absolute cross section notes 3
Angelika provided some rough luminosity figures for the fills containing the vernier scans:
10207 0.3
10276 1.8
10399 2.60
10415 2.80
10507 5.2
10536 3.5
units are 10^31 cm^-2 s^-1.
I believe, after talking with Jan, that these are the head-on beam values, and not an average. That's unfortunate, because if they were the average I could use them to determine the cross section of BHT3, and hence the BHT3 luminosity in any other run, just from the total BHT3 triggers on the runlog browser.
I have asked for the appropriate chain options to produce the vernier scan runs so that I can count the BHT3 events. In the meantime, very roughly, the BHT3 rate at the peak seems to be ~20Hz
dN/dt=sigma*L ===> sigma_BHT3=dN/dt / L
sigma_BHT3=20Hz / 3.5*10^31 cm^-2 s^-1
sigma_BHT3=5.7*10^-31 cm^2
sigma_BHT3=0.6 ub as a very rough estimate (the luminosity is a rough estimate by Angelika, the BHT3 rate is a rough estimate by me, and the cross section doesn't correct for hot towers or dead parts of the barrel that may be live in other runs)
From the L2 plots ( http://online.star.bnl.gov/L2algo/l2btowCal/l2btowCal10103044.pdf ), there is one tower that might be considered hot, firing ~10 times as often as the other towers. We could use the BHT3/BBC ratio to see if the behavior of the tower is stable from run to run.
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