Speaker
Description
The Electron-Ion Collider is a future facility that will provide unprecedented insight into the structure of matter by colliding polarised electrons with polarised protons/light ions and unpolarised heavy ions. The project detector, ePIC, is being developed to enable precision measurements of the internal dynamics of quarks and gluons.
The tracking detector is the innermost subdetector of ePIC, and the UK'S contribution towards it is the Outer Barrel.
As the engineering design develops, a detailed understanding of the performance impact is required. I will present a series of simulation studies used to evaluate the performance of the barrel tracking detector over the course of its development. Performance will be evaluated in terms of its ability to reconstruct the momentum and Distance of Closest Approach (DCA) of charged particle tracks to the vertex.