Re: weird TOF stuff

From: Kris Hagel (hagel@comp.tamu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 14:05:52 EST

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    Djamel,
    As far as I understand, TOF1 and TOF2 are not calibrated.  I started 
    trying to do that last week at BNL in my spare time while I was not on 
    shift.  I ran into problems calibrating because the matching between T1 
    and TD1 is not in order.  At first I thought it was because TD1 was not 
    calibrated, but it turns out that it has at least a nominal calibration. 
     On the other hand, it was moved and the matching code has the x and y 
    positions of TD1 "kind of" hardcoded in and the numbers now would be 
    different.  So I am examining how to resolve that in the easiest way 
    without making it so it doesn't work for last years p+p data (which for 
    sure has to be gone through again)
    
    Kris
    
    Djamel Ouerdane wrote:
    
    >Hi all,
    >
    >Inspired by some TOF stuff picked up from a PHENIX PhD thesis, I checked
    >if the BRAHMS TOF PID was as optimal as it should be. If you follow this
    >link, you will see that it's obvisouly not true :
    >
    >http://www.nbi.dk/~ouerdane/cal/weirdtof.html
    >
    >The FS data correspond to 4 deg. B 1/5 (run 5362)
    >I have a comment and a question.
    >
    >Comment  : 
    >  The TOFW signal looks reasonable. For H1 and H2, hum...
    >  I suspect the slewing correction is the "sinner".
    >  The TOF resolution would be improved if the visible stripes seen for H1 
    >  and H2 converged...
    >
    >Question : 
    >  why do we have the large dE particles at beta ~ 1 in H1 and H2?
    >  Do they correspond in fact to fast multicharged particles ? 
    >  Or is there something really screwy ? or a physical effect I ignore ?
    >  (The track-tof matching made sure that a single matched a single hit)
    >  Have in mind that TOFW, H2 and H1 are calibrated with the same BRAT 
    >  modules, using the same algorithms.
    >
    >
    >As far as I can tell, a lot of data sets are affected in this way (but I 
    >haven't checked yet all possible settings).
    >
    >In my opinion, this should be fixed ASAP.
    >
    >Djam
    >
    >
    >  
    >
    


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