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Garth Huber, 09/21/2022 05:50 PM

 
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                Sept 21/22 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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                           (Notes by GH and SJDK)
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                    Today: KaonLT will be discussed first
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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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Present:
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Regina - Stephen Kay, Garth Huber, Nathan Heinrich, Vijay Kumar, Alicia Postuma
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   Muhammad Junaid, Love Preet, Ali Usman
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FIU - Pete Markowitz
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Ohio - Jacob Murphy, Julie Roche
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CSULA - Konrad Aniol, Emery Mark Gunselman, Erika Gwin
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CUA - Richard Trotta, Tanja Horn
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Glasgow - David Hamilton
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Discussion before we start:
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   - CaFe is running a different trigger setup. Coin and 3/4 arriving at the
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     same time?
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   - GH is interested in finding out about the data they took for "proton
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     absorption correction" and "Heep normalization"
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- Konrad introduces Emery and Erika, two 1st year Masters students who've just
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  started.  Cal state has an interest in Hall A as well as Hall C
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Richard Trotta Updates
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- KaonLT Lumi Analysis
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   - Scaler yield calculation
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      - using pTrig3=ELREAL
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      - Had CPULT applied.  Now removed and things look better, although 
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        scaler yield still increases with current
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   - Cuts shown for Tracked vs Non-Tracked analyses
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      - Cuts are a little on the tight side
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      - Cuts are all lower bound, no upper bound cuts, so should be okay
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   - Tracked yield calculation has the total efficiency
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      - Tracking efficiencies in report file
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   - Jacob points out that we could have Evttype == 3 too
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   - Tracked yield drops very quickly with current, definitely an issue!
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      - How old is the replay?  From May
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   - *Reminder: *SHMS was pi+ polarity for one scan, e- for everything else so
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       the PID cuts used for the pi+ Lumi scan will be much different than for
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       all other scans
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      - -ve polarity lumi scan runs have low TLT
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      - +ve polarity lumi scans have some issues with the cuts included in the
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        replay
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         - planning to implement Aerogel Tray cut for +ve runs
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   - Seem to be a couple of issues tied to replay
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      - 6p2 GeV Lumi scans - very low TLT
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      - Low beam on time.  Possibly tied to the >5uA current cut?
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      - Could also be linked to cuts defined in the DEF-CUTS file
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   - GH: Please add a plot of the actual DAQ rate so we can see whether low
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     CPULT and TLT makes sense or not
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   - Ali: made subtle changes to the event selection to enable tracking
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     efficiencies to be calculated for multiple event types
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      - was restricting event type after decode EDTM info
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      - now doing ALL events
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      - not sure whether this will affect Lumi analysis or not
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- Bill's LT-sepaaration section code
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   - Richard going through code to understand and get it working
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      - Original code was a little messy, unclear variables etc
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      - Lots of hard coding, particularly in analysis.cpp
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      - Setting up pathing for filenames after analysis
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   - it is inevitable that some hard coding will remain, since the number of
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     SHMS angles is different at high/low epsilon for different settings
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      - making backend scripts for plotting that are separate for each setting
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        that can be called by master scripts as necessary
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   - GH/TH ask him to post some notes as part of code documentation, kaonlt log
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      - RT will post notes in sections as they are completed
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   - will try to have a working version to show in 2wks
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   - GH will go again through his LT-separation tutorial next Tues @ 12:00 EDT
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- To do/upcoming
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   - Calorimeter calibrations
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   - HGCer efficiency calculation
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      - Ali has some notes on this
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Ali Usman Updates
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- Total efficiency per run
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   - All efficiencies and LTs multiplied together
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      - HMS ElTrack
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      - SHMS ProtonTrack
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      - Hodo 3/4 (both)
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         - Need to verify how hcana actually calculates the hodoscope
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	   efficiencies
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      - EDTM LT
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      - HMS Cherenkov
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   - Effective Q=Total Eff * Q
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      - sum Effective Q for all runs in a setting
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      - yield Y=Counts/Effective Q
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- Heep Coin Data/SIMC comparisons
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   - with latest replay, gbeam.parm fixed
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   - Comparison looks good, but plots include too many types of data
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     (unsubtracted, w/o cuts, etc) and this partly obscures the comparison
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      - Future versions should only be the two things we actually want to
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        compare
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   - Data 3% low compared to MC
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      - still need to apply cryotarget boiling and proton absorption, so we
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        might eventually with data a bit too high compared to MC
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   - Need to finalise offsets for KaonLT data (all of it)
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      - Ali and Vijay will work together to try to find offsets that aren't too
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        different from each other, if possible
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- Tanja shares the Fpi-2 logbook
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   - https://hallcweb.jlab.org/fpilog/
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     Username: hms  Password: sos
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- Fpi-2 website
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   - https://hallcweb.jlab.org/experiments/fpi/FPI_PHASE2/
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Vijay Kumar Updates
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- Updated gbeam.param file
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   - Switched to one Dave G had recommended
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   - Should now have consistent param files with Ali/Richard
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- Working on Lumi study
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   - Low energy PionLT data
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   - Ran into some issues with 
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- Summer 2019 data gbeam.param?
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   - Do we need a new file?
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   - Dave G has a script that gives some of the beam on target parameters that
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     go in the file
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   - it should be the same as KaonLT except for this change
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Stephen Kay Updates
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- Merged in new online updates to offline branch
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   - Should not be any conflicts
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      - Scripts are compartmentalised in UTIL directories
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      - Merger doesn't cause any issues with this
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- Should start to organise PionLT param and DB files as we did with KaonLT
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   - Ali did some organization of KaonLT param
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      - every detector is organized in directories
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      - better isolates for chagnes, to avoid overwriting
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   - also need to trim down std.kin, just PionLT settings
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   - Nathan: we should make these changes as we begin doing the calibs
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Jacob Murphy Updates
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- will start with HGC, NGC calibs
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- HMS Optics work
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   - first optics pass for HMS 6.8GeV calibrations
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   - Small issue where it's not getting the correct ytar value?
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   - Look at where holes end up from all three foils
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   - Jacob demonstrates why we meed the 6 GeV optical matrix
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      - Peaks in H.gtr.y blend into each other if the wrong one is used
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      - Ysieve resolution much better than Xsieve for some settings
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      - possibly saturation effects larger for Ysieve?
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Next meeting: Wed Sept 28 @ 9:00 Eastern/7:00 Regina/6:00 Calif
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   - Jacob will start first next time
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   - ask to give some intro on the optics fitting for those less familiar
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