TPC track distortions Review of situation

TPC track distortionsReview of situationAlain Blondel, Silvia Borghi,

Simone Giani, Simone Gilardoni and all the people that contributed with ideas or suggestions or comments during the analysis meetings

and offline

Thanks to Charles Pattison for the ntuple productions

7 July 2003 Silvia Borghi 2

Two distortions effect

1. Electromagnetic effect induces a d0 shift dependent on z position (smaller effect, 10 mm)

2. Blondel’s effect (larger effect 30-40 mm)

Outlook


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Definition of d0

- d0

impact parameter

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Sxy=0

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How d0 changes in case of distortions


First Effect

Presented at analysis meetingon 29th April 2003

and studied in Dydak’s et al. HARP Memo 03-002, 30 June

2003


EC

500 mm 285 mm 215 mm 500 mm

B2

We consider the following regions.•the forward part (region A and E)•the backward part (region C and B2)We observe a different effect in these two regions.

C: -51°<<0B2: 0<>35°

E: 68°<<77°A: 0<<77° from end-cap

A

29th April 2003


MiniBoone at 8.9 GeV/c C B2E

29th April 2003


HARP Memo 03-0016 June 2003

Therefore, during all of HARP data taking after 8 August 2001, the high voltage of the inner field cage was lowered by 1.6% than the corresponding high voltage of the outer field cage.

[3] We thank L. Linssen for having brought the high voltage misalignment problem to our attention, and for ongoing calibration work to ascertain the precise size of misalignment

No feedback from collaboration until

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The effects of the magnetic and electric field inhomogeneities have the same overall effect on the distortion of track sagittas.

Another distinct feature is the strong dependence of the displacements on the longitudinal position inside the active TPC volume, especially around the nominal target position. This suggests that the position and the length of the target plays an important rôle. The higher upstream the track, the less it will be affected. Therefore, tracks from thin targets will generally be less affected than tracks emerging at the downstream end of long targets. This may shed some light on observations on TPC track distortions reported recently [7].

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¨F. Dydak, A. Krasnoperov, Yu. Nefedov

HARP Memo 03-00230 June 2003

The effect is most prominent at small radius, where near the target position displacements of order 10 mm are expected.

Positive tracks are systematically shifted to smaller momentum, negative tracks to higher momentum.

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¨¨(As already shown in my previous first plot)


BUT …

As you can see in the next plots the shift for positive particles is constant in the direction of negative d0, but for negative particles the shift is not always in the same direction of positive d0 and sometime the shift is equal to one of positive particles


Be thick (1 ) at 12 GeV/c CE


Be thin (2% ) at 8 GeV/cCE


Be thin (5% ) at 15 GeV/c

with inverted BCE


In the forward region (region A or E) the d0 peak for positive particles is shifted to -10 mm and sometime the d0 peak for negative particles is shifted to 10 mm.

If we consider the first part of TPC (region C and B2) this effect disappears and the d0 distribution is centered in 0.

The shift for positive particles is the same also for inverted magnetic field.

Conclusions (on 29th April 2003) …


Our state of the art knowledge:The Memo 03-002 could confirm the shift for positive particles, but it could not explain, yet, why sometimes the peak of negative particle is not shifted on the positive d0.

The last plot shows that a more dominant effect of distortion exists.

On the same subject: CONCLUSIONS Memo 03-002

The problem of TPC track distortions due to magnetic and static electric field inhomo geneities has been adressed in a quantitative way. …The high voltage misalignment between the outer and inner field cages is identified as the likely primary cause of sagitta distortions of TPC tracks. The position and the length of the target plays an important rôle. ¨

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Blondel’s Effect

Already presented in analysis meetings in April

2003


Where did we start?

Negative bluePositive red

Ta thick at 3 GeV/c


Ta thick at 3 GeV/c From C. Morone’s Thesis


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B

B

D

D

C

C

A

AE

E

Ta thick at 3 GeV/c

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1/(charge * Pt) (1/MeV/c)

+ -

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+ +- -

Ta thick at 3 GeV/c


+ -

-+

+ +- -

Miniboone at 8.9 GeV/c


One possible explanation

Distortions due to ExB effects are the cause of this effect.

This effect may not be constant in time and in space.


target type

beam p (GeV/c)

lambdalength

in z (mm)

trigger typedata

taking

pos: wrong/ total

neg: wrong/ total

Effect on d0?

be thin 8 2% 8 ThinGe8/14 2001 no

be thin 12 2% 8 Central/11 2001 31.8% 3.2% yes

miniboone 8.9 5% 20 Thick /14 2002 no

be thick 8 1 400 Thick /14 2002 no

be thick 12 1 400 Thick /14 2002 no

C 3 2% 8 ThinLe3 /14 2001 20.4% 6.3% yes

al thick 12 1 400 Thick /14 2002 28.5% 6.8% yes

k2k 1 lambda 12.9 1 400 Beam /14 2001 no

k2k replica 12.9 2 800 Thick /14 2002 28.4% 9.0% yes

ta thick 3 1 112 Beam /14 2001 35.6% 7.0% yes

ta thick 12 1 112 Thick /14 2002 31.8% 4.5% yes

ta thick 15 1 112 Thick /14 2002 36.3% 4.9% yes

Different settings


The banana effect does not depend in conclusive manner on

• the target (al and k2k 1 lambda)

• the interaction length of target (k2k 1 lambda and k2k replica)

• beam momentum (Be thin at 8 GeV/c and 12 GeV/c)

• the data 2001 or 2002 (C and Al).

Summary of table


What happens if B is inverted?

Be 5% at 15 GeV/c B neg

C 2%at 3 GeV/c B pos


If the beam is positive the banana has the same position also when B is inverted.

Compatible with ExB effect.

Not yet explained:

Why is the d0 peak at 0 always present?(demonstrates that this ExB effect is not constant )Why not in coincidence with understood spill time structure or run time structure?

What happens if B is inverted?


Another possible explanation(additional or alternative)

Beam effects:• Rate• Size• Optics.


First run: 9377-9381

C 2%at 3 GeV/c B posno beam interruption between runs with banana and runs

without banana

Does the banana depend on the beam?


After ~7 runs:On 15th October 2001 at 12.39:• vertical collimator settings: 53.8 • events per burst 60

On 15th October 2001 at 17.56:Beam expert has finished tuning the beam.

On 15th October 2001 at 18.13:• the vertical collimators to +- 52.0. • events per burst is ~80


First run: 9377-9381 First run: 9389-9449

C 2%at 3 GeV/c B posno beam interruption between runs with banana and runs

without banana

Does the banana depend on the beam?


What happens? (preliminary)

1. In C setting (and also in a Be setting) the banana disappears when the beam spot size decreases.

2.The spot size alone does not create the banana, in fact in Be 2% lambda 15 GeV/c a smaller spot size shows the banana effect

3. We never observed the banana with negative beam.


In these cases the spot size and the focusing of the beam seems to play a important role.

The rate of T9 protons seems not to matter.

Preliminary conclusions


The banana is always present in all regions and no evident changes are noted.

The tracks belonging to the banana have no strong dependencies by • 0 • tan() • z0

Space dependence of the banana effect


The banana effect does not depend in conclusive manner on

• the target (al and k2k 1 lambda)• the interaction length of target (k2k 1 lambda and k2k replica)• beam momentum (Be thin at 8 GeV/c and 12 GeV/c) • the data 2001 or 2002 (C and Al).• setting (C)• magnetic field polarity (Be at 15 GeV/c) • rate of protons in T9 (C)• on spill time during the same run• the spatial regions • the track parameters: 0, tan(), z0

Conclusion


?Does the banana effect depend on• the beam spot size• the time: in which way• the ionization of the chamber that creates a ExB effect

If we do not use the settings affect by the banana, which amount of data we lose

If we do not understand really this effect, how can we be sure that the effect (in a smaller way) is not present in the other settings

Why does the banana effect changes in time

???

Under investigation

TPC track distortions Review of situation

Documents

direction of positive

d0 peak

positive tracks

d0 shift dependent

direction of negative

overall effect

blondels effect larger

different effect