Track by Track (TbyT) analysis of dev (fast offline) with respect to .DEV2 (TFG)

   The motivation to revisit Track by Track analysis (TbyT) procedure was observation difference of M2 for proton and antiproton in fast production for 9p2GeVc 2020 data sample (see https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/kfQA_0.pdf)
    The revision is required because :

  • we use  StiCA which allows reuse of hits by multiple tracks (multi map<hit,track>).
  • new version of CA is trying to combine loopers in a single track. Thus the single track from one reconstruction can be associated with multiple track from another reconstruction (multi map<track,track>).

    The revision has been released (TFG) and herein I report  the new TbyT results: 
        https://www.star.bnl.gov/~fisyak/star/TbyT/2019_2020/ 
    We have 4 comparisons :

  1. 2020 9p2GeVc old = "dev" (fast office), new = ".DEV2" (TFG)
  2. 2020 9p2GeVc old = ".DEV2", new = "dev". To test TbyT procedure. We expect "old" <=> "new".
  3. 2019 19GeV     old = "SL20c", new = "TFG20c" (The sample has been provided by Guannan Xie)
  4. 2020 9p2GeV   old = "TFG20c", new = ".DEV2". To see that we have no differences between the last stable release (TFG20c) and development version (.DEV2) i.e. .DEV2 ~ TFG20c.

   Conclusions:

  1. The swap old, new => new, old does work (the first and second columns).
  2. There is no difference between .DEV2 and TFG20c (the fourth column).
  3. There is practically no difference between dev_.DEV2 and SL20c_TFG20c (the first and third column), only statistics.
  4. From the first (and third) column(s) we can see:
    • TFG has higher efficiency for low pT global tracks (Fig.1),
    • TFG has wider pseudo rapidity (η) acceptance (Fig.2. This was the main reason for upgrading to new  CA (Grigory Kozlov, FIAS)).
    • With new CA overall global track efficiency increased from 94% to 98% (Fig.3)
    • The rate of clones reduced from 8% to 1% (Figs. 4-6).
    • The rate of lost is just complementarily to efficiency (Figs. 7-9).
    • The same we can conclude for primary tracks (Figs.10-18).
  5. The comparison of track pT versus no. of  fit points, pT, η, φ are show in Figs. 18-30
    • There is rather strong dependence of relative difference of  pT (δpT) on no. of fit points (Fig.21) which increased with increasing of no. of fit points.
    • There is very strong dependence of δpT on pT for dev to .DEV2 comparison ( ±2%/GeV) which is much stronger than SL20c to TFG20c comparison ( ±0.2%/GeV).
    • There is ~2 mm shift between Z of primary vertex for dev to .DEV2 comparison.
    • There is ~1 mm shift between X of primary vertex for dev to .DEV2 comparison.
  6. I try to track differences between dev and .DEV2 reconstructions. These are man differences
      • 0.1% lower MagField (due to switch from scaleFactor to current)
      • TpcInnerSectorPositionB,
      • tpcEffectiveGeomB,
      • tpcSectorT0offset,
      • tpcOuterHitError,
      • tpcInnerHitError => iTPCHitError