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Re: question about background rates in BCAL



Great - thanks for pointing this out.  I feel like a juggler - every
so often (or maybe always) I'm dropping balls.

I'm still working on Npe and dark rates
Alex

At 10:24 AM -0500 2/10/08, Elke-Caroline Aschenauer wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Alex Dzierba wrote:
>
>Dear Alex,
>
>I just looked and there are no rate plots in the FCal section either, you
>of course discuss there the radiation damage, but this is slightly
>different as it is real measurements.
>
>This EM background rates come form the MC, so I would think they should
>more go into the simulation section, but of course the individual calo
>sections are also fine.
>
>cheers elke
>
>
>
>>  Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:06:54 -0500
>>  From: Alex Dzierba <dzierba@indiana.edu>
>>  To: Elke-Caroline Aschenauer <elke@jlab.org>
>>  Cc: halld-cal@jlab.org
>>  Subject: Re: question about background rates in BCAL
>>
>>  Thanks Elke -
>>  The rates are small but for consistency we want to at least
>>  address is in the document
>>
>>  Cheers
>>  Alex
>>
>>  At 9:58 AM -0500 2/10/08, Elke-Caroline Aschenauer wrote:
>>  >On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Alex Dzierba wrote:
>>  >
>>  >Dear Alex,
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >>  Dear All
>>  >>
>>  >>  I want to include some discussion of e.m. background rates for BCAL.
>>  >>  Can someone point me to where I can find the most current
>>  >>  calculations?   I need figure(s).
>>  >
>>  >just a small remarks as the BCal sits radially so far outside, the rates
>>  >from EM must be very low. The rates in all the detectors have dropped
>>  >really a lot after the material in the FDC has been so reduced.
>>  >So I'm not sure this is really very important.
>>  >Examples of the rates befor and after is in
>>  >http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/reviews/FDC_Mini_Review_Feb08/Final%20Talks/DCReview_Simulation.pdf
>>  >
>>  >cheers elke
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>  I decided to include the discussion of the SiPM dark rate affect
>>  >>  on threshold energy in the BCAL section.  I am working on that now
>>  >>  along with going over the discussion of the photoelectron yield.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Alex
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>>  Department of Physics / Indiana U / Bloomington IN 47405 / 812-855-9421
>>  JLab Visiting Fellow
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Alex R. Dzierba
Chancellor's Professor of Physics (Emeritus)
Department of Physics / Indiana U / Bloomington IN 47405 / 812-855-9421
JLab Visiting Fellow
Jefferson Lab / 12000 Jefferson Ave / Newport News, VA 23606 / 757-269-7577
Home Phone: 812-825-4063  Cell:  812-327-1881  Fax: 866-541-1263
http://www.dzre.com/alex
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