Re: weird TOF stuff

From: Ian Bearden (bearden@nbi.dk)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 14:42:58 EST

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    I have a couple of questions about this...
    1) is this true of any other settings?  In particular, what about 
    higher p and larger angles?
    2) If this were what you call 'fast multicharge particles' why is this 
    a continuos band, and not a blob at deltaE=4,9,etc?
    3)What fraction of the data around beta~1 has deltaE>2?
    4)What does this plot look like slat by slat?  i.e. which slats have 
    the line which has beta>1 and which slats have beta<1?
    Is it split in odd and even slats (and thus related to the path 
    length?).
    
    -Ian
    
    On onsdag, feb 12, 2003, at 19:23 Europe/Copenhagen, 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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