Re: [BLAST_ANAWARE] recon and mc momentum resolution improvement

From: Richard Milner (milner@mitlns.mit.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 09:26:01 EDT


Great news.
Richard

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Aaron Joseph Maschinot wrote:

>
> if you haven't already heard, there was a units error (of the "radians vs.
> degrees" type) in a recon function that was causing the horrible
> resolutions that i showed last week. that error has since been fixed.
>
> the MC and recon both now work in harmony. the attached file shows
> reconstructed MC events using the 6th-order time-to-distance relations.
> the momentum resolution is 2.0%; compare this to 7.0%, which i quoted for
> identical data last week. the attached plot is for "real" MC data (i.e.
> physics processes and WC intrinsic resolutions both turned on).
>
> i haven't yet calculated the momentum resolution for real data. but since
> the error was in the recon side, it will, in all likelyhood, go down.
>
> in order to use the corrected files, make sure to update your BlastLib2
> directory to the head (i.e. cvs up -A).
>
> this was probably a very good thing to fix before the data re-crunch.
>
> aaron
>
> p.s. thanks to chris for finding the bug in the recon.

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