ILD - the International Linear Detector

The ILD group are designing a detector to detect the particles produced in the collisions at the ILC.  The detector will consist of many different layers each good at detecting and measuring different types of particles, or different properties of the particles.

The ILD design consists of a vertex detector (such as LCFI are designing), surrounded by a gaseous tracking detector, electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters designed for particle flow, a 3 to 4 Tesla solenoid magnet and then muon detectors.  The ILD design study is trying to optmise the size, placement and sometimes even the composition of each of these sub-detector components.

We have been using the ILD detector layout for our physics studies.

More information about ILD is available at the LDC home page: ilcild.org.