[BDXlist] Catania measurements: Data vs MC comparison

[Andrea Celentano]

Sorry, forgot to mention x-axis units are MeV (while y, are Hz/MeV, i.e. 
the differential count rate wrt energy. MC data has been converted in 
this unit by considering the muon fluence)

Andrea

On 03/03/2017 02:08 PM, Andrea Celentano wrote:
> Dear all,
> just want to share with you the newest result from Catania Data vs MC 
> comparison: the comparison has been made by selecting events with 
> signals from 4 crystals in a column in the matrix above threshold (to 
> select vertical cosmic rays): note that in data (blue) and mc (Red) 
> histograms the scale is absolute (Hz/MeV), i.e. no "ad-hoc" 
> normalization has been used.
> Main issues that have been fixed in MC are:
>
> 1) Distribution of primary cosmic rays and their normalization - 
> according to the proper definition of "flux" as "fluence differential 
> wrt time"
> 2) Spread induced in the charge collection due to the finite crystals 
> attenuation length.
>
> I'll talk more about these results next Tuesday meeting, but I'd like 
> to share this good result with you.
>
> Bests
> Andrea
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> BDXlist mailing list
> BDXlist at jlab.org
> https://mailman.jlab.org/mailman/listinfo/bdxlist


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/bdxlist/attachments/20170303/fdd60aa1/attachment.html>