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Richard Trotta, 03/24/2022 02:05 PM

 
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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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Richard
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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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Ali
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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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- *Suggestions*
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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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Nathan
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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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      this causes a c++ compiler incompatibility version between hcana and ROOT
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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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    online
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  - python environment should be okay
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Jacob (not present)
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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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  meeting
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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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