[Olympus] remaining program

[Richard G Milner]

Dear Michael,
I must say that I have significant reservations about using the remaining
beamtime in the way you propose. They are as follows:

- I think it is well understood now that running with negative field 
introduces
large, new systematics (Moller background, very different time to distance
relation etc.) beyond any which cancel in the super-ratio. This was a clever
idea but too naive.  Most of our data have been taken with positive field.  We
have to understand the acceptance to of order 1 % as is done in many cross
section experiments.  Axel's recent work is promising that we can approach
this.
Also, we have taken some data already with negative field.

- Our proposal design was 3.6 inv fb. I think it is best if we take somewhat
more than that with positive field as this will allow us to put tighter cuts,
e.g. phi cut, than we had envisaged.

- Changing many things about the running in the holiday period where we (and
DESY) have a minimal crew available to deal with problems is risky.

So my vote is to continue the stable running of the experiment to acquire the
maximum amount of integrated luminosity with positive field in the remaining
time.

with best regards,
Richard

Quoting Michael Kohl <kohlm at jlab.org>:

> Dear all,
>
> we have collected 3.2 fb^-1 so far, almost close to the design
> luminosity.
>
> For the 12-day addendum we should make a plan for a set of additional
> measurements that could be helpful for the analysis.
>
> Here is my proposal for low-luminosity running:
> -run all four configs (e+-,B+-) without shielding but with the intensity
> reduced to optimze the noise, each for a day.
> E.g. reduce lumi by x10, expect ~3Hz elastics = 250k elastic events per
> day -> 20 mA current / 0.2 sccm flow;
> vary the magnetic field (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%) every six hours.
> Open up the trigger by reducing the prescale on the 3-of-4 trigger type
> to max out the DAQ (<30-40% deadtime).
>
> This would cost us four days of running.
> A data set with minimized noise can help us train and optimize the
> reconstruction software, rather than using "noisy" high-luminosity data.
>
> A dataset with minimized moise in all four configs will show how the
> cancelations in the ratio occur and will help us validate the MC. Varying
> the magnetic field in addition will serve the same purpose. The statistics
> will be good enough for the validation at forward angles, where also the
> systematic effects on the single-polarity ratio were the largest.
> In the end we will need to be able to trust the MC for B+ at low epsilon.
>
> At low luminosity, a trigger which is more more open also allows to verify
> TOF and trigger efficiencies, and to break any inefficiencies further down
> as a function of channels, coordinates etc.
>
> We should start producing that set of measurements beginning on Saturday,
> so that it could be finished by Wednesday. If it takes longer we still
> have a few days left. Any final remaining days would be used to further
> improve the statistics.
> Frank Brinker also would like to do another Touchek energy measurement,
> probably on Dec 31 / Jan 1.
>
> If you have further ideas or wishes, please bring them up.
>
> Best regards
>   Michael
>
>
>
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