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Garth Huber, 06/19/2024 04:59 PM

 
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                 Jun 19/24 PionLT/KaonLT Analysis Meeting Notes
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                                (Notes by GH)
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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, Nathan Heinrich, Vijay Kumar, Zach
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   Sullivan
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Ohio - Julie Roche
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FIU - Pete Markowitz
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Virginia - Richard Trotta
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CUA - Tanja Horn
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Junaid
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PionLT Heep Offset Studies
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- tested adding or subtracting momentum and beam energy offsets to resolve sign
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  ambiguity in how they should be applied
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- 5.98GeV: positive sign offsets work better than negative sign
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- all energies shown, up to 10.54GeV.  + works better than - sign
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- compare observed Data-MC shifts compared to predicted by GH's program
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  - overall, the shifts are closer to predicted by GH's program, sometimes even
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    better than predicted (which is allowed since the program is based on the
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    mean values only, and not the full distribution)
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- then fixed momentum and beam energy offsets to +sign, and flip sign of
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  in-plane angle offsets
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  - + works better than -sign
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  - Richard: his momentum offsets were -sign, angle offsets were added
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  - Richard will discuss this more with Junaid next week
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- Richard: observes that 10.54GeV EM, PMZ distributions too broad compared to
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  MC, the lower energy distributions look more similar
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  - showed plots from his analysis, originally SIMC was much too narrow in
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    comparison to data, wasn't using recon_hcana script.  Using the script,
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    SIMC dists broadened and looked more similar to data
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  - two possibilities to check:
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    - does standard.kinematics have correct particle masses for 10.54GeV
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      setting?
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    - is recon_hcana script using correct particle masses?
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    - Richard and Junaid can discuss this more next week too, if needed
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Next Steps:
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- Heep yield ratio study
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  - will use Richard's LH2 boiling factors initially
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Zach and Nathan
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PID efficiency studies vs ELREAL rate
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- as a reminder, the normalized yields were not flat w/rate, the purpose of
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  this study is to see if this is caused by the PID cuts
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- results shown for HMS efficiencies vs ELREAL, SHMS plots in progress
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- HMS carbon Cherenkov efficiency vs ELREAL rate fairly flat, only goes to
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  ~20kHz
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  - efficiencies very close to what Junaid calculated
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  - error bars miscalculated, used Gaussian errors, in process of switching to
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    Binomial errors
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- HMS carbon Calorimeter efficiency vs ELREAL rate also flat ~99.8%
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Next Steps:
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- finish SHMS efficiency studies, use Binomial errors
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- assuming this study rules out the PID explanation on the observed rate
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  dependence, the next step would be to replay the low current data w/different
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  current cut in hcana, that's almost certainly the problem
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Richard
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KaonLT LT-separations, Q2=5.5 setting
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- trying to find a better parameterization that works at this Q2
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- one issue is that the t-range is larger than at lower Q2
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- looking to get good starting paramters that work over a broader range of t
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- hoping to have some initial Q2=5.5 results by next week
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- will meet with GH after SoLID meeting on Saturday afternoon to discus more
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Vijay
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Low Q2 PionLT systematics studies
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- radiative flag ON/OFF in SIMC
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- extract new sigL, sigT after 2 iterations and compare to L,T with flag ON
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- calculate deviation in sigL, sigT for each t-bin
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  - sigT on average more sensitive than sigL, particularly for lower t-bins,
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    however the deviation in sigT fluctuates and t-dependence not entirely
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    clear
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  - deviation in sigL seems to be more similar between t-bins
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- Tanja: would like Vijay to compare plots of data & MC with flag ON/OFF
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  - it would also be good to compute deviations in LT, TT
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Next Steps:
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- will vary spectrometer acceptance cuts (xptar, yptar, delta)
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  - suggest to do one spectrometer at a time
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  - look at the distributions first to determine a sensible variation in the
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    cuts, also consult older theses to see what they did
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 Next Meeting
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- Next meet: Thur June 27 @ 15:00 Eastern/13:00 Regina
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  - KaonLT will go first
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