Re: weird TOF stuff

From: Djamel Ouerdane (ouerdane@nbi.dk)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:29:06 EST

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    Hi all,
    
    I'm still investigating the curious TOF effect.
    I've tried various things without much progress in the understanding 
    except that the slewing correction is not the sinner at all. Actually, the 
    effect is worse without. But something interesting is revealed on the 
    plots you can look at here :
    
     http://www.nbi.dk/~ouerdane/cal/weirdtof.html
    
    Since H1 and H2 show the same behaviour, I focus on H2 and try to see of 
    identified particles with the RICH can tell us something. In fact they do. 
    I select pions with a momentum > 3 and < 8 GeV/c (below K and p threshold 
    and above pi threshold), I plot dE vs beta (H2) for those particles.
    
    I do the same for particles with same momenta but that haven't left any
    signal in the RICH. dE vs beta is plotted too.
    
    Look at the plots and tell me what you think.
    
    Djam
    
    
    PS: whether you plot dE top or dE bot or sqrt(dEtop*dEbot) does not 
    have any effect. Track vertex cuts, D1 swim status, hit cut along the slat 
    axis (y), etc, etc do not have any effect either. I'm investigating if 
    this effect comes from averaging the particle tof with TDCtop and TDCbot 
    although I doubt about it.
    
    
    
    
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