Minutes of the Blast analysis meeting on Thursday 12/07/2006

From: Michael Kohl (kohlm@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2006 - 12:16:22 EST


Hi,

below are the minutes of today's analysis meeting.
The next meeting (the last one of this year) will be on Thursday
12/21/2006 at 09:00am at Bates.

Find today's presentations in
http://blast.lns.mit.edu/PRIVATE_RESULTS/USEFUL/ANALYSIS_MEETINGS/meeting_061207/

Regards,

   Michael

Minutes:
-MK reporting from a discussion with EG on strategy how to address
  systematic errors (in GEn).
  While reconstruction errors of angles and momenta can be considered
  independent (for the error propagation into an observable), certain
  parameters such as hPz and theta^* are actually correlated by a certain
  amount. This is quantified in the propagation of correlated errors by the
  correlation coefficient. This correlation coefficient could e.g. be
  derived from the covariance matrix of multi-dimensional fits of the
  asymmetries. Determining the hPz vs. theta^* correlation coefficient for
  d(e,e'p) is on Adam's task list.
  As it turned out in ep elastic, the (anti)correlation of hPz and theta^*
  resulted in a reduced sensitivity of the observable (the form factor
  ratio) on the uncertainties of those parameters. A similar effect might
  lead to a reduction of the systematic error in GEn, as the earlier
  estimate of 12%/degree due to spin angle uncertainty may become less when
  the correlation with the hPz uncertainty is accounted for.

-Tavi sent plots of yields and extracted g1/s0, g2/so in p(e,e') for the
  Delta region 1100<W<1400 versus Q2 and vs. x, compared with the
  quantified elastic tail contribution calculated with ELRADGEN. See plots
  in
http://blast.lns.mit.edu/PRIVATE_RESULTS/USEFUL/ANALYSIS_MEETINGS/meeting_061207/

-A draft proposal for moving BLAST to DESY to investigate
  the multiple-photon exchange amplitude in lepton-proton elastic
  scattering has been written and will be sent to Hamburg this week.
  The proposed experiment aims to measure the (unpolarized) electron-proton
  to positron-proton cross section ratio with 1% uncertainty in statistics
  and systematics.

The proton PRL was resubmitted earlier this week.

Status of the proton PRL (as of Dec. 07, 2006):
  ===============================================
CURRENT STATUS OF MANUSCRIPT: With editors

CORRESPONDENCE:
SENT RECEIVED DESCRIPTION
04Dec06 Correspondence (miscellaneous) sent to author via email
30Nov06 04Dec06 Ed. decision and/or ref. comments to author; response rcvd
22Nov06 27Nov06 Review request to referee; report received
22Nov06 23Nov06 Review request to referee; report received
20Nov06 Correspondence (miscellaneous) sent to author via email
03Nov06 17Nov06 Ed. decision and/or ref. comments to author; response rcvd
03Nov06 Correspondence (miscellaneous) sent to author via email
         03Nov06 Communication (miscellaneous) received from author
19Oct06 02Nov06 Review request to referee; report received
22Sep06 31Oct06 Review request to referee; report received
09Oct06 16Oct06 Reminder to referee; response received
09Oct06 09Oct06 Reminder to referee; response received
22Sep06 09Oct06 Review request to referee; report received
15Sep06 Corr. to author (paper long; short version NOT required now)
15Sep06 Acknowledgment sent to author via email
08Sep06 Correspondence (miscellaneous) sent to author via email

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