PRad-II/X17 Software Meetings

A page dedicated to meetings for simulation-related tasks for PRad-II and X17.
Meeting time: Monday 8PM EST Weekly (Yes 8PM at night...)

Zoom link: information [1]

Meeting ID: 161 6338 6292 Passcode: 921642

2024

Nov 19

• Meeting Minute:

List of Important tasks to be finished before ERR and the available workforce:

(1) Scintillator simulation (Yuan and Buddhiman):

   (i) Finish simulation studies to determine the rejection efficiency
   (ii) background rate under a more realistic beam with a halo
   (iii) study alignment tolerance, how much we can tolerate the shift in position and tilting angles?
   (iv) finalizing the geometry of the scintillators, what should be the size of the central hole
   (v) effect of beam spot position on the detector

(2) X17 with 4.4 GeV (Tyler, Eric, Yuan, and Weizhi):

   (i) Background study: ask TongTong Cao to generate background events, run through the simulation, and then analyze and study the output. In addition, see if we can use the GEMs to reject backgrounds from the fringe and downstream beampipe (Tyler and Eric)
   (ii) Radiation damage on HyCal (Yuan)
   (iii) HyCal energy resolution (Weizhi)
   (iv) vertex-z resolution (Tyler and Eric)
   (v) update the geometry for the X17 vacuum tank window (Yuan)

(3) GEM efficiency (Yining, Xinzhan, and Weizhi):

   (i) GEM efficiency uncertainty estimation with the current GEM design
   (ii) explore the possibility of adding a third plane of GEM, and how much it can help suppress GEM efficiency uncertainty

(4) Update projected results (Yining and Weizhi)

   (i) Update and finalize the projected results

Presentation from today: (1) Scintillator simulation study by Yuan Li [2]