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authortlatorre <tlatorre@uchicago.edu>2020-01-06 14:48:53 -0600
committertlatorre <tlatorre@uchicago.edu>2020-01-06 14:48:53 -0600
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add script to calculate background contamination
This commit adds a script to calculate the background contamination using a method inspired by the bifurcated analysis method used in SNO. The method works by looking at the distribution of several high level variables (radius, udotr, psi, and reconstructed z position) for events tagged by the different data cleaning cuts and assuming that any background events which sneak past the data cleaning cuts will have a similar distribution (for certain backgrounds this is assumed and for others I will actually test this assumption. For more details see the unidoc). Then, by looking at the distribution of these high level variables for all the untagged events we can use a maximum likelihood fit to determine the residual contamination. There are also a few other updates to the plot-energy script: - add a --dc command line argument to plot corner plots for the high level variables used in the contamination analysis - add a fudge factor to the Ockham factor of 100 per extra particle - fix a bug by correctly setting the final kinetic energy to the sum of the individual kinetic energies instead of just the first particle - fix calculation of prompt events by applying at the run level
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