From: Claus O. E. Jorgensen (ekman@nbi.dk)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 10:52:18 EDT
Hi Brahmers, I've made a quick comparison between the amount of tracks we have in the high pt setting for Au+Au and p+p. You can find it here: http://www.nbi.dk/~ekman/ppVsAuAu_HighPt.gif I guess with various cuts on the p+p data we end up with more or less the same number of high pt tracks as in the most central (0-10%) Au+Au data. Which means that we are very limited in statistics above 3 GeV/c. This can perhaps contribute to the discussion on how we want to use the last week of beam time. In my opinion we should rather make one good measurement (with good statistics) instead of two less good measurements. Personally I favor the 12 deg high pt - it's the only reliable reference for our forward rapidity data (both for the last run and the coming Au+Au run). One could also argue that we could wait with the asymmetry measurements until the polarization is better (are we convinced we can get a measurement of the transverse asymmetry that's worth publishing?). Cheers, Claus +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Claus E. Jørgensen Phone : (+45) 33 32 49 49 | | Cand. Scient. (M. Sc.) Cell : (+45) 27 29 49 49 | | Office : (+45) 35 32 54 04 | | Niels Bohr Institute, Ta-2, Fax : (+45) 35 32 50 16 | | Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100, E-mail : ekman@nbi.dk | | University of Copenhagen Home : www.nbi.dk/~ekman/ | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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