sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

[Anthony Frawley <afrawley AT fsu.edu>]

Hi All,

I made a little macro to estimate the best sensor radius to use in the tracking macro to get close packing of the ladders. It prints this out as a function of the number of ladders in a layer. If you want to play with it, the macro is at:

/sphenix/user/frawley/macros_newTPC_june6/macros/macros/g4simulations/calculate_optimum_ladder_radii.C

The output is as follows, where I have indicated the  number of ladders presently used for the default configuration with an arrow. The number in parenthesis after the arrow is the radius presently used for the default configuration in the tracking macro. The radii from my macro are within about 0.02 cm for those cases.

Ladder type 0 ladder_rphi 2.55 clearance rphi 0.0365
      nladders 17 sensor_radius 6.85152          <==== (macro: 6.876)
      nladders 18 sensor_radius 7.26318
      nladders 19 sensor_radius 7.67483
      nladders 20 sensor_radius 8.08649
      nladders 21 sensor_radius 8.49814
      nladders 22 sensor_radius 8.90979
      nladders 23 sensor_radius 9.32145
      nladders 24 sensor_radius 9.7331
      nladders 25 sensor_radius 10.1448
      nladders 26 sensor_radius 10.5564
      nladders 27 sensor_radius 10.9681
      nladders 28 sensor_radius 11.3797
      nladders 29 sensor_radius 11.7914
      nladders 30 sensor_radius 12.203
      nladders 31 sensor_radius 12.6147
      nladders 32 sensor_radius 13.0263
      nladders 33 sensor_radius 13.438
      nladders 34 sensor_radius 13.8496
      nladders 35 sensor_radius 14.2613
      nladders 36 sensor_radius 14.673
      nladders 37 sensor_radius 15.0846
      nladders 38 sensor_radius 15.4963
      nladders 39 sensor_radius 15.9079
      nladders 40 sensor_radius 16.3196
      nladders 41 sensor_radius 16.7312
      nladders 42 sensor_radius 17.1429
 Ladder type 1 ladder_rphi 3.8 clearance rphi 0.0365
      nladders 11 sensor_radius 6.56998
      nladders 12 sensor_radius 7.18058
      nladders 13 sensor_radius 7.79117
      nladders 14 sensor_radius 8.40177
      nladders 15 sensor_radius 9.01237       <======= (macro: 8.987)
      nladders 16 sensor_radius 9.62297
      nladders 17 sensor_radius 10.2336
      nladders 18 sensor_radius 10.8442       <======= (macro: 10.835)
      nladders 19 sensor_radius 11.4548
      nladders 20 sensor_radius 12.0654
      nladders 21 sensor_radius 12.676         <======= (macro: 12.676)
      nladders 22 sensor_radius 13.2866
      nladders 23 sensor_radius 13.8972
      nladders 24 sensor_radius 14.5078
      nladders 25 sensor_radius 15.1183
      nladders 26 sensor_radius 15.7289
      nladders 27 sensor_radius 16.3395
      nladders 28 sensor_radius 16.9501
      nladders 29 sensor_radius 17.5607
      nladders 30 sensor_radius 18.1713
      nladders 31 sensor_radius 18.7819
      nladders 32 sensor_radius 19.3925

Note that these are the radii that should be used for the inner sublayer of an overlapping pair of sublayers. The second overlapping layer should have the same number of ladders, and a radius larger by about 0.6 to 0.5 cm (decreasing a little as the layer radii increase).

Cheers

Tony

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