of particles and reconstruct their
mass providing additional tool for identification of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$ and $p$.
We study possible realistic implementation scenarios and potential
physics applications of the fast timing silicon sensors into the future
Higgs factory detectors using as an example the International Large
Detector (ILD) at the International Linear Collider (ILC).
