Crosstalk Removal to Improve Muon dE/dX Measurements

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Crosstalk Removal to Improve Muon dE/dX
Measurements

• Leo Jenner, UCL

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In brief

• Crosstalk removal algorithm
• Comparison of Tracking Crosstalking to MC truth
• Some hitches
• Preliminary comparison of MC to data

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A Cosmic Ray Muon
Crosstalk removal helps with Tracking and is
also important for correcting muon dE/dX for
relative calibration of the MINOS detectors.
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CrossTalk Algorithm

• Work through all the hits in a given pair of
  planes and look at the 8 pixel window around each
  test hit
• Sum the charge and identify the largest hit in
  the window
• The test hit is flagged as crosstalk if its
  charge is less than the sum of the pixels around
  it, multiplied by a user definable factor. This
  is usually set to 1 for beam/cosmic muons since
  low energy deposition combined with photon
  statistics can lead to crosstalk with very
  comparable energy to real hits

The Crosstalker currently runs as a module before
the CalDet muon tracking code Testing is taking
place on Crosstalking Monte Carlo
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Number of Crosstalk hits Truth vs Tracked

• The crosstalker finds about 82 of the crosstalk
  hits as Ive opted for a high purity (gt90)

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dE/dX from Monte Carlo (Truth and Tracked)
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Comparison of MC truth to MCTracking

• For the most part there is good agreement

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Number of Hits Tracked/Truth

• A close up of the last few planes shows the
  discrepancy increasing

But only 0.32 of events go to plane 54 or more
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Last Plane Hit

• Some of the hits at the end of the track seem to
  go missing after tracking

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Very curvy muons

• In the third plot along the two blue hits at the
  end of the track are genuine track hits
• Maybe the muon curves sharply to the left and
  travels in the air gap between planes
• The tracker doesnt nominally find the last hit
  because it falls outside of the search window
• Noise also creates spurious hits at the end of
  the track

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Preliminary comparison to data

• Quite low statistics but it still looks a bit odd

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Data - Last Plane Hit

• Even with cut 10ltfirst strip hit lt13

PS Muons, Other off momentum muons coming down
the beampipe
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Conclusion

• More work to do to optimise Tracking and
  Crosstalk removal using Monte Carlo
• Fold crosstalk back into real hits to further
  improve MC dE/dX
• Apply crosstalk removal to data

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Anomalies

• Entry 2340943 Record 3107 End A Plane 48
  Strip 8 HitBit 786432 PE 5.86536 TrackEnd B
  Plane 48 Strip 8 HitBit 786432 PE 7.3501
• Entry 2340944 Record 3107 eventnum 3107 Entry
  2340945 Record 3107 eventnum 3107 End B
  Plane 54 Strip 10 HitBit 0 PE 0.935773
• Entry 2340946 Record 3107 eventnum 3107

There is an unphysical hit of nearly 1pe its
ignored by the truth (see above) but the tracker
finds it
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Number of Hits Truth vs Tracked