Optimizing the Linear Collider Detector for the Measurement of the Higgs to Charm Branching Ratio

Several different vertex detector designs for the Linear Collider Detector(LCD) are evaluated in the context of measurements of the branching ratio of the standard model Higgs particle decaying into charm/anti-charm final states. Fast Monte Carlo simulations are used to model the detector and neural network-optimized flavor tagging is used to perform the measurements. These tools are used to study the effects of pixel resolution, material thickness, and inner layer radius on the flavor tagging efficiency-purity curve and ultimately on the branching ratio measurement error.