[Halld-offline] possible problems with DChargedTrackHypothesis

Paul Mattione pmatt at jlab.org
Wed Apr 27 17:06:06 EDT 2016 

The delta-t plots from that run can be found at:

https://halldweb.jlab.org/cgi-bin/data_monitoring/monitoring/runBrowser.py?run_number=3180&ver=ver26&period=RunPeriod-2015-03

In the “RECO” section, images: TOF2, BCAL2, FCAL2

So what you get should roughly match those.  

 - Paul

On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Paul Mattione <pmatt at jlab.org> wrote:

> Right.  You should probably make separate plots for whether m_t1_detector is either SYS_BCAL, SYS_TOF, or SYS_FCAL.  
> 
> The t0 one should hopefully always be SYS_RF.  
> 
>  - Paul
> 
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Michael Staib <mstaib at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andrei,
>> 
>> Have you checked that every track has the same m_t0_detector and m_t1_detector? I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some lingering differences in the timing between the possible t0 and t1 detectors here. 
>> 
>> There is no plan to improve the calibrations in that old data, but feel free if you find that it helps.
>> 
>> --
>> Michael Staib
>> Graduate Student, Dept. of Physics
>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> mstaib at cmu.edu
>> phone: 412-268-2983
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:42 PM, semenov at jlab.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> Paul:
>>> 
>>> The requested 2-dim plots for pions+/-, protons and K+ are in the attachment.
>>> 
>>> Though the statistics is not very high, the 2-horn structure is still
>>> visible for pions as well as a lot of "too-high-speed" events.
>>> 
>>> Does it help?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Andrei
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Paul:
>>>> 
>>>> You suggestion to use the google group is not good for me because I do not
>>>> have google account, and I do not want create it because of the google
>>>> demand to share my cell phone number. I do believe that we are working for
>>>> JLab (not for the Google corporation), so we should use JLab computer
>>>> resources. I would suggest to use "halld-offline" e-mail list. Sorry and
>>>> thank you for understanding. (Alternatively, some shared "gluex" account
>>>> for google might be a solution, but in this case it will be not obvious
>>>> why's actually the author of the specific communication.)
>>>> 
>>>> Talking of "t0 is set to the chosen RF time, propagated to the vertex-z of
>>>> the track": Am I correct that in this case, "t0" should be exactly the
>>>> same as "T" value from the DVertex class? (If yes, it's strange because
>>>> "t0" is close to the "T" from DVertex, but not exactly the same.)
>>>> 
>>>> By the way, how the "t1" value is produced? Is it some estimation from the
>>>> chambers timing, or it came from the "t1_detector" (which is in my case
>>>> always =4; I hope that it corresponds to BCAL). If the last is correct,
>>>> how good this "t1" value is? (Meaning time-walk corrections, channels
>>>> alignment etc.)
>>>> 
>>>> My plot contains all PIDs.
>>>> 
>>>> Talking of multiple hypotheses, I do believe that "PID" in this class is
>>>> not a vector but one number. Does it mean that "DChargedTrackHypothesis"
>>>> vector size is always bigger than the size of the correspondent
>>>> "DTrackTimeBased" vector (that contains one record per one "real" track, I
>>>> hope)?
>>>> 
>>>> I do not agree that the right-column plots do not help. In the case of
>>>> multiple hypotheses (viz., unknown particle mass), the right-column plot
>>>> (which presents the TOF minus the time needed to travel the pathLength
>>>> distance with the speed-of-light) shows that we have a lot of tracks with
>>>> TOF that suggests that the particle travels much faster than
>>>> speed-of-light (negative values in the histogram). If we do not consider
>>>> tachyons seriously, it means that the "TOF" value has some problems.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll produce the "(TOF-L/(beta*C)) vs momentum" 2-dim plots you suggested,
>>>> but it will require a few hours on our computers; I hope that it will be
>>>> ready tomorrow. (I'm not quite sure why you want to see "momentum
>>>> dimension": most probably, it will be just horizontal bands. But OK, no
>>>> problem. Note that I can not just plot "TOF vs momentum" because different
>>>> pathLengths.)
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Andrei
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:26 PM, pmatt at jlab.org wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> You may know this, but for the record, when you call
>>>>> DKinematicData::TOF(), it is subtracting t1 - t0. In the
>>>>> DChargedTrackHypothesis factory, t0 is set to the chosen RF time,
>>>>> propagated to the vertex-z of the track.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are you histogramming this for all PID hypotheses?  Or are you always
>>>>> picking the ones with the same PID? (e.g. proton)  Remember, each
>>>>> physical track has multiple hypotheses, for different PIDs.  If you
>>>>> chose
>>>>> all hypotheses, then only one can be correct, and you will see funny
>>>>> structures.  Although yes, they would not give rise to the right-column
>>>>> plots.  However, the tracks certainly aren’t going at beta = 1, so the
>>>>> right plots don’t help much.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You should have separate plots for each PID, and then you should make
>>>>> this
>>>>> a 2D plot vs. track momentum, and you will see a mass dependence that
>>>>> will give rise to the structures.  You should see distinct pion, proton,
>>>>> etc. bands.
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Paul
>>>>> 
>>>>> ************************************************************************
>>>>> 
>>>>> We now have a new method of asking software questions, a google group:
>>>>> gluex-software at googlegroups.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am about to forward this message to there, and then will try to answer
>>>>> it there when I have time.  If you are not part of the group yet, please
>>>>> sign up:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gluex-software
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Paul
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 6:46 PM, semenov at jlab.org wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paul, Mark and Simon:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm trying to use the information from DChargedTrackHypothesis, and I
>>>>>> see
>>>>>> the things I do not understand. If I plot "TOF" (from the class) minus
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> time-of-flight "pathLength*sqrt(mass*mass+pmag*pmag)/pmag/c" (that I
>>>>>> calculated from the variables in the class) for the charged tracks that
>>>>>> are matched with the showers in BCAL, I see some interesting structure
>>>>>> (see the top-left panel in the attached file) instead of expected
>>>>>> centered-at-zero peak with the RMS of the order of the uncertainty on
>>>>>> TOF
>>>>>> (0.4-0.5ns). The bottom-left panel shows the same-variable histogram
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the requirement to have 3 or more charged tracks in the event (to be
>>>>>> sure
>>>>>> that we have a good start time).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For the "mass", I used the "PID" hypothesis in the class. To be sure
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> this structure is not affected much by PID hypothesis, I plotted also
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> histograms for "TOF-pathLength/c" (see the right column in the file);
>>>>>> everything that is visibly below zero are "tachyons" :) that means that
>>>>>> the problem is probably with the "TOF" variable which is the difference
>>>>>> between "t1" (stop time) and "t0" (start time) variables. "t0" is
>>>>>> pretty
>>>>>> close to the "vertex" time "T" from DVertex class.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As you can see from the plot, the peaks in the structure are not
>>>>>> separated
>>>>>> with 4-ns intervals, so I would not blame "wrong-RF-bucket" reason.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For this plot, I used run 3180, and my version of sim-recon is 1.10 .
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Most probably, I just using something incorrectly, and you already have
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> good explanation for the plots I see. Could you please help me?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Andrei<tdiff-160423.pdf>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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