Re: question about recent mult changes

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2001 - 09:07:30 EDT

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    Hi Steve et all, 
    
    On Sun, 08 Apr 2001 13:55:58 -0500
    "Stephen J. Sanders" <ssanders@ukans.edu> wrote
    concerning ": question about recent mult changes":
    > Hi Christian,
    >     I have been trying to obtain some direct comparisons between the NBI
    > centrality and that obtained by Hiro.  I was able produce an ntuple with
    > both centralities early Friday, but  I then decided to update the
    > BrRdoModuleMult program to use some revised calibrations that Hiro had
    > developed.  When I went back to redo the calculation later on Friday, I
    > noticed you had modified a number of classes in the mult directory.  I
    > downloaded the changes and did my replay.
    
    It's true I updated classes in mult, and I didn't announce it on the
    list, since the time was getting late and I hoped to announce it on
    saturday, but then I got tied up - sorry about that. 
    
    So here's the list of changes: 
    
    * BrTileRdoModule now uses the per ring energy to multiplicity
      conversion polynomials, as outlined by Steve and Hiro in BAN26. 
      This change affected classes: 
    
           BrTileRdoModule 
           BrTileCalibration 
    
    * BrSiRdoModule is know (more or less) fully implemented, following
      the algorithms of Steve and Hiro as previously done in
      BrRdoModuleMult. This change affected classes: 
    
           BrSiDig 
           BrSiRdo
           BrSiRdoModule
           BrSiCalibration 
           BrSiParameters 
    
      Please note, that the changes to BrSiRdo and BrSiDig means that it's
      not compatible with old version of those classes. As a consequnce,
      the class version of these classes has been bumped. 
    
      Also note, that the class BrSiRdoModule is not fully debugged yet. 
      
      Steve and Hiro, could you please take a look at the class
      BrSiRdoModule and see if I missed anything. 
    
    * Some clean-up to BrRdoModuleMult. Nothing really of consequnce, just
      to make it easier to read. 
      
    I'll bump the version number later today. 
    
    >    However, I am no longer getting a reasonable result for the NBI
    > centrality.  Almost all of the counts are showing as 0 or 1, with a couple
    > of .05.  Would your changes have affected the centrality calculation?  What
    > I see could be consistent with your changing to the newer energy calibration
    > without making a corresponding change to the centrality class.  However,
    > this is pure speculation.
    
    That could be the reason. However, looking over the parameter values
    from the previous calibration (one polynomial for all tiles) to the
    present one (one polynomial for each ring), the difference is very
    small, and mostly on the second or higher term, which are small
    anyway. Anyway, I'll look into it and change the numbers if needed. 
    
    I'm inclined to do the centrality cuts in the total deposited energy
    in the array, rather than the multiplicity, since doing that we'll be
    independent of the energy-to-multiplicity calibrations, which, as far
    as I can tell are dependent on some event generator (HIJING so far). I
    believe using the deposited energy (after outlier corrections and so
    forth) should be ok, since we're after all looking at the integral
    rather than the actual number. Any thought on that is welcome. 
    
    > ...steve
    > p.s.  I stopped working on this about 5:30 pm my time on Friday.  With AFS
    > down all weekend, I would not have incorporated any changes you might have
    > made after that time.
    
    I subitted late friday afternoon (DST CET) and have not done anything
    else since then. 
    
    Yours, 
    
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