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17) Absolute gains , take1

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 Goal: reco isolated gammas from bht0,1,2 -triggered events 

Method: identify isolated EM shower and match BSMD cluster energy to tower energy, as exercised earlier on [node:1176

15 stability of BSDM peds, day 47 is good

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 Peds from run minB 17 were used as reference

Fig1 . pedestal residua for runs 17,29,31

Plots - DB02 old/new Compare

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Penguin Relion 230 vrs. Dell Precision 530 (specs here link to be added....)

Note the different time scales on the Y axis. 

Run 8 trigger planning (Jim Sowinski)

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here are some presentations from the run 8 trigger planning.

14 Eval of BSMDE status tables for pp 2008, day 49,50

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Method:

 from _private_ production w/o zero BSMD suppression we look at pedestal residua for raw spectra for minb events.

study 9b sensitivity at mid rapidity LT=10/pb Pol=50% or 60%

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4) demonstration of absolute calib algo on single particle M-C

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 Goal: determine absolute calibration of BSMDE,P planes

Method: identify isolated EM shower and match BSMD cluster energy to tower energy

3) same algo applied to full East BSMDE,P

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Smd cluster finder with sliding window of 3 strips + one strip on each end (total 5 strips) applied to all 9000 BSMDE,P strips, one gamma per event

 

one cluster topology , definition of 'barrel cell'

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 One dimensional  BSMD cluster finder is insensitive to single dead strips and module boundaries for the phi strip.

2) BSMDE , 1+3+1 sliding cluster finder

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 Goal: test SMDE cluster finde

Mapping, strip to tower distance

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For every strip we find the closest tower and determine the distance between tower center and strip center.

1) BSMD-E clusters, sliding max, fixed width

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 Goal: study SMDE energy resolution and cluster shape for single particles M-C

Input: single particle per event, fixed ET=6 GeV, flat eta [-0.1,1.1], flat  |phi| <5 deg, 500 e

1) M-C : response of BSMD , single particles (Jan)

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 Below are studies of BSMD response and calibration algo based on BMSD response to single particle M-C

details of SMD simulator, simu shower zoom-in

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Fig 1. Geant simu of EM shower of one electron with ET=10 GeV at eta=0.

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CDR-Software

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Drafts for Software Chapters in HFT-CDR

 

How-to pages

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Code developers need to keep in mind that:

1) Need to follow STAR code standards

Electrostatic Calculations for West Support Cone

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Calculations from 24-July-2008 with "corrected" resistor chain geometry.

Rusults compared using 1mm mesh and 2mm mesh

Reconstruction Code QA

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 Cross reference to Reconstruction Code QA

12) investigating status of P-strips

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10) SMD-P gain equalization , ver 1.1

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Goal : predict BSMD-P relative gain corrections for every eta bin 

Method : find average slope per eta slice, fit gauss, determine average slope : avrSlope(iEta)