• Table of contents
• Analysis Tasks
  • Ongoing
    • Efficiencies Mid-March 2022
    • EDTM Mid-March 2022
    • Luminosity Mid-March 2022
    • Check stability of cointime peak ???
    • SHMS and HMS Optics Improvements ???
    • Elastics
  • On deck
    • Heepcheck offsets Early August 2022
    • Initial ep elastic cross-section checks Early August 2021
  • Completed
    • BCM calibrations Done
    • Beam Energy calibrations Done
    • Python analysis scripts Done
    • Timing windows and reference times Done
    • RF time for SHMS PID Done
    • Calibrations Done
    • SHMS tracking algorithm optimization and efficiencies Done
  • Replays
    • FULL REPLAY 1 of data, with new calibrations Done
    • "FULL REPLAY 2":Post-PionLT pass with updated scripts Early January 2022
    • FULL REPLAY 3 of data, with improved optics and corrections Early June 2022
    • FULL REPLAY 4 of data, with final calibrations and offsets Mid-August 2022
    • FULL REPLAY 5 of data, with outstanding problems resolved Early March 2023
    • FULL REPLAY 6 of data Early June 2023

Analysis Tasks¶

Fall 2018/Spring 2019 Run	Completed
Calibrations	Completed
Efficiencies and offsets	Ongoing
First iteration of cross section	On deck
Fine tuning cross section iteration	To Do
Form factor extraction	To Do

This is a summary page with the progress of the KaonLT experiment. Above is a quick outline of our current progress. Below are tasks assigned to members of the group. Anyone who is part of the group may contribute to a task with suggestions and/or updates on progress. Please contact the assignee on a task-by-task basis for any queries. Anyone with general questions can contact Richard Trotta (trotta@cua.edu).

Ongoing¶

Complete all by Early August 2022

Efficiencies Mid-March 2022¶

• Tracking
• Trigger
• PID
  • HMS cer
  • HMS cal
  • SHMS aero
  • SHMS cer
  • SHMS cal
• CPU LT
• Electronic LT
• COIN time
• Missing Mass

EDTM Mid-March 2022¶

• Richard
• This has been looked at by various people. Need links to documentation.
• Dave Mack Studies

Luminosity Mid-March 2022¶

• Richard
  • Scaler
  • event (different times for both)
  • LH2 boiling tests
  • Need to check if the various luminosity scans give consistent results. HMS singles: partially done by Richard SHMS singles: partially done by Richard. All students need to repeat this work, particularly with new version of hcana.
• Need to check if the various luminosity scans give consistent results
• Peter Bosted has looked in detail at our data, leading to significant improvements to hcana. We need to repeat his studies for ourselves

Check stability of cointime peak ???¶

• Stephen
• In Fpi-2 it drifted with TDC temperature and needed to be adjusted on a run-by-run basis to within 200 ps.
• Initial checks so far indicate the peak is stable. Cointime resolution will be poorer in fall 2018 run due to DAQ cabling issue. Mark has partial software fix that we need to be sure is implemented.

SHMS and HMS Optics Improvements ???¶

• Mark Jones
• SHMS
• HMS, unsure

Elastics¶

• singles Early May 2022
  • Richard/Ali/Vijay
  • Initial Heepcheck offset fitting to get corrected E, E', theta'.

• coin Early May 2022
  • Richard/Ali/Vijay
  • Initial Heepcheck offset fitting to get corrected E, E', theta'.

On deck¶

Complete by Early September 2022

Heepcheck offsets Early August 2022¶

• ???
• Check that Heepcheck offsets produce consistent p(e,e'K+)L, p(e,e'pi+)n p(e,e'p)omega missing masses.

Initial ep elastic cross-section checks Early August 2021¶

• Richard/Ali/Vijay
• Singles cross-sections, HMS and SHMS. SHMS delta scans (only peak position checked so far, stability of normalized yield ratio not yet checked). Coin ep cross-sections.
• In Fpi-2, determing the correct proton absorption correction for normalized required some literature review and other digging.

Completed¶

BCM calibrations Done¶

• Fall 2018-Spring 2019
  • BCM1,2 are stable, have a small nonlinearity >60uA that remains to be
    calibrated
  • Final BCM for fall and spring
• Summer 2019
  • BCM1,2 both okay, including small nonlinearity corr.

Beam Energy calibrations Done¶

• Mark Jones
  • This page incorporates May/2019 problem fix that caused to give wrong
    beam energies

Python analysis scripts Done¶

• Richard/Stephen
• 1 , 2

Timing windows and reference times Done¶

• Richard/Stephen
• This was completed for hodoscopes, drift chambers by Richard/Stephen. Every HMS/SHMS channel needs to be re-done for the new hcana code.

RF time for SHMS PID Done¶

• Stephen
• 1-Apr-2020 Update
  • Still need to set RF gates for each particle type, apply TOF corrections for particles other than pion,
    check offsets for other settings.

Calibrations Done¶

• Calorimeter
  • Hamlet/Richard/Hakob/Stephen/Vladimir/Vardan
  • HMS+SHMS
  • Bill Henry's 9-Jan-2020 report on calib algorithm improvements

• Aerogel
  • Vladimir/Richard
  • Redmine lists calibration completed by Vladimir. Need a link to the report. Cuts, PID analysis, efficiencies, not yet done.

• HGCer
  • Garth/Vijay
  • New calibrations almost done. Report in progress. A position dependent efficiency for pi+ and K+ will have to be implemented. This is not yet started.

• HMS Cer
  • Richard

• HMS+SHMS DC
  • Stephen/Richard
  • HMS+SHMS

• Hodoscope
  • Vijay/Ali
  • The second band is alright to keep for now until we tighten our time windows. Then the calibrations will need to be redone. This will not be until efficiencies are well established.

SHMS tracking algorithm optimization and efficiencies Done¶

• Ali
• Link to Tracking Efficiencies vs Rate

Replays¶

FULL REPLAY 1 of data, with new calibrations Done¶

• This replay should include all new kinematic offsets, better timing and PID calibrations, as well as Mark's most recent HMS and SHMS matrix elements.
• Quality control rechecks with new replay:
  • carbon luminosity scans are flat vs. current and rate
  • LH2 luminosity scans are flat vs. current and rate
• HMS saturation corrections?
• Final investigation of SHMS acceptance, optimize acceptance cuts based on sieve-slit run analysis, agreement with single-arm MC.
  • Compare data and simulation plots of SHMS yfp,ypfp for various ytar,delta bins to identify inconsistencies.
• Trigger blocking studies.
  • Are extra factors needed to correct for missing FADC reference times, or any other DAQ related effects? Initial info from Peter Bosted indicates this is likely to be the case.
• Recheck Heep singles and coin yields to identify and fix problems.
• Stability checks. Need some scripts to look at invariant mass vs run number, etc., for pi+/K+/p channels.

"FULL REPLAY 2":Post-PionLT pass with updated scripts Early January 2022¶

• Replay 2 Tasks
• This replay should include all new kinematic offsets, better timing and PID calibrations, as well as Mark's most recent HMS and SHMS matrix elements.
• Quality control rechecks with new replay:
  • carbon luminosity scans are flat vs. current and rate
  • LH2 luminosity scans are flat vs. current and rate
• HMS saturation corrections?
• Final investigation of SHMS acceptance, optimize acceptance cuts based on sieve-slit run analysis, agreement with single-arm MC.
  • Compare data and simulation plots of SHMS yfp,ypfp for various ytar,delta bins to identify inconsistencies.
• Trigger blocking studies.
  • Are extra factors needed to correct for missing FADC reference times, or any other DAQ related effects? Initial info from Peter Bosted indicates this is likely to be the case.
• Recheck Heep singles and coin yields to identify and fix problems.
• Stability checks. Need some scripts to look at invariant mass vs run number, etc., for pi+/K+/p channels.

FULL REPLAY 3 of data, with improved optics and corrections Early June 2022¶

• Replay 3 Tasks
• SECOND LEVEL ANALYSIS TASKS with REPLAY 3 ntuples:
  • Final SHMS optic matrix element and acceptance determination.
  • Final HMS optics check.
  • Final Heepcheck offsets.
  • Better detector efficiency determination.
  • First check of Bill's L/T separation code.

FULL REPLAY 4 of data, with final calibrations and offsets Mid-August 2022¶

• THIRD LEVEL ANALYSIS TASKS with REPLAY 4 ntuples:
  • Final ep elastic cross-section checks.
  • Look at data in depth, and resolve outstanding problems.
  • First SIMC ntuple generation using new offsets.
  • Detailed Data/SIMC comparisons for HMS and SHMS focal plane and target reconstructed quantities, as well as W, Q^2, t, phi.
  • Preliminary L/T separation results.

FULL REPLAY 5 of data, with outstanding problems resolved Early March 2023¶

• ADVANCED ANALYSIS TASKS with REPLAY 5 ntuples:
  • Final SIMC ntuple generation using final parameters.
  • Thorough look at L/T/LT/TT separations, consistency checks as necessary.
  • Final look at systematic error contributions.

FULL REPLAY 6 of data Early June 2023¶

• Hopefully not necessary
• OBTAIN:
  • Separated cross-section results.
  • Form factor determination begins. Model systematic error tests. Use more than one model, if at all possible.
  • Model dependence and other issues in form factor extraction.

Begin thesis writing, drafts of first papers