ideal focusing with thick plate as EV

Scan through the length of the think plate as part of expansion volume.

  • DIRC@EIC, EPIC
  • 3-layer spherical lens with sapphire vs ideal lens
  • 16x16 pixels MCP-PMTs with HIQ400, CE=95%
  • pions and kaons @ 6 GeV/c; phi = 0 (no field); theta = 30 deg; vertex y-shifted by 0.5*barwidth (to hit middle of the bar)
  • 0.5 mrad tracking
  • 100 ps time precision
  • geometrical reconstruction with averaged LUT from 15M photons
  • GR with per-PMT and chromatic corrections
  • 20k tracks for pdf generation (per each particle species); 5k for determining separation

Event display for thick plane as EV with 3LS:

3LS (3 layer spherical lens):

3LC (3 layer cylindrical lens):

Ideal lens:

Hit pattern for a normal prism EV and 3LS (5k 6 GeV/c pions @ 30 deg):

Hit pattern for a normal prism+thick plate EV and 3LS:

Hit pattern for a normal prism+thick plate EV and ideal 3LS:

Scan through the length of the plate-ev with ideal lens. Hit pattern for 5k 6 GeV/c pions at 35 degree polar angle: