The occupancy in the Hadronic Calorimeter endcap of the CLIC detector

To achieve the optimal physics performance of a detector for a linear electron–positron col- lider it is essential to minimize the effect of the beam-induced background. Incoherent electron–positron pairs shower in the very forward region of the CLIC detector and cause a too high occupancy of approximately 80% in the inner radius of the HCal endcap. The occupancy is studied by performing full detector simulations and reduced by changing the material and thickness of the support tube that serves as shielding. The effect of the tile size in the HCal endcap is also studied. A minimal occupancy of ⇠ 4% in the HCal inner radius can be reached with a thick tungsten support tube. When taking a more realistic engineering point of view into account and including polyethylene, an occupancy of ⇠ 8% is achieved. These results show that it is possible to reduce the occupancy due to incoherent pairs in the HCal endcap to a similar level as that due to gg ! hadrons events.