Cuts Summary

Here's a list of the cuts applied to the data in the common spin trees.

Run 5

Event

• standard spinDB requirements
• production triggers only
  

ConeJets

• 0.2 < detEta < 0.8
• 0.1 < E_neu / E_tot < 0.9

chargedPions

• pt > 2
  
• -1 < eta < 1
• nFitPoints > 25
• |DCA_global| < 1
• -1 < nSigmaPion < 2

bemcPions

• pt > 3.0
  
• photon energies > 0.1
• asymmetry < 0.8
• 0.08 < mass < 0.25
• charged track veto
• BBC timebin in {7,8,9}

Run 6

Event

• standard spinDB requirements
• production triggers + trigId 5 (L2gamma early runs)

ConeJets, ConeJetEMC -- no cuts applied

chargedPions

• pt > 2
  
• -1 < eta < 1
• nFitPoints > 25
• |DCA_global| < 1
• -1 < nSigmaPion < 2

bemcPions

• pt > 5.2
• photon energies > 0.1
• asymmetry < 0.8
• 0.08 < mass < 0.25
• charged track veto
• BBC timebin in {7,8,9} update:  timebin 6 added in 2007-07-18 production
• both SMD planes good
  

bemcElectrons added as of 2007-07-18 production

• hardware or software trigger in (117001, 137213, 137221, 5, 137222, 137585, 137611, 137622)
• Global dE/dx cut changing with momentum
• nFitPoints >= 15
• nDedxPoints >= 10
• nHits / nPoss >= 0.52
• track Chi2 < 4
• DCAGlobal < 2
• NEtaStrips > 1 && NPhiStrips > 1
• Primary dE/dx cut changing with momentum
• 0.3 < P/E < 1.5
• -0.01287 < PhiDist < 0.01345
• ZDist in [-5.47,1.796] (West) or [-2.706,5.322] (East)