next up previous contents
Next: Reconstruction of Tracks: Tracking Up: Analysis of Data Previous: Determination of Drift Velocity   Contents


Event Reconstruction

A photon is reconstructed from the pair of $e^+e^-$ tracks found from the hits in the drift chamber cells. Hits in the cells were fitted to a circle to find a single charged track, and two such tracks with opposite curvature that originate from within a certain distance at the target were accepted as a photon candidate. At the initial stages of analysis, events that have at least two such photons were selected as a $\pi ^-p\rightarrow \gamma \gamma n$ event candidate. The reconstruction of two-photon events involved requiring the events to pass:


Table 5.1: The tracking cut parameters. Definitions of N$_{xy}$, N$_{z}$, etc. are given in Section 5.2.1.
     
$\quad$ Tracking Cut Cut Applied On Parameter Requirement
     
     
N$_{xy}$ e$^+$ track (wrap) 9
  e$^+$ track (non-wrap) 9
Minimum no. of $xy$ points e$^-$ track (wrap) 9
  e$^-$ track (non-wrap) 9
     
     
N$_{z}$ e$^+$ track (wrap) 3 $(2+1)$
Minimum no. of $z$ points e$^+$ track (non-wrap) 3 $(2+1)$
(DC stereo layer + IWC) e$^-$ track (wrap) 3 $(2+1)$
  e$^-$ track (non-wrap) 3 $(2+1)$
     
     
$\chi^2_{xy}$ e$^+$ track (wrap) 0.0270 cm
  e$^+$ track (non-wrap) 0.0048 cm
Maximum allowed for xy fit e$^-$ track (wrap) 0.0210 cm
  e$^-$ track (non-wrap) 0.0038 cm
     
     
$\chi^2_{z}$ e$^+$ track (wrap) 3.0 cm
  e$^+$ track (non-wrap) 0.2 cm
Maximum allowed for z fit e$^-$ track (wrap) 3.0 cm
  e$^-$ track (non-wrap) 0.2 cm
     
     
$d_{iwc}$ e$^+$ track (wrap) 1.0 cm
  e$^+$ track (non-wrap) 1.0 cm
Maximum allowed distance e$^-$ track (wrap) 1.0 cm
from nearest IWC point e$^-$ track (non-wrap) 1.0 cm
     
     
     
$l_{apex}$ e$^+$ track 53.0 cm
  e$^-$ track 53.0 cm
Maximum distance between    
center of detector and    
apex of track    
     




Subsections
next up previous contents
Next: Reconstruction of Tracks: Tracking Up: Analysis of Data Previous: Determination of Drift Velocity   Contents
Sugata Tripathi 2004-03-27