Re: energy loss corrections in reconstruction

From: Adrian T Sindile (asindile@cisunix.unh.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 13:49:50 EST


Hi Michael,
I am trying to finish my thesis revision for John this week so that it can
be handed to my Thesis Committee ASAP, so I have not had a chance to
work on this. However, I was planning on looking into it later today or
tomorrow...

Adrian

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Michael Kohl wrote:

> Hi Eugene, Adrian,
>
> from the recent discussions I think it is clear that one should separately
> account for energy loss and for residual kinematic corrections (which should
> then be independent of the PID).
> Although the size of the energy loss correction would be significantly
> smaller than the size of the total kinematic corrections, it is still
> significant as the energy loss piece is PID dependent while "geometry" is
> not.
>
> Have you made any progress to parametrize the (average or most probable)
> momentum loss of protons and electrons as a function of reconstructed
> (uncorrected) momentum (and eventually as well as a function of the angle in
> case that there is additional dependency)?
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
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