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Garth Huber, 01/20/2023 03:55 PM

 
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                 Jan 19/23 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, Ali Usman, Alicia Postuma, Nathan Heinrich, 
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   Love Preet, Vijay Kumar
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JLab - Dave Gaskell
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Ohio - Jacob Murphy, Julie Roche
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CUA - Richard Trotta, Tanja Horn
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FIU - Pete Markowitz
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Richard Updates
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LT-separation code
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  - making progress on different parts of code
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  - cuts scripts DONE
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     - showed some sample t-cuts
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     - GH - Why are there -ve -t values?
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        - Plot isn't finalised yet, just for testing -t cut selection
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        - No selection on the Lambda peak, PID cuts not optimized
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     - Diamond cut bug, a value crashes the script
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        - JM - It's looking for first/last bin above some minimum, may not be
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          finding it
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  - calculating yields script in progres
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  - combine SIMC, Dummy, Data - combine.py DONE
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  - average_kin, calc_unsep Fortran Code DONE
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  - LTsep, fitting (C++) IN PROGRESS
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  - plotting scripts IN PROGRESS
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  - SIMC script from Bill was outdated, meeting with Bill tomorrow, get correct
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    version
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  - Will add SIMC on top of existing plots
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  - Combining Left, Right, Center SHMS settings
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     - Bill and DG had a discussion, apparently the code adds data L/R/C and
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       simulation L/R/C and combines to get yields
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     - this is a surprise, since normally we *compute the Exp/MC ratios* first
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       for L/R/C, and then *combine the ratios* in an error weighted average to
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       get the combined phi coverge for a setting
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     - GH: would rather do the ratios method, as was done for the pion analysis
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     - DG: if the model properly describes the data, both methods should give
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       the same results, but it is likely the ratios method will cause the MC
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       model to converge more quickly to the data
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     - TH: both methods were checked in Fpi-2, and gave same results, but K+
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       analysis is new and the MC model will start further from the data
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     - Should probably get ratios for L/R/C individually and get an error
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       weighted average
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        - Try both?
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TO DO:
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- finalize PID, Lumi, SIMC calcs for Heep
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   - Need to discuss SIMC EM, PM calcs with DG
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- Will post flowchart to Github, slides online too
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Ali Updates
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PID studies and HMS Calor/Cher Efficiencies
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  - Need to finalise efficiences and PID prior to LT-sep, so a high priority
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  - Looking at HMS Calorimeter and Cherenkov
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     - Need to get a very clean e- sample
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     - Use Cherenkov to get good Calo sample and vice versa
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  - DG: What data is this?
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  - AU - High eps, 10.6 GeV production data (Autumn 2018)
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       Q2=3.0, W=2.32, Phms=6.59, S1Xrate=283kHz, 51uA, Run 4865
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       Run Plan predicted e-Rate=63kHz, pi-Rate=0.5kHz
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     - Coincidence data, but look at all HMS events
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  - 95.10 +/ 0.01% efficiency for HMS Cherenkov
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  - 95.86 +/- 0.01% effeciency for HMS calorimeter
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  - DG: This is a fairly high HMS momentum setting
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     - Thinks the gas pressure was set to give a 4GeV/c pion threshold (hence
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       more NPE), since the e-/pi- rate was expected to be favorable
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       Pi- passing the Cherenkov cut could explain low calorimeter efficiency
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  - Try a setting with a reasonable ratio but *below 4 GeV on HMS*  Compare
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  - DG: *p112 of Burcu's thesis* discusses the effect of a HMS Cher light leak
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    in the J/Psi data
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     - Even with cut at 0 NPE, Burcu saw a 3% inefficiency, which was believed
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       to be due to FADC deadtime caused by the PMT always firing
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     - NH: comparison of Ali's NPE plot with Burcu's: Burcu has 0PE peak that
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       seems to be absent in Ali's plot
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        - Don't *think* we're seeing this?  Possibly the light leak opened up
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          after the fall 2018 data were taken? 
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        - Dave G thinks the light leak was fixed in summer 2019
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        - This implies the *spring 19 KaonLT and summer 2019 PionLT data* will
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          be *affected*.  Needs investigation, particularly by Vijay.
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  - AU: will also look into trimming edges of calorimeter, as discussed by
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    PeterB
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     - DG, TH: this should be in the reconstruction code automatically (as
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       part of tracked variable fiducial cut), no need to do it twice
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- check position dep in Calor
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- look at different rates
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Vijay Updates
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- working on LT-sep code with RT and Bill, trying to understand scripts
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- Need to replay PionLT data again
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  - GH - Please keep notes on *issues Ali presented* as they need separate
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    investigation for Summer 2019 data
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Alicia Updates
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pi+ BSA Analysis (from KaonLT data)
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  - 10.6 GeV data replayed with new error calculations from AU (dummy and LH2)
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  - only 10.6 GeV will give good results
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     - High stats, full phi coverage and good polarisation
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  - Double checked ROOT error propagation, seems to be handling them correctly,
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    treated as independent random errors
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  - Peter B suggested not doing a dummy subtraction and modifying the fit
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  - Doing a full dummy target subtraction, separately for each helicity.  This
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    way there is no need to make any assumptions on AL BSA.  There are lots of
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    Dummy target statistics, so this seems the best way of handling this
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     - still need to correct for Dummy target thickness, over-subtracting right
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       now
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     - RT: dummy_target_corr = 4.8579
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   - see evidence of K+Lambda leakthrough in MM spectrum, need to adjust HGC,
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     Aerogel cuts
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     - HGC cut at >5 seems to let in some kaon background
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     - DG: not concerned about a little K+ contribution, as it is kinematically
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       unfavored to get into pi+n peak.  However, agree that it is good to
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       understand the cuts and their effects
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  - Fits to Asymmetry Plots
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    BSA = Asin(phi) / [ 1+ Bcos(phi)+ Ccos(2phi) ]
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     - second t-bin (-t=0.23-0.30) looks "overfit", particularly in comparison
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       to the other t-bins, which have more sinusoidal fits
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     - Tried some new fitting strategies
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       1) A varies within dA from 1 parameter fit
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       2) Full fit with restriction 0<B<A, 0<C<A
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     - method 1 not effective in reducing "overfit"
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     - method 2 surprisingly effective, ended up with B,C nearly zero
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     - Some justification for enforcing A > B(and C) would be nice, theory
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       paper somewhere?
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     - JR: Fit with B/C fairly large doesn't really look that bad, how much does
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       A actually change here?
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        - If A doesn't change much, will be fine
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        - Size of A/B/C and their relative errors are very important
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        - experience from DVCS analysis is that the simplest (sin) fit
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          *overestimates our knowledge of A* compared to true knowledge, we ended
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          up listing both results in our publication
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     - t-bins will be re-divided after Ali's analysis is further along, they
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       are not optimized for statistics per bin yet
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     - TH: actually first t-bin also has some similar features (wiggles in
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       phi-distribution) as bin 2, so this might be some consistent feature of
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       the data that needs to be looked at
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     - JR: In future, can you *show how error bars* for the asymmetry are
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       calculated? (message Julie)
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  - New Plots added
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     - LT' cross section plotted versus -t
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     - Polar plot of the asymmetry (t/phi, asymmetry is colour scale)
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- Need to incorporate different dummy target thickness
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- optimize PID cuts and cuts for mean t,epsilon calcs
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- Repeat analysis for other (Q2,W) settings
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- Run Regge/GPD models for comparison to LT' data
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Jacob Updates
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HMS Optics
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  - Finished all of the cuts for optics settings!
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     - over 600 cuts for all optics settings set
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  - Preliminary calibrations for 5.9 setting next week hopefully, as well as
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    update on 5.8
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Nathan Updates - Lots of plots!
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PionLT Ref Times update
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  - Following Carlos Yero' procedure
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  - Start with ADC Ref Time for HMS/SHMS
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  - Multiplicity == 1 cut for all plots, while CY used >2 cut as he had more
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    events at ==2 than NH sees
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  - HMS 4 peak structure in all COIN runs, 2 peak structures only in SINGLES
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    running (ELREAL trigger)
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  - DG: If trigger is ELREAL, *two legs could take timing*, EL-LO or EL-HI,
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    would explain the two peaks for each set (COIN, SINGLES)
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  - DG: normally there are separate timing cuts for COIN and SINGLES events
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     - NH prefers to place one set of cuts, including both sets of peaks, as
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       there are very few events between the two sets of peaks
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    - DG: wide timing cuts may cause issues when looking at other detectors, so
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      this needs to be carefully looked at
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    - DG: try to *find a run* where HMS rate is high and *see if it looks* the
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      same as when HMS rates are low, maybe you can get away with loose cut
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  - SHMS timing peak structure
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    - need to figure out which peak is COIN trigger
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    - presumably COIN comes first (right peak)
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    - see shifts in RAW trigger time between 2021,22
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       - Brad replaced a faulty delay module in June 2022, some small timing
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       - adjustments (see below)
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   - NH: will need 2 versions of cuts for SINGLE arm data, depending on whether
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     ELREAL or 3/4 trigger is used
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       - similarly, all HMS-3/4 runs will need separate timing cuts
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- Brad posted an updated trigger flowchart
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  - Fall 2018-Summer 2019 Trigger Config  https://redmine.jlab.org/attachments/1731
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  - Fall 2021-Summer 2022 Trigger Update  https://redmine.jlab.org/attachments/1730
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  - Fall 2021 oscilloscope traces  https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3902530
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  - Summer 2022 oscilloscope traces  https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/4004019
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- need to look at TDC reference times for Hodo and DC
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   - probably need separate cuts for each Hodo TDC
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- communicated with Cameron Cotton on NGC calib
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   - now has his code, but hasn't looked at it yet
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- JM: should start JM, NH, MJ regular separate meetings soon
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Stephen Updates
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- will try to do some reorganization of Hall C widi
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   - will have a template for comment by next week
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- also do not forget the Hall C Quarterly Analysis meeting next Thursday
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Next Meeting
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Thursday Jan 26 @ 17:00 Eastern/16:00 Regina/14:00 Pacific
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- GH will not be able to attend the first ~30 minutes, hopes to join late,
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  depending on Air Canada performance
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