[BLAST_ANAWARE] Minutes of the 3/23/5 analysis meeting

From: Michael Kohl (kohlm@mit.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 23:12:39 EST


Analysis meeting minutes:
Attending EG, NM, TF, TA, DH, BT, AS, CC, MK.

-"Big" Analysis meeting scheduled for Wednesday 4/61/2005
 (*not* Thursday!!)

-EG:
 +Finds discrepancy for (e,e'n) yields from flr and dst for runs in
  the 8000's, however those still have no useful dst, only after
  recrunch. Should use new runs of this year instead which do have
  proper dst.
 +Reports (e,e'n) yields have decreased this year compared to last
  year because of lower target density (this may depend on particular
  run numbers), however relative to proton yield it is unchanged.
 +Should investigate if this also applies to the forward LADS wall
  (above Q2=0.4, or cut on L15), when normalizing (e,e'n) yields to the
  (e,e'p) rate in order to see if installing the lead
  shieldings/converters had any effect
 +Will get started with Tosca soon

-TF:
 +Presenting inclusive-ep beam-target asymmetries compared to MC
  with MAID implemented.
 +Aleft and Aright for different trigger types, also A_TT' and A_TL'
 +Trigger type 7 agrees with MC
 +TF-MC and AS-MC agree
 +Trigger type 1 asymmetry is shifted to negative direction.
  Qualitative understanding is that the radiative tail of elastic
  scattering events contributes to the inclusive yield in the
  Delta-region, however only in trigger 1 and not in 2 (e,e'n) or 7
  (singles). Asymmetry attributed to elastic events is negative.
  Somewhat but not drastically different asymmetry of tail-events
  compared to unradiated events expected due to kinematics effect (q2
  different)
 +AS claiming that radiative tail does not explain quantitatively the
  discrepancy of measured asymmetry and MC.
 +In order to gain confidence into the implementation of MAID into
  BLASTMC, one needs some benchmarking. Possible checks are comparison
  of BLASTMC with MAID prediction for pointlike kinematics at prominent
  points (at top of Delta). MAID may not be the last word for
  polarization observables and the multipoles probed. The unpolarized
  case is much better known. Since the electron efficiency for
  inclusive scattering should be on the order of 80% and for a
  luminosity taken from ep elastic scattering, one could determine the
  differential cross section (unpolarized) to some limited precision
  which should be reproduced by MAID (dominant M1 multipole).
 +Different trigger types have different backgrounds; background may
  even be polarized as in above case. Polarized radiative-tail
  background should be handled in BLASTMC with MAID+radiation tail in
  generator.

-NM:
 +Made MASCARAD to work, converted to C++ from Fortran. MASCARAD
  accounts for the Mo and Tsai radiative effects for elastic
  scattering including the helicity-dependent part.

-We should have radiative effect in generator. May not be so important
 for asymmetries in elastic scattering, however it is important for
 the estimate of the contribution by radiated elastic events in the
 Delta region.

-CC:
 +Showing ep elastic data and MC asymmetries and polarizations
 +Slight disagreement between MC and Hoehler-pointlike
 +Some cluster-like over-and undershooting of the Hoehler curve
 +Q2-dependence of PbPt gone after cutting more strictly on
  wirechamber hits. Data sample became smaller, polarization higher.
 +Kinematical corrections: Trust angles, calculate momenta from angles
  for elastic scattering -> p_exp-p_calc(the):the etc. for eleft,
  pright and vice versa. Seems to observe somewhat different results
  than EG (needs to be compared explicitly.)
 +p_exp-p_calc(theta):p_exp for eleft, pright, eright and p_left
  should be plotted and made available as a third set of kinematical
  corrections and be compared to the ones by AM and EG.
 +z_electron-z_proton is not zero and has opposite sign when sectors
  are flipped. Possible explanation may be a transverse offset of the
  target, beam, or wire chamber. If so, dz versus theta should cross
  zero at 90 degrees.

Regards,

   Michael

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