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Revision as of 18:39, 10 February 2012

BCAL

Thrown photons

Look at the distribution of decay photons from the pi0.

For comparison with reconstructed data, useful to look at z rather than theta. This is the z that the photon would reach the inner radius of the BCAL, given its momentum and vertex.

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Reconstructed photons

Spectrum of "reconstructed" photons:

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Where does each of these peaks come from?

  • Broad peak around 125 cm from protons?
  • Peaks at upstream and downstream ends of detector from noise that cause garbage timing info?
  • Other three sharp peaks?

A timing cut fabs(t_shower-t_flight) < 1 ns can be applied to remove many of the extra "photons". (Red curve below)

I don't think low energy showers are well understood at the moment, so remove clusters with E<60 MeV. (Green)

Also, cut out a problem area at forward angles and lower energies (E<150 MeV && z>300 cm) (Blue)

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With all cuts:

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Number of "photons" decreases from 60,000 to 17,000.

Two gamma invariant Mass

Look at pairs of 2 BCAL photons and 1 BCAL+1 FCAL photon, with the cuts described above. Using truth vertex information.

Compare KLOE algorithm to GlueX algorithm.

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Black is KLOE, red is GlueX. Fits are to gaussian + straight line.

GlueX has less background, the fit also indicates that it has a taller peak, but I don't know how much this fit can really be trusted.