An analysis of 900 Amp Charm data prescale events to determine calorimeter efficiency in the trigger. MJL - 11/13/92 I have analyzed the bulk of the 900 Amp D data TFI-prescale events. I required two good opposite-sign target hadrons that did not fire 2 or more muon counters in station four. I required silicon tracks to restrict the study to the silicon aperture. I then made a cut on the D mass (1.82 to 1.9 GeV). Cuts Events Efficiency -------- ------ ----------- none 408 100% nx1nx3bar 377 92% susd 344 84% matrix 387 95% 3 cuts above 297 73% hh-trigger 172 42% this implies then that the calorimeter trigger efficiency for D's (if we assume hadron pairs of the D mass are similar to real D's) is 57%. With this efficiency I now seem to get a reasonable D cross section. I have tried a rough simulation of this with the monte carlo. I took the hadron pair energy, smeared it with a resolution of 15% (is this a reasonable resolution?) and made a threshold cut at 40 GeV. This gives an efficiency for the calorimeter of 95%. If I raise the threshold to 55 GeV then I get 62% which is getting near the measured value above. This is a threshold on the total energy. What layers of the calorimeter were actually used in the E-low? Mike