2008.02.27 ESMD shape library

 

ESMD shape library

Shower Widths for Monte Carlo and Data

Description

Hal did a comparison of the widths of the shower shapes between Monte Carlo and data. Below is a description of what was done.

      I took the nominal central value, either from the maxHit or the
nominal central value, and added the energy in the +/- 12 strips.  Then I
computed the mean strip (which may have been different from the nominal
central value!!).  I normalized the shape to give unit area for each smd
cluster, and added to the histograms separately for U and V and for MC and
data (= Will's events).  I did NOT handle Will's events correctly, just
using whatever event was chosen randomly, rather than going through his
list sequentially.  Note I ran 1000 events, and got 94 events in my shower
shape histos.

      So, there are several minor problems.  1) I didn't go through Will's
events sequentially.  2) I normalized, but perhaps not to the correct 25
strips, because the mean strip and the nominal strip may have differed.
3) there may have been a cutoff on some events due to being close to one
end of the smd plane (near strip 0 or 287).  My sense from looking at the
plots is that these don't matter much.

      The conclusion is that the MC shape is significantly narrower than
the shape from Will's events, which is obviously narrower than the random
clusters we were using at first with no selection for the etas.  Hence, we
are not wasting our time with this project.

Decsription of Pythia Sample

A few histograms were added to the code:

  • MC is Pythia gamma-jet at partonic pT 9-11 GeV with gamma in the Endcap
  • Data is from Will Jacobs golden events from Weihong sample
  • Require no conversion
  • Require all hits from direct photon in same sector


Figure 1:

Data vs. MC mean u-strip



Figure 2:

Data vs. MC mean v-strip



Figure 3:

Data vs. MC u-strip sigma



Figure 4:

Data vs. MC v-strip sigma



Figure 5:

MC E

v

vs. E

u

Figure 6:

Data E

v

vs. E

u

Figure 7:

MC energy asymmetry in SMD planes



Figure 8:

Data energy asymmetry in SMD planes



Figure 9:

Shower shape library index used (picked at random)

 

Single events shower shapes are displayed in

esmd.pdf

or

esmd_solid.pdf

.

  • green = projected position of direct photon in the Endcap
  • blue = Monte Carlo SMD response
  • red = Data SMD response
Hal Spinka
Pibero Djawotho
Last modified Wed Feb 27 09:51:27 EST 2008