Kalanand's February 2011 Log
February 4th
Super cluster to electron η transformation
Here is the email from Georgios Daskalakis:
I found a script from 2003.
It needs update but I hope it will do the job for you.
Cheers,
G.
File: ETASCtransformation.C
//******************************************//
// author: G. Daskalakis EP-CMA
// 20-11-2003
//
// This script transforms SC eta
// by using the correct vertex
//
//******************************************//
Float_t ETASCtransformation(Float_t EtaParticle , Float_t Zvertex)
{
//---Definitions
const Float_t PI = 3.1415927;
const Float_t TWOPI = 2.0*PI;
//---Definitions for ECAL
const Float_t R_ECAL = 136.5; // 136.5
const Float_t Z_Endcap = 328.0;
const Float_t etaBarrelEndcap = 1.479;
//---ETA correction
Float_t Theta = 0.0 ;
Float_t ZEcal = R_ECAL*sinh(EtaParticle)-Zvertex;
if(ZEcal != 0.0) Theta = atan(R_ECAL/ZEcal);
if(ZEcal == 0.0) Theta = PI/2.0;
if(Theta<0.0) Theta = Theta+PI ;
Float_t ETA = - log(tan(0.5*Theta));
if( fabs(EtaParticle) > etaBarrelEndcap )
{
Float_t Zend = Z_Endcap ;
if(EtaParticle<0.0 ) Zend = -Zend ;
Float_t Zlen = Zend - Zvertex ;
Float_t RR = fabs(Zend/sinh(EtaParticle));
Theta = atan(RR/Zlen);
if(Theta<0.0) Theta = Theta+PI ;
ETA = - log(tan(0.5*Theta));
}
//---Return the result
return ETA;
//---end
}
February 17th
cmsDriver instructions for Fastsim
New updated instructions in the SWGuide FastSim twiki:
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/SWGuideFastSimulation
February 27th
Figures from 2008 JINST paper "The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC"
You can find them here (you need to do some digging... go at the end of
the page ...)
http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/cms/Publications/detpaper/
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