Progress with Particle Flow Calorimetry

One of the most important requirements for a detector at the ILC is good jet energy resolution. It is widely believed that the particle flow approach to calorimetry is the key to achieving the ILC goal of a di-jet invariant mass resolution sigma_m/m < Gamma_Z/m_Z. This paper describes the current performance of the PandoraPFA particle flow algorithm. For simulated light quark jets in the Tesla TDR detector, the jet energy resolution achieved is better than sigma_E/E ~ 3.4% for jet energies in the range 45-250 GeV. This represents the first demonstration that Particle Flow Calorimetry can reach the ILC jet energy resolution goals.