Tune BnoC HLT2 BdsTohhhh line cuts
Reduce the rate of the BdsTohhhh lines, some of which are unacceptibly high currently -- see issue #571 (closed).
Summary of changes so far:
- Switch to using different kaon/pion builders (also to avoid cuts on the ghostprob)
- Make some "easy" cuts to reduce the range of the B-candidate mass to something more typical
- Tighter
pT
cut on the sum of the children - Add an optional cut to the
make_b2x
builder to cut on the minimum of the final-stateminipchi2
which the 4h lines then make use of - Relax slightly the very tight
DIRA
cut -
Place an upper limit on the 2- and 3- body combinations to be below the charm threshold- Actually, the charm part was intentional to be used as a calibration sample. I found that putting it back in does not affect the rate that much so decided to leave it in (cc @jdalseno)
- Tighten up the
MVA
cuts- I did not do a particularly fine-grain test for this but it seems to reduce the rate a little without much of a drop in efficiency
Rates
The rate of the 4pi line has not gone down (with the approx. 15000 events of minbias this runs on anyway) but the efficiency of the line is a bit better (and I suspect with more events the rate has probably gone down a little)
Line | Rate in master (kHz) |
New rate (kHz) | New rate more events (kHz) |
---|---|---|---|
B \rightarrow \pi^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^- |
0.267 | 0.267 | 0.24473 \pm 0.0292 |
B \rightarrow K^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^- |
1.6 | 0.267 | 0.18529 \pm 0.0254 |
B \rightarrow K^+K^-\pi^+\pi^- |
0.601 | 0.200 | 0.26221 \pm 0.0302 |
B \rightarrow K^+K^-K^+\pi^- |
0.534 | 0.200 | 0.12236 \pm 0.0206 |
B \rightarrow K^+K^-K^+K^- |
0.667 | 0.067 | 0.00699 \pm 0.0049 |
Overlap
I tried also running the overlap checker on the 4h and VV lines so that we can try to understand how strong the overlap is between them. It seems the overlap is not that strong between exclusive vs inclusive (e.g. B \rightarrow \pi^+\pi^-\pi^+\pi^-
vs. B \rightarrow (\rho^0 \rightarrow \pi^+\pi^-) (\rho^0 \rightarrow \pi^+\pi^-)
) but more so between lines with one different final state particle, e.g. B \rightarrow K^+K^-K^+\pi^-
vs. B \rightarrow K^+K^-\pi^+\pi^-