[b1_ana] draft proposal v02

[Karl Slifer]

Hi Oscar,

I modified this eq as you suggested to show the explicit dependence on Q
and e.

-Karl


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Karl J. Slifer
Assistant Professor
University of New Hampshire
Telephone : 603-722-0695


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Oscar Rondon-Aramayo <
or at cms.mail.virginia.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To further remove any confusion about our method and its errors, I suggest
> that instead of writing eq. (19) in terms of charge normalized, efficiency
> corrected counts, we display the charges and efficiencies explicitly, and
> use raw counts. Although we stated the kind of counts we are using in that
> eq. just above it, it seems Steve missed it.
>
> Per eqs. (32) and (33) in the appendix 2.2.3, this means just moving Q's
> and
> epsilons to the l.h.sides, since N1 and N are indeed raw counts there, and
> don't make any approximations, like Q1 ~ Q, etc.
>
> Then, the l.h.s. of eq. (34) would be
>
> (Q/Q1)*(e/e1)*(N1/N) and
>
> eq. (19) becomes
>
>   Azz =  2/(f*Pzz)*[(Q/Q1)*(e/e1)*(N1/N) - 1]
>
> where it's evident that Q's and e's are normalizations or scale factors,
> just like f and Pzz, and change the text above the equation to say raw
> counts, not normalized and corrected ones.
>
> I don't see any other way to make it any clearer.
>
> And, of course, we need to emphasize somewhere that the statistical error
> is
> always based on the RAW counts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oscar
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2013 17:43:55 -0400
>   Karl Slifer <karl.slifer at unh.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got a ton of comments, and I think I've implemented them all.  I think
> > the most substantial pertain to the following: (equation numbers refer to
> > the attached draft)
> >
> > Eq 17 and 19: Azz expressed as ratio - 1 as suggested by Oscar
> >
> > Eq 22 : Total time expressed in terms of R_T as noted by Patricia and
> > concurred by Ellie and Oscar.
> >
> > Page 23 Charge determination systematic : modified to reflect Oscar and
> > JP's suggestions
> >
> > There were a lot more, so please double check that your suggestions have
> > been satisfactorily included.
> >
> > The overhead and target sections are still in progress.  Anyone have time
> > to help with that?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Karl J. Slifer
> > Assistant Professor
> > University of New Hampshire
> > Telephone : 603-722-0695
>
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