[Frost] Meeting follow up

Franz Klein fklein at jlab.org
Fri Nov 19 15:00:22 EST 2010


Mike,
do I understand correct that the momenta in slices1.gif & ~2.gif are 
momenta from tracking (no eloss)?
I am surprised that the scale factor is that small for low momentum 
protons in forward direction. My suspicion is that the phase space for 
protons from butanol is still distorted at this momentum range, i.e. the 
momentum cut should be more like 400 MeV than 350 MeV.
The other (minor) observation is that the polynomial tends to got down a 
large angles. I would say, the scale factors are quite constant (except 
the very forward direction).

Your procedure is a very promising approach!

Thanks
Franz


On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Michael Dugger wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have put some example code on the phase space dependent scale factors at
> http://clasweb.jlab.org/rungroups/g9/wiki/index.php/Mike%27s_analysis_page#Phase_space_scale_factors_.28version_1.29
>
> I have the requested scale factor plots:
>
> Reminder: The reaction is
> gamma p -> p pi+ pi- Y,
> where massY^2 < -0.1 GeV^2
> and the scale factors are simply equal to the NumberOfEvents_from_Butanol
> divided by NumberOfEvents_from_Carbon
>
>
> Proton TBTR scale factors:
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices1.gif
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices2.gif
>
> where the y-axis is the value of the scale factor, the x-axis is theta lab
> angle, and the value of the fixed momentum is shown clearly on each panel.
>
> For momentum above ~600 MeV/c the scale factors might be well represented
> with a zero-order polynomial. For momentum below ~550 MeV/c, there is a
> strong momentum and theta dependence.
>
> Pi+ TBTR scale factors:
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices1pip.gif
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices2pip.gif
>
> These look good. We can probably use the negative Mass^2 scale factors
> for the pi+ reaction :)
>
> MVRT scale factors:
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices1mvrt.gif
> http://www.jlab.org/~dugger/g9/g9a/tmp/sfSlices2mvrt.gif
>
> These look much better than the Proton TBTR scale factors, but not as good
> as I expected. There is still a strong momentum and theta dependence for
> momentum below ~500 MeV/c. This might be due to low angle and low momentum
> protons having difficulties "swimming" through the target.
>
> Take care,
> Michael
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