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First pass at a photon cross-section with LDA: to-do list
The cross-section requires the following components:
Nraw: number of gamma candidates for a given pt bin passing the cut on the discriminator. Awaiting scripts from Mike.
Npi: expected number of pions for a given pt bin. Determined from PHENIX data.
egamma: efficiency of gamma maker at finding photons. Need to write some code for this, inverting previous code for determining if a candidate is a gamma, pi0, or eta.
epion: efficiency of gamma maker at finding pions. Ditto.
efficiency of the cut: Easy to find once a cut is decided on.
background rejection of the cut: Ditto.
Note: using |eta|<.8, pT<15 for now to avoid the necessity of using theoretical calculations to determine Npi.
Things to do:
Process gamma_jet MC background sample. Mike may do this.
Calculate value of discriminant for data samples: see Nraw above.
Determine the gamma maker efficiencies (though for pions this depends on the gamma_jet MC background being turned into gammaTrees).
Determine a cut value.
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