Energy distributions from photons resulting from pi0 decays

A few notes:
  1. These plots were generated using the pi0 on Pb208 generator in psim. Only the "thrown" values were examined. These were values in the MCPART bank with state=3 (i.e. final state particles)
  2. The photon was defined as hitting PbGlass if it was projected to be at a cardinal distance of less than 17*2.05cm + 6*3.84cm and greater than 17*2.05cm from the beamline in either x or y
  3. The photon was defined as hitting the PbWO4 if it was projected to be at a cardinal distance of less than 17*2.05cm from the beamline in either x or y. Not cut was made for the beam hole. This enhances the highest energy part (>4.5GeV) of the PbWO4 spectrum.
  4. The data contains all pi0 production channels (i.e. primakoff, nuclear coherent, interference)
  5. The plots of the photon energy in lead glass and PbWO4 both have a cut on both photons being inside of the fiducial volume of HYCAL. There is no cut on the photon energies.

David Lawrence
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