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Garth Huber, 03/14/2022 04:51 PM

 
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		Mar 9/22 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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Participants:
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 - Richard Trotta, Vladimir Berdnikov, 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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Nathan
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1) Mode-10 Data Analysis Update
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- Shows waveform output (equivalent to oscilloscope trace) for one event
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  - turn ON parameter to get trace for every event in a data file (would take a
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    lot of space)
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- Plots of mV vs PMT# for both hcana and FADC readout
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  - hcana has a software threshold applied while FADC does not
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  - overlay of mV plots for individual HGC PMTs shows good agreement between
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    FADC and hcana
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- *Suggestions*
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  - Gaskell: one idea would be to add a new variable which replicates an
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    integrating ADC, i.e. integral over a fixed time range, so see how this
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    compares with the FADC algorithm
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    * DG will discuss this with Mark *
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  - Huber: we need to keep track of #events where we get waveform data instead
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    of firmware info, so we can easily monitor which channels have more errors
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    - Stephen says this would be easy to add to the DEF file
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    - right now, the waveform data replaces the FADC data if there is an error,
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      but there is no monitor of how often this was done
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- *Another task for DG*
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  - DG will talk to Mark/Brad on whether we can get the FADC firmware fixed to
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    return BOTH firmware and waveform data when there is an error in time for
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    the upcoming run
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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  - There is additional HGC waveform data that NH needs to look at
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Richard
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- brief update on Heep-COIN analysis
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  - reproduced Vijay's Heep-COIN data and SIMC plots for one 3.8 GeV setting
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  - still no efficiencies or livetimes implemented
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- *Suggestions*
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  - Gaskell: it would be advisable to do your first livetime calculation with
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    just Comp-LT instead of EDTM-LT
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    - Electronic-LT should be close to one anyways since we used buffered
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      readout, so this would indicate problems separately with Comp-LT
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      (expected to be the largest contribution)
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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  - Goal is to have 10.6 GeV Heep-COIN plots (data and simulations) at next
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    meeting (hopefully with efficiencies, livetimes?)
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Stephen
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- ifarm batch code updates
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  - looking at hcswif.  Seems nice for literally submitting a replay, but it
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    would take a lot of work to make it as flexible as the scripts we already
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    have
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- *Suggestions*
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  - Huber: it would be useful to advertise our job system more broadly, see if
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    others adopt it.  Stephen suggests a name: ltswif
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Ali
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- setting up replay scripts on ifarm, had problems
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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  - Goal is to have 8.6 GeV Heep-COIN plots (data and simulations) at next
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    meeting (hopefully with efficiencies, livetimes?)
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  - tracking cuts still need to be implemented, tracking efficiencies are
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    otherwise implemented, but won't be accurate until cuts are set/checked
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Vijay
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- simulating p(e,e'K+)L and comparing to data
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  - getting much higher data yield than SIMC, so SIMC will be re-scaled by an
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    arbitrary factor for now
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  - background from piDelta (underneath) Lambda peak not yet subtracted
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- shows a COINTIME plot
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  - getting two sets of e-pi and e-K coincidence peaks, the main batch at -4
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    and a secondary set near zero
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- *Suggestions*
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  - Kay: it looks suspiciously like the setting has a change in offset for some
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    runs.  Please check if there is any run-dependence in the peak positions.
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    - Later note: there does not appear to be any such run dependence, so the
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      double peaks have some other (more troubling) origin
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  - Huber: look at epi-COINTIME in addition to eK-COINTIME.  The main
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    background is pion leakthrough, which is tilted on a 2D plot of eK-COINTIME
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    vs MM.  It would be better to remove the leakthrough with a "vertical cut"
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    on epi-COINTIME vs MM, as otherwise a titled cut is needed.
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    - after this cut is applied, then look at eK-COINTIME for the remaining
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      events
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    - tight COINTIME cuts are okay for investigating issues of data purity, but
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      they are difficult to use in the physics analysis, as then we have to
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      determine what fraction of (e,e'K+) events are removed by the cut and
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      correct for them.  Better to use a looser cut that doesn't throw away an
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      appreciable number of (e,e'K+) events and subtract the leakthrough by
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      some other means
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- identifies some problem with low Q^2 hodoscope calibration
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  - Dave Mack and Carlos Yero are working on a new hodoscope calibration code
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- *Task for Jacob*
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  - Jacob will follow up with DM and CY about the status of the calibration
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    code.  It would be great if we could test it on the PionLT and KaonLT data,
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    and see if it resolves any of the hodoscope calibration issues we have
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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  - will look first at the COINTIME offset issue
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  - then look at data/simc comparisons for central Q2=0.50 setting
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Jacob
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- just got back from holiday, so no progress report
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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  - will do some testing of new hodoscope calibration code
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  - continue to look at EDTM-LT calculations
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    - will meet with Richard and Brad on this
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Upcoming Run
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- we will start with the identical target configuration to what we had in the
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  fall run
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Next Meeting
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Wednesday March 23 at 13:00 Eastern/11:00 Regina
(31-31/513)