2009.09.04 Test of corrected EEMC geometry: SVT, slow-simulator on/off, pre-shower migration

Test of corrected EEMC geometry: shower shapes (bug 1618)

Monte-Carlo setup:

  • One particle per event (photons, electrons, pions, and eta-meson)
  • Full STAR 2006 geometry (with/without SVT)
    In Kumac file: detp geom y2006g; gexec $STAR_LIB/geometry.so (remove SVT with SVTT_OFF option)
  • Throw particles flat in eta (1.08, 2.0), phi (0, 2pi), and pt (6-10 GeV)
  • Using A2Emaker to get reconstructed Tower/SMD energy
    (with/without EEMC SlowSimulator in chain)
  • Vertex z=0
  • ~50K/per particle type
  • Non-zero energy: 3 sigma above pedestal

Color coding:

  • Photon (single particle MC)
  • Electron (single particle MC)
  • Neutral pion (single particle MC)
  • Eta-meson (single particle MC)
  • Eta-meson [pp2006 data] (single photons from eta-meson decay)

Pre-shower bins:

  1. Ep1 = 0, Ep2 = 0 (no energy in both EEMC pre-shower layers)
  2. Ep1 = 0, Ep2 > 0
  3. 0 < Ep1 < 4 MeV
  4. 4 < Ep1 < 10 MeV
  5. Ep1 > 10 MeV
  6. All pre-shower bins combined

Ep1/Ep2 is the energy deposited in the 1st/2nd EEMC pre-shower layer.
For a single particle MC it is a sum over
all pre-shower tiles in the EEMC with energy of 3 sigma above pedestal.
For eta-meson from pp2006 data the sum is over 3x3 tower patch

Shower shapes

Single particle kinematic cuts: pt=7-8GeV, eta=1.2-1.4
Eta-meson shower shapes (blue) taken from Fig. 1 from here of this post
All shapes are normalized to 1 at peak (central strip)

Figure 1: Shower shape sorted by pre-shower conditions.
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (NO slow simulator, WITH SVT)
Ratio plot

Figure 2: Shower shape sorted by pre-shower conditions.
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (NO slow simulator, NO SVT)
Ratio plot

Figure 3: Shower shape sorted by pre-shower conditions.
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITH slow simulator, WITH SVT)
Ratio plot

Figure 4: Shower shape sorted by pre-shower conditions.
Old cAir-bug EEMC geometry (NO slow simulator, WITH SVT)
Click here to see the plot

Pre-shower migration with/without SVT

Starting with a fixed (50K events) for each type of particle.
Change in number of counts for a given pre-shower bin
with different detector configuration shows pre-shower migration

Figure 5: Pre-shower migration.
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITH SVT)

Figure 6: Pre-shower migration.
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITHOUT SVT)

Sampling fraction with/without Slow-simulator

Figure 7: Sampling fraction (0.05 E_reco / E_thrown).
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITHOUT Slow-simulator)

Figure 8: Sampling fraction (0.05 E_reco / E_thrown).
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITH Slow-simulator)
Slow simulator introduce some non-linearity in the sampling fraction

Figure 9: Sampling fraction (0.05 E_reco / E_thrown).
cAir-Fixed EEMC geometry (WITHOUT SVT, WITHOUT Slow-simulator)
Click here to see the plot

Figure 10: Sampling fraction (0.05 E_reco / E_thrown).
Old cAir-bug EEMC geometry (NO slow simulator, WITH SVT)
Click here to see the plot