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Garth Huber, 11/09/2023 04:50 PM

 
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                 Nov 9/23 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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                            (Notes by GH & AH)
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                     Today: PionLT 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 - Garth Huber, Muhammad Junaid, Nacer Hamdi, Nathan Heinrich, Vijay
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   Kumar, Alicia Postuma
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FIU - Pete Markowitz
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JLab - Dave Gaskell
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CUA - Richard Trotta, Tanja Horn
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Nathan
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Making scripts to check RefTime cuts for CoinTimes, will need to do some debugging
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- probably will need to check with Mark Jones on what variables to use
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Junaid
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Hodoscope calibrations
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- last set of run numbers should be completed this afternoon
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- 2021 run period: 3 parameter sets for SHMS, HMS only 1
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- Summer 2022: only 1 set needed for each of SHMS, HMS
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- will update param files and push to GitHub
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- then will move to rechecking DC calibs
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Richard
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Applying Heep in-plane offsets
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- previously tried using Garth's 5-beam offsets with modified dPp
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- briefly tried 3-beam offsets, prefers the 3-beam offsets, but no results
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  shown
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- EM has a systematic trend, looks good for 6.2 with offsets, worst for 10.6 GeV
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- adjust SHMS dPp offset in ad-hoc way to improve EM, while heeping HMS dPe=0
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- shows plots of W & EM with changing dPp.  W insensitive
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- noticed that for momentum offset, in particular dPp-0.7%, makes the
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  distributions, including Emiss, have a better match between MC vs. data
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- also briefly showed some PM distributions: PMX doesn't change much, PMZ
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  behaves similarly to EM
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- applies offsets w/opposite sign, Vijay did as well
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- DG: HMS and SHMS momentum offsets have similar action.  Did you try changing
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  HMS dPe instead of SHMS dPp?
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- GH: the SHMS momenta are not large for these Heep runs, P<5 GeV/c, so
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  argument for saturation is not there
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  - would feel more comfortable with a common (moderate) SHMS offset, and try
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    to play around more with dE beam ofset
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- DG: if you change dPe, then need to adjust beam dE to keep W fixed
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- RT: we could try to keep SHMS at 0.1% and vary HMS momentum offset
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Heep OOP offsets
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- shows plot w/PMY offsets
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- out of plane offsets dpphi and dhphi unfortunetly do not have much effect
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Vijay
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Applied Heep OOP offset
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- supposed to be same value that RT tried, but he sees a larger effect
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- in fact, PMY is over-corrected, which indicates applied offset is too large,
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  not too small
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- RT and VK to discuss offline, maybe RT has a units issue?
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Alicia
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Summary of 10.6 GeV CoinTime corrections for Ali
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- feedback from quarterly meeting  using the new variables to help with the
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  CoinTime correction
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- Mark Jones sent a short write-up on what variables to look at
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- the first results using it are negative, but need to do more checks on
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  whether implementing it correctly
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Nacer
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3.8 GeV KaonLT beta distribution issue
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- did a new replay on 3.8 GeV data, but Beta is still shifted to higher values
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  - P.gtr.beta peaked at 1.1 and very broad
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- maybe something not right in replay scripts, pointing to wrong calibrations?
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  - NH will sit down with AH to look things over
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- VK says he thought the 3.8 GeV beta distribution should be properly peaked
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- Also tried an accidentals subtraction, seems to be over subtracting, so need
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  to recheck
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Heep OOP offsets
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- one of the feedbacks from Quarterly Analysis meeting was to separate
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  out-off-plane offsets to three fits to get smaller offsets that match different
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  beam energy sets
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- showed result of revised fit, need to keep the SHMS offset fixed near zero
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  and only refit HMS offset
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  - for Vijay's data the offset would be slightly less than half of global
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    value, the other beam energies would have values more similar to global fit
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- DG: Still puzzling how is the offsets vary with beam energy, in other words
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  the HMS offsets weirdly vary with the spectrometers postion
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  - GH: agree this doesn't sound physical, but the uncertainties in the offsets
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    appear to be large, so maybe the change is less significant than it seems
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- PeteM: maybe it's the angle of the beam into the hall that is varying?
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  - DG: these are 3 different beam periods, and the steering into the hall
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    would be different each time, maybe PM is on to something
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  - RT looked earlier at the beam position (so did GH), but not the angle
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  - DG needs a ROOT file w/BPM position info
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    - RT: Below is the location of our replays as well as the run lists for the
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      kaonLT data periods
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      /lustre19/expphy/cache/hallc/kaonlt/Dec_2022/Analysis/KaonLT
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    - Run numbers:
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      Fall 2018: https://redmine.jlab.org/attachments/548/kaonlt_runlist.csv
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      Spring 2019:
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  https://redmine.jlab.org/attachments/768/kaonlt_runlist_8p2-6p2.csv
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Next Meeting
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- Thur Nov 16 @ 15:00 Eastern/14:00 Regina
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  - KaonLT will go first
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