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Riccardo Faccini wrote:

> Hi Guglielmo,
> I am quite surprised that the  events with a Kl have such a soft spectrum.
> The peakshould be around 2 GeVwhile it is below 1.5. Can you  please check
> the events with a K+ and see if you are getting a harder spectrum?

 Why should it be ?  Don't you expect to loose most of the Kl energy ?

>
>
> As far as the fact tht the Ks removed calculation is too  soft, it would
> indicate that you need to estimte the average energy of the Kl and add it
> back  to the event
>         ciao
>         ric
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Guglielmo De Nardo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In order to estimate the low Mx shape of Vcb background with KL, I
> > produced the following plots:
> > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~denardo/mxplots/klmasslepton.ps
> > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~denardo/mxplots/kstruemasslep.ps
> >
> > They both are from true Vcb events.
> > The first plot is the MX distribution for events with at least a true KL.
> > The second plot is again the MX distribution  after subtraction of a
> > reconstructed Ks. If more than one Ks is reco'ed, the one with the
> > smallest delta m is chosen.
> >
> > For both the distribution no selection cut is applied, apart requiring a
> > lepton in the fiducial acceptance.
> >
> > I naively expected to find similar distributions. Instead, the Ks looks
> > too much distorted towards small values of MX.
> >
> > Tomorrow I will change the code to add all the selected Ks (one by one) to
> > the distribution, but I expect that this will only add few more entries
> > but it will not change the shape.
> > Someone has any idea on why the MX ks-subtracted distribution should look
> > so different  from KL events Mx one? (I can't exclude a bug in my code).
> >
> > Tomorrow I will investigate further.
> >
> > Guglielmo
> >
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> >