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Garth Huber, 05/23/2024 06:55 PM

 
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                May 23/24 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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                                (Notes by GH)
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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 - Garth Huber, Ali Usman, Nacer Hamdi, Muhammad Junaid, Nathan Heinrich,
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   Vijay Kumar, Zach Sullivan, Alicia Postuma
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JLab - Dave Gaskell
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Virginia - Richard Trotta
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FIU - Pete Markowitz
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York - Stephen Kay
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CSULA - Konrad Aniol
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Vijay
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- implementing Garth's final corrections on Thesis before it goes for committee
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  review
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- will resume data analysis next week
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- first task should be to work on systematic uncertainties table, as it's blank
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  in the draft thesis
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  - Richard will set up a meeting between Vijay and Nacer to discuss systematic
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    uncertainties next week
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Ali
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- also busy with thesis write-up, gave 1 chapter to GH for review
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- resuming piDelta data analysis
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  - first task will be to finish MM fitting of high statistics settings, plan
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    to show results at next meeting
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Alicia
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- pi+n BSA paper is almost ready, planning to circulate it to this group
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  tomorrow
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  - still need to check PRL word count
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  - the uncertainties in the offsets still need to be decided, we will come
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    back to this after Junaid's presentation 
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Richard
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- KaonLT L/T-separations
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  - Q2=3.0, W=3.14 -t=0.15-0.5 after 17 iterations presented by Tanja last week
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  - Q2=2.115, W=2.95 -t=0.15-0.35 0th iteration result shown
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- fitting mean Q2 value per bin vs t value to get general idea of
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  Q2(t)=Aexp(Bt) dependence at high, low epsilon, instead of tave factor in
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  parameterization
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- also looking at fits of mean W value per bin vs t value to replace W-fac with
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  a W=mt+b form
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  - GH raises a caution: these are the variations in the mean kinematic values
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    with t-bin, not the variation in the yields with Q2,W.  They are NOT the
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    same, so don't fool yourself when doing this study
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- Ali raises the issue of the synchrotron radiation correction to the beam
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  energy mentioned by Dave last week
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  - GH strongly suspects that this correction was not applied to KaonLT higher
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    energy values, it will affect all >8 GeV data
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  - it will also affect the offsets, even at low energies, we will discuss more
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    after Junaid's presentation.  GH is happy to rerun the offset finder
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    program if Richard supplies corrected data
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Nacer
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- KaonLT low Q2 analysis, working on SIMC-Heep comparison
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  - SIMC input files were corrected for offsets, generated files ready
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  - now setting up to replay Heep data, trying to solve a problem w/missing BCM
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    file, probably caused by incorrect pathing, will meet with Ali on this
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Nathan
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PionLT BCM calibration study
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- looking at quadratic correction for BCM2
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2021 Lumi data: 
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- if quadratic term included, the Lumi scan looks flatter vs current, but still
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  not perfect
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- then allow fit function to refit BCM slope + offset while keeping quadratic
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  term fixed
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  - result is a slight over-correction with current, but the best result
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  - will use this one.  Dave agrees this looks good
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2022 Lumi data:
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- when quadratic term is added, the Lumi scan is better for >60uA, no
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  difference below this
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- refitting slope + offset while keeping quadratic fixed gives an over
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  prediction at high current, and low current is now too low
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  - this is not as good as just adding the quadratic term to simple linear fit,
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    so will use that one
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  - 2021,22 calibs look very good, just waiting on feedback from Dave Mack
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- started looking at Lumi analysis w/ new BCM calibs
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  - supervising Zach to get him started on Lumi analysis
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  - a jump in TotalLT (TLT) is observed at 40uA for Carbon runs 12144-12154
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    - Dave: consider using CPULT instead of TLT for these runs
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    - NH: CPULT is not always more reliable, shows Carbon runs 16727-16737
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      where CPULT~81% but TLT~99%
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      - need to check if there's a script bug causing this, since the script
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        assumes 2-arm data, but these runs are 1-arm
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      - Ali: suggest to compare CPULT from Report File to value from script
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Junaid
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PionLT Heep-Coin analysis
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- corrected all beam energy values for synchrotron radiation after Dave's
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  comment last week, and then reran Heep + SIMC
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  - only has an affect for >8 GeV, correction is zero below that
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- GH generated new offsets from corrected data, Junaid shows comparison
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  - new offsets have SHMS and HMS momentum offsets near zero, which is good
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  - comparison of trend in beam offsets is interesting:
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    - the new beam offsets are typically -0.5x0.1% while the old ones are
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      0.1x0.1%, so a systematic difference of -0.6x0.1%. 
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    - however, both sets have the same 0.6x0.1% jump between 9.879 and 10.550
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      GeV, i.e. 0 to +0.6x0.1% old, and -0.6x0.1% to 0 new
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  - Junaid will replay data + SIMC to be sure offsets are applied correctly
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    - also will compare old and new offset results for 5.984, 7.937, 10.549 GeV
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- now back to Alicia's question about offset uncertainties
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  - based on the difference between the two offset solutions, GH suggests
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    0.5x0.1% for energy & momentum offsets, 0.5x1mr for angle offsets
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    - Dave agrees this is sensible
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- iFarm transition from RH7 to ALMA9
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  - Ole Hansen sent out an email on pre-compiled packages:
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    "As many of you know, we are providing precompiled software under
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    /group/halla/apps. Much of this software has been built for both RHEL7 and
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    Alma9 and can be loaded with the "module" command on either
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    platform. Specifically, the following modules support Alma9 at this time:
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      analyzer/1.7.12
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      analyzer/1.7.8
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      boost/1.84
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      CLHEP/2.4.6.4
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      evio/5.3
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      Geant4/11.1.2
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      Geant4/11.2.1
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      hcana/1.1
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      Pythia/6.4.28
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      Pythia/8.311
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      python/2.7.18
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      Qt/5.15.10
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      Qt/5.15.13
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      ROOT/6.26-10
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      ROOT/6.30-04
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      xerces-c/3.2.4
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      group.apps
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   "For reference, here is an example of how to set up the Hall C analyzer on
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      % module purge
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      % module use /group/halla/modulefiles
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      % module load hcana
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      Loading hcana/1.1
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      Loading requirement: pythia6/6.4.28 pythia8/8.311 root/6.30.04 evio/5.3 analyzer/1.7.12
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  - Stephen could get hcana to compile, did not yet try LTsep package
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Next Meeting
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- We will cancel next week's meeting due to various time conflicts
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- Next meet: Thur June 6 @ 15:00 Eastern/13:00 Regina
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  - PionLT will go first
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