[Brahms-l] Brahms Minutes 02Feb07

From: Michael Murray <mjmurray_at_ku.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:53:44 -0600
Ramero, JH, Ramero, Flemming
Steve, Selemon, Michael
Pawel and Natalia
Hans from Oslo
Kris

Agenda
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12060

Friday 02 February 2007	top
09:30 	Updates on Rich vs Tof2 analysis (20') ( Slides    )	Pawel  
Staszel
09:50 	pp @ 62 GeV analysis (20') ( Slides   )	natalia katrynska
10:10 	Plots for the proceedings. (20') ( Slides   )	Catalin Ristea  
(NBI)
Main plots that I would like to use for the rapidity dependence of  
NMF in AuAu_at_200AGeV.
10:30 	QM Proceedings figures (20') ( Slides   )	Ionut Arsene (UiO)
Strangeness in Au+Au at 62.4GeV


Action Items:
1) Catalin and Ionot will produce drafts of QM06 posters by next Friday.
2) Please read and comment on Hans draft which is listed as  
"proceedings" on the meeting web page above.
3) Flemming has seen a first draft of QM proceedings from Ian, please  
comment on this after it is circulated.

Pawel: He has found a run with good overlap between TOF and RICH PID.
Requires same vertex requirement for both TOF and RICH and compes pi+e 
+mu from RICH to TOF.
The ratio RICH/TOF is a maximum near 95% at 4GeV. Below this pions  
start to be suppressed because they are near threshold. Note above  
4GeV he starts to have kaon contamination above 5GeV. He has not  
suceeded in getting rid of all kaons etc. At the moment things look  
pretty consistent. He suspsects that his TOF pion cuts are too wide.
For RICH PID there is come electron contamination below 3.5GEV. This  
may be due to the fact that pions are losing efficiency. FV and  
Ramero did detailed studies on the RICH efficiency. It is dominated  
by the efficiency of the ring finding algorithm and poisson  
fluctuations in the number of photons/pion. (This was much easier  
with k,p since one does not have muon contamination).


Flemming commented that most of our electrons are conversions from  
pi_0. (Beam pipe is 4% of a radiation length at 6 degrees). Light  
vector mesons LVM are probably not significant. At y=0 beam pipe is  
0.3%). A fiducial cut on X does not change the TOF/RICH ratio.

Flemming said that the RICH efficiency to identify a pion is 90-95%.  
The chance to find a ring radius 0 is 3%. The difference in these
numbers is because the ring finder occasionally finds the wrong  
radius due to interactions in gas and foils etc. Pawel feels that  
this study is finished now.

Catalin: QM poster proceedings. Nuclear modification factors for AuAu  
at 200GeV.
"IDENTIFIED PARTICLE NUCLEAR MODIFICATION FACTORS
AT RAPIDITY 2 - 3.8 IN AU+AU COLLISIONS AT 200 AGEV
- h+/h- set the general level of the suppression (contain particle  
ratios)
- differences between baryons/mesons
- Raa Vs. eta
different contributions add up into Raa (pp, auau)
to make an overall flat NMF.
- centrality dependence
- less medium density at forward rapidities, surface emission
"
He has produced several plots, please have a look. To fit in the  
procceding he will probably concentrate on 3 rapidities. He has  
calcuated Raa, RCP and Reta for charged hadrons. Then shows  
identified spectra for pi+- and p+-. He would like to add other  
settings but FV said this should be left for the final publication.  
He found a technical problem with a the low pT edges of the
acceptance. This was because certain vertex bins do not contribute to  
the very low Pt part of the spectra. Vertices that have no acceptance  
for a low Pt bin should not be included in the normalisation.


Ionot:QM06 proceedings: Spectra at 62GeV  He has a problem showing  
all his spectra and will have to show less data in the proceedings.  
He wants to show temperatures. For all particles he has used a fit in  
exponentials in Mt but the fit is bad near y=0. JH, fit with best  
function and then calculate <pt>.
For dN/dy we have to show the same dN/dy as in our paper. Ionot says  
that he is using a different centrality than in the paper. He has  
ideas to reduce the errors on k/pi at forward angles. FV said  that  
he should not do that for the proceedings. For k/pi vs pbar/p he  
should propagate pbar systematic errors.

Natalia Katrynska: pp at 62GeV
Invariant yield spectra for identified particles after
applying RICH and ToF identification.
Settings: 6A&B861, 2A&B1723, 3A&B1723;
FV is also looking at the same data. (Note trigger corrections are  
very important) A particle
at pt = 1 and y=3 as xf=0.3 . Note that for pbars you must create a  
pair, so we may not have
enough energy to hit the trigger counters. Pawel suggests modifying  
the "spectral object" to reduce the statistical errors. Ramero and FV  
disagree.

Natalie's next work is to
add the 4degree data, applying RICH and TOF efficiency correction and  
produce net proton spectra.


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