The STAR experiment

Here are some diagonostic checks for the FMS simulation. The following is for small cells only.

 Below is a group of plots of the r-phi distortion corrections in a typical production file for hits from the inner sector of sectors 3 and 9, as a function of z.

To try to understand why the shape of the vernier scan data differs between the ZDC and BBC and the BHT3 triggers, I decided to make a rough sort of BHT3 coincidence trigger.

Abstract, Talk, and Proceedings for Moriond 2010.  My talk was Tuesday 3/16/2010, and proceedings are due 5/15/10.  Please select the most recent version

This drupal page outlines a number of things that need to be done or decided on before we publish the W/Z cross sections.

Paper 2:  W Cross Section Analysis from Run 9 Data 

BBC / VPD Vertex Investigation