[G8b_run] Tagger Sag

[Volker Crede]

Hi all,

Mukesh Saini in our group has just pointed out that there has been a 2007 
NIM paper on the "Energy calibration of the JLab bremsstrahlung tagging 
system" by some CLAS members (S. Stepanyan et al.): NIM A 572 (2007) 654.
I tried to attach it to the email, but the file is too  big. They describe 
a tagger photon-energy correction for CLAS which is needed to account for 
a possible sag of the frames holding the E-counters. They say there was 
"corroborating evidence from simulations of the effects of gravitational 
sagging and various possible misalignments of the tagger focal plane". 
Figures 11 and 12 look very similar to our tagger sag plots.

Mukesh has been working on the tagger calibration for g12 and pointed out 
(he believes) that the correction is in the tagger package for g12 and 
possibly for all runs after 2007. According to Mukesh, we can simply look 
into the tagger code and find out what the correction is.

I will have a closer look at the paper over the weekend. Is anybody else 
aware of this publication? I hope it's not just us ...

Best wishes and have a good weekend

    Volker

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Volker Crede
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Florida State University
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