During today's meeting, the following updates and discussions were shared:
Doyeong:
- Continued the check of the impact of layer 1&2 on neutral pion timing resolution. In the Columbia team's study, they didn't see any meaningful improvement by adding layer1.
- Timing resolution was initially checked with truth pion pT < 20 GeV, and it was found that layer 1 has a better timing resolution than layer 2.
- The check was done in the extended truth pion pT range up to 200GeV with newly generated, but smaller size sample.
- Quick check says that layer 1 is still perform better at higher pT range (> 20 GeV)
- Raised questions and action items:
- Question1: why layer 2 does not show better timing resolution despite having most of the energy deposit (slide 4-5)
- Question2: timing resolution with both layers is not always better than that from individual layers (slide 3)
- Probably because of poor calibration, but we can check further
- We can check by comparing timing resolution using cell E as weight instead of RMS^2
- In general, more meticulous check will be done with a bigger sample (will be ready by today)
- Once, neutral pion study is finalized, the focus will shift to the charged pion study
Zahra: generating samples
Sanha:
- Working on adding calorimeter cell information to Lorenzo's Ntuple maker
- The package runs out of the box, but needs more modification for our study
- tt-bar AOD samples replicated (confirmed that it had cell information at AOD level by Hector)
- Discussion: De we need full PU truth information?
- probably not at the moment
- A question was raised about whether PU impact is negligible enough to ignore in time smearing, or whether we can simply apply pT cut
- We don't know yet
- Plan: we reconstruct the calorimeter condition with 200 PU, but generate samples without PU
- Once the sample is generated under this condition, we'll decide if any truth information needs to be included in our Ntuple by looking at the initial plots.