December 12, 2016 - Mott Group Meeting

=== Outstanding rates issues ===

• Fits of Run I HI fail our method for determining MEAN and SIGMA (exponential fit fails).
  • Proposed solution - Use LO test runs corresponding to HI thickness runs to determine MEAN and SIGMA. Apply MEAN and SIGMA to Run I HI runs (flag in code?). Success will be that the Run I LO and HI data sets are no longer separated.

• Once Run I LO/HI discrepancy solved we will have Run I rates and Run II rates from analysis where the uncertainty calculation is defined here.

• To this we have additional systematic uncertainty
  • Fluctuation of rates within a run (this will be the systematic over period of days e.g. stability of injector setup, slow drifts in the instrumentation), looks to be <1%
  • Fluctuation of rates between runs (this will be the systematic over period of months e.g. new calibration, new beam setup), looks to be ~5%

• What else?

Background subtraction

• There are two ways to determine the background event
  • Method I - Use one detector, learned that applying background works for one detector, but not other - Riad points out asymmetry flips sign for one detector
  • Method II - Use two detectors, super-ratio. I propose asymmetry should be similar (ideally equal), so how does this solve problem. Doesn't. Still need to apply +/- asymmetry in solution, or will background flip sign (+/- solution) ?