FCAL Reconstruction in b1pi events 03/14/2012

This is mostly an update of FCAL Reconstruction in b1pi events 03/06/2012, but using svn rev 8894, which includes changes to the cluster to charged track matching code.

50,000 b1pi events. No EM background.

Thrown photons

Reconstructed photons

(after vetoing clusters matched to charged tracks)

Questions

• Why are so many "photons" reconstructed? How can we reduce this?
• What is the actual reconstruction efficiency?
• How many photons reach the FCAL without converting?
  • Efficiency for non-converting photons?
  • Can we recover converted photons?
• Energy resolution, etc.

1 GeV photon events

Mihajlo in GlueX-doc-823 (2007) says for 1 GeV photons:

• 37% photon conversion before FCAL
• 99.6% efficiency for photons that reach FCAL
• Taking into account single clusters from photons that converted close to the FCAL face, the overall photon reconstruction efficiency was estimated to be 77%
• 4% energy resolution at 1 GeV

Efficiency

Energy distribution of thrown photons:

• Black=all thrown photons
• Red=photons which reach the FCAL without converting (determined using DFCALTruthShower object)
• Blue=photons which reach the FCAL without converting AND are reconstructed successfully (fabs(theta_thrown - theta_recon) < .006 && fabs(phi_thrown - phi_recon) < .15)

Red/Black=% of photons that reach FCAL without converting:

Roughly 20% of photons convert before reaching FCAL. Relatively constant across wide range of energy. There is an angular dependence, not shown here. Big improvement since 2007 (geometry change?)

Blue/Red=

Above 1 GeV, 94% of unconverted photons are reconstructed. This is less than the 99.6% reported for single photon sample; this difference is due to photon showers rejected due to overlap with charged particle shower.

Below ~600 MeV, efficiency drops. This is due to showers contained within a single cell, which means no cluster is created.

Overall FCAL reconstruction efficiency considering only unconverted photons: 70%. Could be higher after trying to recover photons that convert.

Extra photon problem

Use a timing cut (t_shower-t_flight) < 1.2 ns to cut out of out-of-time particles:

Timing cut reduces average number of "photons" per event from 1.44 to 1.16. (actually 0.77 photons should hit the FCAL per event)

Timing cut has negligible effect on efficiency.