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Calibration study of the X-T relation for the BESIII drift chamber
Offline calibration plays an important role in BESIII offline data processing. In order to achieve good spatial and momentum resolution, it is necessary to implement high precision offline calibration for the BESIII drift chamber. This paper studies the time-to-distance relations, which are important calibration constants for track reconstruction. The parameterization of the time-to-distance relation, studies of left-right asymmetry and studies of variation with entrance angle are performed. The impact of dead channels on the time-to-distance relation is given special attention in order to reduce the shift in measured momentum for tracks passing near dead cells. Finally. we present the resolutions for barrel Bhabha events (vertical bar cos theta vertical bar < 0.8) from a J/psi data set taken in 2012. The average spatial resolution is 123 mu m and the momentum resolution for 1.548 GeV/c Bhabha tracks is 11.9 MeV/c.
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Experience of BESIII data production with local cluster and distributed computing model
The BES III detector is a new spectrometer which works on the upgraded high-luminosity collider, BEPCII. The BES III experiment studies physics in the tau-charm energy region from 2 GeV to 4.6 GeV . From 2009 to 2011, BEPCII has produced 106M ψ(2S) events, 225M J/ψ events, 2.8 fb−1 ψ(3770) data, and 500 pb−1 data at 4.01 GeV. All the data samples were processed successfully and many important physics results have been achieved based on these samples. Doing data production correctly and efficiently with limited CPU and storage resources is a big challenge. This paper will describe the implementation of the experiment-specific data production for BESIII in detail, including data calibration with event-level parallel computing model, data reconstruction, inclusive Monte Carlo generation, random trigger background mixing and multi-stream data skimming. Now, with the data sample increasing rapidly, there is a growing demand to move from solely using a local cluster to a more distributed computing model. A distributed computing environment is being set up and expected to go into production use in 2012. The experience of BESIII data production, both with a local cluster and with a distributed computing model, is presented here.
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File and metadata management for BESIII distributed computing
The BESIII experiment at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, uses the high-luminosity BEPCII e+e− collider to study physics in the π-charm energy region around 3.7 GeV; BEPCII has produced the worlds largest samples of J/ and ' events to date. An order of magnitude increase in the data sample size over the 2011-2012 data-taking period demanded a move from a very centralized to a distributed computing environment, as well as the development of an efficient file and metadata management system. While BESIII is on a smaller scale than some other HEP experiments, this poses particular challenges for its distributed computing and data management system. These constraints include limited resources and manpower, and low quality of network connections to IHEP. Drawing on the rich experience of the HEP community, a system has been developed which meets these constraints. The design and development of the BESIII distributed data management system, including its integration with other BESIII distributed computing components, such as job management, are presented here.
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The High-Level Dataset-based Data Transfer System in BESDIRAC
Data transfer is an essential part in grid. In the BESIII experiment, the result of Monte Carlo Simulation should be transfered back from other sites to IHEP and the DST files for physics analysis should be transfered from IHEP to other sites. A robust transfer system should make sure all data are transfered correctly. DIRAC consists of cooperation distributed services and light-weight agents delivering the workload to the Grid Resources. We reuse the most functionalities supplied by DIRAC. BESDIRAC is an extension to DIRAC for BES specified. In BESDIRAC, a Dataset-based Data Transfer System is developed. In this paper, we present the design of this system and its implementation details.
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Measurements of charge transfer efficiency in a proton-irradiated swept charge device
Charged Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been successfully used in several low energy X-ray astronomical satellites over the past two decades. Their high energy resolution and high spatial resolution make them a perfect tool for low energy astronomy, such as observing the formation of galaxy clusters and the environment around black holes. The Low Energy X-ray Telescope (LE) group is developing a Swept Charge Device (SCD) for the Hard Xray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) satellite. A SCD is a special low energy X-ray CCD, which can be read out a thousand times faster than traditional CCDs, simultaneously keeping excellent energy resolution. A test method for measuring the charge transfer efficiency (CTE) of a prototype SCD has been set up. Studies of the charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) with a proton-irradiated SCD have been performed at a range of operating temperatures. The SCD is irradiated by 3x10(8)cm(-2) 10 MeV protons.
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High-p(T) di-hadron and jet-hadron correlations in p p and PbPb collisions
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R2 corrections for 5D black holes and rings
We study higher-order corrections to two BPS solutions of 5D supergravity, namely the supersymmetric black ring and the spinning black hole. Due to our current relatively limited understanding of F-type terms in 5D supergravity, the nature of these corrections is less clear than that of their 4D cousins. Effects of certain R2 terms found in Calabi-Yau compactification of M-theory are specifically considered. For the case of the black ring, for which the microscopic origin of the entropy is generally known, the corresponding higher order macroscopic correction to the entropy is found to match a microscopic correction, while for the spinning black hole the corrections are partially matched to those of a 4D D0−D2−D6 black hole.
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On the Progenitor of the Type II Supernova 2004et in NGC 6946
Supernova (SN) 2004et is the eighth historical SN in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946. Here we report on early photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of this object. SN 2004et is a Type II event, exhibiting a plateau in its light curves, but its spectral and color evolution appear to differ significantly from those of other, more normal Type II plateau (II-P) SNe. We have analyzed Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope images of the host galaxy taken prior to the SN explosion, identifying a candidate progenitor for the SN. The star's absolute magnitude and intrinsic color imply that it was a yellow, rather than red, supergiant star, with an estimated zero-age main-sequence mass of . Although this mass estimate is consistent with estimates and upper limits for the progenitors of other, more normal SNe II-P, the SN 2004et progenitor's unusual color could further imply a preexplosion evolutionary history analogous to, but less extreme than, that for the progenitors of the peculiar Type II-P SN 1987A or the Type IIb SN 1993J. The identity of the progenitor candidate needs to be verified when the SN has significantly dimmed.
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EM Calorimeter in BESIII Experiment
BESIII EM Calorimeter (EMC) is based on CsI crystals, working at upgraded Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC), called BEPCII. The overall BEPCII and BESIII design and current status are briefly described. The design and construction of EMC and its performance are presented. EMC works very well and its performances reach the design expectations, it plays an important roll in detector operation and in the BESIII trigger. There are some special features in the EMC construction and reconstruction: the crystals are assembled without support wall to reduce dead area; the time information of the EM clusters can help to suppress the machine background; the detector noise is smaller than similar detectors; the energy reconstruction with TOF signals helps to improve the energy resolution, especially for low energy showers. Several physics papers mainly based on EMC information have been published.