Alternative methods of monitoring relative spin dependent luminosities for W AL analysis.
Alternative low Pt QCD events recorded in the W-stream were spin sorted. The rato of the yields for those alternatives differ by less than 0.5% from the one obtained using the default rel lumi monitor events used in W AL.
Since the magnitude of W AL is of 0.1, the stability of lumi monitor of 0.005 is sufficient to be neglacted in the error propagation.
/* mapping of spin4-index to helicity at STAR */
ka=10, /* STAR pol B+ Y + */
kb=9, /* STAR pol B+ Y - */
kc=6, /* STAR pol B- Y + */
kd=5, /* STAR pol B- Y - */
Fig.1 Top row: left - defaul rel lumi monitor: events with flipped isolation cut and ET<20 GeV.
Middle - event count stored in the ttree. Right - for events with reco prim vertex and at least 1 TPC track w/ pT >10 GeV/c I pick the highest 2x2 ET matched to such 10+ GeV/c track.
Bottom row - 3 subset of events: Left - all with a 10+ GeVc track, middle - additionally 2x2ET=[5,10] GeV, right - as before but 2x2 ET=[10,14] GeV.
Plots show ratio of yileds to the top left plot (the default) - deviatins from a constant are on the level of 0.5%.