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Kinematic Fitting for b 1 π Events

Kinematic Fitting for b 1 π Events. William Levine Carnegie Mellon University. Kinematic Fitting. Fit with constraints Constraints: Conservation of energy and momentum Mass constraint (i.e. π 0 → γγ ) Informally: wiggle the measured values (within errors) to satisfy constraints

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Kinematic Fitting for b 1 π Events

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  1. Kinematic Fitting for b1π Events William Levine Carnegie Mellon University

  2. Kinematic Fitting • Fit with constraints • Constraints: • Conservation of energy and momentum • Mass constraint (i.e. π0 → γγ) • Informally: wiggle the measured values (within errors) to satisfy constraints • Formally: least-squares fit with constraints enforced by Lagrange multipliers

  3. What’s the point? • Cut out bad events • Confidence level measures goodness of fit • Cuts out a well-defined amount of signal • Better understand errors • Confidence level and pull distribution show how well errors are estimated • Improve errors on measured quantities

  4. Hall D software & Procedure • Generate signal (genr8) • Final state: pπ+π+π− π− γγ • Several exotic quantum number mesons can decay to b1π γ p → X(2000) p ↪ b1π− ↪ ωπ+ ↪ π0π+π− ↪ γγ

  5. Hall D software & Procedure • Generating background • bggen/pythia • Simulation • hd_parsim • Modified to get error matrices for each particle • Analysis • DKinFit class takes particles’4-momenta & error matrices and does the fit

  6. b1π results • No background • Only look at events with final state pπ− π− π+π+γγ • Eliminates events with lost particles • Plot ω mass (π+π-γγ) • Cheating by only looking at “correct” π’s • Fits with and without π0 mass constraint

  7. b1π results: before fitting

  8. b1π results: after fitting

  9. b1π results

  10. b1π results: after fitting and confidence level cut

  11. b1π results

  12. Background results • Again, only looking at final state pπ− π− π+π+γγ • End up with events with missing particles • Confidence level cut removes about 45% of events • Cannot isolate a specific channel

  13. Background results: before fitting

  14. Background results

  15. Background results: after

  16. Kinematic Fitting • Cuts bad events • Improves errors on measured quantities • It works! • Only as well as you estimate your errors

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