SuperB flavour factory detector research and development

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This grant proposal is a request for the research and development of a detector which will measure the properties of particles produced in electron-positron collisions at a proposed new high energy physics facility known as the SuperB Flavour Factory. This facility will produce 100 times the data of existing facilities designed to probe what is known as the 'flavour sector' of subatomic physics. Such a precision frontier facility will open an exciting window on new energy scales beyond the reach of existing colliders, including CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and illuminate and help explain new physics discovered at LHC, by virtue of quantum corrections which are sensitive to very massive, and as yet undiscovered, particles. These hypothesized particles manifest themselves in precision measurements of rare processes. They also reveal themselves via the presence of processes that are forbidden within our current understanding of physics. The SuperB project is an international effort spearheaded by the Italian INFN funding agency and is expected to start data collection in 2016. To meet such an aggressive timeline, R&D efforts from the international high energy physics community are required now for the preparation of the Technical Design Report which will serve as the blue-print for the project. The R&D that we propose as a Canadian contribution of this effort will solve technological challenges to making precision measurements of the trajectories and specific ionization energy loss of charged particles in a new high-intensity experimental environment. A significant component of the request is for stipends to support graduate students who will work on these problems. These students will be trained how to approach and solve unexpected and new technical problems and how to develop innovative hardware and software technologies.