1. Status of the MICE SciFi Simulation Edward McKigney Imperial College London

2. Outline General Status –Description of current reconstruction scheme –Additional modifications required Review Panel Questions and Responses Current Results –Multiplexing –Inefficiency from dead fibers not completed Cross Talk for MICE SciFi A brief summary of MuScat Tracking A brief summary of D0 Tracking Conclusions

3. Track Parameters z y x (x 0,y 0 ) r 00  B

4. Space Point Reconstruction 1.For each tracker station, all fibers above the 2.0 PE threshold are selected for processing 2.Doublet Clusters of adjacent fibers are formed 3.Space points are formed from the intersection of doublet clusters 4.Space points with at least one doublet cluster in each view are passed to the pattern recognition Space Points Accepted Space Points

5. Seed Helix and Road Definition 5.Sets of space points from three stations are used to define a helix, and if the momentum found is compatible with the beam, a search of the other stations is performed 6.Any points with a  2 below the threshold (100) are passed to the track fit

6. Energy Loss Correction in the fit For a given set of track parameters, the track is propagated from the origin to the first plane, and the intersection of the track and plane is calculated, for comparison with the measured values Mean energy loss through the detector plane is calculated A new set of track parameters is calculated, based on the energy loss The process is repeated

7. Helix Fit 7.A helix fit is performed using one space point from at least four stations 8.The track with the best track probability is kept

8. Additional Modifications to Tracking Reconstruction of tracks with three triplet hits and two doublet hits

9. Questions from Review Panel Fibre tracker It seems essential to perform a full simulation of a tracker with five planes, including nominal inefficiency and assessment of the redundancy by simulation of the loss of readout— dead fibres. The impact of noise and misalignment should also be assessed. What is the status of this simulation? Because of the cost saving by multiplexing, it is important to repeat the simulation in a realistically multiplexed arrangement. Will the main alignment be derived from “straight through” muons? Some documented information on the performance of the fibre tracker in the MUSCAT experiment would be useful.

10. Response The following functionality has been implemented and tested –Simulation of a five station tracker –Reconstruction of tracks in five station tracker with 4/5 and 5/5 stations hit, including energy loss correction –Multiplexing of fibers per VLPC, up to 7 –VLPC noise Implemented, testing in progress –Dead VLPCs and/or fibers –Misalignment of stations (displacements implemented, no rotations yet)

11. Alignment Scheme Alignment comes in four parts –Good mechanical alignment and repeatability engineered in from the beginning –Survey for initial alignment –Cosmics for final alignment (E > 1 GeV) –Cross check using straight through muons Final test is measurement of residuals from five point tracks

12. Performance Study List Comparison case –No MUX, Dead Channels (beam and cosmics) –Nominal MUX, Dead Channels (beam and cosmics) RF Background series (beam, nominal tracker) MUX series (beam, nominal tracker*, RF Bkg) Dead Channel series (beam, nominal tracker*, RF Bkg) Alignment series (cosmics, nominal tracker) Two parameter series as appropriate * All nominal except parameter varied for the series Alex Tapper(IC), Julia Sedgbeer(IC), Akram Kahn (Edinburgh)

13. Resolution for Transverse Momentum (p t ) Distributions from the Berkeley meeting

14. Multiplexed p t Resolution multiplexing 7 fibers together reduces p t resolution by a factor of about 1.5 compared to the value presented at Berkeley Thanks to Dave Colling at IC for generating these samples on the Grid

15. Cross Talk for MICE SciFi Use 3HF scintillator at high concentration (5000 ppm) –3HF as primary fluor gives 95% of light and no cross-talk Cross Talk in optical system zero by engineering design –No open paths for light to get from one fiber to another

16. Summary of MuScat Tracking MuScat is now set up at TRIUMF, and the detector has been calibrated Full reconstruction, run control, data acqusition and data quality monitoring is in place and has been tested Data taking starts in the middle of April and continues into may Results are expected for NuFact03

17. MuScat Calibration Calibrated Single PE Peak All channels have been calibrated using photo-tube noise events in a self triggering configuration

18. Cosmic Ray Angular Distributions

19. MuScat Cosmic Ray Events An Air Shower? A Muon?

20. Summary of D0 Tracking Tracking Performance –Doublet layer hit efficiency is 98-99% –Position resolution is 96 microns (preliminary) Dead Channels –<200 out of 77,000 compromised fibers (~0.25%) –~190 out 77,000 compromised VLPCs (~0.25%) Noise –Intrinsic VLPC noise << X-ray background (see next slide)

21. (A. Bross) VLPC (Visible Light Photon Counter) – Cryogenic APD @ 9K VLPC  HISTE VI –High QE  80% –Low noise <5X10 4 Hz (@  1.0 pe) –High Rate capability >40 MHz –High production yield  70% (vs. 27% projected ) VLPC Performance

22. Conclusions Most of the functionality to answer the Review Committee’s questions has been implemented Submitting jobs to the Grid is now possible, and the process is being automated SciFi performance studies are underway