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History: AsymmetryCorrectionsSource of version: 5 (current)To extract GEn/GMn, the true "physics" asymmetry must be determined. Since the "raw" asymmetry immediately measured from the data must be corrected for false asymmetry contributions, dilution, and finite acceptance effects.
I recommend that you work through the algebra to understand the correction factors for the asymmetry. Here, I will start with the number of events ~~red:N~~ in the positive (+) and negative (-) helicity state and state the final expression. ::-+A{SUB()}phys{SUB} = (sigma{SUB()}+{SUB} - sigma{SUB()}-{SUB}) / (sigma{SUB()}+{SUB} + sigma{SUB()}-{SUB})+-:: while ::-+A{SUB()}raw{SUB} = (N{SUB()}+{SUB} - N{SUB()}-{SUB})/(N{SUB()}+{SUB} + N{SUB()}-{SUB})+-:: and ::-+N{SUB()}+{SUB} = sigma{SUB()}+{SUB} L{SUB()}+{SUB} eta{SUB()}+{SUB} + Bck+-;:: likewise for -+N{SUB()}-{SUB}+-. What one finds, to first order in the false and true asymmetries, is: ::-+A{SUB()}phys{SUB} = 1/D ( A{SUB()}raw{SUB} - (1 - Q{SUB()}-{SUB}/Q{SUB()}+{SUB} eta{SUB()}-{SUB}/eta{SUB()}+{SUB}) )+-:: where -+~~red:eta~~+- is the overall efficiency, and -+~~red:Q~~+- is the accumulated charge for each helicity state. -=False Asymmetries=- The sources for false asymmetries for GEn are: # Beam charge asymmetry (more accumulated charge in one helicity state than the other) # DAQ Livetime asymmetry # Electronic Livetime asymmetry # Tracking efficiecy asymmetry The last three are due generally to the asymmetry in the background pion-production cross-section, which is ~1% for the Kine4 dataset. History |
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