[Moller_pion_bg] MOLLER: Pion Background Detector Meeting (NEW TIME) Tuesday Sept. 26 at 4 pm EST

Tue Sep 26 15:53:51 EDT 2017

Hi all,

Before we get too far afield here, what is keeping us from making progress
is NOT how fast simulations run. In fact, that is unlikely to ever be the
case for all but a small number of situation.

What defines how much progress we make right now is how fast new (and
experienced) people can setup the necessary machinery to produce results.

Wouter

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Neven Simicevic <neven at phys.latech.edu>
wrote:

> Hi KK,
>
> Those are raw data out of the latest FLUKA and out of one trial run. I
> assume that FLUKA has state of the art  cross sections in it, but, to be
> confident in the results,  one needs to check if the results agree with
> existing experimental data and GEANT.
> This requires higher statistic to separate the results into different
> channels.
> Acceptance in the graphs is slightly larger than  5 to 17 mrad just to see
> beyond the limits.
> The gap is a result of the fact that the cross section is linear in solid
> angle or cos(theta), and since I plotted equidistant binning in cos(theta)
> as non-equidistant binning in theta one binning was skipped.
> So it is just a way it was plotted not that there is a gap in physics.
> 0.15% is what we use to estimate the ratio in rates between pions and
> electrons and, I guess, in the way you defined.
>
> The idea of this exercise is to speed up the simulation by dividing it
> into stages where the output of one stage becomes the input into the
> other.
>
> For example, the spectral distribution of the particles coming out of the
> target can be the input into simulating the background due to the beam
> dump. This will speed up the simulation by orders of magnitude.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neven
>
>
>
>
> On 09/26/2017 12:16 PM, Krishna Kumar wrote:
>
> HI, I won’t be able to call into the meeting. What generator are you
> using? Also our acceptance is 5 to 17 mrad or so. I don’t understand why
> you have no electrons between 0.4 and 0.5 degrees. The 0.15% estimate is
> for pions generated in the target in the target (prompt electro or photo
> production) that go through the primary acceptance collimator, compared to
> the Moller rate through that collimator. No punch throughs have ever been
> properly simulated (yet). Perhaps I am mistaken about what you call 0.15%.
>
> Cheers, KK
>
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 1:04 PM, Neven Simicevic <neven at phys.latech.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I do not know if we will have time to discuss it today, but I am looking
> into pion/electron rates.
> In all our simulations we assume that the pion rate is ~0.15 percent.
> Attached is my first preliminary simulation of pion/electron rates as a
> function of the particles angle and energy.
> I have to carefully recheck this numbers, change binning a little,  and
> increase statistics.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neven
>
>
>
>
> On 09/25/2017 08:03 AM, Kurtis Bartlett wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> As a reminder we will have our next meeting tomorrow afternoon at our new
> meeting time of 4 pm EST.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kurtis
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Kurtis Bartlett <kdbartlett at email.wm.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> As a reminder to the members of the MOLLER Pion Background/Detector
>> working group, there will be a meeting *next week* on Tuesday Sept. 26
>> at 4 pm EST.
>>
>> The agenda for the meeting can be found on the MOLLER wiki:
>>
>> https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/MOLLER_Pion_Backgro
>> und_Meeting_Tuesday%2C_September_26%2C_2017_4:00pm_EST
>>
>> Feel free to add any other points of business to the wiki.
>>
>> Here is the Bluejeans call information:
>>
>> URL: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bluejeans.com_624029893&d=DwIFaQ&c=lz9TcOasaINaaC3U7FbMev2lsutwpI4--09aP8Lu18s&r=LyAb7BfuulVB-k0tbOhHTpVqHlxbnL-in83zvJV-2vY&m=iCFBoWVyhYUKV9wcZnJyFxmYDz6iDQXv98k3-NFwkdU&s=Y33qTnh9f3PhczdMpDcMqrSBm5YiDUNa-7iO-mjNa8I&e= 
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>>
>> Phone Number: 1-888-240-2560
>>
>> Meeting ID: 624029893
>>
>> Hope to see everyone there.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kurtis
>>
>> --
>> Kurtis D. Bartlett
>>
>> PhD. Research Candidate
>> College of William and Mary Physics Department
>> kdbartlett at email.wm.edu
>>
>
>
>
> --
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>
> PhD. Research Candidate
> College of William and Mary Physics Department
> kdbartlett at email.wm.edu
>
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