Re: [Brahms-dev-l] spectra from pp collsion at eta = 2.2

From: Ian Bearden <bearden@nbi.dk>
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 07:12:50 EST
On 12/12-2003, at 18.18, Pawel Staszel wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Ian Bearden wrote:
>
>> Hi Zhongbao,
>> I guess this confuses me even more.  You are right, the eff. should 
>> not be 100% above 6GeV/c (is this really in p, or pt?)
>> In the first approximation, I would guess that the tracking eff. is 
>> roughly constant with p, but I don't know the value
>> for p+p or d+Au off the top of my head.  I think that the eff. should 
>> be better for these systems than Au+Au, but I don't know if anyone 
>> has actually worked on it.
>> Still, how can you have an eff. of 100% and still be lower at high pt 
>> than RD?
You are both right, Pawel and Zhongbao.  One day I will learn not to 
send any email before my second cup of coffee.
-Ian
>
> Because, correcting for efficiency rises the spectra up. I've just 
> sent to Zhongbao the efficiency calculations
> from October for the selected d+Au and pp runs  - I guess, the same 
> corrections (if any)  are used by Ramiro.
>
> Regards
> Pawel.
>
>> is this due to binning, or are your spectra really very different.  
>> It would really be helpful to see a comparison on a reasonable scale.
>> Cheers,
>> Ian
>> On 12/12-2003, at 11.36, yin.zhongbao@fi.uib.no wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I believe the tracking efficiency applied is wrong. It shouldn't be 
>>> 100%
>>> efficient for p>6 GeV/c. Any idea how to correct the tracking 
>>> efficiency?
>>> Has anybody done some estimates for d-Au and pp? Please, help me!!!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Zhongbao
>>> --------
>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Ian Bearden wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI Ramiro, Zhongbao,
>>>> Thanks for the plots.
>>>> I have a bit of difficulty judging the quality/consistency of these 
>>>> two
>>>> results on the scale shown.
>>>> Can one of you make a figure showing the ratio of the two results 
>>>> on a
>>>> linear scale? Maybe it is best to compare each of them to Hijing so 
>>>> we
>>>> can see where they are different.  Also, how is it that the 
>>>> statistics
>>>> are so different? I guess ZBY has more by more than an order of
>>>> magnitued, can that be right??  And...why is the ZBY result so much
>>>> nicer at low pt?  Is this because ZBY uses different acceptance 
>>>> maps?
>>>> (have I understood correctly that ZBY uses the "old" maps for Au+Au,
>>>> and if they really are only based on geometry why should there be a
>>>> difference?)
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>> On 11/12-2003, at 16.47, Ramiro Debbe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Zhongbao,
>>>>> Here is the plot where I include your results:
>>>>>
>>>>> <pp12WithZhongbao.gif>
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me say it again, as we are working on the same spectra we 
>>>>> should
>>>>> compare our methods in great detail.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ramiro
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 10:24 AM, yin.zhongbao@fi.uib.no
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Ramiro Debbe wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry, I rushed to reply and forgot to be more specific.
>>>>>>> The blue stars are hijing min bias (I'm working on a better
>>>>>>> simulation
>>>>>>> that includes the condition that INEL counters should be hit at 
>>>>>>> least
>>>>>>> once on each side)
>>>>>>> The red squares are the result of what I call version 1, and 
>>>>>>> finally
>>>>>>> the black triangles are the latest results that I fit to the 
>>>>>>> power
>>>>>>> law.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are "frantically" studying our method to extract the pt
>>>>>>> distributions, and I would be very curious to see how do you 
>>>>>>> handle
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> fact that the INEL resolution for the z coordinate of the vertex 
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> poor (~5cm). Maybe we should have a phone conversation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I haven't thought about that. From your plots, it seems HIJING
>>>>>> decribes
>>>>>> our data. Then I would leave it as it is since there are many 
>>>>>> things
>>>>>> waiting for me to work on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Zhongbao
>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> Zhongbao YIN                 Phone:  +47-55-582792 (O)
>>>>>> Address:                             +47-55-276803 (H)
>>>>>>   Fantoftveien 14G 466       E-mail:
>>>>>>   5075  Bergen                  Yin.Zhongbao@fi.uib.no
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>>> Address:                             +47-55-276803 (H)
>>>   Fantoftveien 14G 466       E-mail:
>>>   5075  Bergen                  Yin.Zhongbao@fi.uib.no
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