Published October 21, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Reconstruction of the π deg. kinematics from γγ decay

Description

In this paper we discuss the quality of the π deg. kinematics reconstructed from the measurement of both decay photons in electromagnetic segmented calorimeter. The standard method of photon energy scaling is compared to the kinematically constrained fit procedure. The χ2 value from a fit to a given event was a subject of quantitative confidence level analysis. We demonstrate that the kinematical fit procedure has the following advantages compared to the energy-scaling method: (i) the width of the reconstructed pion energy distribution becomes narrower by 14%, and (ii) the efficiency of π deg. selection for the reconstruction purposes is much higher at the same confidence level. After applying the kinematical fit method to the experimental data, the reconstructed pion energy spectrum does not violate the kinematical limit imposed by the energy conservation, in contrast to the energy-scaling method

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PII
S0168900200004587;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
453
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 606-613
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
7. international conference on instrumentatation for colliding beam physics
Dates
15-19 Nov 1999
Place
Hamamatsu (Japan)

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Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.