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Mar 23/22 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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- Julie Roche, 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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- 10.6 GeV Heep-COIN analysis and SIMC comparison
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- lots of crashes when analyzing Heep-singles, so nothing on that yet
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- comparison includes Comp-LT instead of EDTM-LT
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- tracking cuts not yet implemented. Tracking efficiencies are included in
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the Heep-COIN comparison, but won't be accurate until cuts are checked
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- Data/SIMC discrepancy is about 10%, so more work is needed
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- standard.kinematics not yet double-checked (see Ali report)
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- *Suggestions*
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GH: please show intermediate plots next time, so we can more easily see
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what was done (as well as to provide documentation)
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- a variety of DAQ and other issues were encountered when KaonLT started up
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at 10.6 GeV, such as incorrect CoinTime setup. Please be sure to take a
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close look at these variables, so we can see what improvements need to be
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made to the analysis
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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- improved 10.6 GeV Heep-COIN and Heep-Singles plots (data and simulations)
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- using LTSEP_2022 analysis branch
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- started replaying, crashing a lot
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- param and other files were in the wrong place
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- created a specific directory for KaonLT, rearranged files and replay is
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working now
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- doing some full replays to be sure everything is working
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- checking standard.kinematics for KaonLT higher energy runs
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- Arc energy measurements not all correct, particularly for 10.6 GeV
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- met w/Richard to coordinate, and another meeting planned in a few days
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- Richard will continue to work on the analysis structure
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- Ali will look at angles and momenta in standard.kinematics for all higher
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energy settings
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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- 8.6 GeV Heep-COIN plots (data and simulations) hopefully with efficiencies,
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Comp-LT and improved tracking
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Vijay
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- CTime_eKcointime plot from 3.8 GeV data
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- multiple peaks were shown at last meeting, worked on identifying them
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- peak to right is protons, confirmed two ways:
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1 calculated the TOF difference for pi/K/protons. The peak spacing is
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consistent with his calculation (in logbook only, please add to slides
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before posting them)
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2 looked at MM versus epcointime. proton band is straight, while it was
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tilted in eKcointime vs MM
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- this means the line (in MM vs cointime) near the neutron MM is actually
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omega peak
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- Data/MC comparison (SIMC x7) at 3.8 GeV
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- still no efficiencies included
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- saw some tails in the SIMC SHMS distributions not evident in the data.
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- In the discussion, it was realized there was an MMK cut to select Lambda
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peak that was applied to the data, but not SIMC.
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- It is important to have the same cuts in data and SIMC, so applying this
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cut will probably get rid of the tails in the SIMC distributions. Vijay
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will add this.
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- checking standard.kinematics for KaonLT and PionLT low energy runs
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- Arc energy measurements mostly correct, although some round-off errors need
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to be fixed
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- spectrometer angles/momenta not yet checked
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- *Goal for Next meeting*
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- 4.9 GeV data/SIMC comparison for physics settings
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DG: It is extremely important to do the standard.kinematics double-check
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BEFORE doing the data/MC comparison, as otherwise you're wasting time
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- Brad has a script to extract the spectrometer photos from CODA. It would
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be good to get this script from him, as KaonLT record keeping was
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sometimes inconsistent, and it would save time having to check through a
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lot of hclogs for the information
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- Mode-10 Data Analysis Update
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- at last meeting, there was a discrepancy betwen hardware and software
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versions of the Pulse Amplitude
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- Mark suggested this could be due to phger_SampNSAT variable, which is 1mV
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for hardware but 2mV default for software
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- Nathan set the threshold to 1mV, now the agreement is very good
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- get ~1% more events with 1mV threshold (10k out of 1.2M evts)
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- Mark's implementation looks good for hgcer
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- has now added the Aerogel for Mode10 runs
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- *Goal for Next Meeting*
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- Look at the NGC and Aerogel plots to see how they look compared to data
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- Then wants to look into the HGC Zero Amplitude events issue that Vijay
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sees. Plan is to select HGC Zero Amplitude events and see what the
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software variables give for these events
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- *Reminder of 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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- was helping Vijay and Ali with various replay issues
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- hcana update: now pointing to Mark's firmware branch to include the Mode-10
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data. This is not the default branch
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- no major ROOT version issues encountered yet
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- but did need to turn off CUE (Common Unix Environment) initialization, as
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- batch queuing
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- using swif, but finds it harder to see what's going on with job
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progress/crashes compared to auger
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- software for new run
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- would like to add the Mode-10 variables and create a new hcana version for
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- python environment should be okay
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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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Upcoming Run
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- GH: we need to start the planning of the Heep and Lumi studies at our next
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- DG: has been attending the 08:00 meetings.
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- Things still on track for the June run as scheduled
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- Linac gradient will not be known for some time yet, but nothing has broken
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yet, so we should continue planning with the expected energies
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- will start with the same target configuration as the fall run
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Next Meeting
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- Wednesday April 6 at 13:00 Eastern/11:00 Regina
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- after that, GH will circulate a poll to select a new time (maybe Tue or Thu)
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to avoid Tanja's teaching conflict
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