[Frost] FROST intial Tagger Sag study
Charles Hanretty
hanretty at hadron.physics.fsu.edu
Thu Jun 10 11:17:46 EDT 2010
Dear FROSTies,
I hope I'm not crossing any lines here in giving my two cents (hopefully
I've also correctly interpreted the emails):
When Mike and I were studying the Tagger Sag seen in g8b data, I too used
the photon energy returned by the kinematic fitter as E_measured. Where
Sung and I differ is that he does not yet have momentum corrections for
g9a which do affect the fitted photon energy.* The effect of the momentum
corrections (at least my momentum corrections) on the mean value of the
photon energy pull has shown itself to be present and real but rather
small.
I would then agree with Mike that one cannot prove the absence of a
Tagger Sag problem using the FSU fitter with g9a data in its present form
(no mom corrs). As "gray" as this might make my stance, I would also agree
that the results Sung showed hint that the Tagger Sag was taken care of in
the cooking.
What I'm saying here is that Sung's results with respect to the Tagger Sag
are more of a hint that the photon corrections were applied in the cooking
than proof that it has been taken care of. In order to prove that the
Tagger Sag has been corrected Sung would indeed have to finalize his
momentum corrections (and if someone was still unconvinced, the covariance
matrix errors). It looks promising that you all will have nothing to worry
about in term of Tagger Sag but I wouldn't start ordering the party
supplies just yet. :)
I think a plot of [E_calc - E_meas] v E_meas (what I used) or [E_calc -
E_meas]/E_mea v E_meas would be a better way to look at the data than
E_calc/E_meas v E_meas.
* -> Sung currently does also not have covariance matrix errors for g9a
but is using my g8b errors which seem to be not that bad for g9a, he will
be determining his own at a later date.
-Charles Hanretty
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