JEF meeting Aug 31, 2015
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Meeting time and location= 13:30 EST (JLab time) CC F326-327
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Agenda
- Task list updates
- TOF PID study from toy simulation (Dave)
- Neutral survey (All)
Minutes
Attendees: J. Feng, L. Gan., B. Karki, D. Mack, A. Somov, S. Taylor, J. Stevens
- Dave gave a report about his toy monte-carlo studies of proton/kaon/pion separation using time-of-flight
- Using a nominal 100 ps timing resolution and 3% momentum resolution for forward-tracks, expect e-/π separation below ~1 GeV/c, π/K separation below ~3 GeV/c, K/proton separation below ~6 GeV/c
- Looked at mass distributions computed using p and beta -- maybe not ideal for using in a confidence-level analysis because of non-Gaussian tails
- Some understanding of ghost bands seen in PID plots from real data = wrong beam bucket
- Biggest impact is for kaon id
- We discussed what the next step in the survey of neutral final states started by Bishnu and Justin (looking at final states with 2 photons)
- Expand survey to include 2π0, 3π0, etc.?
- Focus on channels that might lead to the first papers from the commissioning data?
- Exclusive π0 production, looking at Σ beam asymmetry?
- η production cross section?
- Consensus was to continue the 2γ work started by Bishnu and Justin, focussing on asymmetries/angular distributions while we work out the details of normalization.
- Sascha reported that pieces are starting to come together for magnetic shielding studies (Hall probe, a Helmholtz coil is available, perhaps a permanent magnet?). Jing and Sascha will start working on setting up for measurements next week.
In particular we need to determine how many layers of mu-metal will be needed and whether we need a soft-iron outer layer as well.