Transcript ppt - Phys

Brick Finding
Ankara CM 2/4/2009
Dario Autiero
A large effort was put in the last months by a team of people in order to recover
the events pending due to reconstruction problems and to improve the ED
reconstruction
See presentations by Antoine and Anselmo
We had the goals:
Solve all the 2008 events before the 2009 run
Improve the reconstruction and efficiency
Have a more reliable reconstruction (more automatic)
The events which were suspended, about 300 at the end of 2008 had evident
reconstruction problems bringing predictions many tents of cm away from the
core activity of the event
We managed to digest the pending events by completing the debugging of the
reconstruction
Once fixed the events behave more or less like the standard ones, we did not
observe a degradation of efficiency for recovered events wrt standard one
Many problems were fixed at the level of the spectrometer connection, RPC
clustering etc …
Still pending problems:
Having an independent (and precise) pattern recognition at the level of the
HPT (the actual onedoes not exploit the accuracy of HPT and does not well
correct for the magnetic field)
Having a correct treatment of tracking errors (Claudia, Anselmo and
Stefano)  see next page
All these improvements are necessary also for other aspects in the
experiment, like the muon ID and not only for the BF.
We also started a comparison with a TT pattern recognition based on the
Hough transform, provided by Dubna. This process was launched at the
September CM. A file in the standard Oprec root format was finally available
two weeks ago
 Two presentations are foreseen in the PC session
Residual Kalman-CS
19 mrad
20 mrad
7 mm
8 mm
Typical tracking errors are of the order of 1mm, one order of magnitude
smaller this is a long-standing problem
First and Second bricks
Getting data from second bricks to complete efficiency estimation from real
data. At the moment still poor statistics of 2nd bricks (data from EU only)
Last data:
First bricks raw eff: 467/715 = 65.3%
Second bricks raw eff: 29/65 = 44.6%
Removal of interactions in dead materials 715 - 3.8% = 688
 1st brick corrected eff: 467/688 / (1 -6.8%) = 72.8%
(72% MC)
Correlation with 2nd brick:
Unfound raw after first brick (100% - 65.3%)
Unfound related to BF inefficiency (100% - 72.8%) foundable in 2nd brick
 Second brick corrected eff: = 29/65 * (100 – 65.3) / ( 100 - 72.8) = 56.9%
1st brick BF eff = 72.8% +- 1.7%
2nd brick BF eff = 56.9% +- 6.1%
Total efficiency 1st + 2nd: 72.8% + (100% - 72.8%)*56.9% = 88.3 % +- 5%
(80% MC)
Still too large uncertainty on 2nd bricks
Comments and warnings:
1) Predictions were made time ago for these events. Taking the latest
version of the reconstruction for about 1/3 (9 events) now the brick is
predicted directly as first brick, reconstruction problems fixed
2) For 8 events the second brick suffers from the underestimation of
tracking errors. This has to be fixed in order to predict correctly the
lateral probability
3) For 8 events the second brick was in another wall with large probability
(30-40%), this looks higher (~ a factor 2) than on average prediction
for second bricks. It is a fluctuation in this first sample
4) Too few NC
 We need a larger sample to draw some more solid conclusions
We should get a large sample from the last couple of weeks of extractions
Wall 14 (first) 60%
Wall 15 40%
Important
backscattering
We should have a clearer view with the increase in statistics of the last
weeks (gather all possible second brick results, also from Japan)
 Re-evaluation of last version of the reconstruction on all events
 A deeper comparison per events categories is needed (QE,NC,CC,
electromagnetic-like)
 So far the algorithms have been kept untouched, the main work has been
concerning the debugging of the reconstruction. On the basis of these results
it will be possible to have a second version
BF efficiency was optimized for tau events (the efficiency is about 5%
larger than for standard numu NC or CC events) , in order to check it we
should look for events which are tau like CC QE and with low energy muons,
events with dominant electromagnetic activity, like taue and taurho.
 First priority: increase the efficiency as much as possible, There are ideas
about that on the side of BF and also on the possibility of concentrating the
efforts on a tau signal enriched sample. We should first advance with the
analysis of the event sample and understand why it goes wrong
(reconstruction, 2nd bricks, …)
Re-evaluation campaign (bricks finding CS tagging part):
Integrate in the simulation the CS tagging absent in the past: acceptance
effect with respect to the total surface behind the bricks (7.4% uncovered
area)
+ CS base track efficiencies measured from real data, implement also the
3/4)
 Complete efficiency evaluation from real data (convolution of BF + CS)
 Evaluate CS tagging efficiency from full MC (including the CS intrinsic
efficiency as a function of the angle measured in real data, provided by
Giovanni for base tracks)
 Better errors evaluation in tracking, important for probability maps
Re-evaluate MC BF efficiency per categories of event including the interplay
of CS tagging efficiency, compare to data per categories of events: DIS, QE,
NC, NC with e.m. component.
 Possible tau enriched sample to maximize the efficiency
 Estimate possible bias of CS tagging inefficiency (~ 25%) on muon matching:
are all muons found at the vertex even if not followed by scan-back ? even a
residual inefficiency of 2% could change a lot the charm background.