geant pbar absorbtion

 The default way of running geant utilized GHESIA for cross sections, in particular absorption.
BRAHMS looked at this for the 2002 p-bar/p letter and found it was inadaquate. ALICE in their papers from
~2013 also investigated this in the pp paper dealing with the p-bar/p vs energy paper.

Her I put some of this information.

  1. This is an ensemble of e-mails and some plots by Pawel Stazsel from 2001 
  2. Physics Letter from ALICE detailing p-bar efficiencies  pdf
  3. The key figues from 2 is here showing the difference between the geant and fluka efficinecy. This is not the final correction difference which depends on the material budgets which is shown in the second plot.
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  5. For STAR at mid-rapidity and the runs w/o HFT there is very little material at mid-rapidity, thus expect the effects to be order 1% at most For run run 14-16 it is certainly different and should be quantified.,

Efeect of p and pbar for ALICE


Summary request to S&C is the attached pdf