Physics Steps towards Muon Physics Results - MJL - 1/26/02 * Make analysis plan for J/Psi and single-muons in p-p and Au-Au - number events, cpu time, disk space for DST's and uDst's - expected yields of signals and their kinematic distributions

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Physics Steps towards Muon Physics Results - MJL
- 1/26/02 Make analysis plan for J/Psi and
single-muons in p-p and Au-Au - number events,
cpu time, disk space for DST's and uDst's -
expected yields of signals and their kinematic
distributions (e.g. vrs centrality, pT,
cos(theta-decay-cs), etc.) - manpower
allocations and who is working on what including
thesis topics of all students Analyze all
p-p and Au-Au data to DST's (micro-DST's)
remove bad runs, separate zero-field, HV off,
etc. check symmetry for unpolarized
distributions and compare with simulations
(important especially for decay angular
distributions) get data resident on disk in
compact (micro-DST) format determine
resolutions in physics variables (ie. so that
when binning in these you know what your bin
resolution is) get important information form
rest of PHENIX, e.g. centrality calculate p-p
J/Psi cross section from data and check min-bias
Au-Au cross section bin J/Psi's in 2 or so
bins in centrality, pT, cos(theta-decay-cs),
rapidity compare to J/Psi -gt ee- results
make PR pictures of J/Psi events
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do realistic track embedding study to get
centrality, pT, etc dependence of
acceptanceefficiency study stability of J/Psi
cross sections (yield/MC) versus important cuts
evaluate tracking efficiency separately from muID
by turning off muID seeding of tracker study
efficiency versus occupancy (similar to
centrality dependence but different?) extract
single-muon pT spectra for p-p and Au-Au study
dependence on decay-length (i.e. on vertex near
or far from South arm) study vertex
distribution versus pT simulation of pion decay
backgrounds and comparison with data also K,
J/Psi, DY, etc. backgrounds Pythia simulations
of charm and beauty (using Akiba parameters from
130 GeV single-e paper?) iteration/unfolding
of single-muon spectra above backgroup to get D
spectra D-Dbar cross section and comparison
with other measurements including our own
electron measurements systematic
uncertainties look also at phi and Upsilon mass
regions