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2010.01.12 W test sample QA

All plost from second (with vertex distribution) test W-sample from Lidia/Jason.
generated files are from /star/rcf/test/Wprod_test2/

Calorimeter studies for the STAR W analysis

Ilya Selyuzhenkov for the STAR Collaboration

Analysis links

Year 2010

2005 Dijet

Supporting documentation on the 2005 Dijet Paper, targetted for PRDRC

2010.01.04 y2006 vs y2009 EEMC pre-shower migration

Monte-Carlo setup:

  • Throwing one photon per event
  • Full STAR y2006h/y2009a

01 Jan

January 2010 posts

2010

Year 2010 posts

2009.12.20 Ecalgeo-v6.2: embedded LOW_EM cuts after TPC/EEMC overlap fix

Monte-Carlo setup:

  • Throwing one photon per event
  • Full STAR y2006h (latest EEMC-v6.2 and BEMC with LOW_EM cuts, rest of geometry from CVS)
  • Throw part

2009.12.17 Ecalgeo-v6.2: embedded LOW_EM cuts in the calorimeter geometry

Monte-Carlo setup:

  • Throwing one photon per event
  • Full STAR y2006h (latest EEMC-v6.2 and BEMC with LOW_EM cuts, rest of geometry from CVS)

Photon-jet simulation request

Simulation needs with y2006/y2009 geometry
specific to the photon-jet analysis

* Update version of the previous simulation
request from December 18, 2008 (see Ref. [1])

12 Dec

December 2009 posts

Various

2009.10.20 Sampling fraction problem: full STAr vs. EEMC stand alone geometry

2009.10.16 Jason geometry file: Full STAR simulations

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.10.13 Jason EEMC geometry: position correlations

Effect of added layers in Jason geometry file (ecalgeo.g23)

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.10.12 Jason EEMC geometry: effects of adding layers

Effect of added layers in Jason geometry file (ecalgeo.g23)

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.10.05 Fix to the Jason geometry file

Why volume numbers has changed in Jason geometry file?

The number of nested volumes (nv),

2009.10.02 Jason vs. CVS EEMC geometry: sampling fraction and shower shapes

Tests with Jason geometry file (ecalgeo.g23)

Monte-Carlo setup:

10 Oct

October 2009 posts

EEMC geometry file (ecalgeo)

Concerning the High Mass Tail on the Pion Peak

At the PWG meeting a few weeks ago, people expressed concerns about the high-mass tail from the pion peak that, for higher PT bins, is underestimated by the pion peak simulation.