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Kaon LT Meetings » mtg_23jan26.txt

Garth Huber, 01/30/2023 05:17 PM

 
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Stephen Kay
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Stephen Wood
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Dave Gaskell
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Konrad Aniol
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Jacob Murphy
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Ali Usman
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Alicia Postuma
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Nathan Heinrich
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Richard Trotta
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Love Preet
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Vijay Kumar
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Erika Gwin
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PionLT First Today
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Jacob Updates
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- Journal clubs resumed at Ohio
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	- Presented first, had to work on condensing 15 pages of theory paper into a coherent talk
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- HMS optics page on wiki updated, looks nicer than Stephen's summary one
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	- Stephen will send on location to move these to
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	- Probably best to divide this into HMS/SHMS optics pages
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	- Add columns/comment on data location and when it was taken - KaonLT Autumn 18 /mss/hallc/spring17/raw and so on
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- Dave G reiterates that data beyond +-8 in delta for the HMS is hopeless
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- Jacob - Need to exclude it from trying to do the matrix element fit, will ruin fit in regions we actually care about
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Nathan Updates
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- Reference time cuts updates
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- HMS 3/4 trigger, concern last time that this could cause issues
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	- Shouldn't affect things, comes in after
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- Confirmed detector variables that should be used for coin with Carlos
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- Carlos had script to set detector time cuts
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- hTref1 and 2 give trig and hodo tdc ref times
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- DCREF 1-5 for HMS and 1-8 for SHMS give the DC adc ref times
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- Jacob Q - Will any change update anything in std.kin?
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	A - No, will change std.database a lot
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- Plot on slide 3 is both coincidences and singles at the same time
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- Dave G - Could set up cuts for coin/singles specifically, 2 sets
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- hT1/hT2 shifted by ~1 bin, just set based on hT1
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	- Cut is loose anyway
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- hDCREF3 furthest to the left, use this for cuts
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- Slide 24 - Cuts for HMS
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	- Jacob, would be nice to see where these cuts are visually
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	- Nathan, yes would be illustrative, will make plots and add to slides
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- 3/4 and elREAL coming in at difference times in the SHMS
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- Slide 43 - Suggested SHMS cuts, tw osets, elREAL and 3/4
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- Next step is to look at detector time cuts
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- Carlos' code, impression is that it checks detector times based upon existing cuts and flags up if there are discrepancies
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	- Dave G emphasies the importance of also checking this too, look at each of the plots
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	- Hopefully code does this
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Richard Updates
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- SIMC part of Bill's LTSep code
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- Richard outlines layout and steps of LT analysis
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- See slides for details
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- In Analysed_Prod.py, some naming conventions different in COIN_DATA_Header
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- Q2, SIMC data had to be scaled a lot
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	- Was this a unit error?
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	- SIMC always uses mC
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	- Dave Q - What model is being used?
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		- A - Using whatever is already in there at the minute
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	- Dave - Whatever is there at the minute, it's using something that was there when he was a grad student
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- SHMS right setting for Q2 = 5.5 looks bad, lots of pions there, events at -ve -t (!)
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- Total efficiency for low epsilon values seems very low ( ~45%)
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	- Need to debug this
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	- Look directly at the relevant report file
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- Finalising offsets, Dave and Richard meeting next week
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	- Need to make sure SIMC variables match up
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Ali Updates
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- Presented some efficiencies work in the analysis meeting
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- Should have calorimeter efficiencies ready by next meeting
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- SJDK - HGC is also to do
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	- Dave G - Yes will be hard. Also very hard to get a clean pion sample without the HGC
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		- Shuo tried to do HGC free analysis, never got an accurate estimate kaon contamination
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	- May be saved by the exclusive nature of our reaction
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- Dave G - Will want to do systematic checks on cutting/not cutting on the hole
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Vijay Updates
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- Testing analysis code on PionLT 2019 data
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- Some errors, fixed some, still some to go
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- Checking coin time cut for pion selection
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	- Will check other PID cuts
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	- Iterate on PID 
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- Python script did work on a single run
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- Richard - Error most likely that a run is missing from the efficiency list
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Alicia Updates
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- Will present some plots/work next week
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- Run asymmetries for another Q2 setting
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- Got aluminium asymmetry
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	- See non-zero asymmetry here
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	- Root will fit a non-zero asymmetry to it...
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- Stephen Wood - Could just assume asymmetry is 0, with some error on it
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	- Propagate error through
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	- Get a smooth background
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- Can separate events by helicty, can't separate charge by helicity
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	- Didn't have helicity gated scalers during KaonLT run
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- Work on assumption that charge assumption is negligible even if there is one there
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	- Could add a constant + ASinPhi, if non zero, have a charge asymmetry
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- Next week -> KaonLT -> Alicia Asymmetries -> PionLT (?)
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