Today's Progress 12. May. 2006

BLC tracking - finalization.


Here, E549 BLC tracking is finalized.
  • Re-timing by T0 2nd layer
  • dt-dx reconstruction for every 3~5 runs
  • are applied, after "0-th order" T0-PA-PB TOF analysis.

    T0-PA TOF analysis toward the BLC retiming procedure

    Before the retiming propcedure, we do need to adjust relative time-offsets of T0 2nd layer segments. That means, we do need T0-PA TOF analysis before retiming, since relative offset of PA segments are already tuned in the analysis in advance. Below, the result from run e549 291-292 is developed.

    Below, T0 slewing correction factors, which are determined by pi^- beam run (run 291) are tabulatted.
    T0 slewing correction factors and offsets with respect to PA arms.
    ROW ID Layer 1 - L Layer 1 - RLayer 2 - LLayer 2 - R Gaussian width final (psec) 2nd layer Offset/sigma with PA-L arm (nsec) run292 2nd layer Offset PA-R arm(nsec) run292
    1 4.67273 8.22205 5.06437 6.16337 77.08 3.3899/147.1 3.7021/135.6
    2 3.96951 6.2343 6.38634 7.70689 77.07 6.1598/151.7 6.4780/155.3
    3 10.0196 4.25284 9.35646 2.7873 89.63 4.1048/160.8 4.4462/165.4
    4 4.58467 5.76946 7.45282 4.70471 78.06 6.2488/162.1 6.5973/164.7
    5 5.81814 6.51895 5.33613 6.56541 77.76 5.1505/151.8 5.5104/153.5

    Beam Tracking Result

    Run-by-run stability of the BLC tracking efficiencies per each of E549 triggers are plotted below. The stability is satisfactory, though several jumps exist - the runs and the reasons are listed as:

  • run 67 -> pi^- beam run
  • run 90 -> pi^- beam run
  • run 108 -> Hardware(Gas? Trigger?) trouble - PDC/BLC bad efficiency/resolution
  • run 162-164 -> Trigger change - Kst*PA*PB -> Kst*PA
  • run 279,281 -> Higher pion intensity run
  • run 291 -> pi^- beam run
  • run 292 -> pi^-*PA*PB
  • run 304 -> pi^-*bar(KsV)*VTC
  • BLC Track Efficiency

    Terminating the dt-dx study, the resulting run-by-run plot of the BLC resolution is as shown below.

    BLC z-x Tracking Resolution final BLC z-y Tracking Resolution final