Run 10 Calibration Status (2010-11-03)

TPC: A decision was made by the calibration groups that sector 20 be blanked out (gains set to zero in the database) in the Run 10 AuAu 200GeV dataset. This decision resulted from the fact that sector 20 was unable to be properly aligned. This can be seen from the following: 

FF Alignment

RFF Alignment

Also, this misalignment was seen by the TOF group and further verifies the need to mask out the sector.

TOF: Ironing out some minor differences between two independent QA results for the FF. One still seems to show a T0 and we want to find out whether this is a calibration issue or something that can be found in the way the two QA approaches differ. This issue isn't expected to hold up production for much longer (1-3 days). There is an offset of ~30-40 ps between the two different approaches and the following two plots demonstrate this offset

ToF plot 1

ToF plot 2

Also, simultaneously the TOF calibrations for the RFF dataset is progressing and should be ready for production shortly after the FF dataset.  

 

The PMD and Beamline calibrations are completed.