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15-1-09
Electron-Pion Contamination Estimate
The number of photons produced per unit path length of a particle with charge ze and per unit energy interval of the photons is proportional to the sine of the Cherenkov angle[1]
after deriving the Taylor expansion of our function and considering only the first two terms, we get
The gas used in the CLAS Cerenkov counter is perfluorobutane
with index of refraction equal to 1.00153.
- For Electrons
The calculation of the number of photoelectrons emitted by electrons is shown below.
Electron mass
The Hall B cherenkov detector is m thick radiator. We assume the PMTs used to collect light have a constant quantum efficiency of 8% for photons with wavelength between 300 and 600 nm.
- For the number of photoelectrons produced by the electrons we have the following value
If we do the same calculation for pions we get as a result:
CLAS Cherenkov signal
Electrons
The cherenkov signal measured in CLAS for particles identified as electrons by the tracking algorithm is shown below. There are two distributions present. One distribution is centered around 1.5 PEs and the second distribution is at 8 PEs when two gaussians and a Landau distribution are combined and fit to the spectrum. As we will show below, the first peak is due to the misidentification of a negative pion as an electron.
- PE Fit equation (Osipenko's CLAS Note 2004-20 File:CLAS Note-2004-020.pdf)
- e_Momentum_vs_Number_of_Photoelectrons
The flag cut applied on the number of photoelectrons means that in CLAS detector instead of 5 superlayers were used 6 of them in track fit. As one can see from the histograms of the Number of photoelectrons, the cut on flag does not have effect on the peak around 1.5phe and decreases the number of entries by 37.17 %. The peak is due to a high energy pions(>2.5GeV), which have enough momentum to emit Cherenkov light and also because of the bad collection of light, there are a particular polar and azimuthal combination of angles where The Cherencov Detector cannot receive emitted light. .
- Number of photoelectrons
Table: Cherenkov fit values
Distributions | amplitude | mean | width | amplitude | mean | width |
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without cuts | with cut(flag>10) | |||||
gauss(0) | p0=2144+/-44.0 | p1=5.342+/-0.343 | p2=7.761+/-0.188 | p0=1580+/-8.1 | p1=3.75+/-0.06 | p2=8.486+/-0.042 |
landau(3) | p3=4.349e+04+/-2894 | p4=1.049+/-0.026 | p5=0.2197+/-0.0257 | p3=8600+/-3648.7 | p4=-3.861+/-1.414 | p5=-4.88+/-1.41 |
gauss(6) | p6=4960+/-270.6 | p7=0.7345+/-0.0983 | p8=0.8885+/-0.0594 | p6=6219+/-54.2 | p7=1.088+/-0.006 | p8=0.6037+/-0.0052 |
When flag cut(flag>10 cut means that 6 superlayers were used in track fit) was applied the number of entries decreased by 37.17 % and the mean value for the number of photoelectrons is about 7-8. After 5<nphe<15 cut, the number of entries decreased by 66.63 %.The mean value of the nphe is ~9 which agrees with theory(mean value ~13).
Experiment | B>0 | without cuts | flag>10 | 5<nphe<15 | 5<nphe<15 and flag>10 |
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Pions( )
- _Momentum_vs_Number_of_Photons
After e_flag>10 cut, the number of entries decreased by 30.45 % and the mean value for the number of photons is ~9
Experiment | B>0 | without cuts | e_flag>10 | 0<e_nphe<5 | 0<nphe<5 and e_flag>10 |
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Electron-pion contamination
Osipenko's CLAS Note 2004-20 File:CLAS Note-2004-020.pdf
- EC_tot/P_vs_Number_of_Photoelectrons and EC_inner/P_vs_Number_of_Photoelectrons
Two types of cuts were applied on the distributions below, one on the energy deposited to the inner calorimeter
without cut | _vs_nphe( ) | _vs_nphe ( ) | _vs_nphe( ) |
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_vs_nphe( ) | _vs_nphe( and ) | _vs_nphe ( and ) |
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From the EC_tot/P_vs_Number_of_Photoelectrons histogram one can see that the released energy fraction( ) at ~1.5 nphe peak is much smaller than it should be for electrons. In conclusion, the ~1.5 nphe peak is produced by the tail of negatively charged particles(pions). To eliminate negatively charged pions cut is applied on Calorimeter. After the cut was applied the number of entries decreased by ~33.47%.
Pion contamination in the electron sample (without cuts) =
with cut( | )with cut( | )with cuts( | and )|
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Distributions | amplitude | mean | width | amplitude | mean | width | amplitude | mean | width |
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with cut( | )with cut( | )with cuts( | and )|||||||
gauss(0) | p0=1919+/-17.8 | p1=3.593+/-0.233 | p2=8.269+/-0.134 | p0=2025+/-9.4 | p1=3.44+/-0.05 | p2=8.442+/-0.037 | p0=1732+/-8.4 | p1=3.886+/-0.050 | p2=8.069+/-0.037 |
landau(3) | p3=8600+/-1.4 | p4=-3.063+/-1.414 | p5=-7.138+/-0.000 | p3=8600+/-3648.7 | p4=-3.092+/-1.414 | p5=-10.91+/-0.000 | p3=8600+/-5160.0 | p4=-2.821+/-1.414 | p5=-7.986+/-1.414 |
gauss(6) | p6=5568+/-69.1 | p7=1.164+/-0.006 | p8=0.543+/-0.008 | p6=5773+/-76.6 | p7=1.162+/-0.008 | p8=0.5562+/-0.0052 | p6=4301+/51.3 | p7=1.189+/-0.008 | p8=0.5299+/-0.0059 |
e_numb_of_photoelectrons with the following cuts
, . To eliminate the photons produced by the negatively charged pions was used the cut on the momentum e_momentum<3 GeV. Because the high energy pions are able to produce photons, which are misidentified with photoelectrons.