Compensatable muon collider calorimeter with manageable backgrounds

1. A method for reducing background noise in a particle collider, said method comprising:

identifying an interaction point among a plurality of particles within a particle collider associated with a detector element;

defining a trigger start time for each of at least one pixel as a time taken for light to travel from said interaction point to said at least one pixel and a trigger stop time as a selected time after said trigger start time;

collecting only detections that occur between said start trigger time and said stop trigger time;

counting a total number of hadronic vertices according to a pattern recognition technique;

estimating a missing hadronic energy according to said total number of hadronic vertices; and

deriving a calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices in order to thereafter compensate a result from said particle collider to reduce unwanted background detection.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising compensating said result from said particle collider with a vertex counting technique, thereby reducing said unwanted background detection.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said particle collider comprises a muon collider.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said selected time associated with said trigger stop time is 2 nanoseconds.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said detector element comprises a calorimeter, said method further comprising:

forming each of said at least one pixel to have a linear dimension of 200 microns; and

configuring each of said at least one pixel to return a binary response indicating if a charged particle has passed through it.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of particles comprise at least one of:

Muons;

Mesons;

Baryons;

Electrons;

Positrons; and

Photons.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein deriving said calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices is determined using a least squares minimization.

8. A system for reducing background noise in a particle collider comprising:

a detector element associated with a particle collider;

a plurality of particles wherein said particles collide at an interaction point within said particle collider;

at least one pixel associated with said detector element wherein each of said at least one pixel is triggered at a trigger start time defined as a time taken for light to travel from said interaction point to said at least one pixel and deactivated at a trigger stop time defined as a selected time after said trigger start time; and

a data module configured to collect only detections that occur between said trigger start time and said trigger stop time in order to thereafter compensate a result from said particle collider to reduce unwanted background detection by compensating said result from said particle collider with a vertex counting technique comprising:

counting a total number of hadronic vertices according to a pattern recognition technique;

estimating a missing hadronic energy according to said total number of hadronic vertices; and

deriving a calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said particle collider comprises a muon collider.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein said selected time associated with said trigger stop time is 2 nanoseconds.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein said detector element comprises a calorimeter wherein each of said at least one pixel has a linear dimension of 200 microns; and

each of said at least one pixel is configured to return a binary response indicating if a charged particle has passed through it.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein said plurality of particles comprise at least one of:

Muons;

Mesons;

Baryons;

Electrons;

Positrons; and

Photons.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein said calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices is determined using a least squares minimization.

14. A system for reducing background noise in a modeled particle collider said system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to said processor; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer code, said computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, said computer code comprising instructions executable by said processor configured for:

modeling a detector element associated with a modeled particle collider;

identifying an interaction point of a plurality of modeled particles within said modeled particle collider;

defining a trigger start time for each of at least one pixel associated with said modeled calorimeter as a time taken for light to travel from said interaction point to said at least one pixel and a trigger stop time as a selected time after said trigger start time;

collecting only detections that occur between said start trigger time and said stop trigger time;

counting a total number of hadronic vertices according to a pattern recognition technique;

estimating a missing hadronic energy according to said total number of hadronic vertices; and

deriving a calibration constant associated with said total number of hadronic vertices in order to thereafter compensate a result from said particle collider to reduce unwanted background detection.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein said model particle collider comprises a modeled muon collider.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein said selected time associated with said trigger stop time is 2 nanoseconds.

17. The system of claim 14 wherein said modeled detector element comprises a modeled calorimeter, and said instructions are further configured for:

modeling each of said at least one pixel to have a linear dimension of 200 microns; and

configuring each of said at least one pixel to return a binary response indicating if a charged particle has passed through it.