Goals for Detector Optimization: Mass resolution

We have several goals to optimize the ILC detectors to make the best use of the events that the machine will deliver. The physics case depends strongly on being able to deliver high precision and to cover as many new physics scenarios as possible that are still left after the LHC program. For this, we need to make sure the detectors meet our high performance standards. I have prepared an IPython Notebook that investigates the effect of the detector resolution on the reconstructed mass of gauge bosons. You can see that a seemingly small degradation in performance can have a big effect on the physics. We need to understand all of these subtleties when optimizing our detectors.