Number of photons versus bar number; θ_C residual versus bar number and dip angle

The postscript file for this page can be found here.

The plots drawn on this page are the following.

• Top
  The first two plots have 144 entries, one per quartz bar -- there are 12 bars per sector. The vertical dashed lines show the sector boundaries. Thus, in this page, the values printed in red above the graphs are computed using the 144 values (without a pre-average per sector merging 12 bar values together) taken from the corresponding histogram.
  The top plots shows the average number of hits associated to tracks crossing each of the quartz bars. Some 'cosmics' veto designed years ago is applied to keep only colliding event tracks.
  The triangular-shaped pattern visible in a given sector is due to two effects:
  • small holes between bar boxes to which tracks crossing the sector close to its edges are more sensitive;
  • incidence angle of the track with respect to the bar.
  A few bars significant less efficient (sector #0-bar #11; #9-#0; #10-#0 and #11-#0) are known and always present.
• Middle
  This plot shows the per bar mean θ_C residual, defined as (θ_C)_measured - (θ_C)_expected The vertical error bars show the RMS of the distribution. Bias and deviation from flatness in this plot show that the DIRC alignment is not perfect. Yet, misalignments are very small -- signicantly below the mrad level -- and so the DIRC alignment appears to be quite good.
• Bottom
  This plot shows the 'problem' of the DIRC alignment. The profile plot of the θ_C residuals versus the dip angle (π/2 - θ, θ being the polar angle) is not flat. This structure is thought to come from the way the alignment corrections are setup. A lookup table depending on the bar number and on the direction of the emitted photon in the bar is computed using di-muon events. The choice of this particular sample may bias the corrections. A way to correct this problem would be to use hadron samples, for instance pion tracks.

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