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Garth Huber, 01/15/2022 03:31 PM

 
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		Jan 12/22 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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Participants:
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 - Richard Trotta, CUA
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 - Pete Markowitz, FIU
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 - Dave Gaskell, JLab
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 - Jacob Murphy, Ohio
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 - Nathan Heinrich, Garth Huber, Muhammad Junaid, Stephen Kay, Vijay Kumar,
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   Love Preet, Ali Usman, Regina
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Please remember to post your slides at:
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https://redmine.jlab.org/projects/kltexp/wiki/Kaon_LT_Meetings
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Junaid
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1) PID study from Sept PionLT data
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- SHMS cuts to produce samples of pi+, K+ and proton physics events
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- Suggestions:
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  - need to show and optimize the SHMS calorimeter cuts, as the NGC distn is up
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    to 30pe.  This is a bit surprising, so maybe there is some e+
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    contamination.
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  - RF cut for pi+:
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    - get a nice peak between 1.3 and 2.7 when applying other PID and cointime
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      cuts
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    - can use the RF cut to optimize other PID cuts, but probably should not
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      use it for the final pi+ analysis as it looks like you loose too many pi+
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  - RF cut for K+:
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    - get a clear peak at RF=1.0ns, but this appears to NOT be K+.  Judging from
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      the MM-RF correlation, the real K+ are offset slightly from pi+, pions
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      centered at 1.8, K+ centered at 1.5
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  - RF cut for protons:
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    - the peak at 1.0ns appears to be the protons.  The RF cut appears to be
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      quite effective in separating them from K+/pi+
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  - unexplained RF features:
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    - there is a "wrap around" RF peak at 3.7.  This should be studied to be
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      sure we understand what it is.
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    - Not sure what the additional peak at 3.0 is.  Please re-check if the RF
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       offset is the same for all runs or not.
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Richard
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1) EDTM study
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- finished a second set of runs over the weekend.  Still need to analyze them.
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2) Analysis Task List
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- met with Vijay on how to split up the Heep and Lumi analysis tasks.
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Vijay
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1) Heep-singles analysis from low Q2 Kaon-LT data
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- implemented most of the changes discussed last week.
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- comparison between data and SIMC is looking much better, except for some
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  runs.
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  - the two bumps in SHMS ypfp were indeed due to the HGC inefficient region
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- Examples of both good and bad comparisons were shown.
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  - Bad HMS comparison (#2 of 3.9 GeV).
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    Dummy contribution is too large.
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    Q2, epsilon distns offset from Dummy run.
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    Definitely a kinematics-mismatch issue.
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  - Bad SHMS comparison (#5 of 3.9 and #2 of 4.9 GeV).
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    Data is too low compared to SIMC.
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    This might be a tracking issue.  Please check the pruning selection
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    parameters and the resulting tracking efficiencies.
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Jacob
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1) EDTM Analysis
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- started working on analysis of Lumi scan #3 and EDTM analysis.  Nothing to
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  show yet.
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Nathan
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1) Mode 10 Analysis
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- got hcana to compile.  Showed some early results from a defocused SHMS
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  electron run.
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- looking at hgcer Mode 10 data
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  - reconstructed Pulse Time distn looks the same as FADC data
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  - reconstructed Pulse Integral distn also looks the same
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  - however, the Pulse Amplitude distn has some significant differences.  This
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    needs to be understood.
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  - while at JLab, Nathan will see if he can arrange a morning meeting with
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    Mark to discuss his findings.
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Next Meeting: Wed Jan 26 @ 11:00 Regina/NOON JLab time
(6-6/562)