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<p>I think the mystery of the Moller gap has finally been solved.</p>
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<p>Looking at the reconstructed Moller events generated with the fixed cross section, not much was changed,</p>
<p>so I explicitly forced the condition such that if one Moller had track E > Ebeam/2, then the other had to have E < Ebeam/2, and vice versa.</p>
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<p>Applying this to both MC and Data, along with modest ESum and phi cuts, gives the attached momentum plots.
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<p>The other distributions match much better too, particularly track position at the ECal, which now shows the gap in data as well. The higher-energy bias for hits in the bottom half of the ECal can be seen from the asymmetry in where the electrons hit. Loosening
the MC cuts a little (only cutting ESum) starts to close the gap and make it look even more like the data plots.</p>
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<p>So in summary, the gap is likely due to electrons always being cleanly paired on opposite halves of Ebeam/2 in MC, but not necessarily in data. The gap is also apparent in background MC without forcing this condition, suggesting that the MC is too "clean".<br>
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-Brad<br>
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