Re: ZDC Vertex

From: Flemming Videbaek (videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2001 - 08:14:55 EST

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    Bjorrn,
    
    Your plots are interesting in more ways than indicated below.
    
    a) Why is the p1 coeef in the first plot .93 +-.002 It really should be one
    since it is a
    distance beasured both places. Since the ZDC time calibration is probably
    known to better the 7% (I assume)
    it sounds like a problme in the tracking - What pad pitch did you use? At
    some earlier stages we have also seen
    a small change in the projected y-pos with 'z' so maybe some small geometry
    problem still exsists?
    b) Is the deviation in the ZDC-TPM1 vs mult similar to that of the BB? This
    could help isolate the problem.
    c) You would probably be better off making a cut on ZDC energies + a rough
    BB cut to resolve the double
     value problem. THis should be  mainly for conformation.
    
    Pong -(:
    
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Bjorn H Samset" <bjornhs@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>
    To: "BRAHMS Software list" <brahms-dev-l@bnl.gov>
    Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:29 AM
    Subject: Re: ZDC Vertex
    
    
    > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael Murray wrote:
    >
    > >   Dear Bjorn,
    > >            although the Z vertex distirbution is very
    > > wide if we have enough events it should be possible to find
    > > a well defined mean z for the the ZDC and TPM1. Thus a profile
    > > plot, with option ' ' for error on mean, of Z versus multiplicity
    > > would be useful. Thanks for helping on this.
    >
    > My pleasure :-)
    >
    > I have made a few quick plots - have a look at
    > www.fys.uio.no/~bjornhs/ZDCvsTPM1_profile.ps
    > www.fys.uio.no/~bjornhs/ZDCvsTPM1_DiffVsMult.ps
    >
    > The first one is simply ZDC vs TPM1 showing a nice linear rel. over at
    > least z=pm35cm.
    >
    > The second one is more interesting - as requested, a profile of
    > Z_ZDC-Z_TPM1 vs multiplicity (I have used BB_Mult because that was easiest
    > from my tree - if you think that this causes a problem I can redo for some
    > other mult-version). As you can see there really seems to be a
    > mult-dependence on the difference - it is well fitted by a 2nd order
    > poly. As of yet I have no ide as to the reason for this - I'll have a more
    > thorough look at the TPM1 Vertex output to see if there is anything there
    > that might cause problems, otherwise I guess slewing corrections are a
    > good place to start. My data are from runs 2529, 2530, 2531, 2535.
    >
    > I'll check this better during the day... Ping :-)
    >
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